GeekWire Awards: Vote for Startup CEO of the Year

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We’re back for another round of voting in the GeekWire Awards, and today’s category is a big one: Startup CEO of the Year, presented by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. We kicked off voting for the GeekWire Awards last week, and we’ll continue tabulating the votes in each of the 14 categories in the coming days…. Read More…

Startup wisdom from Kabir Shahani, the 30-year-old tech whiz who just sold Appature

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Appature co-founder Kabir Shahani was running on fumes when I stopped by the company’s offices this week to discuss its acquisition by health data giant IMS. But you couldn’t tell that Shahani, sharply dressed and buzzing with energy, hadn’t slept much in the past few days. The interesting thing about Shahani — apart from the… Read More…

Health care marketing startup Appature sold to IMS in blockbuster deal

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Appature’s new offices along Westlake Avenue boast stunning views of Lake Union and a playful atmosphere, including Nerf guns everywhere, bean bag chairs and a well-stocked Kegerator. None of those things will be going away. But something else will: the name on the lease. Appature — a six-year-old Seattle startup whose cloud-based software is used by… Read More…

Appature’s Kabir Shahani: ‘We’re very oriented towards obsoleting ourselves’

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Kabir Shahani and his team at Appature want to help marketers create intensely personal customer experiences. How are they going to do it? By leveraging the incredible opportunities the current technology space is affording them, aggregating massive amounts of data, and always striving to solve a new problem. Oh — and maybe trying to create… Read More…