Event Calendar Navigating Success：Insights from Top Investors, Founders, and Innovators Welcome, everyone, to Navigating Success: Insights from Top Investors, Founders, and Innovators! We’re excited to bring together three incredible leaders… Read More
Where is tech headed in 2019? Six investors make their predictions for the upcoming year How many Seattle startups will go public in 2019? What will happen to Amazon’s stock price over the next 12 months?… Read More
Can tech investors forecast the future? How our panel’s 2018 predictions turned out Venture capitalists are in the business of placing big bets on new technologies. That’s why it’s fun to get their… Read More
3 investors discuss the most (and least) exciting emerging technologies on their radar Insurance and machine learning are hot, virtual reality is not, and cryptocurrency is complicated. Those are a few takeaways from… Read More
Seattle investor compares Trump’s tax plan to ‘giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys’ Nick Hanauer is not impressed with President Donald Trump’s new tax reform plan. The Seattle investor and co-founder of Second… Read More
How canned fish convinced RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser to ignore conventional wisdom and invest in a new Seattle restaurant Rob Glaser is well aware that restaurants make for risky investments. “There’s two arguments,” he told GeekWire. “One, they have… Read More
Campaign to diversify startup boards launched by Redfin, Madrona, Pioneer Square Labs and others Real estate technology company Redfin and several prominent tech investment firms will encourage startups in their portfolios to recruit an… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Waccal’s platform helps startups validate their products and find investors The process of landing meetings and pitching investors can be burdensome for time and resource-strapped startups. Brothers Ashfaq and Anil… Read More
Entrepreneurs and investors will love this game about pitching ‘objectively bad startup ideas’ Attention, nerds: This is the party game for you. “Pitch Deck” is kind of like “Cards Against Humanity” for the… Read More
Why this prominent Seattle angel investor is heading to college at the age of 54 Gary Rubens is one of Seattle’s top angel investors, a fixture in the region’s startup ecosystem. But now the 54-year-old investor… Read More
Working Geek: Madrona’s Tim Porter is on 10 boards — here’s how he keeps it together Tim Porter is the guy on the other side of the table. He’s the decision-maker whom eager, nervous entrepreneurs pitch, hoping… Read More
Commentary: The 5 things I learned from my first 100 days as a venture capitalist Over the last 10 years, I had been doing — or should I say dabbling in — angel investing. With… Read More
