Rich Barton, Nick Hanauer bankroll stealthy Front Desk Some entrepreneurial ideas are born in the lab. Jon Zimmerman’s latest entrepreneurial effort emerged at the Crossfit gym that he… Read More
Facebook’s mantra, Comcast’s cap, Huffington’s status and other quotes of the week The best quotes, tweets, comments and random zingers we heard this week. “In the past eight years, all of you… Read More
TED curator shoots back at Hanauer, calls out Seattle VC and posts controversial talk The controversy over Nick Hanauer’s recent TED talk about increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans just isn’t going away. Yesterday,… Read More
Too controversial: Why TED won’t post Nick Hanauer’s talk about taxing the rich Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer — an early investor in Amazon.com and aQuantive — certainly has strong opinions on economics… Read More
Nick Hanauer-backed Qliance raises cash to expand clinics Qliance is looking to transform the way Americans receive their health care, certainly no easy task. And now the Seattle… Read More
Rich venture capitalist Nick Hanauer sounds off (again) on why his taxes need to be raised Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer was one of the most vocal supporters last year of Initiative 1098, a measure that… Read More
Demo Day: Advice from ‘The Godfathers’ of Seattle tech (Video) A few weeks ago, Andy Sack and other members of TechStars made a plea to the entrepreneurial titans of Seattle to… Read More
TechStars’ plea to Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the other ‘godfathers’ of Seattle tech Andy Sack, the director of TechStars Seattle, is accustomed to critiquing the pitches of entrepreneurs. Now, Sack is doing an… Read More
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
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
King of the Web: The next great time-waster, or just a waste of time? We’ve been wondering for some time now what Rich Barton and Nick Hanauer have been cooking up at their latest… Read More
