GeekWire 200 May Update: Zulily, CreativeLive and Duxter make a move

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It’s a big day for the Seattle startup community, with Mayor McGinn this morning announcing a new initiative to support startup entrepreneurs, and our very own GeekWire Awards tonight recognizing the region’s top companies, most innovative technologies and hardest-working geeks. We’ve also just released the latest update to the GeekWire 200, our monthly index tracking the Seattle… Read More…

GeekWire 200 April Update: Docusign, Redfin, Avalara and others moving up

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Several of the Seattle region’s largest technology companies improved their positions in the new update to the GeekWire 200, our monthly index tracking the Seattle region’s privately-held technology companies, sponsored by Fresh Consulting. Moving up two positions and breaking into the top 10 was Avalara, thanks in part to a jump in external links to the sales tax… Read More…

Are Tech Companies Better Digital Marketers? Rival IQ’s insights from the GeekWire 200

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[Editor's Note: This post analyzing the GeekWire 200 was written by John Clark, CEO of Seattle-based Rival IQ, which provides tools for companies to benchmark and monitor their competitors and market landscape. Also see this post about the GeekWire 200 April update.] In the last few posts on our Rival IQ blog we’ve explored a couple of… Read More…

GeekWire 200 Update: Bungie, U4iA, other game companies make a move

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It was a big month for video games on the GeekWire 200, our monthly startup index tracking the Seattle region’s technology companies, sponsored by Fresh Consulting. Exhibit A: Bungie, which unveiled its new game “Destiny” in February, saw its Twitter follower count increase by more than 15,000 people, to 156,000 followers, and also saw a… Read More…

GeekWire 200 February Update: Big Fish stays on top

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Big Fish remains the biggest fish in the Seattle startup community. The Seattle game maker leads the February update to the GeekWire 200, our ranking of the top 200 companies in the region based on publicly available information from LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and other sources. It marks the third consecutive month that Big Fish has led… Read More…

GeekWire 200 January Update: Our (better!) ranking of Seattle startups

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Last month GeekWire brought back a Seattle tech tradition, using publicly available data to generate a monthly ranking of 200 top startups in the Seattle region. As we suspected in advance, we also brought back a related tradition — an intense debate about the merits and accuracy of such an index. Seriously, you should have… Read More…