Startups – Page 227 of 312

Sep 17, 2013, 7:30 PM

From the entrepreneurial playbook: Pivoting for the win

As the start of another football season kicks-off, and we’re inundated with the breakdown and analysis of X’s and O’s,… Read More

Sep 17, 2013, 10:51 AM

How Edward Snowden’s former email provider keeps conversations private now

One of the people directly impacted by the Edward Snowden controversy warned an audience in Seattle about the lasting impact… Read More

Sep 17, 2013, 9:00 AM

Portland mobile app-tester AppThwack partners with CIA venture capital arm

You know your startup is doing something right when the CIA’s investment arm decides to invest some money into the… Read More

Sep 17, 2013, 8:07 AM

Porch launches nationally, promising to bring radical transparency to home improvement market

How much did your neighbor pay for that kitchen remodel last year, and what does it look like? Which contractors… Read More

Sep 16, 2013, 12:10 PM

Next Big Thing: Jeremy Jaech, CEO of SNUPI Technologies

This week I sit down with Jeremy Jaech, the CEO and co-founder of SNUPI Technologies. He is a self-described serial… Read More

Sep 14, 2013, 7:13 AM

App of the Week: EventWith simplifies personal party planning

We’ve all been there: you’re trying to host a potluck, but managing all of the people coming on top of… Read More

Sep 13, 2013, 2:21 PM

Zillow’s Rich Barton on building big companies: It takes a little bit of ‘craziness’ (full video)

Rich Barton has helped build some of Seattle’s biggest tech brands, including Expedia (market value $7.6 billion) and Zillow (market… Read More

Sep 11, 2013, 12:03 PM

GoPro founder loves bootstrapping, excited to work with Google Glass

SAN FRANCISCO — While it may be getting easier to lock down VC funding, GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman… Read More

Sep 11, 2013, 11:39 AM

Vinod Khosla hates board meetings, says most VCs ‘add negative value’ to startups

SAN FRANCISCO — Vinod Khosla has had it with VCs. Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, the Sun Microsystems co-founder said… Read More

Sep 11, 2013, 9:33 AM

Entrepreneur confidence level in future profitability is sky high, survey says

A recent survey showed that today’s entrepreneurs are either cocky or confident — perhaps both — but are definitely optimistic… Read More

Sep 11, 2013, 9:23 AM

Naval Academy grads raise $3.3M for business intelligence startup Easy Metrics

Easy Metrics, a Seattle startup founded by U.S. Naval Academy grads Dean Dorcas and Dan Keto, has pulled in $3.3… Read More

Sep 11, 2013, 8:26 AM

Fast-growing RealSelf gobbles up Zapd, names Kelly Smith chief experience officer

You could call this an “acquihire.” But, in this case, it’s really just about grabbing the talents of one person.… Read More

Sep 10, 2013, 6:22 PM

Meet the 9 startups from B2B incubator 9Mile Labs

The first annual 9Mile Labs demo day just concluded, and I had fun checking out the nine new startups emerging… Read More

Sep 10, 2013, 3:01 PM

Portland’s CPUsage raises $925K for high performance cloud computing platform

There’s no doubt that cloud computing has made life easier for thousands of businesses around the world. But sometimes setting… Read More

Sep 10, 2013, 10:08 AM

Cisco buys Ignition-backed flash storage startup Whiptail for $415M

Cisco today paid $415 million to acquire New Jersey-based Whiptail, an all-flash enterprise class storage startup bankrolled in part by… Read More

Sep 9, 2013, 11:34 PM

Q&A: Zillow’s Rich Barton on startups and what he’s looking for on the competition stage

SAN FRANCISCO–One of the judges for a round in today’s Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt was none other than… Read More

Sep 9, 2013, 3:37 PM

Versium raises $2.5M to help marketers crunch data that predicts customer behavior

Businesses today want to know as much as they can about their customers in order to better serve them. Often… Read More

Sep 9, 2013, 12:04 PM

Brandlive reels in $1.6M to help Internet retailers stream live video with shoppers

Portland-based Brandlive, a video social commerce platform designed to help make the retailer-customer relationship more personal, today announced a completion of a… Read More

Sep 8, 2013, 10:05 AM

A dozen things I’ve learned from Bill Gurley about investing and business

Editor’s note: Tren Griffin has created a list of a dozen things he’s learned from Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill… Read More

Sep 7, 2013, 8:17 AM

Scott Kveton on what makes Portland’s ‘boring’ startups special

Portland’s startup scene is flourishing, with a host of emerging venture-backed companies. Speaking at the TechFestNW conference, Urban Airship CEO… Read More

Sep 6, 2013, 10:12 PM

Spot, a short-term AirBnB for cars, matches drivers with spare spaces for ‘instant’ parking

As is the case in many large cities, trying to find a parking space in San Francisco is an exercise… Read More

Sep 6, 2013, 5:25 PM

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff joins Zulily, TripAdvisor boards

Before he got the real estate bug, Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff was in the online travel business, co-founding and serving… Read More

Sep 6, 2013, 3:57 PM

Urban Airship CEO Scott Kveton on striking out with VCs and why pitch decks suck

Last night, we got the chance to hang out in the amazing new offices of Urban Airship, located in the… Read More

Sep 6, 2013, 12:25 PM

Amazon vet’s robot-powered apparel startup partners with Levi’s, opens Manhattan store

Nadia Shouraboura knew she had a good idea when she debuted her robot-powered apparel shop, Hointer, this past November in… Read More

Sep 6, 2013, 10:30 AM

Front Desk reels in $1M to help business owners manage scheduling, admin

Front Desk, the Seattle startup that helps businesses manage scheduling and other administrative tasks, has raised an additional $1 million… Read More

Sep 6, 2013, 9:09 AM

eBay acquires Decide.com, shopping research site will shut down Sept. 30

eBay is buying Seattle startup Decide.com, gobbling up the online shopping research service that predicted whether prices were going up… Read More

Sep 6, 2013, 8:31 AM

Portland: Time to celebrate companies getting big

We’re hanging in Portland this week, attending the big TechFestNW conference and hanging with some of our favorite PDX startups.… Read More

Sep 5, 2013, 4:08 PM

Life’s a pitch: The other reasons startups do competitions

The tech community has a rite of passage for its newborns hoping to reach adulthood. It is selective, it is… Read More

Sep 5, 2013, 9:52 AM

Former Slate publisher and MSN vet joins Cheezburger as president and COO

Cheezburger is adding a little more beef to its executive ranks. The six-year-old Seattle online humor company, best known for… Read More

Sep 5, 2013, 9:27 AM

Optify looks to sell assets, staffer says layoff was ‘shocking’

Last week, we shared the news with you that Optify, the Seattle maker of marketing software, had hit the wall… Read More