RIM is planning to shut down Gist, the personal contact management service that it acquired in February 2011. The service will cease operation on September 15th, and up until that time it is offering methods to switch one’s address book and contacts to other services. It is also recommending other contact management alternatives such as… Read More…
Persistence, courage and an ability to learn from failure. Those are some of the attributes of entrepreneurs, all traits exhibited by Gist founder and CEO T.A. McCann in 2011. One of Seattle’s most respected entrepreneurs, McCann sold personal contact organizer Gist to RIM in February. The deal marked the end of a 3-year startup voyage… Read More…
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to start their respective companies, relying on their enormous intellect and technology experience to change the world. But Sergey Brin and Jerry Yang both received advanced degrees at Stanford, and things turned out pretty well for them. So, what’s an entrepreneur to do? Bypass the educational… Read More…
It is a little ironic that Tony Wright’s latest startup project, TouchBase Calendar, was built in the shadow of the Costa Rica beaches. After all, that’s one place where you’d think the rat race of scheduling meetings and making appointments on time would be a super low priority. But Costa Rica was the birthplace of… Read More…
Well, it must be acquisition day in the mobile arena. Following news that Nuance had purchased Swype, now comes word that Blackberry-maker RIM is paying $100 million for NewBay Software, reports All Things D. NewBay is headquarted in Ireland, but the 8-year-old company established its North American presence in Seattle last October. The deal is… Read More…
Here’s a quick look at some of the folks taking on new roles at Pacific Northwest technology companies. Redfin is making a significant investment in analytics, hiring two new staffers who will help the online real estate company make more sense of the massive amounts of data generated by the company. Bridget Frey joined Redfin in June… Read More…
Sure, it’s technically summer time. But that doesn’t mean everyone is on vacation. Some folks are shifting jobs. Here’s a look at some notable Tech Moves over the past few days. Robert Pease is moving on from Gist, the Seattle startup that was acquired by Research in Motion back in February. Pease joined the company… Read More…
A San Francisco upstart by the name of Connected — led by two former Microsoft employees — has raised $500,000 from Trinity Ventures, Ignition Partners, 500 Startups and others. Founded last year by Sachin Rekhi and Ada Chen Rekhi, the company is tackling an area of the contact management market that’s quite similar to Seattle-based… Read More…
Gist founder T.A. McCann just completed a successful sale of his startup to RIM. So, why did the Seattle entrepreneur spend a chunk of his time at the University of Washington business plan competition’s annual awards dinner talking about failure? Well, for one, it is an extremely important part of the startup process. “To be… Read More…
Well, you probably saw this one coming. Gist today unveiled its first BlackBerry app, a launch that comes less than three months after Research In Motion (the maker of BlackBerry) acquired the Seattle startup company. Gist already offered its contact management service for the iPhone and Android, and certainly one of the reasons why RIM… Read More…
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