TechStars ruins your sex life What happens when you lock a bunch of computer nerds in a room for 90-days and encourage them to create… Read More
Startup Weekend kicks off SW Next: A multi-day bootcamp for entrepreneurs Startup Weekend has already given thousands of developers, geeks and other tech professionals a taste of what it’s like to… Read More
Where are they now? Update on the TechStars Class of 2010 Some have gone out of business. Several have changed course. And most are still hanging their shingle in Seattle’s South… Read More
Seattle startup Beamit beams up $750,000, recruits Amazon employee Josh Hug As a mentor at TechStars, Josh Hug got an inside peek at some of the cool technologies emerging inside the… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Steve Jobs bio, Microsoft Store, TechStars, and Pioneer Square’s tech future This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we look ahead to the upcoming Steve Jobs biography, and go… Read More
Done eating squid for now, Kyle Kesterson charts new course after Giant Thinkwell Kyle Kesterson, the co-founder and creative force behind Seattle startup Giant Thinkwell, is leaving the company in order to pursue… Read More
TechStars’ plea to Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the other ‘godfathers’ of Seattle tech Andy Sack, the director of TechStars Seattle, is accustomed to critiquing the pitches of entrepreneurs. Now, Sack is doing an… Read More
LikeBright: Helping nice gals find good dudes since 2011 The problem with many online dating sites is that they are dominated by dudes, sometimes creating an unwelcoming environment for… Read More
Meet Romo: The super cool smartphone-powered robot A few weeks ago, I bumped into Romotive co-founder Phu Nguyen at a geeky tech event in Seattle. Nguyen, who had… Read More
No more slacking in class: Highlighter unveils Groups to boost student engagement As students head back to college campuses this fall, here’s a new technology from a Seattle startup which might change… Read More
Seattle group wins $1.2 million for new startup gaming accelerator Seattle’s gaming industry is often overlooked, but it is an economic force in the region with more than 150 companies… Read More
TechStars shines with $24M, looks to support grads with $100,000 checks Future graduates of TechStars will have the option to walk away with a little more cash in the bank as… Read More
The entrepreneurial ‘petri dish’ at General Assembly, and why one geek would love to see it in Seattle Let’s get one thing cleared up right away. TeachStreet founder Dave Schappell’s investment in General Assembly does not indicate that… Read More
Bezos, Schultz and others back NYC startup incubator General Assembly: Time to bring a branch to Seattle? Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s venture capital firm, Maveron, are tossing their support behind General Assembly,… Read More
Why we joined TechStars Guest Commentary: Most of the time people associate accelerators like Y Combinator and TechStars with teams who have little to… Read More
Taking the plunge: The inside story of how two Israeli entrepreneurs ended up at TechStars Seattle Editor’s Note: There are always a million reasons not to do something. Starting a company means daring to ignore them.… Read More
Meet the lucky two percent: A peek at the startups that just entered TechStars Seattle TechStars Seattle just accepted their second batch of entrepreneurs — 10 new hatchlings who are furiously writing code (probably right… Read More
Morning Radar: Windows Phone’s new logo, TechStars as reality TV, and more Microsoft’s Windows Phone appears to be getting a new logo — shifting from a round icon to a square one that more… 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
Add comments to the margins of Web pages or directly in the editorial flow with Highlighter For the most part, readers of this online news site and most others are forced to leave their comments at… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Toolz.me helps organize your tools Talk about building a startup in hyperspeed. Seattle entrepreneur and WordPress guru Joshua “Red” Russak came up with the idea… Read More
Wired goes inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s hottest tech incubator I just finished reading Wired’s in-depth piece on Y Combinator, the 6-year-old Silicon Valley incubator which in the words of… Read More
Podcast Rewind: Andy Sack on startups, TechStars and the promise of Seattle’s tech scene Joining us for our latest GeekWire Podcast was Andy Sack of TechStars Seattle, Founders Co-op and Revenue Loan — the… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Sports, Twitter, beer, apps and startups We’ve got sports on our brains this week, with a roundup of the latest technological “innovations” at Mariners and Sounders… Read More
Much more than a blog commenting system, Highlighter raises $300,000 On most online news sites, including this one, readers must wait until the end of the post before they can… Read More
