Jan 6, 2012, 12:30 AM Flotype raises cash from Ignition, Salesforce and others to help coders build applications faster Flotype, a cloud startup led by former Amazon.com and University of California Berkeley employees and researchers, has raised $1.4 million… Read More
Jan 5, 2012, 10:11 AM Startup Weekend pulls plug on Startup Foundation pilot Startup Weekend has decided to pull the plug on its Startup Foundation initiative, an ambitious eight-city experiment which launched with… Read More
Jan 5, 2012, 12:01 AM Video: Is this how we will pay restaurant tabs in the future? The Boom Noodle restaurant at Seattle’s University Village was buzzing with activity when I stopped by for an early lunch… Read More
Jan 4, 2012, 9:42 PM Ray Ozzie’s new startup has ‘huge goals’ for new era of social communication Ray Ozzie, the Lotus Notes creator who replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft’s chief software architect, lifted the lid just a… Read More
Jan 4, 2012, 2:14 PM Dot-com survivor iCopyright lands $2.6 million to protect content from data thieves More than a decade ago, I met iCopyright founder Mike O’Donnell at the company’s spacious new headquarters in Renton. It was… Read More
Jan 4, 2012, 10:48 AM Walmart scoops up mobile dev shop that built iPhone apps for Starbucks, Zipcar and others Small Society, a tiny Portland mobile application development firm which in the past has developed apps for Starbucks, Amazon.com, Zipcar… Read More
Jan 4, 2012, 9:59 AM Seattlepi.com chief Michelle Nicolosi resigns to launch new electronic book publishing firm Michelle Nicolosi, who led the charge for the SeattlePI.com after Hearst Corp. shut down the physical newspaper operations in March… Read More
Jan 4, 2012, 8:33 AM Women’s Venture Capital Fund backs messaging startup Ivy Corp. A new venture capital fund that’s focusing on women entrepreneurs has made its inaugural investment in Ivy Corp., a Redmond… Read More
Jan 3, 2012, 9:44 PM Vizify scores $1.2M to turn your social networking chatter into beautiful visualizations Maybe all of that incubation really does pay off. Vizify, a Portland startup that had the unique honor of participating… Read More
Jan 3, 2012, 4:19 PM Online real estate startup Estately expands in New York, adds Texas Estately sometimes gets overshadowed in the online real estate industry by bigger consumer brands such as Redfin and Zillow. But… Read More
Jan 3, 2012, 8:07 AM Self-sanitizing keyboard wins FDA nod for healthcare use Vioguard, a company started by two Microsoft Hardware veterans and their business partners, says it has received U.S. Food &… Read More
Jan 3, 2012, 4:30 AM Looking to wipe out wrinkles, JeNu Biosciences lands cash for new skin care device One of the biggest success stories of 2011 was the sale of David Giuliani’s Pacific Bioscience Laboratories — the maker… Read More
Jan 2, 2012, 10:50 AM Meet the superheroes of Maveron: One hilarious holiday card We get a lot of holiday greetings here at GeekWire. Some are pretty traditional, with snowmen or santas or wreaths.… Read More
Dec 31, 2011, 4:46 PM Our picks: GeekWire’s favorite stories (and people) of 2011 Earlier this week, we listed your favorite stories of 2011 — the 100 most-popular news items, columns and features on… Read More
Dec 30, 2011, 12:40 PM 15 New Year Resolutions for Entrepreneurs I’m sure by now your 2012 plan, budget and professional objectives are baked and ready to go. Ideally, some of… Read More
Dec 30, 2011, 10:11 AM Seattle mobile app developer Ubermind finds a buyer Ubermind’s growth over the past year has been nothing short of astonishing. The Seattle maker of mobile applications for Target,… Read More
Dec 30, 2011, 8:40 AM Stealthy Scope 5 emerges, plans to make sense out of energy data Scope 5 has raised an undisclosed amount of angel financing as it looks for wider adoption of software to help organizations… Read More
Dec 29, 2011, 12:54 PM How to use marketing research tactics to grow your startup When it comes to building a product that people will love and actually pay money to buy, you have to… Read More
Dec 29, 2011, 12:38 PM Mini-documentary: ‘A symphony of computer coding’ at KING5 online news hackathon A while back we covered the buildup to (and dustup over) the “Hacking Seattle News” event organized by KING-5. The goal of… Read More
Dec 28, 2011, 7:28 AM Nick Hanauer-backed Qliance raises cash to expand clinics Qliance is looking to transform the way Americans receive their health care, certainly no easy task. And now the Seattle… Read More
Dec 27, 2011, 5:25 PM Geeks Who Give Back: Gaurav Oberoi & Chuck Groom, Seattle Tech Startups Building a new startup can be hard and lonely. Luckily, Seattle has its own support group. Created by Gaurav Oberoi and… Read More
Dec 27, 2011, 3:01 PM Amazon.com quietly acquires the social shopping whizzes at Quorus A few weeks ago, we reported that Quorus co-founder Logan Bowers had left the upstart to become a senior software… Read More
Dec 27, 2011, 1:50 PM The truths of entrepreneurship Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, founder and CEO of WatchMojo, recently wrote a guest post on TechCrunch about the Lies Entrepreneurs Tell. In the article he… Read More
Dec 26, 2011, 9:28 AM What’s in the cards for DoubleDown as online gambling talk heats up? It is looking increasingly likely that Americans — at least in some states — will soon be able to wager… Read More
Dec 26, 2011, 8:31 AM Startup Spotlight: Pursuit.me turns dreams into reality Sometimes dreamers and doers need a kickstart to help get them on the path to success. Scott McLeod, the 21-year-old… Read More
Dec 24, 2011, 3:56 PM Fifty gems for entrepreneurs thinking about making the leap One of my favorite things about covering the technology community is the ability to tell the stories of entrepreneurs —… Read More
Dec 24, 2011, 3:50 PM Geeks Who Give Back: James Sun, Pirq Inspired by Bill Gates, James Sun baked philanthropy directly into Pirq’s business model from the outset. Ten percent of the… Read More
Dec 23, 2011, 6:51 AM Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh calls SOPA ‘cancer to the free web,’ threatens to ditch GoDaddy Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh is threatening to remove the company’s 1,000 domain names off of GoDaddy after the huge Internet… Read More
Dec 22, 2011, 11:42 AM Geeks Who Give Back: Mike Koss, StartPad.org Long before it became cool to run a tech incubator, Mike Koss was opening his doors to Seattle-area entrepreneurs at… Read More
Dec 22, 2011, 10:03 AM 7 proven steps for turning your vision into a startup If you’re like me, you probably see opportunities for new products and businesses all the time. Over the past 10… Read More
