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High-performance culture: MJ Vigil on hiring diverse talent in an increasingly multicultural world

Transformify

Her background includes 20 years of HR, customer service and business leadership – an ideal balance of human capital and business perspective. The Portland native is happiest when spending time with family, which includes her Seattle public school teacher husband, her adult son and their sweet cat Alice.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago?