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…