Startup Spotlight: Localblox is like Facebook, but for your neighborhood

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Facebook is nice and all, but with one billion users, it’s hard to feel like there’s any more than a pool of statuses and food photos. Sure, it’s great for keeping in touch with old friends, but what about people who live right next door? When Sabrira Arefin and Ashfaq Rahman created LocalBlox, that’s exactly what… Read More…

Why our Startup CEO of the Year thinks Portland is the next great startup city

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When we announced that Elemental’s Sam Blackman had won the Startup CEO of the Year award at last week’s GeekWire Awards, many of you likely had no idea who Blackman was or what the heck Elemental did as a company. Well, it’s probably time you learn more about one of the region’s fastest-growing startups that’s… Read More…

Atlanta tops list of best places to start a business; Seattle ranks 7th

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Atlanta is apparently the place to be for gamers, nerds and now, startup hopefuls. Personal finance site Nerd Wallet just released a new study, this time analyzing the best cities to start a business. Atlanta topped the list, while Seattle came in 7th. Nerd Wallet looked at the 42 largest U.S. cities and used a methodology… Read More…

Score one for Seattle startup partnerships: Tatango, Julep team up for text-message campaign

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As the Seattle startup scene continues to grow, so do opportunities to form partnerships with neighboring companies. And that’s exactly what happened with two fast-growing startups here in the Emerald City: group-SMS service Tatango and cosmetics company Julep. Both companies knew each other because of shared mutual investors. When Julep launched their e-commerce site, Tatango… Read More…

How to save money: 11 founders share their cost-cutting strategies

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Building a viable product and acquiring customers with little to no financial support is not an easy task. These financial constraints require early-stage entrepreneurs to engineer creative methods to cut costs and maximize value on paid services. I am fascinated by these cash-flow ingenuities since they can often be a critical component to a startup’s… Read More…

Lifelong friends, college buds enjoying success with trendy sock startup Strideline

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Down in Silicon Valley, the current fashion focus apparently isn’t on suits, ties or pants. As the New York Times puts it, it’s all about “flamboyantly colored, audaciously patterned” socks.  That trend isn’t just isolated to the Bay Area — it’s happening all over the country and two best friends from the University of Washington are cashing… Read More…

A night of stunts and startups at the inaugural Seattle Tech Meetup (VIDEO)

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They say you’re supposed to save the best for last, and Tuesday night at the first-ever Seattle Tech Meetup was no different. After four local tech startups pitched their impressive ideas, Zumobi co-founder John SanGiovanni  took the cake for the final demo. For a few minutes on stage, he made magic happen on the screen and at… 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…

Startup Spotlight: Your Brandlive helps Internet retailers communicate with shoppers

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Portland-based startup Your Brandlive formally launched today, announcing a new video social commerce platform designed to help make the retailer-customer relationship more personal. Essentially, Your Brandlive is a project of Cascade Web Development, connecting online retailers with online shoppers through live video chat. One sales person is able to communicate with hundreds of customers at once. “The… Read More…

Startup Spotlight: Pinterest rival Clipboard looks to make screenshotting a breeze

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If you’re tired of taking those messy screenshots and arduously cropping them to the perfect size, the solution may be here. Clipboard is a Bellevue-based company that allows users to cleanly grab images or boxes of text from anywhere on the Internet and save them to folders on the site. The service often draws comparison to Pinterest, which was… Read More…