TechStars Roadtrip: Startups headed south to San Francisco after Seattle Demo Day

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After three months of hard work in startup bootcamp, the ten TechStars Seattle companies will present their business ideas this Thursday at Demo Day. But it won’t end there. For the second time in the past three years, TechStars will be sending the founders south to San Francisco to meet with investors there and help close… Read More…

Best of Startup Day: Twilio’s Jeff Lawson on how to make money with SAAS

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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’s going to be an informative and high-energy day for those in the… Read More…

Twilio partners with Microsoft’s Windows Azure

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Twillio, the cloud-based communications upstart led by former Amazon.com employee Jeff Lawson, has inked a partnership that could bring its communications technologies to thousands of developers building technologies through Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Windows Azure. Developers who participate in the program will receive a credit of 1,000 free text messages or inbound voice minutes. The Twilio API… Read More…