Today’s featured stories Smart gameball startup Play Impossible inks retail deal with Apple, partners with NFL players, raises cash Seattle engineer creates Cluck, a Chrome extension to identify scams in… Read More
Reetu Gupta, founder and CEO of Cirkled in, has 20 years of experience in corporate America. In addition to having an MBA and a master’s degree in engineering, Gupta has… Read More
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[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check back weekday afternoons for more, and sign up for TLDR… Read More
[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check back weekday afternoons for more, and sign up for… Read More
[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check back weekday afternoons for more, and sign up for… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Peter Chee is founder and CEO of Seattle-based Thinkspace.] I’ve been reflecting on my journey over the last 10 years of being an entrepreneur with my boys, Max, Sam and… Read More
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[Editor’s Note: This guest commentary is by Seattle-based entrepreneur David Longdon, founder and president of motion.social.] For the last few years, I’ve been on an admittedly quixotic entrepreneurial adventure building… Read More
I joined Microsoft 30 years ago, worked there 11 years, was CMO for two successful companies and one that wasn’t, and then quit tech to focus on reproductive health. I… Read More
[This guest commentary is by Avni Patel Thompson, founder and CEO of Poppy.] There are things that I wish I had known before I had started my startups. Not because it… Read More
Code.org is giving low-income students a chance to learn how to code through a free course called “Computer Science Discoveries.” The yearlong course, unveiled this week at Code.org’s TeacherCon conference… Read More
Edna Adan Ismail wanted to prevent women from dying during childbirth in her home country of Somaliland. It’s not easy for women in her region to get a higher education,… Read More
Modumetal CEO Christina Lomasney took to the stage last month to reflect on her time as an up-and-coming entrepreneur, and tell a roomful of University of Washington Business Plan Competition… Read More
NEW YORK — It’s a chilly Thursday afternoon, and throngs of people from around the world have come to New York’s Chelsea neighborhood to take a walk on an abandoned… Read More
Ten years ago, Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis set out to host a community event in Seattle. They had grandiose plans and a handful of fun ideas about what to do for… Read More
As part of yesterday’s Homeless in Seattle initiative, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced a $1 million donation to convert a 6,000 square-foot parking lot, in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood, into… Read More
Many people find recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) quite alarming. Indeed, luminaries, ranging from Nobel laureate Stephen Hawking to technology pioneers Elon Musk and Bill Gates, have warned that… Read More
Garmentory has eliminated non-compete clauses from employment agreements and we’re appealing to other Seattle companies to do the same. (Sorry lawyers). The recent controversy around bills in the Washington state… Read More
You’re not alone if your first reaction is one of skepticism to any sort of “breaking news” on Twitter. The social platform can be rife with speculation and misinformation from a wide… Read More
A story about a town hall-style event featuring Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole on the private social network Nextdoor led to the reporter of that story having her Nextdoor account temporarily… Read More
In 2008, Seattle’s LGBTQ Community Center shuttered its doors, an early sign of the Capitol Hill neighborhood’s evolution from gay haven to trendy turf. The community lamented the center’s closing, but… Read More
If you were asked to come up with an idea for a month-long project to expand and solidify your skills in your chosen field, what would you pick? This is… Read More
[Editor’s Note: This is the latest in a series of commentaries sparked by the post, Coding bootcamps question the need for computer science degrees, by Jeff Meyerson of Software Engineering… Read More
Guest Commentary: We’re all super-busy keeping track of the new University of Washington president, layoffs at Twitter, Dell’s blockbuster acquisition of EMC (including local subsidiary Isilon) and worries about the… Read More
[Editor’s Note: This post by BigOven CEO Steve Murch originally appeared on Facebook. It’s republished here with his permission.] We are living in the future we once talked about. This weekend,… Read More
In a galaxy far far away…in an alternate Star Wars universe… A small group of rebel fighters struggles to build revolutionary products to fight the Empire. They need help and… Read More
In digital, you can easily spot two opposing camps — the artists and the quants. Artists are folks like the New York Times: Pulitzer prize-winning journalists use their intuition and skill — their… Read More
For entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital, getting investor introductions is a key first step towards achieving fundraising success. A well-prepared entrepreneur typically already has a short list of target investors… Read More
A digital tool to monitor “all the devices,” whether they be smartphones or laptop computers. One that is “invisible to the user, evades antivirus and firewalls, and doesn’t affect the… Read More