Startups – Page 289 of 312

Oct 6, 2011, 8:17 AM

Wishpot jumps into the very crowded arena of travel deals

Wishpot faces no shortage of competition with its new daily deal service for travel. After all, in the past few… Read More

Oct 5, 2011, 1:13 PM

Glympse CEO on Apple’s location sharing app: We’re not worried

Bryan Trussel, the founder and CEO of Glympse, the popular mobile location tracking app, is accustomed to watching large tech… Read More

Oct 5, 2011, 10:08 AM

A hunger for the best sci-fi books sparks geek’s latest quest

Adam Doppelt is a developer, tinkerer and accomplished entrepreneur. And he’s also a science fiction geek. Those passions all collided… Read More

Oct 5, 2011, 9:29 AM

SpaceCurve lands in Seattle, raises cash to analyze data feeds

SpaceCurve founder J. Andrew Rogers has kept a pretty low profile since moving to Seattle from Silicon Valley 13 months… Read More

Oct 4, 2011, 4:33 PM

Redfin pulls the plug on Scouting Reports after just five days

Redfin is terminating its newly-launched Scouting Report service, ending a tumultuous five-day period in which the company took heat for… Read More

Oct 4, 2011, 1:40 PM

Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager

The Sith Lord Darth Vader, of Star Wars fame, often gets a bad rap, particularly in what we all think of as his ‘dark… Read More

Oct 4, 2011, 12:58 PM

San Diego startup SweetLabs picks Seattle for new office

We’ve been writing a lot about California tech juggernauts establishing operations in Seattle, from Facebook to Salesforce.com to Zynga. But it… Read More

Oct 4, 2011, 10:46 AM

Zulily’s Mark Vadon: ‘This is more QVC than Amazon’

I’ve been absolutely fascinated by the meteoric rise of Zulily, the Seattle daily deal site which now boasts more than… Read More

Oct 3, 2011, 9:52 PM

Problems nag Redfin’s Scouting Report, CEO says ‘we screwed up’

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman apologized today for the poorly conceived launch of Scouting Report, a new online service designed to provide… Read More

Oct 3, 2011, 12:47 PM

Startup Spotlight: Lightning strikes (literally) to create online backup startup Newline

Entrepreneurs often talk about when lightning strikes, that special a-ha moment when inspiration hits. But for former Microsoft engineer Kory… Read More

Oct 3, 2011, 10:10 AM

Mitch Kapor: It’s a great time to start a company, but still really tough to reach ‘high altitudes’

It may be easier than ever to build a new startup company. But it is still exceptionally hard to reach… Read More

Oct 3, 2011, 7:30 AM

Adapx links digital pen technology with SharePoint

Adapx, the maker of data capture and digital pen software technologies, has released a new version of its Capturx software… Read More

Oct 3, 2011, 5:00 AM

Social media agency Banyan Branch takes root with $1.7M

Banyan Branch, the Seattle-based social media marketing firm whose clients include Hartz, Porsche and Gilt Groupe, has raised $1.7 million… Read More

Oct 1, 2011, 10:37 PM

Amazon lockers, the iPhone cool factor and other top stories

Amazon.com made some waves in New York City this week with the release of the Kindle Fire. And while the… Read More

Sep 30, 2011, 10:57 PM

Vinod Khosla on failure, thinking big and why the best entrepreneurs are under 25

Don’t call Vinod Khosla a venture capitalist. After all, the venerable Silicon Valley investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist doesn’t really have… Read More

Sep 30, 2011, 8:52 PM

Vinod Khosla invests in Michael Arrington’s CrunchFund

At a talk this evening on the University of Washington campus, it didn’t take long for Michael Arrington to break… Read More

Sep 30, 2011, 12:57 PM

Microsoft startup film to debut at Napa Valley Film Festival

Microsoft has made a full-length feature film — a professionally produced documentary on the startup life, of all things —… Read More

Sep 30, 2011, 11:23 AM

Success is brewing in Seattle’s vibrant coffee shop culture

Living in the Northwest, we’re far enough removed from the majority of the populace to sit back and notice the… Read More

Sep 30, 2011, 11:08 AM

TalentSpring founder Bryan Starbuck emerges with stealthy new startup

Seattle entrepreneur Bryan Starbuck — who sold the online recruiting company TalentSpring last year to Talent Technology– is getting back… Read More

Sep 30, 2011, 10:26 AM

Exponential scores cash for Hollywood trivia games, names DeGiulio as marketing chief

Exponential Entertainment, which makes the HollywoodPlayer online trivia and puzzle game, has raised a new round of cash and tapped… Read More

Sep 30, 2011, 8:38 AM

How a father-and-son Lego project sparked an iPad game

Seattle entrepreneur Hillel Cooperman loves Legos. So, each year, the founder of Jackson Fish Market gets excited for BrickCon, a… Read More

Sep 29, 2011, 12:48 PM

Wetpaint iPhone app feeds celeb-watching guilty pleasures

If you are looking for dirt on the cast of Gossip Girl or simply want to keep up with Kardashians,… Read More

Sep 29, 2011, 10:16 AM

Startup Stars: A brief history of the best 20th century business launches

There are more ways now than ever for you to start a business. Startups are a hot topic and it… Read More

Sep 29, 2011, 9:57 AM

Ben Huh: The history of cat photos and advice for entrepreneurs

Ben Huh chats with Microsoft’s Channel 9 about the early days at Cheezburger and offers some wise advice based on… Read More

Sep 29, 2011, 9:34 AM

Madrona, Amazon and others pump $10 million into online ad analyzer Yieldex

Madrona Venture Group and Amazon.com are among the backers in a $10 million round for Yieldex, a New York-based company… Read More

Sep 29, 2011, 9:00 AM

Redfin’s new ‘Scouting Report’ reveals the insider stats on real estate agents

It’s kind of the equivalent of the stats on the back of a baseball card, but in this case for… Read More

Sep 29, 2011, 7:59 AM

Post-it Wars Part Two: Space Invaders attack Pine Street

It started simply enough. Drew Bennett, an engineer at SEOMoz, used some of his artistic talents last week to recreate… Read More

Sep 28, 2011, 1:21 PM

Startup Spotlight: MyArtMatch is like Pandora for artwork

Pandora transformed the way people listen to music, creating personalized stations based on the listening habits of users. Now, MyArtMatch… Read More

Sep 28, 2011, 12:04 PM

Ex-Microsoft manager raises cash for 9Slides to sync videos with presentation slides

A Seattle area startup by the name of 9Slides has raised a tiny bit of angel financing that it will… Read More

Sep 28, 2011, 9:32 AM

Sneaker giant Nike jumps into the venture capital game

Technology giants such as Intel, Google and Cisco have found value in bankrolling small startup companies that help meet their… Read More