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After CEO departs for Yahoo, Lockerz raises more cash

Seattle startup Lockerz lost its founder and CEO — retail and PR vet Kathy Savitt —  to an executive role at Yahoo… Read More

With ‘wind at their backs,’ VC fundraising totals surge

There’s been a lot of chatter about the venture capital model being broken. But that’s not stopping the money spigots… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Charlie Kindel’s BizLogr automatically tracks your mileage

Charlie Kindel spent more than two decades at Microsoft, working on everything from  Windows Phone to Windows Home Server. Now,… Read More

The winner of the one-sentence pitch competition is … Portals

Well, after more than 40 pitches and nearly 200 comments, here’s our winner of the second annual GeekWire/Founder Institute pitch… Read More

GifBoom teams up with Mr. Gangnam Style for contest

Get your best galloping dance moves on, because GifBoom is going Gangnam. Seattle startup GifBoom is putting on a contest with Psy,… Read More

Blue Gecko co-founder Chuck Edwards on bootstrapping and focusing on customers

Life as an accountant wasn’t quite enough for Chuck Edwards, so when he was given the opportunity to learn Oracle… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Monchilla looks to take on Quickbooks with new accounting service

If you’ve ever taken an accounting course or have run your own business, you know that accounting is a huge… Read More

Paul Allen-backed news aggregator Evri calls it quits

Evri has met the end of the road. The Seattle startup, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has decided to… Read More

Ex-WhitePages execs start Meritshare, a new way to reward top-performers

Technology companies are pulling out all of the stops to recruit talented engineers, designers and developers. But that’s only part… Read More

Bootstrapping a startup: Less cash, more cowbell

Steve Murch knows a thing or two about building a startup without taking outside funding, as the founder and CEO of bootstrapped… Read More

A brassiere brouhaha: British man in patent fight with Seattle startup JoeyBra

JoeyBra founders Mariah Gentry and Kyle Bartlow — who met at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business —… Read More

Microsoft buys PhoneFactor to protect users from password theft

Microsoft has been pretty quiet on the acquisition front since its $1.2 billion buy of Yammer in July. But this… Read More

Tech Moves: Expedia tech vet joins Varolii; EveryMove names marketing chief; NanoString hires CFO; and more

Varolii has named Sunil Shah as vice president of engineering and Patrick Chaney as vice president of professional services. Shah is an Expedia veteran who… Read More

Big data startup with UW ties lands cash from Accel

Trifacta, a San Francisco big data company co-founded by incoming University of Washington computer science professor Jeffrey Heer and University… Read More

Seattle vs. Silicon Valley: The debate continues (but this time with outsiders weighing in)

We’ve heard a lot of discussion — even sparked some of it on occasion ourselves — about the differences between… Read More

Zulily, Redfin and Apptio named to list of the top 100 private tech companies

Who are the emerging giants in technology? Business Insider just released its annual ranking of the top 100 private tech… Read More

Startup lessons from the ‘Tough Mudder’ race

A few months ago, Media Piston founder Joe Heitzeberg and I had the crazy idea to assemble a team to run… Read More

Cloud infrastructure startup Opscode nearly doubles staff, expands in Europe and Asia

Cloud infrastructure automation startup Opscode continues to grow at a rapid pace, announcing today that it is expanding operations in… Read More

When venture capital returns rival T-bills, is something messed up with the model?

Is the venture capital model broken? We’ve heard that question debated before, and discussed at length here on GeekWire. And… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff sounds off on the JOBS Act, calls it a ‘step backwards’

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, also known as the JOBS Act, was signed into law by President Barack Obama… Read More

Co-founding a startup: The good, the bad, the ugly

What are the secrets to success and pitfalls to avoid when putting together a startup’s founding team? One of the… Read More

Hotel tech startup Buuteeq checks in with $10 million from Madrona and Concur

The top three executives at Buuteeq all grew up in the heart of Silicon Valley, attending Palo Alto High School in… Read More

Code Monster teaches kids to crunch Javascript, builds appetite for programming

Greg Linden is a veteran software engineer and startup entrepreneur in Seattle who developed Amazon.com’s recommendation engine, started the personalized news… Read More

Wireless vet Mary Jesse: ‘Concentrate on company culture from the beginning’

Mary Jesse, the founder and CEO of group messaging startup Ivy Corp., is an electrical engineer and veteran startup leader… Read More

Tagboard teams up with GoHuskies.com to help aggregate social media

While the Washington Huskies were playing football 2,600 miles away against the Louisiana State Tigers in Baton Rouge, Daniel Hour sat in a… Read More

Videos: Why Seattle’s tech community is so awesome (in the words of Seattleites)

Nearly every week there’s a new survey or study out showcasing how Seattle’s technology community ranks among the top in… Read More

1st Apple-approved iOS game controller makes its debut

Digital and social game publisher Gameloft and Duo Games, a unit of Seattle-based Discovery Bay Games, unveiled the first Apple-approved handheld… Read More

Microsoft and TechStars tap 10 startups for new Windows Azure Accelerator

After receiving 600 applications, Microsoft this morning named 10 startups to participate in its Windows Azure Accelerator, a three-month program… Read More

After spurning acquisition offer, Seattle’s Freak’n Genius raises $525,000 angel round

Kyle Kesterson’s new animation startup, Freak’n Genius, has raised $525,000 in fresh funding from more than a dozen angel investors… Read More

Startup Spotlight: KitchenPC cooks up recipe search engine

There’s no shortage of places to find recipes online. And now you can add yet another to the mix. KitchenPC is a… Read More

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