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JULY 30, 2017

In 2010, the city had six times more high-tech startups per capita than the nation’s average. Seattle is home to Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, and other well-known companies, but it has recently grown into a welcoming place for startups, entrepreneurs, and small business owners, too. This creates a powerful long-term dynamic.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

At the start of 2010, there was some unwritten VC industry conventions that have been tested, challenged, and upended in the last decade. I don’t have the data, but I’d bet the “minimum ownership” requirements VC funds started 2010 with have gone down dramatically. What a difference a decade makes!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Ask Microsoft, Autodesk or Salesforce.com – the evidence was there from Seattle to Sand Hill Road. So … November 2010 and Facebook has 500 million users. Social Networking goes Real Time. Enter Klout , a service that tracks the influence of individuals in social networks. Facebook Will Not be the Only Dominant Player.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

A friend of mine in Seattle just asked me the same question recently. For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. This is tough, and something I hear a lot. Marin — Built for WordPress.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 29, 2010

After a long and awesome day in Seattle ending with a great dinner with the BigDoor board at Emmer & Rye , I came back to my room and watched Episode 6 of this year’s TechStars Founders video serious. Seattle and TechStars – thanks for the glorious day! Homer, I’ll see you Thursday.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Seattle, Portland, Austin, New York City and Chicago have come up in the U.S. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Cultures with deep roots, low immigration and long memories tend to punish failure, instead of celebrating the effort. Over the last few years, however, several geographies have come up.

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

In a post on his blog , Dave Parker, Co-Founder and CEO of Bundled.com and Director of the Seattle Founder Institute , explains why spiltting equity 50/50 amongst co-founders is almost never the right answer, because each co-founder will have their own expectations, commitment, and goals regarding the startup. Kuala Lumpur. Los Angeles.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 6, 2020

The economy grew by 63% from 2010 to 2018, the 4th fastest of any large city in the country. Raleigh’s economic growth (56% in the 2010s) has been noticed by the wider population. For women looking for an expanding city that’s broadening its customer base, Raleigh has seen a population growth of over 22% from 2010–2020?—?the

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Sebastian Thrun went on to head Google’s autonomous car project, which first received press coverage in 2010 and continues to captivate our imagination. In 2010, the cost of Google’s self-driving technology was $150,000 , of which $70,000 was just the lidar (a highly accurate laser-based radar). Trains & Hyperloops.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. I also made several trips to New York & Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. I also made several trips to New York & Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010. In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. Read more: TechCrunch. 10mm in Series C.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Lee Hower, Rob Go, and David Beisel created NextView Ventures in 2010 to build a seed-stage fund that can serve as entrepreneurs’ first call specifically in the Boston ecosystem.

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

View More in Seattle ›. Seattle Events ›. He tells me the firm has made 21 investments since mid-2010, and Correlation now has more than $165 million under management. Business, life sciences, and technology news — covering Boston, Seattle, San Diego, Detroit, San Francisco, New York and beyond. San Francisco ›.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2013

While in Puentas Arenas I traveled with a group mostly composed of people from the American west coast, predominantly Seattle and Alaska. Another example, at the end of February 2010 while I was about to leave Chile an earthquake struck. I am a consultant, after all, and I am seen as an expert. How about yours? 562 people died.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

May 7, 2010. May 8, 2010 12:54 AM. May 8, 2010 1:00 AM. May 8, 2010 7:55 AM. May 8, 2010 9:55 AM. May 8, 2010 12:06 PM. Anil Dash. A Blog About Making Culture. About Anil Dash. Most Popular. More Info » One More Time: No NDAs. How should we creatively deny them ? Nishal : SilverCrux.com. kevinshay. |

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

We’ve created a long term funding model, which I expect David Cohen will write about at some point, that we implemented in TechStars Seattle and will be rolling out to Boulder and Boston this year. The Seattle program is crushing it already and I’m excited to go spend time up there.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Home About Contact Make It Happen: How to find a Programmer My weekly post on Seattle 2.0. Share this: Facebook StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Email This entry was posted on Monday, October 11th, 2010 at 10:10 am and is filed under Uncategorized. The number one thing holding back new startups is funding. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2012

I was a lead mentor for Deal Co-op during TechStars Seattle 2010. This type of software works great for bloggers, entrepreneurs, publishers – basically anyone with an existing online presence looking to monetize their audience.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 20, 2010

The TechStars Boulder 2010 class has begun. If you are interested in participating in TechStars, applications for the TechStars Seattle 2010 class is open until June 1 at 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time. I’m super proud of Andy Smith, Stephen Blankenship, and the whole DailyBurn team.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” Today, we would add places like Miami and Salt Lake City to that age old debate.

