GeekWire Awards: Vote for Startup of the Year

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We’re nearing the end of the voting for the GeekWire Awards, and today we’ve got a big category on hand: Startup of the Year. To qualify for Startup of the Year, companies had to be three years or younger, and on a fast-track to success. We’re expecting a tight competition in this field of contenders,… Read More…

Geekiest Office Space? Vote here in the GeekWire Awards

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Here’s a fun new category in this year’s GeekWire Awards: Geekiest Office Space, where geeky = cool. Cryptograms on the walls, swanky furniture in the lobby, or a hidden room behind the bookshelf? That’s the type of stuff we’re looking for here. This category is presented by Knoll, which is not only serving as a… Read More…

GeekWire Awards: Vote for Young Entrepreneur of the Year

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We’ve collected hundreds of nominations and listened to the feedback of dozens of expert judges. Now, it’s your time to vote for the best and brightest in the Pacific Northwest technology community. We’re kicking off public voting today for the GeekWire Awards. Over the next two weeks, you’ll get the chance to vote in 14… Read More…

Social Media Madness: Which NCAA school is most-effectively using Twitter?

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There are lots of different spins people put on the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament — a.k.a. March Madness — from different sports to subjects. PayScale did their own bracket based on average graduate salary, and heck, even GeekWire is doing our own Geek Madness. Now Seattle-based social media analytics startup Simply Measured is getting in on… Read More…

Scrappy social media analytics startup Simply Measured raises $8 million

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Adam Schoenfeld, Aviel Ginzburg and Damon Cortesi have sure come a long way since they started their company under the moniker Untitled Startup more than three years ago. For one thing, they’ve got a real name now: Simply Measured. And a real business: 50,000 users of its social media analytics tools. They’ve also just scooped… Read More…

Study: 54 percent of top brands active on Instagram

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A study from Seattle-based social media analytics startup Simply Measured makes it clear that if your company isn’t on Instagram, you’re certainly late to the party. Of the Interband top 100 brands, 54 percent are now using the Facebook-owned photo sharing app, which is a relative increase of 35 percent from last quarter. The study notes that… Read More…

Co-founding a startup: The good, the bad, the ugly

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What are the secrets to success and pitfalls to avoid when putting together a startup’s founding team? One of the most candid and insightful talks at the recent Seattle 2.0 Startup Day addressed that topic with an unvarnished look at the early days of the Seattle startup known today as Simply Measured. Aviel Ginzburg and… Read More…

Simply Measured gets frisky, steals Playboy from Radian6

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Seattle startup Simply Measured today announced that it has won a key piece of business from rival Radian6, taking over the social media analytics for iconic media brand Playboy and its social media agency Social House. “We’re excited to work with such a large and successful media outlet, and we’re excited about the deeper insights… Read More…

Study: 40 percent of top brands active on Instagram

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Instagram, the image-sharing social network that’s in the process of being acquired by Facebook for $1 billion, is getting active participation from 40 percent of the world’s top 100 brands, according to a new report this morning from Seattle-based social media analytics startup Simply Measured. The report calls the engagement “very impressive,” given Instagram’s relative… Read More…

Launch Pads: Simply Measured turns photo studio into HQ

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Tucked above a hair salon in a former photo studio in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood is the 5,000 square-foot “global headquarters” of Simply Measured. The profitable and fast-growing social media analytics startup moved into the space six months ago after it was unable to locate space near its former home near South Lake Union. Team GeekWire… Read More…

Why it’s so gosh-darned hard to find tech talent: Thoughts from 8 startup veterans

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You’ve heard the stories of the tight labor market, and read about some of the unusual gimmicks (and even cash bounties) companies have rolled out to attract top engineers and developers. Heck, it’s so tough to find good engineers these days that President Barack Obama even cited the labor crunch in science and technology during… Read More…

Simply Measured puts ‘Excel on steroids’ with new release

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Simply Measured CEO Adam Schoenfeld kind of sees his company as the “black sheep of the analytics space.” That’s because most analytics companies these days are trying to move users out of Excel, the popular Microsoft spreadsheet application used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. “We’d like to keep you there, and figure out… Read More…

Chart: Twitter and Facebook chatter mushroomed as stock market tanked

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There’s an old adage in the media business that “if it bleeds, it leads.” That also seems to be holding true for social media chatter, especially as it relates to the bloodletting in the stock market this week. Seattle’s Simply Measured, which just scored $750,000 in financing, just released an analysis of conversations across Twitter,… Read More…