Transforming takeout: Madrona’s Brian McAndrews named chairman of merged GrubHub and Seamless

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Brian McAndrews, the former aQuantive CEO who now serves as a venture partner at Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group, is already playing a role in the transformation of the news business (as a board member at The New York Times) and of the mobile broadband business (as a board member at Clearwire). Now, the former online… Read More…

Employment matchmaker Jobaline hooks $1.5 million from Madrona and others

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A stealthy Seattle area startup by the name of Jobaline has reeled in $1.5 million in fresh funding, money that the company plans to use to continue development on a new service that matches hourly workers with employers. Former Facebook general counsel Rudy Gadre is leading the round, with Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group also participating… Read More…

Tech Moves: McAndrews joins AppNexus board; Goffman checks in at LinkedIn; etc.

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Brian McAndrews has joined the board of AppNexus, a New York online advertising company backed by Microsoft, Venrock, First Round Capital and others.  It marks the latest New York board appointment for the former CEO of aQuantive. Earlier this year, McAndrews joined the board of The New York Times. He also serves as a director… Read More…

Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft VP Michael Sievert named CEO of Discovery Bay Games

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Michael Sievert has worked in executive roles at a number of well known Seattle area technology companies over the years, serving as corporate vice president of the Windows Business Group at Microsoft; chief commercial officer at Clearwire and chief marketing officer at AT&T Wireless. Now, the tech veteran is going to give the world of games… Read More…

How this tiny Seattle startup is connected to the chatter around Yahoo’s next CEO

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Yahoo is in hot pursuit of a new CEO. And as the one-time tech leader scans the landscape of available talent, it need not look much further than Seattle online advertising startup AdReady. Kara Swisher at All Things D has been floating a number of possible candidates for the post, noting that Yahoo is looking… Read More…

Yahoo targeting Madrona’s Brian McAndrews, Hulu’s Jason Kilar and others for CEO post

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Venture capitalist Brian McAndrews, the former CEO of Seattle online advertising powerhouse aQuantive, and Jason Kilar, a former Amazon.com executive who now runs Hulu, are among the technology executives being targeted by Yahoo for the CEO post. Kara Swisher at All Things D — who is well-sourced on Yahoo matters — reports that the company’s… Read More…