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Simply Measured

Tech Moves: ExtraHop adds execs; Simply Measured co-founder returns to startups; and more

— Network security startup ExtraHop added two new executives ahead of a potential IPO in 2020. Sri Sundaralingam joined as… Read More

Tech Moves: OfferUp’s VP of product departs; UW hires Impact Hub managing director; and more

—Chloe Harford has left her position as VP of product at digital marketplace OfferUp. Harford joined OfferUp in June 2017 from… Read More

Sprout Social acquires Seattle social media analytics startup Simply Measured

Sprout Social has acquired Simply Measured, a Seattle startup that helps brands get deeper insights into their social media marketing… Read More

Tech Moves: Amazon reportedly hires Box health tech exec; Bizible adds Inside Social founder as VP; and more

Amazon has hired health technology executive Missy Krasner, the VP and managing director of healthcare and life sciences at cloud… Read More

Tech Moves: Simply Measured co-founder will lead Alexa Accelerator; Donuts names new CRO; more

Startup incubator TechStars announced late last year that it is partnering with Amazon for the Alexa Accelerator, an incubator specifically… Read More

Michael Wasyluka

Tech Moves: Simply Measured names Michael Wasyluka as new CEO; AWS adds VP of cloud architecture; and more

Simply Measured, the Seattle-based social media analytics company, has named current COO Michael Wasyluka as the new CEO. Sameer Kazi, who… Read More

Simply Measured

Tech Moves: Simply Measured co-founder steps down for role at stealthy startup; Avalara expands operations in Brazil; and more

Simply Measured co-founder and vice president of strategy Adam Schoenfeld is leaving the Seattle-based social media analytics company after nearly seven… Read More

IT Sports League champs

IT Sports League is a hit as Simply Measured beats TINYPulse/Avvo for first softball title

The inaugural season of the IT Sports League has wrapped up with a team from Simply Measured taking the softball championship.… Read More

How #ManInTree climbed to the top of Twitter

Update: The man has descended the tree and officials escorted him to the hospital, according to The Seattle Times. Oh… Read More

Tech Moves: ExtraHop names Palo Alto Networks exec to board; Pincus steps down as CEO of Zynga; Cray snags CMO

—ExtraHop, the Seattle-based IT operations analytics company, has appointed Mark Anderson to its board of directors. Anderson is the executive VP of worldwide field operations… Read More

Emojis are ‘all over’ brands on Instagram for 2015

Emojis ruled this year, not only as the “word” of the year, but also in branding. Seattle-based Simply Measured found that… Read More

Simply Measured names ExactTarget vets as CEO and CRO in bid to supercharge growth

Simply Measured, the Seattle-based social media analytics startup, is adding some horsepower to the executive offices. The five-year-old company this… Read More

Simply Measured

SimplyMeasured makes its second acquisition, swoops up social intelligence platform DataRank

Simply Measured has acquired its second company in less than two months. The Seattle social media analytics startup today announced… Read More

Simply Measured

Simply Measured acquires Inside Social, as two Seattle social media data startups join forces

Simply Measured, a quickly growing social media analytics startup, announced on Tuesday it has acquired its first company, a fellow Seattle startup… Read More

These Seattle startups are swapping résumés to find the best hires

Competition is fierce out there for top talent, especially if you are a startup competing with the likes of Amazon,… Read More

GeekWork: INRIX is on a roll, looking for new VP of Product Management

Fall has been kind to INRIX. In the past two months the Kirkland-based traffic data company scored $55 million from Porsche,… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft exec and Healthcare.gov fixer Kurt DelBene joins Madrona; Cray names a familiar CTO; etc.

Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene spent the past several months helping to fix President Obama’s Healthcare.gov Web site, a hot-button issue… Read More

Simply Measured

Simply Measured cuts 10% of staff in ‘course correction’ to set up next phase of growth

Seattle social media analytics startup Simply Measured cut 15 employees, or 10 percent of its workforce, as part of a restructuring… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Vote for Geekiest Office Space

Nerf gun wars, orange toilet paper, a cafeteria in a former bar, a great indoor putting green, and windows repurposed as whiteboards. Yes,… Read More

Seattle helicopter crash nearly hit startup recruiter: ‘It’s a great reminder of how precious life is’

Kallie Meno woke up extra early on Tuesday morning so she could be with co-workers and help celebrate her company’s… Read More

Simply Measured

Social media analytics startup Simply Measured raises $20M, wants to be Seattle’s next tech titan

Simply Measured is simply on fire. Less than a year after the company took home GeekWire’s 2013 Startup of the Year… Read More

Social media study: Here’s how the world’s top brands effectively use Twitter

Most of the world’s top brands have utilized Twitter as a marketing tool, but some are doing better than others… Read More

Simply Measured partners with Tumblr on analytics, as Yahoo courts big brands

Following Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr earlier this year, CEO Marissa Mayer and her team are trying to make the blogging… Read More

These five brands are kicking ass with Instagram video

It’s been about two weeks since Instagram unveiled its 15-second video feature and the response has been excellent for the Facebook-owned… Read More

Tech Moves: Doug Aley leaves Zulily for Room 77; Vittana taps CEO; Ex-RealNetworks CEO lands at Brightcove; UserMind; etc.

Doug Aley is jumping back into the online travel business, taking a new job as vice president of product development… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Vote for Startup of the Year

We’re nearing the end of the voting for the GeekWire Awards, and today we’ve got a big category on hand:… Read More

Geekiest Office Space? Vote here in the GeekWire Awards

Here’s a fun new category in this year’s GeekWire Awards: Geekiest Office Space, where geeky = cool. Cryptograms on the… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Vote for Young Entrepreneur of the Year

We’ve collected hundreds of nominations and listened to the feedback of dozens of expert judges. Now, it’s your time to… Read More

Social Media Madness: Which NCAA school is most-effectively using Twitter?

There are lots of different spins people put on the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament — a.k.a. March Madness —… Read More

Scrappy social media analytics startup Simply Measured raises $8 million

Adam Schoenfeld, Aviel Ginzburg and Damon Cortesi have sure come a long way since they started their company under the… Read More

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