ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Over 400 Seattle-area would-be entrepreneurs were in attendance today at StartupDay 2010. The day-long event is is designed to help answer some of the questions for first-time entrepreneurs, including how to build your product and build your team. This is the second year for StartupDay, an event organized by Seattle 2.0.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the pivot they are making as a result of the pandemic and here are the responses: #1- Social media marketing. When open houses in Seattle Real Estate shut down at the beginning of the pandemic my Photography business knew that Virtual Tours were going to be very important.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Why It’s Time to Embrace a Real CRM Tool for Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The tool is designed to make it easier for both your sales and marketing teams to work effectively and drive even more conversions. CRM tools are designed to grow with your business. Send Targeted Messages.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Graphic design is a notoriously competitive field and it can be tough for companies to stand out. But, at least twenty graphic design firms from around the world have proven to be the best in their field, with gorgeous portfolios filled with impressive clients and prominent design campaigns. Frog Design. MetaDesign.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Founded by Riley Goodman and Jake Director in 2009 when they were both high school seniors in a Seattle school, Strideline makes a range of crew socks that come with a design of city skylines. The original design featuring the Seattle city skyline sold out in three weeks when it was first launched.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities. Prior to this Series B, the company had already achieved meaningful scale but had raised only $15M in capital to date.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Share this: We’ve seen a flurry of activity in recent weeks among Seattle area venture capital firms, led by Madrona Venture Group which raised $300 million last month and Divergent Ventures which pulled in $6.9 But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. Location: Seattle. Featured Jobs.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Paul, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. Gigs vary in categories like advertising, video and animation, graphics and design, programming and tech, music and audio, gifts, fun and bizarre, online marketing or writing and translation. Currently available in Dallas, Indianapolis, St.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities. Prior to this Series B, the company had already achieved meaningful scale but had raised only $15M in capital to date.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Or executives fail to take advantage of a great marketing opportunity with a December 31 deadline because they do not have budget. . … “ Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process. Best Practices in Spreadsheet Design.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities. Prior to this Series B, the company had already achieved meaningful scale but had raised only $15M in capital to date.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world. Seattle, Portland, Austin, New York City and Chicago have come up in the U.S. But there's also a real lack of understanding of what it takes to bring a venture to market.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2017

How designing with accessibility and disability inclusion from day one benefits everyone. Disabilities have a lot in common with the many of the technology markets I have analyzed for the last 30 years: each was developed and considered in isolation, solutions were specific to each area, and the cost was excessive. The lesson?

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Ravikant explains that this feature is designed to encourage more startups to raise funding from legitimate investors via AngelList. And what AngelList is doing differs from the crowdfunding market, with the criteria for startup participation and the requirement to be an accredited investor. Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Jason is also the author of Rework, a New York Times bestseller on entrepreneurship, technology, and design. Statistics that show the market for it growing to $160 billion next year only tell half of the story. DiJiPop (Providence, RI), Provider of on-demand shopper marketing platform - $1 million. Namely, on the cloud.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. Ask Microsoft, Autodesk or Salesforce.com – the evidence was there from Seattle to Sand Hill Road. Social Networking goes Real Time.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2018

Market research is essential for a number of reasons, and failing to carry out some extensive and detailed analysis of your potential customers is the first step to your start-up floundering. Research-based branding. Social media presence. As with your website, your social media presence needs to exist before you launch.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 14, 2014

Can upstart ecosystems in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, or Seattle churn out tomorrow’s billion dollar tech companies? Smaller start-ups in Silicon Valley, particularly those in un-sexy markets, have a tough time drawing in top engineers and designers. Is Silicon Valley a physical place or a state of mind ?

