FrontDesk still isn’t saying much about its new service for helping small businesses schedule meetings, review client profiles and receive billing alerts. But the Seattle company, led by former T-Mobile and Expedia analytics guru Jon Zimmerman, is pulling in more cash from some of the region’s top angel investors. The company just scored $1 million… Read More…
Zillow chairman Rich Barton and aQuantive co-founder Nick Hanauer are two of Seattle’s most accomplished entrepreneurs, having created billion-dollar companies that altered how we shop, travel and buy real estate. Both also are extremely outspoken when it comes to politics, sharing some of those opinions in an informative appearance today on The Conversation with KUOW’s Ross… Read More…
Some entrepreneurial ideas are born in the lab. Jon Zimmerman’s latest entrepreneurial effort emerged at the Crossfit gym that he co-owns in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. Encountering paperwork challenges at the gym, Zimmerman figured there had to be a better way to streamline the daily activities that many small businesses encounter. Zimmerman joined with another former… Read More…
The best quotes, tweets, comments and random zingers we heard this week. “In the past eight years, all of you out there have built the largest community in the history of the world. You’ve done amazing things that we never would have dreamed of, and I can’t wait to see wait you guys all do… Read More…
The controversy over Nick Hanauer’s recent TED talk about increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans just isn’t going away. Yesterday, GeekWire and others reported on how Hanauer’s economic talk was not being displayed on the TED Web site. “My arguments threaten an economic orthodoxy and political structure that many powerful people have a huge stake… Read More…
Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer — an early investor in Amazon.com and aQuantive — certainly has strong opinions on economics and politics. And that’s one of the reasons why he was invited to give a TED talk a few months ago, sharing his pointed views on why the wealthiest Americans should pay more in taxes…. Read More…
Qliance is looking to transform the way Americans receive their health care, certainly no easy task. And now the Seattle company has reeled in some extra cash to help tackle the problem. Qliance, which operates primary health care clinics in the Puget Sound area, has raised $3.1 million of a $10 million venture capital round,… Read More…
Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer was one of the most vocal supporters last year of Initiative 1098, a measure that would have raised funds for public education in Washington state by imposing a state income tax on those making more than $200,000. Most of Hanauer’s peers in the venture capital and tech community absolutely hated… Read More…
A few weeks ago, Andy Sack and other members of TechStars made a plea to the entrepreneurial titans of Seattle to attend Demo Day, the investment pitch session in which 10 startup companies from the incubator strut their stuff. It was a bold attempt to get the likes of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other so-called… Read More…
Andy Sack, the director of TechStars Seattle, is accustomed to critiquing the pitches of entrepreneurs. Now, Sack is doing an elevator pitch of his own, making a plea to some of the heaviest hitters in Seattle tech. In an email and video message (both posted below), Sack and other members of TechStars Seattle make the pitch… Read More…
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