Here’s our latest rundown on recent startup investment news in the Pacific Northwest. — Online gift-giving startup Knack announced a $3.5 million Series A investment round led by Second Avenue… Read More
With time running out on the legislative session, Washington state lawmakers approved a $59 billion state budget including a tax on capital gains that has divided the region’s tech community.… Read More
Just before Amazon announced it will raise employees’ minimum wage to $15 an hour, one of the company’s first investors made some prescient remarks about corporate social responsibility. Nick Hanauer,… Read More
Nick Hanauer was the first outside investor in Amazon and he has watched the company transform its hometown, Seattle, over the past decade. The venture capitalist and activist has witnessed… Read More
A husband-wife founding team has raised cash from investors like Rich Barton and Nick Hanauer to build what they hope will be the next transformative company in Seattle. Former Marchex CEO… Read More
Technologies younger than some pop stars are dramatically reshaping the modern economy and leaving many workers without the societal protections enjoyed by their parents and grandparents. The 18th Century philosophers… Read More
Nick Hanauer is not impressed with President Donald Trump’s new tax reform plan. The Seattle investor and co-founder of Second Avenue Partners has more than a few choice words about… Read More
Perhaps all that ash in the air around Seattle on Tuesday was coming from the fire burning inside Nick Hanauer. The sometimes-heated and always opinionated tech investor let loose on… Read More
Nick Hanauer has gotten rich because of an uncanny ability to predict where things are headed. He was the first early investor in Amazon; he bet on drone company Insitu… Read More
Earlier this week, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced he was pulling the plug on a proposed property tax levy that would raise $275 million to alleviate Seattle’s homelessness problem. He… Read More
Seattle is pulling the plug on the $275 million property tax levy to tackle the city’s homelessness problem in favor of a King County sales tax measure to deal with the… Read More
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray believes the city needs to double its spending on homelessness and he’s calling on the region’s business community to make that vision a reality. Initially, Murray hoped… Read More
Technology as an industry has been largely anti-union. But could technology at last become a powerful tool of the labor movement? Labor supporters say now is the time to harness technology… Read More
You’ve probably heard rabble-rousing venture capitalist Nick Hanauer talk about the economic benefits of a $15 minimum wage. But the early investor in Amazon.com and co-founder of aQuantive doesn’t think… Read More
Can we create a better future through inquiry? That is one question, of several, that Questions for a Better Future will explore on May 9. Dr. Joseph Williams, recently appointed as… Read More
Investor, entrepreneur and civic activist Nick Hanauer has a knack for going against the grain to find and back new ventures that change the world. He was the first outside investor… Read More
Nick Hanauer has long been a proponent for better gun laws through his organization Civic Ventures. At the GeekWire Summit yesterday, the Oregon community college tragedy, which has claimed 10… Read More
Nick Hanauer is one of the most outspoken and controversial people in tech known for his polarizing positions on hot-button issues like that $15 minimum wage, gun control and taxes.… Read More
The 2015 GeekWire Summit — our biggest tech conference of the year — is coming up on Oct. 1-2 and today we’re excited to announce two great additions to the speaker lineup: Zillow… Read More
Nick Hanauer, one of Amazon’s first investors, is no stranger to taking on battles about class warfare and income equality. As a tech-made multi-millionaire, he comes from the perspective of… Read More
Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer says an economic revolution is coming, and you better get ready for it. Even as the Dow surges toward 17,000 — making the rich even… Read More
Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and local radio host Dori Monson couldn’t disagree more about a potential $15 minimum wage law in Seattle, and that was clearly evident during a… Read More
Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer loves to stir the pot, poking holes in economic theories and taking his wealthy tech cronies to task over hot-button issues such as education, gun… Read More
Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer is leading a $1 million financing round in a stealthy startup company that’s tentatively operating under the name of BeLeave. Not much is known about… Read More
We had a blast catching up with Seattle technology entrepreneurs and investors Rich Barton and Nick Hanauer on last weekend’s GeekWire podcast and radio show. Barton, the former CEO of… Read More
Is Amazon.com doing enough to support its hometown? That question has been raised many times over the years, with local publications like The Stranger and The Seattle Times ripping the online retailer… Read More
Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer is no stranger to politics, having previously led efforts to institute an income tax for Washington state’s wealthiest residents. That measure, I-1098, went down in… Read More
FrontDesk still isn’t saying much about its new service for helping small businesses schedule meetings, review client profiles and receive billing alerts. But the Seattle company, led by former T-Mobile… Read More
Zillow chairman Rich Barton and aQuantive co-founder Nick Hanauer are two of Seattle’s most accomplished entrepreneurs, having created billion-dollar companies that altered how we shop, travel and buy real estate.… Read More
Some entrepreneurial ideas are born in the lab. Jon Zimmerman’s latest entrepreneurial effort emerged at the Crossfit gym that he co-owns in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. Encountering paperwork challenges at the… Read More