GeekWire Radio: Startup Weekend CEO Marc Nager spreads the startup gospel

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This week on the GeekWire radio show we speak to Startup Weekend CEO Marc Nager who is building a global empire of 54-hour entrepreneurial bootcamps. The Seattle non-profit organization, backed by the Kauffman Foundation and others, has hosted Startup Weekends in 113 countries and 325 cities. It plans to hold more than 800 events this… Read More…

Love line: Amazon debuts Kindle Love Stories podcast, will tap into Goodreads network

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For those who love talking, hearing and discussing everything about love, Amazon may have an answer. Looking to reach out to romance novel fans and tap into its recent acquisition of social network Goodreads, Amazon Publishing today debuted a weekly romance podcast called Kindle Love Stories. The focus is all about romance novels and will… Read More…

Mobile tech, social good: How these computer scientists are making an impact

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Our latest episode of the GeekWire Podcast featured former Geek of the Week Yaw Anokwa. He’s a graduate of the University of Washington computer science program, the co-founder of the software startup Nafundi, and one of the computer scientists behind the Open Data Kit project (ODK), which provides smart forms for collecting data on mobile devices in rural areas, developing countries and other places with… Read More…

Podcast: How to get famous on YouTube, implant RFID chips, and travel to space

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This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we’re revisiting a few of our favorite guest segments with highlights from some of our most interesting interviews over the past several months. The common thread: Each of these guests inspired us to think differently or bigger in some way. Here they are, in order of… Read More…

Podcast: iOS 6, iPhone 5, and more from the week in tech

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We had a lot of fun putting together this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, talking at length about Apple’s new iOS 6 and iPhone 5. To start, John tells the unbelievable story of what happened after he updated his iPhone 4 to the new iOS 6 — a story that involves an encounter with a… Read More…

Q&A: Box’s Aaron Levie on Twitter, Microsoft and being a 27-year-old startup CEO

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We always get a kick out of Box CEO Aaron Levie’s musings on Twitter, from his needling of Microsoft to startup lessons to homespun advice. But that’s not the only reason we invited the Mercer Island High School graduate to be the keynote speaker at Saturday’s Startup Day. Levie, along with co-founder and former Mercer… Read More…

Podcast: Apple, Atari, AT&T, and how technology is changing the daily drive

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Should you give up your unlimited data plan on AT&T? How much will you pay for your next ticket to a Husky football game? Why is Apple moving to a new store in Microsoft’s backyard? And what’s the deal with Atari’s latest revival of its classic games? Those are just a few of the burning… 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…

Q&A: Matt Harding on his unlikely career as a YouTube star

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Our guest this past week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast was Matt Harding of WhereTheHellIsMatt.com. He’s an internet sensation who as been around for a long time (his first video was posted in 2005).  He travels around the world to exotic locations and does the most awkward, lovable dance you have ever seen in your… Read More…

Q&A: David Geller of EyeJot on video mail, startups and competing with giants

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Our guest on the latest GeekWire radio show and podcast was David Geller, CEO of EyeJot.  EyeJot is a Seattle startup that is working to make recording and sending videos easy and reliable. The company was founded back in 2007 by Geller and Daryn Nakhuda (former CTO of TeachStreet, which was acquired by Amazon this past February)…. Read More…