Dwellable adds vacation listings for Washington state

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Well, if summer ever officially arrives around these parts, Dwellable’s new service might be a nice resource. The Seattle upstart, created last year by Urbanspoon co-founder Adam Doppelt, today is taking the wraps off vacation rental listings for its home state of Washington. That means you can now browse dozens of vacation rental properties from… Read More…

Why this developer loves the new iPad, and how Steve Jobs inspired his latest creation

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Adam Doppelt is one of Seattle’s top developers, a bootstrapping entrepreneur who was part of the team that created the wildly successful Urbanspoon restaurant directory. Downloaded by millions, Urbanspoon’s iPhone application rose to prominence after Apple featured it in one of the company’s many TV advertisements. But Doppelt was humbled a few years later after… Read More…

Tech Moves: Opscode hires F5 vet; Dwellable taps Kriege; and more

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Opscode, a cloud computing startup that specializes in infrastructure automation, continues to expand its fast-growing team. The Seattle company has named George Moberly, a former F5 Networks and Blade Logic product development executive, to the position of vice president of product management.  In a statement, Moberly said that Opscode is at the “center of a… Read More…

Tech Moves: Spoonemore named CEO of Dwellable; BigDoor adds staff, etc.

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Brenda Spoonemore, a former digital media executive at the NBA and a veteran of Starwave, has taken over the CEO duties at Seattle online vacation rental startup Dwellable.  Spoonemore most recently led Atomic Moguls, a Seattle startup focused on fantasy sports games. She stepped down from day-to-day duties at Atomic Moguls after her second son… Read More…

The inside story of how two Seattle coding geeks built and sold CubeDuel

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Shortly after Seattle entrepreneurs Adam Doppelt and Tony Wright launched CubeDuel, they knew they had a hit on their hands. After all, the online service — which allowed co-workers to choose between two colleagues they’d most want to work with — spread like wildfire across the Internet earlier this year to the point where LinkedIn… Read More…

A hunger for the best sci-fi books sparks geek’s latest quest

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Adam Doppelt is a developer, tinkerer and accomplished entrepreneur. And he’s also a science fiction geek. Those passions all collided in a new site being launched today called BestSFBooks.  The idea behind the site is pretty simple: Help readers discover the most critically-acclaimed sci-fi titles. Doppelt, who previously co-founded Urbanspoon and is the brains by… Read More…

Seattle geek’s frustrating quest for family health coverage sparks PickHealthInsurance

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Like most entrepreneurs, Adam Doppelt recently faced the mind-numbing task of trying to track down a health care plan that would cover him and his family. “Things crystallized for me when I almost bought a plan that claimed to cover maternity, only to discover late in the game that it had a separate $20,000 maternity deductible. What a… Read More…

Hawaiian beach vacation from hell sparks Urbanspoon co-founder to start Dwellable

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Adam Doppelt Urbanspoon helped transform the way people discover new restaurants. Now, Adam Doppelt, one of the co-founders of that Seattle entrepreneurial success story, is looking to tackle another consumer pain point: vacation rentals. Doppelt and Rob Currie just launched Dwellable, a new startup which faces big-time competition from some deep-pocketed rivals. The idea for the… Read More…