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Seattle financial advisor indicted for funneling $46M into his startup ventures

Mark Spangler, a 57-year-old Seattle financial advisor who formerly served as head of the National Association of Personal Finance Advisors,… Read More

For sale: Lendle e-book lending service for Amazon Kindle

The creators of the Lendle e-book lending service for Amazon Kindle put up a “for sale” sign this afternoon in… Read More

Auction Edge makes another buy in bid to upend used car business

A couple days ago we told you about Auction Edge, the stealthy Seattle startup which is looking to transform the… Read More

Let the good times roll: Optimistic entrepreneurs plan to boost hiring

Entrepreneurs, by their very nature, are optimists. This shouldn’t come as a big surprise. You’ve got to be a bit… Read More

Where ‘Where are you?’ is: The future of location and discovery

“There’s a graveyard of geo experiments,” says Amber Case. She’s the CEO and co-founder of Geoloqi, a company that helps… Read More

Hey, NYC: There’s a tech hub out here called Seattle

Don’t get me wrong. The growth of New York’s technology community over the past five years has been nothing short… Read More

Privacy: Facebook and Google baking it in, but will startups follow the recipe?

High-profile privacy breaches have increasingly been making headlines, putting the issue further onto the agenda of the tech industry. But… Read More

Prosodic reels in $1.4M to help big brands target Facebook posts

Fast-growing social media startup Prosodic has nailed down $1.4 million in seed funding, money that the Seattle company will use… Read More

Medical social network Alliance Health buys Seattle’s Medify

Medify, a Seattle startup that helps people find detailed medical information about diseases, has been acquired in a deal of… Read More

University of Washington alumni to get exclusive restaurant deals via Pirq

The deals just keep coming for restaurant deal operator Pirq. The Kirkland company today is announcing a partnership with the… Read More

Startup vet David Weld looks to transform used car business with Auction Edge

Seattle entrepreneur David Weld is fast at work on a new company called Auction Edge that’s coming on the scene in a… Read More

Naveen Jain looks to spark innovative ideas at Intelius with the iPrize

Intelius founder Naveen Jain has never been one to celebrate venture capitalists, choosing some less than savory words to describe… Read More

Danielle Morrill leaves Twilio to start Y Combinator-backed Referly

Danielle Morrill has a new startup cooking, and it has already lined up backing from her former boss at Twilio… Read More

Bike Score arrives, analyzing the most bike-friendly cities

You’ve heard of Walk Score, which assigns a ranking of 0 to 100 to homes and apartments based on how… Read More

INRIX CEO Bryan Mistele on surviving 70 VC rejections

Bryan Mistele wants to eliminate one of society’s biggest issues — traffic. How’s he going to do it? Find out… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Seattle and Silicon Valley, the inside view from the startup world

Do Seattle’s tech startups dream big enough, and do the region’s startup investors do enough to help make those big… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Saltbox looks to help sales forces stay on top

Saltbox co-founder and CEO John Delano admits that his company isn’t building the “most sexy mobile-social-big data app.” But even so,… Read More

Robbie Bach’s four startup lessons from Xbox and Zune

Former Microsoft executive Robbie Bach led the company’s entertainment division through the rise of the Xbox business, which has become… Read More

Ad giant WPP invests in auto survey company Enprecis

Enprecis has been around for about six years, quietly growing its business for collecting consumer information related to automobiles. But… Read More

Early-stage startup valuations rise, but so do ‘down rounds’

Typically, when things are going well in the startup world, venture capitalists optimistically boost valuations of early-stage companies to reflect… Read More

Think different: How an entrepreneur makes decisions to go camping

Entrepreneurs have an interesting perspective on decision-making. For one, they do a lot of it. But moreover, I believe they… Read More

BizSpark, Startup Weekend ink alliances to support entrepreneurs in the developing world

Two separate news announcements out today involving Startup Weekend and Microsoft’s BizSpark program could help jumpstart entrepreneurial activities throughout the… Read More

Podcast Preview: The state of the Seattle startup market with Tomo co-founder Tony Wright

Seattle entrepreneur Tony Wright’s announcement earlier this week that he plans to relocate to Silicon Valley to build his latest… Read More

Why you ought to change your business model

No matter how prepared you are for the future, how satisfied you are with your customers or how well you are positioned… Read More

Farewell, coffee cards: Madrona bankrolls mobile loyalty rewards startup RewardLoop

Madrona Venture Group is heading north for its latest investment, leading a $1 million funding round in Vancouver, B.C.-based RewardLoop.… Read More

Elevator Pitch: Can this Amazon vet’s startup make it to the top?

We’re back for another installment of Elevator Pitch, the show where entrepreneurs pitch their business plans in the 43 seconds… Read More

On the mend or broken for good? VC returns paint an industry in transition

Earlier this week, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation issued a blistering report about the venture capital industry, detailing its own experiences investing… Read More

EveryMove lands $2.6 million to create a ‘mileage rewards program’ for health

Should Americans earn rewards for good health and fitness practices, just as they earn free miles for frequent flying and… Read More

The Founders’ Promise: Put your money where your angst is

“There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of… Read More

Kineta, UW receive biodefense grant to study ways to wipe out deadly viruses like Ebola

The University of Washington, University of Texas Medical Branch and Kineta — a Seattle biotechnology upstart — have received an… Read More

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