Launch Pads: Globys employees work in a hidden room and relax in a fully-stocked company pub

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As a company, it’s important to have a space where your employees can both work efficiently and also relax when needed. Globys, a big data analytics company providing contextual marketing to mobile carriers, seems to have just that. After moving into the old Amazon.com space on the seventh floor of 705 Union Station last November,… Read More…

Launch Pads: Groundspeak, center of the geocache universe

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It’s a big month for Groundspeak, the Seattle company in the middle of the geocaching boom. On Saturday Aug. 18, a little more than a week from now, geocachers from around the world will descend on Groundspeak’s home in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood for the 2012 Geocaching Block Party, on International Geocaching Day. Geocaching is a… Read More…

Launch Pads: Simply Measured turns photo studio into HQ

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Tucked above a hair salon in a former photo studio in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood is the 5,000 square-foot “global headquarters” of Simply Measured. The profitable and fast-growing social media analytics startup moved into the space six months ago after it was unable to locate space near its former home near South Lake Union. Team GeekWire… Read More…