Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price grew up in rural southwest Idaho, home-schooled until the age of 12 in a rural area where the nearest grocery store was 30 miles away.… Read More
Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington recently took a trip with her family to Hawaii for a weeklong vacation. But it wasn’t just fun in the sun for the media entrepreneur.… Read More
Nate Silver has two tips for young up-and-coming journalists: Work your ass off and learn how to code. Silver, the well-known statistician and founder of FiveThirtyEight, sat down with GeekWire… Read More
There are lots of ways for professionals to improve their leadership skills, from books to apps to coaches. Popforms is hoping to combine the best of all those worlds with… Read More
When you travel to 15 countries and interview entrepreneurs about their advice on management, culture and leadership, you’re bound to come away with some useful insight. That’s exactly what TINYhr CEO David… Read More
It’s probably a good idea for entrepreneurs to take brand-building advice from Stanley Hainsworth. After all, the marketing guru has helped companies like Nike, Lego and Starbucks tell their stories… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO–When Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham took the stage at the Launch Festival in San Francisco, he had a lot of advice for startup founders. As the head of… Read More
We live in an amazing city. But the one thing we lack is direct, in-your-face sharing of ideas and feedback. Whether it is because we don’t want to hurt each… Read More
When Chris DeVore first meets with entrepreneurs looking for funding, the Founder’s Co-op general partner doesn’t want to hear about products being built or services provided. First and foremost, he wants… Read More
On Saturday, I flew with my 8-year-old son to watch the Seahawks play in the Super Bowl. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I grew up in a middle class home… Read More
As a 24-year veteran of Olympia, Wash., roaming the halls and advocating for a wide range of business interests, and working for the last 13 years as the tech industry’s main… Read More
Earlier this week, Coca-Cola declared the corporate website dead. Take one quick look at their new corporate website and I think you will see an example of the future of… Read More
I worked at tech startups for the past 15 years — Drugstore, Allrecipes, nPost, and Blue Box Group to name a few. But last year, I opted to take on… Read More
Last month, I attended GeekWire’s Startup Day at the Showbox SODO in Seattle. Surrounded by some of the brightest entrepreneurial minds, I decided to chat with as many people as… Read More
A lot of work goes into finding the right investors for your startup. But for a few of Portland’s most successful founders that have raised a combined $90 million, it… Read More
Dilution vs. Control. It’s an age-old debate in the startup ranks. After all, how much money you take certainly impacts the ownership you hold, as well as the control you… Read More
Dean Graziano has been a tennis coach; a software CEO and even — in one of the more unusual startup pursuits — a small businessman who attempted to place advertisements… Read More
It was hard to not feel totally inspired by the time Startup Day wrapped up this past Friday. Whether it was the governor touting Washington as the most innovative place in… Read More
Moz — back then called SEOmoz — was growing rapidly two-and-a-half years ago and the company needed four-to-five new employees to keep the momentum going. So, in an effort to… Read More
Jack Dorsey has done pretty well for himself, helping create social media giant Twitter and then founding the uber-popular mobile payments solution Square. So what’s his key to success? Dorsey… Read More
Pull together a list of Seattle’s fastest-growing companies and you’ll see a wide variety of industries, leadership styles, go-to-market approaches and organizational structures. But pull back the top layers that… Read More
Within a few days of Facebook announcing plans to build a residential housing community that is walking distance to a sprawling Menlo Park, Calif. campus described by the Wall Street Journal as already, “so… Read More
There are lots of ingredients to startup success, but for Concur CEO Steve Singh, one rises above them all. Speaking at the Northwest Entrepreneur Network’s “Entrepreneur University” on Friday in Seattle, Singh… Read More
A fourth grader asked the question, but it really could have applied to anyone. Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos, celebrating the launch of the Bezos Center for Innovation in… Read More
A willingness to fail. A willingness to be misunderstood. And maintaining a childlike wonder in the world. Whether you’re a 25-year veteran in the tech industry or a sixth grader,… Read More
I’m not sure if there’s a term yet coined for those who start companies in their spare time, so henceforth I propose those with full-time jobs and startups on the… Read More
As the start of another football season kicks-off, and we’re inundated with the breakdown and analysis of X’s and O’s, I’m reminded of the parallels between the strategies of this… Read More
George RR Martin’s world of Game of Thrones is full of dragons, zombies, and magic. These are fun, but not the point. The reason the show speaks to us so… Read More
Jeff Bezos set off quite a bit of handwringing and soul-searching when he purchased The Washington Post earlier this month for $250 million, from the digital disruption and destruction of the media… Read More
No, not here. This is going to be good advice. The headline above refers to this GeekWire post from last week, where a number of young entrepreneurs — with varying levels of fluency… Read More