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Qliance raises $8M, opens new clinic on Expedia campus

Qliance Medical, the Seattle health services startup backed by venture capitalist Nick Hanauer; Zillow Chairman Rich Barton; comedian Drew Carey;… Read More

Rich Barton and Nick Hanauer on startups, the fiscal cliff and ‘creative disruption’

Zillow chairman Rich Barton and aQuantive co-founder Nick Hanauer are two of Seattle’s most accomplished entrepreneurs, having created billion-dollar companies… Read More

Vinod Khosla, Rich Barton lead Vittana’s new ‘League of Extraordinary Tech Superheroes’

Venture capital Vinod Khosla and Zillow co-founder Rich Barton have joined forces to bankroll Vittana, the Seattle non-profit that’s attempting… Read More

Glassdoor raises $20M, tops 14 million registered users

Glassdoor, which compiles compensation data on tens of thousands of companies, is getting its very own payday. The Sausalito, California-based… Read More

Expedia to open onsite health clinic in partnership with Qliance

Employers pay a lot to recruit and retain skilled workers. Now, at Expedia they are going the extra step to… Read More

A yearbook for the Facebook generation: Rich Barton, Mike McCue back TreeRing

Call it a yearbook for the Facebook generation. TreeRing, a San Mateo, California startup, has landed $3.6 million from some… Read More

Zillow adds to war chest, raises $147 million in public offering

Wowsa. Zillow just added a ton of cash to its balance sheet, pricing 3.425 million shares at $43 per share,… Read More

Rich Barton, Nick Hanauer bankroll stealthy Front Desk

Some entrepreneurial ideas are born in the lab. Jon Zimmerman’s latest entrepreneurial effort emerged at the Crossfit gym that he… Read More

VCs come knocking as Nextdoor lands $18.6 million

Nextdoor, a San Francisco startup that operates social networks for more than 3,500 neighborhoods across the country, has raised $18.6… Read More

Microsoft Windows as a ‘beautiful metaphor’ and other comments of the week

The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “Windows really is a beautiful metaphor for… Read More

Zillow’s Rich Barton: Why 50-50 equity splits between co-founders are extremely dangerous

Entrepreneurs need to be flexible and pick themselves up even after things don’t go as planned, because invariably things will… Read More

Startup vet Tony Wright thinks big with Tomo, a mobile app to aid ‘on-the-ground’ travelers

Over the years, Seattle entrepreneur Tony Wright has learned a few things about what he likes and doesn’t like about… Read More

Tech CEO report card: Approval ratings drop for Ballmer, Bezos and others

Glassdoor.com is rolling out its annual “Naughty and Nice” list for technology CEOs. And, as it turns out, it looks… Read More

Entrepreneur alleges that Benchmark stole his idea

Entrepreneurs sometimes fear pitching their ideas to investors out of concern that the business concepts will get stolen. There’s not… Read More

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

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

‘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

Rich Barton lends hand to Nextdoor, a social network for neighbors

Back in 2007, Zillow unveiled a new offering called Neighborhood Pages that was designed to better connect home owners to… Read More

From CD-ROM to dot-com, Expedia celebrates 15 years

Fifteen years ago, Expedia took flight under the wings of Microsoft as a maker of CD-ROM travel guides. Today, it… Read More

Here’s who is coming to the GeekWire Meetup, are you?

TeachStreet founder Dave Schappell will be there, so will some of the goofy geeks from Giant Thinkwell. And word is… Read More

The first ever GeekWire Meetup: Oct. 27 with Zillow’s Rich Barton

When you cover the technology industry every day like we do, it can be a bit hard to break away… 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

Internet kings celebrated on … old-fashioned billboards

King of the Web is a quirky Web-based competition where individuals compete to win monthly online elections by posting funny… 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

Rich Barton on Zillow’s IPO: It’s a ‘great accelerant’ for the business

As CEO of Expedia in 1999, Rich Barton missed out on the excitement of the company’s initial public offering. After… Read More

Zillow boosts IPO price range to $16 to $18, aims to raise $71 million

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff and Executive Chairman Rich Barton must have a polished pitch on their IPO road show. The… Read More

Room 77 checks in with $10.5M

We’ve seen a lot of activity in the online travel space recently, including new cash for Seattle startup Buuteeq and… Read More

Ex-Expedia CEO Blachford joins Technology Crossover Ventures

Former Expedia CEO Erik Blachford has been named a venture partner at Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital… Read More

King of the Web: The next great time-waster, or just a waste of time?

We’ve been wondering for some time now what Rich Barton and Nick Hanauer have been cooking up at their latest… Read More