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

Both Abstract (who’s building a common infrastructure to support the modern design workflow) and Manifold (working to secure and manage config secrets across teams, environments and services) released their private alphas. Clio and Top Hat ranked in the Deloitte Fast 50. Both Outreach and Top Hat added some star power to their teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. Kara on one side of the table showing me market sizes, competitive dynamics, product roadmaps, pricing plans for physical products with COGS and gross margins. Showing me designs. They have designed a digital, mobile product that engages parents and kids.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 14, 2020

What you will find is that if your website is poorly designed or constructed and this impacts user experience, you will lose customers as a result. Therefore, it could be worth investing a little money into your website and working with a professional web designer to improve and enhance it, updating the user experience being offered.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

We chatted with some NextView founders to get a sense of how this distilled design worked for their teams. Allay Health: Seattle, Washington. Instead, the sole goal of the program is results , namely: Demonstrably advancing a startup towards true product-market fit. The journey of every startup is so different. Who we are.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

So, your organization is about to design a new product, feature or service: a design ideation workshop is a great way to generate lots of ideas early in the process, bring your project team along and set direction. Design workshops have been in the UX toolkit for some time now and are an important part of the design process.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 28, 2017

Seattle inventor and entrepreneur Mark Grabham says that you can’t rely only on your own expertise to make things happen or to scale quickly. With online business, location can refer to how you choose to market yourself- through Google Ads, Facebook ads, and similar options. One mistake won’t kill you-the same mistake, twice, might.”.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2014

Color and logo design express the essence of a brand with varying degrees of effectiveness. As far as it’s possible to make a definitive statement about how color and design should be applied in the service of brand communication, this is good advice: Keep it simple. What subtle message does the new and simple logo convey?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2017

Design every communication so that every time people see, listen to or watch something by or about you, they will quickly pay more attention, and naturally step in, bring you closer, and focus on learning more about what you can do for them. Be consciously and consistently seen in the right way, at the right time, by the right people.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Here, you’ll find products and technologies that are at the cutting edge of their industries before they hit the market. The Incite Summit covers everything from marketing to publishing and customer experience. Location : Seattle, WA. Attending CES is like being in the epicenter of innovation. Location : Las Vegas, NV.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2020

Automattic (WordPress) is my favorite, as it’s been organized that way by design from inception. When I’ve chosen to travel as I did recently on a multi-day trip to Seattle, I’ve been able to be deliberate about where I was and who I spent time with, and none of it required me having a physical space.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Your customers should be able to distill your brand’s essence in your stories, marketing activities and products. a) Design a remarkable experience. To succeed with this strategy, everything about your brand must ooze class from the logo and packaging design to staff attire. A premium brand need not be so niche.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 3, 2013

Performing market research and due diligence for potential investments (interviewing customers/users, testing products and services, and/or financial modeling). Ideally, prior design or programming experience or work in an investment or internet-related position. Good Excel modeling skills.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The iconic mermaid in the Starbucks logo came from a a mermaid, naturally to honor the coastal Seattle roots. In their own story, the Starbucks says, In a search for a way to capture the seafaring history of coffee and Seattle’s strong seaport roots, there was a lot of poring over old marine books going on. But it did work and how! .

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

CEO Don Bunnell answered some questions about the Seattle, Wash.-based We believe that by changing the way we build, that we can deliver carbon negative, healthy, beautifully designed homes to people at all income levels?—?at But we always design with these things in mind?—?so based company. What is your competitive advantage?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

As Apple design lead Jonathan Ive said , “It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”. They can’t rely on existing markets or customer awareness to help generate interest. This means that products in this category need to launch with a robust marketing plan. Cisco, Google in the early days, Yahoo!

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

million in funding (0) Accelerator application trifecta: TechStars Seattle, Portland Seed Fund, and PIE currently accepting submissions (0) You got your Vizify in my Twitter. UI Designer. Marketing Manager. Designed by Pixelmatrix Design. It helps everyone. You got Your Year on Twitter in my Vizify. (0) April 2008.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 23, 2012

The final headcount was a raucous, adventuresome 100+ founders, investors, entrepreneurs, bloggers, developers and designers. We pulled into Seattle about four hours in to scoop up the city's GROW-bound passengers (and, mercifully, to restock its beer supply) before rolling on to the Canadian border. twitter.com/paulsingh/stat….

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minteds community votes to tell us what to sell. The people I spoke with were remarkably clear and consistent in their priorities.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

In its earlier days, Box asserted that it belonged in the same league as Microsoft's SharePoint, the market leader. Create the perception that you're a market leader too - but don't forget to deliver on the promise. The hackers build the product, the hustlers sell it, and the hipsters make the design look good.

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