Tony Wright is chucking the tech industry to travel around the world

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Entrepreneur Tony Wright made a bit of a stir last May when he announced plans to leave Seattle for Silicon Valley to build his next company: Tomo. Now, Wright, the founder of RescueTime and Jobby and a well known fixture in the Seattle tech scene, is chucking it all for … an around-the-world adventure. In… Read More…

Best of Startup Day: Tony Wright on how to pick a startup idea

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Editor’s Note: We’ve got a fantastic lineup of speakers on tap for GeekWire’s Startup Day, taking place Saturday, Sept. 22nd at Meydenbauer  Center in Bellevue. Among the entrepreneurs on the agenda are Box CEO Aaron Levie; Zulily CEO Darrell Cavens; and many others. It is going to be an informative and high-energy day for those… Read More…

Podcast Preview: The state of the Seattle startup market with Tomo co-founder Tony Wright

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Seattle entrepreneur Tony Wright’s announcement earlier this week that he plans to relocate to Silicon Valley to build his latest company sent shockwaves through the startup community. It wasn’t so much that Wright — a well-respected and well-known startup vet who is now building a company called Tomo– was leaving. That happens all of the… Read More…

The Founders’ Promise: Put your money where your angst is

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“There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.” – Kurt Vonnegut. Depending on who you ask, the Seattle startup ecosystem is weak and/or… Read More…

Startup vet Tony Wright to set sail for Silicon Valley: Entrepreneur says good deal terms hard to find in Seattle

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Tony Wright — a well-respected Seattle entrepreneur who previously co-founded CubeDuel and RescueTime and sold his first company to Jobster — announced tonight that he plans to relocate to Silicon Valley to build his new mobile travel startup Tomo. “I’m — somewhat sadly — moving down to the Valley for a bit,” said Wright who… Read More…

Startup vet Tony Wright thinks big with Tomo, a mobile app to aid ‘on-the-ground’ travelers

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Over the years, Seattle entrepreneur Tony Wright has learned a few things about what he likes and doesn’t like about startup companies. And what it boils down to is something he terms “give-a-fuckness” — or in other (more PG) words something that really matters. “I get excited by software that I’m going to use, that’s… Read More…

RescueTime raises cash to help disorganized geeks track how they spend time online

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RescueTime has pulled in an additional $250,000 in financing from existing investor True Ventures, money that the profitable Seattle startup will use to accelerate hiring and roll out new features. Total funding in the company now stands at $1.1 million. RescueTime, an application that tracks how you spend time in front of a computer, has… Read More…

The inside story of how two Seattle coding geeks built and sold CubeDuel

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Shortly after Seattle entrepreneurs Adam Doppelt and Tony Wright launched CubeDuel, they knew they had a hit on their hands. After all, the online service — which allowed co-workers to choose between two colleagues they’d most want to work with — spread like wildfire across the Internet earlier this year to the point where LinkedIn… Read More…

Costa Rica getaway sparks Tony Wright’s latest app: TouchBase Calendar

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It is a little ironic that Tony Wright’s latest startup project, TouchBase Calendar, was built in the shadow of the Costa Rica beaches. After all, that’s one place where you’d think the rat race of scheduling meetings and making appointments on time would be a super low priority. But Costa Rica was the birthplace of… Read More…