Three years ago I was at a dinner and an entrepreneur was telling me and the VP of Marketing of a successful startup how there weren’t enough marketing folks in Seattle. This VP of Marketing disagreed and said there are plenty of marketing folks, but not the ones startups need. If you go to Twitter… Read More…
No matter which side of the aisle you sit on*, today’s ruling by the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, is a big deal for the healthcare industry, but it’s also a big deal for startups. It’s actually a very positive outcome for startups. No, I’m not talking about health-related startups,… Read More…
Guest Commentary: This week Microsoft made a big announcement by providing TechStars startups up to $60,000 worth of Windows Azure services for two years. That’s huge. I have never seen Amazon or any other cloud provider, or any other provider of anything, offer this much. It’s an exciting opportunity for those startups, but it also… Read More…
I spent 13 years of my life in the Pacific Northwest living on the Eastside. I worked at Microsoft. Then, I did my first startup in Redmond. After that, most of my gigs were on the Eastside. When I joined Russell Benaroya to build EveryMove last year, it was the first time in my life that… Read More…
It’s day 87 of TechStars Seattle. It’s also the last day of the program. The incubation program culminates with an event this afternoon called Demo Day where more than 400 angel investors, VCs and press will watch ten companies pitch their vision in just six minutes. Six minutes. That’s all you get to impress the audience,… Read More…
How’s that great salary working out for you? If you work at Microsoft, Google or Amazon it’s clear that you can’t get a better salary in the market, and you tell yourself you are doing the right thing. Maybe you don’t work at any of those three, but you are doing consulting work charging $125… Read More…
Guest Commentary: After reading GeekWire’s post about how Washington state is lagging California, New York and Massachusetts in venture capital deals, some data points struck a chord with something I’ve been observing for several years: Seattle’s early-stage investment community is very weak. I looked at the same data in the CB Insights report, looking for something… Read More…
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