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Kelly Smith

Startup vet Kelly Smith launches new telehealth company targeting migraines

Kelly Smith is making another startup leap as the founder of Hedfirst, a new telehealth company aiming to help patients… Read More

Tech Moves: Athletic Greens hires Seattle tech vet Kelly Smith; Brex founder joins Expedia board

— Longtime Pacific Northwest executive and entrepreneur Kelly Smith is now chief digital officer at Athletic Greens, a nutritional supplement… Read More

Startup vet Kelly Smith departs Starbucks, joins MGM Resorts as chief digital officer

Kelly Smith is ready for another adventure. The longtime Seattle entrepreneur who most recently helped lead Starbucks’ digital expansion across… Read More

Q&A: Seattle startup vet Kelly Smith on his new role with Starbucks China, and life in Shanghai

Having founded and sold five Seattle-area startups in less than a decade, Kelly Smith fits the description of a passionate,… Read More

Seattle startup vet Kelly Smith heading to Shanghai to lead Starbucks digital push in China

Seattle startup vet Kelly Smith is headed to Shanghai. But Smith — the founder of RocketVox (sold to ThePlatform), ImageKind… Read More

Fast-growing RealSelf gobbles up Zapd, names Kelly Smith chief experience officer

You could call this an “acquihire.” But, in this case, it’s really just about grabbing the talents of one person.… Read More

Scoutzie: A new way to find the best mobile designers

Already this year we’ve seen two Pacific Northwest mobile app development shops gobbled up by big companies: Ubermind was acquired… Read More

Tech Moves: RescueTime’s Brian Fioca zips over to Zapd; and more

Four years ago, Brian Fioca co-founded RescueTime to help individuals better manage how they spend their time in front of… Read More

Madrona, Rob Glaser and others pump $3.5M into mobile app Zapd

PressPlane, a Seattle startup which incubated the mobile application Zapd, has raised a little more than $3 million from Madrona… Read More

How to become Apple’s iPhone ‘App of the Week’

That right there is the type of publicity a startup can’t buy — a huge graphic currently promoting Seattle’s Zapd… Read More

Zapd tops 100,000 downloads, aims for 900,000 more

People must really want to build Web sites, and build them fast. Zapd, the new iPhone app developed by Seattle… Read More

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