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Demo Day: Advice from ‘The Godfathers’ of Seattle tech (Video)

A few weeks ago, Andy Sack and other members of TechStars made a plea to the entrepreneurial titans of Seattle to… Read More

Groupon IPO: Is this the next Amazon.com or Pets.com?

Group discount buying service Groupon, the granddaddy of the daily deals startups, debuted on the stock market this morning with… Read More

My five favorite pitches from the TechStars Seattle Demo Day

TechStars Seattle today concluded their three-month long startup bootcamp as 10 companies presented their business ideas to a packed crowd… Read More

Yaletown Venture Partners sets up office in Seattle

Yaletown Venture Partners, a 9-year-old Vancouver, B.C.-based venture capital firm, is establishing a new office in Seattle under the direction… Read More

TechStars: An inside look at 87 days of madness

It’s day 87 of TechStars Seattle. It’s also the last day of the program. The incubation program culminates with an… Read More

TechStars ruins your sex life

What happens when you lock a bunch of computer nerds in a room for 90-days and encourage them to create… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Bezos-backed doxo looks to transform bill paying, inks deal with AT&T

Seattle startup doxo today is announcing the expansion of its doxoPAY service, now allowing users to set up automatic bill… Read More

Former Microsofties build startup on stickers and goo

Alex Malek and Will Bradley both started at Microsoft straight out of school, working for the last decade as engineers… Read More

Seven signs that you might just be an entrepreneur

I meet a lot of people who want to be an entrepreneur, but don’t really have the signs that they’d… Read More

Why did Big Fish Games just issue a special dividend to employees?

It is a bit unusual for a privately-held technology company to issue dividends to employees and shareholders. But that’s exactly… Read More

Startup Weekend kicks off SW Next: A multi-day bootcamp for entrepreneurs

Startup Weekend has already given thousands of developers, geeks and other tech professionals a taste of what it’s like to… Read More

A record month at GeekWire, but it’s still ‘day one’

Whoa, can we finally catch our breath? Todd Bishop and I have been covering the technology beat around these parts… Read More

Fab.com founder Jason Goldberg dares recruiters to poach his staff

Jason Goldberg was known for making some bold, brash and off-the-wall statements as the founder of Jobster, the online recruiting… Read More

Where are they now? Update on the TechStars Class of 2010

Some have gone out of business. Several have changed course. And most are still hanging their shingle in Seattle’s South… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed Coffee & Power perks up with market for errands, lessons and other small jobs

Philip Rosedale, the former RealNetworks employee who is best known for creating the virtual world Second Life, is launching a… Read More

Urban Airship takes flight with purchase of SimpleGeo

Urban Airship, a Portland startup that specializes in push notifications and in-app transactions, has acquired San Francisco’s SimpleGeo in an… Read More

Zillow inks deal to bring mortgage marketplace to AOL

Zillow announced a deal today to bring its mortgage marketplace offering to AOL Real Estate and Daily Finance, marking the… Read More

Zuckerberg: Jeff Bezos is one of the greats, and startups don’t need to be in the Valley to win

Mark Zuckerberg refers to Jeff Bezos by his last name only, like some guy from the dorm. The Facebook CEO… Read More

Bill Gates was lucky … and good

Was Bill Gates just a lucky upper middle class kid who happened to stumble into the PC revolution? Or was… Read More

Video: Zillow co-founder Rich Barton’s Seattle rallying cry

Zillow co-founder Rich Barton thinks Seattle needs to do more to support its own technology products and entrepreneurial ventures, emulating… Read More

BuddyTV debuts Google TV app, with iPad and iPhone link

Seattle’s BuddyTV has scored a featured spot in the newly overhauled Google TV interface, releasing a BuddyTV app for Google… Read More

Seattle startup Beamit beams up $750,000, recruits Amazon employee Josh Hug

As a mentor at TechStars, Josh Hug got an inside peek at some of the cool technologies emerging inside the… Read More

‘Closet revolutionary’ Rich Barton of Zillow on startups and swinging for the fences

It was kind of fitting that on a night that the St. Louis Cardinals won game six of the World… Read More

Startup Spotlight: GoDutch mobile app helps friends connect

Chris Borkenhagen wants to make it easier to invite friends to do fun things together, and then split the bill… Read More

11 things every entrepreneur should know about innovation

An innovation that revolutionizes your life is the dream of every entrepreneur. But that dream may die hard if you… Read More

Redfin’s Kelman considers new products, acquisitions: ‘It’s always good to have cash’

At the time of Redfin’s last venture capital round, CEO Glenn Kelman indicated that it would be the company’s last.… Read More

Online real estate brokerage Redfin scores $14 million

We heard rumblings last week that Redfin — the Seattle online real estate broker — was out looking for new… Read More

Social media monitoring firm Visible Technologies adds $1.5M

Visible Technologies has reeled in an additional $1.5 million, bringing total financing in the maker of social media monitoring technologies… Read More

Navigating Cancer finds $3M, partners with clinics for new patient portals

Navigating Cancer, an online resource for patients who are dealing with various forms of cancer, has raised $3 million in… Read More

Amazon vet Anne Krook puts roots down at Mindbloom

Anne Krook, who spent 13 years at Amazon.com, most recently overseeing disaster response and disaster recovery, has joined Seattle startup Mindbloom… Read More

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