GeekWire Awards: Vote for Startup of the Year

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We’re nearing the end of the voting for the GeekWire Awards, and today we’ve got a big category on hand: Startup of the Year. To qualify for Startup of the Year, companies had to be three years or younger, and on a fast-track to success. We’re expecting a tight competition in this field of contenders,… Read More…

GeekWire Awards: Vote here for App of the Year

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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 mix of newly released apps along with established titles that made significant upgrades and additions over the past year. The finalists in this category — Glympse,… Read More…

Haiku Deck partners with popular publishing platform Slideshare

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Above is a presentation made on Haiku Deck and shared on Slideshare — it also shows you how to upload your Haiku Deck presentations to Slideshare. That’s now possible going forward, as the two companies partnered today to allow users to upload slideshows made on Haiku Deck directly to Slideshare, the world’s largest community for sharing… Read More…

Haiku Deck’s Adam Tratt: ‘Startup storytelling for the win’

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Tech industry veteran Adam Tratt has told a story or two in his day, but more than that, he has experienced first-hand the value of “entrepreneurial storytelling” — the ability for startup founders to convey their vision in a compelling way, creating inspiration out of thin air. Tratt and the team at Seattle startup Giant… Read More…

Q&A: How this Seattle startup could take a bite out of Microsoft PowerPoint

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Giant Thinkwell’s latest product, Haiku Deck, has been getting quite a bit of attention over the last few weeks.  We covered the team of three — Adam Tratt, Kevin Leneway, and Marc Kamaka — and the launch of their iPad-based presentation tool earlier this month. They were also one of the few startups that Valley celeb Robert Scoble interviewed while… Read More…

Podcast: Haiku Deck basking in the App Store’s spotlight

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Right before going into the studio to record this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, I noticed one of our guests, Giant Thinkwell CEO Adam Tratt, leaning over his computer with one of the biggest grins I’ve ever seen. He had just found out that the company’s new iPad app, Haiku Deck, had scored a… Read More…

A next-gen PowerPoint? Haiku Deck looks to help people make beautiful presentations

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There are startup pivots. And then there are massive reboots. Haiku Deck, which today is taking the covers off its new iPad app, is certainly in the latter category. You may recall the team behind Haiku Deck, which made waves and grabbed headlines with its creative marketing approaches for the celebrity-based gaming startup Giant Thinkwell…. Read More…