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Access to our 2010 and 2011 surveys can be found at 2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Investor Groups. Alliance of Angels (Seattle). million) and the 2010 survey (average = $1.7 Only five of the thirty groups in the 2012 survey reported pre-money valuations below the average for 2010. 2012 Valuation Survey.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 31, 2011

You can tell that I had two weeks of vacation in Tucson this year, plenty of short runs in cities I traveled to for work (SF, NY, Seattle), and then a bunch of marathons. In contrast in 2010 I read 52 books and in 2009 I read 78. I crossed 100 in Keystone and had another strong month in Paris at 94.65 this morning.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2015

We subsequently raised a $225 million fund in 2010 , another one in 2013 , and a late stage fund in 2013. Each is roughly invested 1/3rd into companies in Colorado, 1/3rd into companies in the bay area, and 1/3rd into companies in the rest of the US (Boston, NY, Seattle, LA, Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, Washington D.C.,

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

The survey includes responses from 52 Internet, digital media, and software companies that raised money in the Silicon Valley and Seattle in 2010. But recognizing that the funding landscape has changed - more angels, more Web startups - this year the firm conducted its first Angel/Seed Financing Survey.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 14, 2011

Across all Internet companies tracked in the CB Insights' database, deals were up 28% year-over-year and funding grew 69% as compared to the second quarter of 2010. The news was less than stellar from Seattle where funding remained low. Of course, a number of "mega-deals" in the group buying industries helped drive this funding level.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2017

Women’s presence in the workplace has reduced by 5% from 1990 to 2010. Currently in Silicon Valley, Chicago, Seattle, New York City, and Los Angeles, ReBoot Accel has helped over 600 women gain confidence, reset goals, and learn new skills – 82% of whom have landed jobs. Though the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The company was based in Seattle. The company ultimately sold to Northwood Venture Capital in 2010. This family-like environment and team was fun, dynamic and we seemed to be good friends. I joined immediately and became the Zevia go-to-girl for Southern California. To experience soda without chemicals and artificial sweeteners.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The strongest impact on improving this situation is Silicon Valley and Seattle companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and others are making enormous investments in building So Cal as a software town. They bring with them confidence, tools, brilliant people and believe it or not, Drupal and PHP. When I moved back to L.A.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

I also run a small firm that provides CTO level help to start-ups in Los Angeles and Seattle. Reply Tony Karrer says: January 22, 2010 at 9:24 am I’ll be posting about this. says: August 18, 2010 at 9:01 pm [.] Reply Craig Tadlock says: November 19, 2009 at 7:31 pm I agree with this article’s logic.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 27, 2018

DocuSign’s second office, the ‘Garage’ From printer & fax to computer When Tom Gonser, Court Lorenzini and Eric Ranft started the company in 2003 out of Seattle in the overhang of the dot.com explosion, the business world was used to the print-sign-fax routine. And this is just the beginning!

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Americas 10 Least Stressed States: Gallup-Healthways Comments 2 Pending Comments 0 View FAQ Comments are closed for this entry View All Recency | Popularity erickennedy 3 Fans Follow 07:05 PM on 11/30/2010 Great advice, Mariam. ­om migrated off Drupal. ­rg/Drupal- ­7-Reasons- ­to-Switch erickennedy: Great advice, Mariam.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

During the summer of 2010, I developed a workshop, A New ACEF Valuation Workshop for Angels and Entrepreneurs. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. Wilmington Investor Network.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And if you look elsewhere at places like Seattle you see the same pattern; Microsoft may have been built in Redmond, but Amazon and many of the more recent startups like Zillow, Redfin, Zulily, etc are all in Seattle’s downtown core. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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