Amazon Studios greenlights ‘Betas,’ a comedy about Silicon Valley geeks

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Amazon Studios is piloting its eighth comedy, and this is one that tech geeks may really enjoy — unless it ends up anything like Bravo’s “Startups: Silicon Valley,” of course. Directed by Michael Lehmann (Dexter, 40 Days and 40 Nights, True Blood), the show is called called Betas.  Here’s Amazon’s description: Set in the land of Silicon… Read More…

Sonics update: It’s turning into a Silicon Valley vs. Seattle investor showdown

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By now, you’ve likely either read or had a discussion about the Seattle vs. Silicon Valley entrepreneurial debate. Heck, the good folks over at Killer Infographics even designed the badass poster you see above that artistically describes the different characteristics of each region’s geeks. Now that discussion is moving to the basketball court. For a while, it seemed as though… Read More…

Patience, perseverance and passion: Video highlights from our talk with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot

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We had a great conversation with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot Wednesday evening at our GeekWire Meetup. Chabot talked about several interesting topics, from why entrepreneurs should avoid venture capital to the power of perseverence over pivoting to Seattle as a startup city. You can check out the video highlights above, followed by some additional thoughts from our attendees…. Read More…

Tableau CEO Chabot: Seattle is the promised land of startup America

Tableau CEO Christian Chabot calls Seattle the "promise land" of startup America.

We had a stimulating conversation with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot yesterday at our GeekWire Meetup. Chabot touched on a number of really interesting topics and had good perspective on Seattle as a startup city. Chabot co-founded Tableau back in 2003 down at Stanford University but decided to bring the visual analytics software business up north to the… Read More…

Seattle vs. Silicon Valley: The debate continues (but this time with outsiders weighing in)

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We’ve heard a lot of discussion — even sparked some of it on occasion ourselves — about the differences between the technology hubs of Seattle and Silicon Valley. Most of the time, it’s people in the Seattle tech community who are ranting or raving (in part because many folks in the Valley largely don’t care about… Read More…

Seattle: America’s top tech city

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There’s been a lot of debate and discussion in recent months about Seattle’s technology industry, and how it compares to other spots like Silicon Valley (See: Seattle and Silicon Valley, the inside view from the startup world) and New York City (See: Hey, NYC: There’s a tech hub out here called Seattle). Now, take a look at this…. Read More…

GeekWire Radio: Seattle and Silicon Valley, the inside view from the startup world

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Do Seattle’s tech startups dream big enough, and do the region’s startup investors do enough to help make those big dreams happen? We explore those topics and more this week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, as we compare and contrast Seattle and Silicon Valley, with the goal of better understanding the differences and… Read More…

The top 25 startup hubs in the world: Seattle ranks 13th

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I have mixed reactions to the Startup Genome Project’s new report analyzing the top 25 startup ecosystems in the world. On the one hand, it is nice to see Seattle make it on the list, ranking at a respectable 13th, ahead of Boston, Austin and Vancouver, B.C. But at the same time, as many in… Read More…

Seattle vs. Silicon Valley: Infographic shows where Seattle has the edge

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We had fun working with the team at Killer Infographics on our recent infographic comparing Seattle Geeks vs. Silicon Valley Geeks, highlighting the idiosyncracies of each region. Today VentureBeat points out that someone else has taken a more analytical approach to the comparison. No, it’s not as entertaining as ours, but it does touch on… Read More…

Infographic: Seattle Geeks vs. Silicon Valley Geeks

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We’re getting ready to kick off the big GeekWire Summit this afternoon — marking GeekWire’s first anniversary by bringing together tech leaders from around the region and the country for a conversation about the future of technology and innovation in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. As a lighthearted way of commemorating the occasion, we’ve partnered… Read More…

Map: The hottest spots in the U.S. for startup tech jobs

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Startup companies all over the country are fighting hard to attract and retain top technology talent — a tough chore given the rise of powerhouses such as Facebook and Amazon.com which are lapping up engineers and developers at every turn. (No wonder some startups have resorted to giving away cats in order to find engineers)…. Read More…

The Climate Corp. picks Seattle for branch office, looks to cultivate talent to crunch weather data

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Over the course of the past 18 months, a number of California tech titans (Facebook, Salesforce.com, Zynga and Hulu) have established new engineering offices in Seattle. Most have arrived for one simple reason: The region’s strong line-up of technical talent. Now here comes one of the more unusual arrivals. (At least on the surface of… Read More…

Startup incubator takes to the seas with wild idea to house foreign entrepreneurs

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Now, we’ve heard some wild concepts over the years. But the latest idea getting some buzz in Silicon Valley (not to mention cash from well known angel investor Peter Thiel) goes a bit off the deep end. An organization by the name of Blueseed Co. is proposing a “visa-free offshore incubator” — housed in renovated… Read More…

Newsmakers 2011: Neil Roseman helps bring Zynga to Seattle

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One of the biggest stories in Seattle tech in 2011 was the arrival of the Silicon Valley tech titans. It seemed that nearly every other month a new company was establishing an engineering center in rain-soaked Seattle, picking off talented managers and engineers and altering the tech recruiting landscape in the process. Zynga, the fast-growing… Read More…

Why this 29-year-old entrepreneur left Seattle for Silicon Valley

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Aaron Franklin has been an active member of the Seattle startup community over the years. He’s participated in Startup Weekend in Redmond, attended events like Hops & Chops and actively blogs on the Web site Seattle 2.0. But when the 29-year-old former Microsoft employee was looking to start his new company, a task management service called… Read More…

‘Seattle feels a lot like Bangalore,’ and other comments of the week

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Fashion advice for Bill Gates. A new operating system that could rival … Vista. And how Seattle compares to Bangalore, India — just with nicer utilities. That was some of the chatter that caught our attention this past week in the comment threads of GeekWire. The big talker of the week was Todd Bishop’s story… Read More…