As part of HomeAway’s third quarter earnings release, which included the announcement of its $3.9 billion acquisition by Expedia, the company revealed today how much it paid to acquire Seattle-based vacation rental startup Dwellable last month: $18… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show: Is Amazon opening a bookstore in Seattle? We provide the clues and let you decide. Plus, we talk about two notable deals in the… Read More
Dwellable has found a new home. The Seattle vacation rental startup — founded three years ago by developers Nathan Kriege and Adam Doppelt — has been sold to its primary… Read More
Find a date, grab a coffee on the go, book a fabulous vacation destination, breeze through airport check-in or unload some of the junk in your basement. This year’s finalists… Read More
Dwellable is taking a page out of Tinder’s playbook for its vacation travel app. The Seattle startup released an update for its iOS app on Thursday that includes new features… Read More
For years, Adam Doppelt refused to take venture capital financing, using a strict bootstrapping ethos to build companies such as restaurant locator Urbanspoon and tech talent identifier CubeDuel. “Just build… Read More
It’s getting to be the time of year when going on vacation sounds like a really good idea. Daylight Savings Time has kicked in, the first signs of Spring are… Read More
HomeAway is still the 800-pound gorilla in the vacation rental business, with 1,400 employees, 775,000 paid listings and annual revenue last year of $280.4 million. But a tiny Seattle upstart is… Read More
Kirby Winfield is jumping back into the startup game after his previous company, AdXpose, was sold to comScore for $22 million. Winfield was just named CEO of Dwellable, the vacation… Read More
Advanced Micro Devices is a 44-year-old Silicon Valley semiconductor giant, best known by the initials AMD. It’s the brand you see in marketing materials, and the stock symbol it uses… Read More
Adam Doppelt is one of Seattle’s more accomplished entrepreneurs, having previously co-founded Urbanspoon before moving on to his latest startup, the online vacation rental service Dwellable. Doppelt has bootstrapped Dwellable… Read More
It’s the end of an era at Urbanspoon, the wildly popular online restaurant recommendation service that was sold to IAC in 2009. Patrick O’Donnell, one of the three Urbanspoon founders,… Read More
It’s time to cast your vote in one of the most hotly contested categories of this year’s GeekWire Awards: App of the Year. Competing for your vote are a great… Read More
Brenda Spoonemore is a serial entrepreneur, currently co-founder and CEO at vacation rentals and reviews startup Dwellable, but her experience includes a role as senior vice president of interactive services… Read More
The “Featured Apps” slots in the Google Play store are prime real estate for Android apps, and two Seattle companies are enjoying the extra visibility this week — a nice little coup… Read More
Dwellable, the Seattle upstart led by Urbanspoon co-founder Adam Doppelt; former NBA digital executive Brenda Spoonemore and Snapvine co-founder Nathan Kriege, continues to carve new territory with its mobile applications for vacation… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
