Startups – Page 288 of 312

Oct 14, 2011, 9:56 AM

Struggling to find engineers in Seattle, Apptio sets up shop in North Carolina

Bellevue-based Apptio is growing fast, so fast in fact that it can’t find enough software engineers in the Seattle area.… Read More

Oct 13, 2011, 1:22 PM

BigOven unveils meal planning organizer, looks to end the daily ‘dinner scramble’

If you’re like me, meal planning doesn’t rank too high in the list of daily priorities. Typically, by the time… Read More

Oct 13, 2011, 10:53 AM

Let’s stop the Silicon Valley comparisons, and take a look at why NYC is kicking butt

Overdone. Counterproductive. Tired. Whiny. Those are some of the words I’ve heard in the past few weeks as the Seattle… Read More

Oct 12, 2011, 9:42 PM

Venture capital on pace for biggest year since dot-com era

Venture capitalists are pumping massive amounts of capital into startup companies, fueled by the emergence of big shifts in mobile,… Read More

Oct 12, 2011, 1:04 PM

11 productivity tools that your startup ought to use

If you’ve ever been part of a startup, then you know how much hard work it involves. And you usually… Read More

Oct 12, 2011, 12:55 PM

A police blotter for the Facebook generation? Arrestly notifies when friends end up in the county jail

Seattle developer Matt Steckler never thought he’d one day use his technical talents to compile arrest records on friends, co-workers… Read More

Oct 12, 2011, 10:59 AM

5th Cell’s innovative Scribblenauts arrives on iPhone, iPad

Scribblenauts, a game from Bellevue-based developer 5th Cell, blew the minds of video-game nerds around the world when it was… Read More

Oct 12, 2011, 9:48 AM

Ultrasound on the go? Smartphone-based imaging system released by Mobisante

Ultrasound systems can be bulky and expensive. But a Redmond company by the name of Mobisante is looking to transform… Read More

Oct 12, 2011, 8:36 AM

Holy cow! Apptio on pace to top $50 million in bookings this year

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta has been talking for some time now about building the next big enterprise software company in the… Read More

Oct 12, 2011, 7:56 AM

Spotlight: Startup vet Nadkarni unwraps shopping app Zoomingo

Shirish Nadkarni’s past entrepreneurial pursuits have included mobile email service TeamOn and online language community Livemocha. Now, the Seattle area… Read More

Oct 11, 2011, 2:02 PM

Sujal Patel’s call to action for the Seattle tech industry

There’s nothing quite like a comeback story. And there’s perhaps no better example of one in Seattle’s tech industry than… Read More

Oct 11, 2011, 10:25 AM

What do M&A executives at Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce really want?

Reporting from TechNW: If you’re looking to sell your startup company to Microsoft, Facebook, Google or Salesforce.com, you might be… Read More

Oct 11, 2011, 9:19 AM

Box raises $81M as CEO looks to ‘out-innovate’ Microsoft

Box, the online cloud storage company that was started in Seattle in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith, just… Read More

Oct 11, 2011, 7:30 AM

Startup Spotlight: Bluefire looks to spark eBook sales

More consumers are turning to electronic reading devices. And Seattle’s Bluefire Productions, which emerged from founder Micah Bower’s 10-year-old design… Read More

Oct 10, 2011, 4:45 PM

Hey Seattle, here’s why we’re so gosh darn awesome (Part Two)

Last week, the Washington Technology Industry Association posted some short videos of Seattle area entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, journalists (including yours… Read More

Oct 10, 2011, 2:14 PM

Lost and found for the QR code generation? Dynotag helps find lost luggage, pets and more

QR codes are becoming an increasingly popular way to get information on places or products in the real world, including… Read More

Oct 10, 2011, 10:56 AM

Seattle angel Geoff Entress joins board of mobile app maker Treemo Labs

Seattle angel investor Geoff Entress has joined the board of Treemo Labs, a maker of mobile applications. A member of the… Read More

Oct 10, 2011, 10:00 AM

Hanauer-backed health care provider Qliance appoints CEO

Qliance Medical Management, a Seattle company that operates primary health care clinics in the Puget Sound area, has appointed Erika… Read More

Oct 10, 2011, 9:00 AM

Travel photo service Trover arrives on Android

Trover launched its iPhone app to much fanfare three months ago, creating an easy way for travelers to share their… Read More

Oct 10, 2011, 8:41 AM

Venture capital fundraising waning, falls to 2003 levels

It’s not a great time to be raising a venture capital fund. A new report out this morning from Thomson Reuters… Read More

Oct 9, 2011, 10:46 AM

What are your golden metrics?

Like most Internet-centric companies, we find ourselves engaged in an ongoing (never ending?) search for the core metrics that will… Read More

Oct 7, 2011, 2:56 PM

Meet Romo: The super cool smartphone-powered robot

A few weeks ago, I bumped into Romotive co-founder Phu Nguyen at a geeky tech event in Seattle. Nguyen, who had… Read More

Oct 7, 2011, 2:23 PM

Practical Nerd: Survival tips for Startup Weekend EDU

I was a first-time mentor at a Startup Weekend recently and, appropriate to my day job, it was focused on… Read More

Oct 7, 2011, 1:44 PM

The inside story of how a Seattle angel investor discovered Swype

Guest commentary from Bill Bryant: I have been in the software business for more than 20 years now, spanning some… Read More

Oct 7, 2011, 12:54 PM

AppStoreHQ expands to include Windows Phone apps

AppStoreHQ said today that it has added Windows Phone apps to its web-based search and recommendation engine for mobile apps. Microsoft’s… Read More

Oct 7, 2011, 12:12 PM

Venture capitalist Thong Le tapped as chair of biotech group

Thong Le, the managing director of WRF Capital, has been named chairman of the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association. Le… Read More

Oct 7, 2011, 10:23 AM

Internet kings celebrated on … old-fashioned billboards

King of the Web is a quirky Web-based competition where individuals compete to win monthly online elections by posting funny… Read More

Oct 7, 2011, 9:03 AM

Swype CEO on acquisition by Nuance: ‘It is a great outcome’

Swype built a powerful technology that allowed mobile phone users to input text with the swipe of a finger rather… Read More

Oct 6, 2011, 12:24 PM

Ex-Microsoft VP emerges at stealthy Indix

In his last role at Microsoft, Sanjay Parthasarathy oversaw the Startup Business Accelerator program where the goal was to jumpstart new business… Read More

Oct 6, 2011, 8:37 AM

LaserMotive to work on NASA power-beaming project

LaserMotive, a company south of Seattle developing ways of beaming power via lasers, has been named as one of the… Read More