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‘Do-or-die’ time for VCs as funding levels drop by 35%

A number of venture capital firms — including Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group and Voyager Capital — are looking to take… Read More

CrunchFund, Madrona invest $3.4M in dog-sitting service Rover

Dog-loving venture capitalist Michael Arrington is among the new investors in Rover.com, the Seattle online service that helps pet owners find… Read More

How to find that special someone: Your co-founder

My fiancee isn’t the jealous type but she likes to joke that I’m already married to my co-founder. Paul and I are… Read More

Advanced content marketing strategies to take your brand to the next level

You can’t be a marketing professional and NOT create content. In fact, the Content Marketing Institution said so when it… Read More

Ex-Isilon, Amazon engineers start stealthy Qumulo

Isilon System is one of the biggest startup success stories of the past 10 years, with the Seattle storage company… Read More

Estately’s copyright notice knocks one of Canada’s largest real estate firms offline

Earlier this week, we told you the story about Estately sending a cease-and-desist letter to one of Canada’s largest real… Read More

Exclusive: Visible Technologies buys Cymfony to bolster social media offerings

Visible Technologies is buying Cymfony in a deal that brings together two long-time players in the social media monitoring and analytics… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Ex-Google engineers guide Schedulista to profits after just 6 months

Seattle entrepreneurs Felix Livni and Lowell Manners are lean startup acolytes. And that philosophy is already paying dividends for the founders… Read More

The top Tweeters in baseball

There’s perhaps no American pastime filled with as many data geeks and stat hounds as baseball, a sport where every… Read More

Hey, startups, users aren’t free

“Seattle’s great at building technology, but we don’t understand marketing. San Francisco’s great at marketing. That’s why great B-to-C companies… Read More

Video: Watch the ‘Textspresso’ machine brew the geekiest cup of coffee ever

Seattle is really known for two things: coffee and tech geeks. And I’ve never seen those two worlds collide in… Read More

Salaries rebound as Seattle leads U.S. in wage growth

Is it finally time to wave goodbye to the bitter recession? That’s the word from a new report out from… Read More

Tixie raises cash, helps music fans win free concert tickets

At the Hacker News Meetup earlier this week, I bumped into Seattle entrepreneur Forest Gibson who is working on a… Read More

Robotic fish swim the stories of the dead, design the future

A fish may not need a bicycle, but a bicycle could learn a lot about the mechanics of movement from… Read More

Coming to Bravo: A reality TV show starring Cheezburger’s Ben Huh

“Huh?” That’s the working title of new reality TV show that Bravo announced today featuring none other than Ben Huh,… Read More

Social purpose corporations: Good business can now do good

We all know that entrepreneurs and investors in startups hope to make money.  Conveniently, the traditional corporate form allows that. … Read More

All the celeb gossip that’s fit to print: Wetpaint tops 10M visitors

People just can’t get enough of celebrity gossip and Hollywood scoops, which is good news for Seattle startup Wetpaint. The… Read More

A mirror image? Canadian real estate brokerage accused of ripping off Estately

Sutton WestCoast Realty, one of the largest real estate brokerages in Canada, has received a cease-and-desist letter asking that the… Read More

Hark inks deal to access movie audio clips from Warner Bros.

Hark CEO David Aronchick recently disclosed that the company — essentially a YouTube of audio clips — topped 50 million monthly… Read More

Amazon.com has altered the VC business as we know it

One could argue that Amazon.com has had more impact on the startup community than nearly any corporate venture capital fund,… Read More

BigDoor closes $5M, touts new ‘gamified rewards program’

There’s so much content clutter on the Web these days that it can be tough for online publishers to keep… Read More

Startup Weekend’s latest perk: Free .CO domain names

Entrepreneurs who participate in the 54-hour Startup Weekend coding marathons gain all sorts of valuable lessons, insights and contacts.  And… Read More

Tech Moves: Robert Wise joins MTN; RealNetworks taps CFO; REI’s promotions; and more

Robert Wise has been named chief innovation officer at MTN Satellite Communications, charged with building up the company’s product and… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Knotis looks to turn merchants into happy daily deal users

You’ve heard the horror stories of small businesses getting overwhelmed by daily deals from the likes of Groupon and Living… Read More

Microsoft picks 11 startups for new Kinect Accelerator

When Microsoft introduced its new Kinect Accelerator startup program a few months ago, the company anticipated receiving about 150 applications. But… Read More

Husband-and-wife team turn to Kickstarter to bankroll new iPhone charging dock

Seattle area designer Mike Kemery has helped design products for Nike, T-Mobile and Yakima Products. But now Kemery, and his… Read More

Charts: IPOs on the upswing, but M&A deals take a fall

It’s a bit hard to judge the state of the venture-backed exit market these days. And two reports out today… Read More

Coders win hackathon with virtual pet fitness app

Seattle area mobile app developers Robert Mao and Haitao Li had no real intention of building a new application when… Read More

This ‘big data’ startup is already generating revenue after 3 weeks in business

Versium Analytics, a new startup led by former InfoSpace executives Chris Matty and Kevin Marcus, is just three weeks old.… Read More

Y Combinator for high-school kids? It’s students only at this new startup incubator

StudentRND has been gathering geeky and entrepreneurial high school and college kids for weekend hackathons for three years now. Now,… Read More

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