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Tech Moves: Kindle veteran Julie Sandler joins Madrona

Madrona Venture Group has long mined Amazon.com for talent, not only backing entrepreneurs with ties to the online retailer but… Read More

Morning Radar: Pirq launches a Groupon rival; Insitu’s new aircraft

Pirq, the mobile daily deal startup led by James Sun, the former star on “The Apprentice,” has officially launched its… Read More

Ben Huh challenges GQ to a geek fashion duel

The GQ fashion police on Wednesday called out Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh as one of the 15 worst dressed men… Read More

The story of AdXpose: The path to liquidity was not a straight line

The path to building AdXpose — which sold to comScore today for $22 million — was definitely not a straight… Read More

Seattle’s AdXpose sells out to comScore for $22 million

Seattle startup AdXpose, which has had more lives than a cat since it was founded in 2005, is getting ready… Read More

Morning Radar: Amazon employees told to avoid ‘bad states’ and more

The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating story on Amazon.com’s ongoing sales tax battle, including the uncovering of a document… Read More

Lockerz taps DAG Ventures, Live Nation as backers, targets $45M

Lockerz intense hunger for fresh capital continues. The fast-growing social networking company today announced that it has raised $36 million… Read More

Washington state ranks second for entrepreneurs

The venture capital totals may be falling, but Washington state is still a great place to start a new business.… Read More

Airbiquity lands $4M as company sees growth in ‘connected car’ services

Another Seattle area company that’s building some of the underlying technologies for the “connected car” has scored a new round… Read More

Tech Moves: BlueKai names Amazon, Yahoo vets to new roles

Here’s a look at some key hires, appointments and people on the move in the Pacific Northwest technology industry BlueKai… Read More

With ex-Yahoo execs at the helm, ChoozOn raises $3.2 million to help sort through daily deal clutter

ChoozOn, the Bellevue company that helps consumers sort through the clutter of daily deals, has raised a $3.2 million first… Read More

Twitter confirms ‘significant’ funding round, now claims more than 200 million Tweets per day

After weeks of speculation, Twitter confirmed today in a blog post that it has closed a “significant round of funding”… Read More

Tech Law: A new era for startup financing documents

Startup investors Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson have an interesting take on the standardization of legal documents used in angel… Read More

Social innovators to compete for $150,000 in prize money

Can you do well, by doing good? An upcoming event — hosted by Social Venture Partners — will highlight entrepreneurial… Read More

Simply Measured rings up $750,000 to help brands monitor social media chatter

When Damon Cortesi and Aviel Ginzburg started their company in early 2010, they weren’t sure what direction it would take.… Read More

Amazon expands Start-Up Challenge worldwide

Amazon Web Services today announced that it is expanding its annual Start-Up Challenge competition to include a total of 15… Read More

Photo sharing service Smilebox sells for up to $40 million

Smilebox, the six-year-old Redmond company that lets users create electronic greetings with their photos and videos, has agreed to be… Read More

Super angel Ron Conway’s advice to entrepreneurs and why this isn’t a bubble

Ron Conway is one of the best known angel investors on the planet. So, when the early backer of Facebook,… Read More

Lucid Commerce scores $8M to tell TV advertisers if campaigns are working

There’s no shortage of companies that help advertisers make better sense of how ad campaigns perform online. But what about… Read More

Google tosses support behind the Portland Incubator Experiment

We’ve talked before about how Google has Portland fever — using the Rose City to test new products like Google… Read More

This Seattle woman really, really wants to work at Valve

Valve Software is one of the Seattle area’s hottest gaming companies. And Erin Michael Vondrak, a Seattle artist and photographer,… Read More

Rich Barton unveils Trover, a new way to explore the world through photos

Rich Barton may be best known for Zillow or Expedia. But the 44-year-old entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist has a few other things up his… Read More

Photo sharing site PhotoRocket chops staff, names Cockrill CEO

PhotoRocket, the photo sharing service that launched to much fanfare at the DEMO conference earlier this year, has cut about… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Carnegie Mellon transplant takes root in Seattle with Panopto

Panopto was founded in 2007 with technology from Carnegie Mellon University. But the company is now growing its presence in… Read More

BuddyTV looks to make the remote control smarter, unveils new iOS app

There’s certainly plenty of choices these days when it comes to cable or satellite TV programming. But finding the programs… Read More

How smartphones, tablets are killing Wi-Fi on city transit

It seemed like a scene from the future: Step onto a bus, find a good seat, crack open a laptop,… Read More

Venture capital industry sees ‘slow and steady’ improvement

Venture capitalists took it on the chin for a few years as the initial public offering and M&A markets simply… Read More

What a long strange trip it has been: Highway 12 Ventures to wind down new investing

Venture capital firms are bit like old soldiers. They never really die, they just sort of fade away. And that… Read More

Bitcoin befuddles U.S. customs agents, thwarting Seattle visit by digital currency guru

A developer who specializes in the Bitcoin digital currency says he was sent back to China last week after he… Read More

Ex-Googlers attract more capital than ex-Microsofties (but report misses a few too)

I’ve often wondered which of the tech giants breed the most entrepreneurs. Now, the social recruiting company TopProspect takes a closer… Read More

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