EveryMove partners with popular Endomondo sports tracker app

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EveryMove, a Seattle-based startup that lets users track their healthy habits and rewards them with gift cards and reduced health-care premiums, has partnered with the popular sports tracking app Endomondo. As a result of the deal, EveryMove users can earn points from workouts tracked on Endomondo. In a blog post, the company wrote that it saw high demand… Read More…

Commentary: We need more startup marketing minds (a.k.a. Full-Stack Marketers)

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Three years ago I was at a dinner and an entrepreneur was telling me and the VP of Marketing of a successful startup how there weren’t enough marketing folks in Seattle. This VP of Marketing disagreed and said there are plenty of marketing folks, but not the ones startups need. If you go to Twitter… Read More…

Healthcare Reform: Why today’s Supreme Court ruling is great news for startups

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No matter which side of the aisle you sit on*, today’s ruling by the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, is a big deal for the healthcare industry, but it’s also a big deal for startups. It’s actually a very positive outcome for startups. No, I’m not talking about health-related startups,… Read More…

Confessions of an Eastsider building a startup in Seattle

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I spent 13 years of my life in the Pacific Northwest living on the Eastside. I worked at Microsoft. Then, I did my first startup in Redmond. After that, most of my gigs were on the Eastside. When I joined Russell Benaroya to build EveryMove last year, it was the first time in my life that… Read More…

EveryMove scores $375,000, looks to reward employees for making healthier choices

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EveryMove, the Seattle health startup led by Russell Benaroya and Marcelo Calbucci, has landed $375,000 in an initial financing with plans to pull in more cash later this year. The company launched at TechStars Seattle in November, announcing at the time that insurance giant Premera Blue Cross had signed on as the first customer. EveryMove… Read More…

Seattle 2.0 has a new home, and it’s GeekWire

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Seattle 2.0 has become a staple of Seattle’s tech startup community over the past four years. Founded by Marcelo Calbucci, its mission is to help tech entrepreneurs build great companies. It does this with a powerful one-two punch, combining online resources such as its job board and Startup Index with in-person events such as the… Read More…

Are you sacrificing happiness and long-term wealth for short term gains?

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How’s that great salary working out for you? If you work at Microsoft, Google or Amazon it’s clear that you can’t get a better salary in the market, and you tell yourself you are doing the right thing. Maybe you don’t work at any of those three, but you are doing consulting work charging $125… Read More…

Seattle angel to rich Microsoft and Amazon alumni: Get off your duffs and start investing in startups

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It is one of the ongoing mysteries of the Seattle startup community. With all of the wealth created over the years at companies such as Amazon, Expedia, Microsoft, F5 and others, why aren’t there more folks recycling their cash in startup companies? Over the past few months, that’s been a hot topic of discussion on… Read More…

A brief history of Seattle startups: We’ve come a long way, baby

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There’s certainly been a lot of discussion on GeekWire in the past few weeks about the vibrancy — or some may say lack of vibrancy — in the Seattle startup community. But, sometimes, it is good to take a moment and reflect. Speaking at the Hacker News Meetup Tuesday night, Seattle 2.0 founder Marcelo Calbucci… Read More…

How do we make the Seattle startup ecosystem stronger?

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Leaders from the Seattle technology community gathered in the basement of TechStars on Tuesday night to discuss ways to strengthen the startup ecosystem and make it easier for entrepreneurs to build their companies here. Organized by Startup Weekend’s Jennifer Cabala, the brainstorming session was one of the first steps in an effort backed by the… Read More…