Perhaps no Seattle startup has devoted as many hours to Startup Weekend as TeachStreet. Business development guru Joseph Sunga and crew took home top honors at one of the 54-hour coding marathons back in May, and CEO Dave Schappell was instrumental in organizing Startup Weekend EDU at the University of Washington in October. Now, the… Read More…
Bryan Trussel, the founder and CEO of Glympse, the popular mobile location tracking app, is accustomed to watching large tech companies nibble at his heels. In fact, with Google Latitude and Facebook Places, the chatter echoed loudly that Glympse would be run over. Now, Apple is making waves in the social location arena with a… Read More…
SpaceCurve founder J. Andrew Rogers has kept a pretty low profile since moving to Seattle from Silicon Valley 13 months ago. But the entrepreneur couldn’t hide that he just raised $1.5 million from Reed Elsevier Ventures and Divergent Ventures. Now, he’s looking to start talking a little bit more about the business. “We are planning… Read More…
Seattle’s Groundspeak was one of the early pioneers in geocaching, a high-tech, location-based treasure hunt of sorts where people seek out hidden containers filled with goodies using GPS devices or smartphones. When Jeremy Irish, Elias Alvord and Bryan Roth started the site Geocaching.com in 2000, there were just 75 geocaches listed. On Saturday, the company… Read More…
There’s certainly no shortage of places to find information about local businesses, including Yelp, CitySearch, Patch and dozens of other hyperlocal sites. But WhitePages is tossing its hat into the ring today with the launch of a new Android app called Localicious and a new Web site called Neighbors. WhitePages CEO Alex Algard admits that… Read More…
There’s no shortage of applications that help mobile phone users share their physical locations. Even so, Glympse — a Redmond startup co-founded by two former Microsofties — believes it can stand out from the pack. And some very large venture capital firms tend to agree, with Glympse announcing today that it has scored $7.5 million… Read More…
Earlier this week, we told you about Pirq, a new Kirkland startup that uses a mobile phone user’s location to deliver discounts at local restaurants. It is one of a number of Seattle area companies — ranging from Starbucks to Point Inside — looking to capitalize on location-based services. And, according to a report out… Read More…
So, this is what happens when a Seattle tech executive gets mixed up with Startup Weekend in L.A.? He returns home, quits his job and decides to start hanging out with actor Ashton Kutcher to build a new startup company. That’s the wild story of Eric Koester who, along with Bo Fishback and Ian Hunter,… Read More…
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