Mega-financing rounds push VC totals higher: $10 billion invested in 880 deals in Q1 A series of very large financing deals — including Cloudera ($900 million); TangoMe ($280 million); and Domo Technologies ($125 million)… Read More
Chart: The top states for entrepreneurship (Oregon and Washington aren’t even close) We like to think of ourselves from entrepreneurial stock here in the Pacific Northwest — driven by by a pioneering… Read More
Proof of concept: Majority of angel investments made in revenue producing startups Angel investors historically have placed bets at the earliest stages of a company’s formation, oftentimes when the business is nothing… Read More
The top 25 startup hubs in the world: Seattle ranks 13th I have mixed reactions to the Startup Genome Project’s new report analyzing the top 25 startup ecosystems in the world.… Read More
Cash-rich tech giants have $300 billion to spend: Is a new wave of tech M&A coming? Could we see a new wave of technology-related mergers and acquisitions? Well, that’s one possible scenario given that the top… Read More
Ad impressions surge for Windows Phone, but Microsoft’s mobile OS share still small Here’s the bad news for Microsoft from Millennial Media’s MobileMix report: Windows Phone commands just one percent of the smartphone… Read More
Report: Location based services market to hit $10 billion by 2016 Earlier this week, we told you about Pirq, a new Kirkland startup that uses a mobile phone user’s location to… Read More
What’s your startup DNA: Automizer, Social Transformer, Integrator or Challenger? Can you predict which startup companies will succeed? It’s a mystifying question for sure, but one that the Startup Genome Project… Read More
Sprint is the best wireless carrier in Seattle, while AT&T is the worst Sprint Nextel may be trailing rivals such as AT&T and Verizon on a national basis. But the third place carrier… Read More
