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Cozi raises cash to take family calendar application overseas

Cozi has raised an additional $2.5 million, money that the Seattle startup plans to use to expand internationally and further… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Order SM looks to take a bite where GrubHub has yet to feast

GrubHub earlier this month landed $50 million in venture capital, money that it will use to try to transform the way people… Read More

Take the Money and Run: An Insider’s Guide to Venture Capital

[Editor’s note: Gerry Langeler of OVP Venture Partners shares an excerpt from his new book “Take the Money and Run:… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Amazon Lockers, iOS 5, and an inside look at a Facebook ‘casino’

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk about the pilot of the Amazon Locker delivery system,… Read More

Open source developer objects to news hackathon’s 11-page contract

Seattle developer Jeff Reifman was looking forward to participating in this weekend’s Hacking Seattle News contest, a three-day hackathon sponsored… Read More

Giving back and paying forward

After nearly two decades of startup life, and over forty years of, well, life, I decided it was time to… Read More

Ex-Microsoft researcher unveils Clipboard to save pieces of Web pages

We’ve been wondering what computer scientist Gary Flake has been up to ever since we discovered his new startup company,… Read More

Struggling to find engineers in Seattle, Apptio sets up shop in North Carolina

Bellevue-based Apptio is growing fast, so fast in fact that it can’t find enough software engineers in the Seattle area.… Read More

BigOven unveils meal planning organizer, looks to end the daily ‘dinner scramble’

If you’re like me, meal planning doesn’t rank too high in the list of daily priorities. Typically, by the time… Read More

Let’s stop the Silicon Valley comparisons, and take a look at why NYC is kicking butt

Overdone. Counterproductive. Tired. Whiny. Those are some of the words I’ve heard in the past few weeks as the Seattle… Read More

Venture capital on pace for biggest year since dot-com era

Venture capitalists are pumping massive amounts of capital into startup companies, fueled by the emergence of big shifts in mobile,… Read More

11 productivity tools that your startup ought to use

If you’ve ever been part of a startup, then you know how much hard work it involves. And you usually… Read More

A police blotter for the Facebook generation? Arrestly notifies when friends end up in the county jail

Seattle developer Matt Steckler never thought he’d one day use his technical talents to compile arrest records on friends, co-workers… Read More

5th Cell’s innovative Scribblenauts arrives on iPhone, iPad

Scribblenauts, a game from Bellevue-based developer 5th Cell, blew the minds of video-game nerds around the world when it was… Read More

Ultrasound on the go? Smartphone-based imaging system released by Mobisante

Ultrasound systems can be bulky and expensive. But a Redmond company by the name of Mobisante is looking to transform… Read More

Holy cow! Apptio on pace to top $50 million in bookings this year

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta has been talking for some time now about building the next big enterprise software company in the… Read More

Spotlight: Startup vet Nadkarni unwraps shopping app Zoomingo

Shirish Nadkarni’s past entrepreneurial pursuits have included mobile email service TeamOn and online language community Livemocha. Now, the Seattle area… Read More

Sujal Patel’s call to action for the Seattle tech industry

There’s nothing quite like a comeback story. And there’s perhaps no better example of one in Seattle’s tech industry than… Read More

What do M&A executives at Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce really want?

Reporting from TechNW:  If you’re looking to sell your startup company to Microsoft, Facebook, Google or Salesforce.com, you might be… Read More

Aaron Levie

Box raises $81M as CEO looks to ‘out-innovate’ Microsoft

Box, the online cloud storage company that was started in Seattle in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith, just… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Bluefire looks to spark eBook sales

More consumers are turning to electronic reading devices. And Seattle’s Bluefire Productions, which emerged from founder Micah Bower’s 10-year-old design… Read More

Hey Seattle, here’s why we’re so gosh darn awesome (Part Two)

Last week, the Washington Technology Industry Association posted some short videos of Seattle area entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, journalists (including yours… Read More

Lost and found for the QR code generation? Dynotag helps find lost luggage, pets and more

QR codes are becoming an increasingly popular way to get information on places or products in the real world, including… Read More

Seattle angel Geoff Entress joins board of mobile app maker Treemo Labs

Seattle angel investor Geoff Entress has joined the board of Treemo Labs, a maker of mobile applications. A member of the… Read More

Hanauer-backed health care provider Qliance appoints CEO

Qliance Medical Management, a Seattle company that operates primary health care clinics in the Puget Sound area, has appointed Erika… Read More

Travel photo service Trover arrives on Android

Trover launched its iPhone app to much fanfare three months ago, creating an easy way for travelers to share their… Read More

Venture capital fundraising waning, falls to 2003 levels

It’s not a great time to be raising a venture capital fund. A new report out this morning from Thomson Reuters… Read More

What are your golden metrics?

Like most Internet-centric companies, we find ourselves engaged in an ongoing (never ending?) search for the core metrics that will… Read More

Meet Romo: The super cool smartphone-powered robot

A few weeks ago, I bumped into Romotive co-founder Phu Nguyen at a geeky tech event in Seattle. Nguyen, who had… Read More

Practical Nerd: Survival tips for Startup Weekend EDU

I was a first-time mentor at a Startup Weekend recently and, appropriate to my day job, it was focused on… Read More

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