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Apr 9, 2013, 9:00 AM

Online education startup Treehouse raises $7M to teach geeks new tech skills

Online education startup Treehouse has raised $7 million in fresh funding from Kaplan, Social + Capital Partnership and others. The money… Read More

Apr 9, 2013, 7:33 AM

GameHouse chief Matt Hulett leaving RealNetworks for mystery job

Matt Hulett, the Seattle startup vet who overhauled RealNetworks’ GameHouse games division, is leaving the company to accept an unspecified… Read More

Apr 9, 2013, 12:47 AM

Donuts raises more cash in quest to control hundreds of domain name extensions

Donuts appears to have a pretty big appetite for fresh cash. The Bellevue startup, which emerged last year with more than $100… Read More

Apr 8, 2013, 1:13 PM

Startup Weekend Seattle winner TLDR helps you write and read shorter emails

Just days before his resignation and candid goodbye letter, former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason sent out a Tweet a few months ago… Read More

Apr 8, 2013, 8:52 AM

How we bootstrapped our company from zero to $10M: Five key tips to consider

Have you ever had 7,000 people flip you off in unison for 45 minutes?  Unfortunately, I have – and still… Read More

Apr 8, 2013, 8:29 AM

Chart: Venture capital fundraising off to a ‘slow start’

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to those who follow the industry. Venture capital funds are having a harder time… Read More

Apr 7, 2013, 10:47 AM

Facebook reverses stance after blocking Microsoft and WhitePages from sponsoring Startup Weekend

Teams of developers, designers and entrepreneurs are heads-down at Facebook’s Seattle engineering outpost on this rainy Sunday for Startup Weekend… Read More

Apr 6, 2013, 8:15 AM

GeekWire Radio: This startup founder wants to help you find a better babysitter

[Editor’s note:  Be sure to join us in person this Thursday, April 11 for the GeekWire Radio Show, live on stage for… Read More

Apr 5, 2013, 12:01 PM

6 ways to survive (and thrive) at your next networking event

There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who look forward to networking events and those who would… Read More

Apr 5, 2013, 10:37 AM

Ex-Facebook engineer Ari Steinberg’s stealthy travel startup makes first hire: A former Redfin and Microsoft coder

Ari Steinberg has been pretty quiet ever since he left Facebook last year to start a new online travel startup.… Read More

Apr 4, 2013, 3:00 PM

Take that, Marissa Mayer: This startup’s ‘nomadic engineer’ program lets developers work wherever they want

We’ve seen tech companies do all sorts of crazy things to attract talented engineers — giving away cash, cars and… Read More

Apr 4, 2013, 11:10 AM

EveryMove receives $3.5 million in fresh funding, launches Android app

EveryMove, a Seattle-based startup that lets users track their healthy habits and rewards them with gift cards and reduced health-care premiums, announced a… Read More

Apr 4, 2013, 10:09 AM

Lies, love affairs and lawsuits: MOD Systems founder Mark Phillips is out of prison and wants a new trial

Mark Phillips is out of prison, and now he’s looking to clear his name. The 38-year-old former CEO of MOD… Read More

Apr 3, 2013, 1:42 PM

Recruiting developers: Perspectives from the startup front lines

Recruiting developers to a startup is hard. The market is tight. That’s compounded by the fact that it takes a… Read More

Avalara
Apr 3, 2013, 10:18 AM

GeekWire 200 April Update: Docusign, Redfin, Avalara and others moving up

Several of the Seattle region’s largest technology companies improved their positions in the new update to the GeekWire 200, our monthly… Read More

Apr 3, 2013, 10:16 AM

Are Tech Companies Better Digital Marketers? Rival IQ’s insights from the GeekWire 200

[Editor’s Note: This post analyzing the GeekWire 200 was written by John Clark, CEO of Seattle-based Rival IQ, which provides tools… Read More

Apr 3, 2013, 10:15 AM

Is this the end of the road for Ignition-backed Ratify?

Bellevue-based Ratify, a stealthy startup that was developing a data analytics platform to better understand network information, notified employees this… Read More

Apr 3, 2013, 7:17 AM

After series of pivots, Haiku Deck scores $3 million to make presentation tools fun

Haiku Deck has reeled in $3 million in fresh funding, money that the Seattle startup will use to continue to… Read More

Apr 3, 2013, 6:00 AM

Ignition Partners raises $150M fund, opens new Silicon Valley office

It’s a new era for Ignition Partners. The Bellevue venture capital firm has a new fund, new offices and a… Read More

Apr 2, 2013, 5:12 PM

Perseverance and patience: How Tableau made the IPO leap after 10 years

Good things come to those who wait, especially if those who wait have a big audacious mission that they are… Read More

Apr 2, 2013, 12:50 PM

Sonar: This new service automatically tracks when app stores change their algorithms

Mobile app developers live and die by how easily their apps are discovered in the various app stores from Apple,… Read More

Apr 2, 2013, 10:40 AM

Ex-Microsoft exec lands $4.5M to help make life easier for product managers

We’ve been wondering what former Microsoft vice president Sanjay Parthasarathy has been building ever since we discovered his startup, Indix, 18 months… Read More

Apr 2, 2013, 7:20 AM

Rosetta Stone cracks Livemocha, buys language community for $8.5 million

Seattle online language community Livemocha has been acquired by Rosetta Stone for $8.5 million in cash. The deal is hardly… Read More

Apr 1, 2013, 4:59 PM

EveryMove partners with popular Endomondo sports tracker app

EveryMove, a Seattle-based startup that lets users track their healthy habits and rewards them with gift cards and reduced health-care premiums, has partnered… Read More

Paul Allen
Apr 1, 2013, 4:54 PM

Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital expanding to Silicon Valley

Updated with details of the new office’s leader. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s investment arm, Vulcan Capital, plans to open a… Read More

Apr 1, 2013, 1:55 PM

Startup Spotlight: GridVid.me touts low-cost video encoding

You can now watch your favorite shows no matter where you wander, tuning in on a smartphone or tablet. On… Read More

Apr 1, 2013, 10:27 AM

Meet the 10 startups Microsoft just accepted into the TechStars Windows Azure accelerator

Microsoft is back with a new crop of companies for its Windows Azure accelerator program, operated in conjunction with TechStars.… Read More

Mar 29, 2013, 1:46 PM

Apps for Autism: Results from a Bing Fund hackathon

Last week we told you about a weekend hackathon, organized by Microsoft’s Bing Fund and community partners, that brought together developers,… Read More

Mar 29, 2013, 7:47 AM

Mobile analytics startup Medio trims staff in ‘realignment’

Medio laid off a number of employees in engineering, network operations and testing this week as the Seattle mobile analytics… Read More

Mar 28, 2013, 10:35 AM

An app for your apps: WideAngle puts your photos in one place

Say you’ve just returned from a weekend trip in Vegas. You and all your raging friends took many, many pictures… Read More

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