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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…

Mayor McGinn gets his geek on: From Ignite to SURF Incubator

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Mayor Mike McGinn continues to reach out to the startup and entrepreneurial communities in Seattle, popping up at various events around town. Earlier this week, we covered McGinn’s 5-minute talk at Ignite. In that talk, McGinn said the city is working hard to create places in the community where artists, scientists and entrepreneurs can interact. “That fuels… Read More…

What’s percolating at SURF? Startup incubator opens unique geek coffee shop

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You’re a budding entrepreneur quietly building a potential million-dollar business and working long hours in the basement or local coffee shop. Renting office space is expensive and simply not sustainable at the moment. That means you’re alone, blocked out from the outside world. Your plans can’t be shared, built upon and developed into even better… Read More…

Startup vet Bob Crimmins: A huge chasm between good ideas and good businesses

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SURF Incubator, Seattle’s newest startup incubator, celebrated its launch last week at its new facility in the Exchange Building in downtown Seattle. We got an inside look at the incubator a few months ago, but now Seaton Gras’ dream is brimming with activity. To kick off the festivities, Seattle area startup veteran Bob Crimmins —… Read More…

Surprising lessons I learned winning a pitch competition

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thump thump….  thump thump…..  thump thump…….  My heart rate was starting to rise. As I looked around the room I noticed it overflowing with people.  There must have been hundreds…. Was I sure I could recall the points I wanted to make as I stood on the platform?   Was I actually going to make sense… Read More…

An inside look at SURF: How an entrepreneur’s dream became Seattle’s latest startup experiment

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Seaton Gras at the SURF incubator space in downtown Seattle

It’s 45 degrees outside, and a cold rain pounds against Seattle’s Exchange Building. But on the 8th floor of this historic 22-story art deco office — a concrete edifice that once housed industry titans such as GE and Standard Oil — Seaton Gras wants to talk about surfing. Why surfing? Well, for one Gras — a… Read More…