Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. Atlassian is up a few points this morning, and the GitLab leadership mused that “half a billion was added to their valuation” almost overnight. Satya strikes again.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Finding the right niche, and finding the community that this niche serves, is the way to make a small business a success. First Financial Bank, and Coastal Community Bank, and Neocova recently confirmed a series A funding round of $9.5m. Here are a few of the companies doing just that in 2020: Small banking solutions. Niche recycling.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2018

I’m in Seattle for the next few days. I’ve built this trip around Techstars Seattle Demo, a bunch of time at PSL, and a Moz board meeting. While we don’t have an office in Seattle, I’m confident we have a comfortable place to hang out when we are in town. Amy’s is Paris; mine is Seattle.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In the past few years, under the leadership of Carl Schramm , the Kauffman Foundation has reasserted itself as the most significant organization thinking about, researching, and advocating for entrepreneurship as part of its mission to accelerate entrepreneurship in America.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

We do like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Elon Musk touts launch of ‘SpaceX Seattle’ | Business & Technology | The Seattle Times crowdspring.co/1BadR6p. 18G8Zip.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2019

Today, Techstars announced a new initiative called Techstars Studio which will allow Techstars to source new company concepts from Techstars alumni founders, community leaders, venture capitalists, mentors, and corporate partners. We are investors in PSL (in Seattle) and High Alpha (in Indianapolis).

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Working at a mighty mid-sized agency provides employees the unique opportunity to grow within their positions and assume leadership roles. We create a culture of leadership through our comfortable environment where everyone from a new intern to the CMO can share ideas and brainstorm with the executive team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society. Here's my conversation with Lenore Estrada.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

Geekwire named Outreach one of the top 10 transformational Seattle startups , and Top Hat got some great press from the Globe and Mail and Financial Post for its success in the Edtech market. Clio and Top Hat ranked in the Deloitte Fast 50. Both Outreach and Top Hat added some star power to their teams. It’s recommended reading for everyone.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

I find no better way to get a feeling for local communities than to sit with a group of early-stage entrepreneurs and talking about the local scene. I profiled one of these interactions from when I last visited Seattle. Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness (Tiger Moms & the true definition of success).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). And so it goes with social networking. And then came AOL.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2013

Over 5000 people in 87 locations will be joining up to use their talents to make their communities a better place. The National Day of Civic Hacking is the first of a yearly event created by the White House to gather Citizen Engineers and have them use newly accessible government data to improve their communities and our entire society.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2019

by Lindsay Pedersen, author of “ Forging An Ironclad Brand: A Leader’s Guide “ In late 2008, Seattle’s adored Washington Mutual Bank (known locally and affectionately as WaMu) failed and was subsumed in a shotgun wedding with Chase Bank. ” “ Now helpful banking?” It was called WaMu.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. 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.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

By age 25, Robinson Lynn had assumed leadership of a Manhattan training and development company, acquired a second location for it, doubled its client base, and reinvigorated its philanthropic activities. Momentum currently has a graduate base of 30,000+ and growing with offices in NYC, DC, Seattle and Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky. 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. I saw too much of myself in Hamet. We watched together. Los Angeles'

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I’m also interested in people in these areas that already providing leadership in their entrepreneurial communities, especially in Boulder, Boston, Seattle, and New York (the cities where TechStars operates.). Tags: Entrepreneurial Communities accelerators entrepreneurial communities TechStars.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

By age 25, Robinson Lynn had assumed leadership of a Manhattan training and development company, acquired a second location for it, doubled its client base, and reinvigorated its philanthropic activities. Momentum currently has a graduate base of 30,000+ and growing with offices in NYC, DC, Seattle and Los Angeles.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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Austin Startup

JULY 15, 2017

Several other folks said they were deactivated after pointing out one too many times that RideAustin’s previous “fully transparent” sharing of ridership data, with both its drivers and the local tech community, has effectively vanished over the past few weeks. But that’s another story.)

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Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

Her background includes 20 years of HR, customer service and business leadership – an ideal balance of human capital and business perspective. That means unifying the company’s exceptional talent around a set of shared values to create lasting relationships between PEMCO, its customers and the community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

But it's also a really interesting story, because Los Angeles was very early in rolling out drive-through testing for the City of Los Angeles, thanks to the leadership of Mayor Garcetti. There's been a real sense of community built in the company that I think has been helpful in getting everybody through. Celine Halioua : Yeah.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The leadership centers of the microcomputer world shifted from Albuquerque to the San Fernando Valley (LA), the Bay Area, and Seattle. It’s not always easy to “break in” to a new community. Tech communities have similar pecking orders , and some are more accommodating that others. Deals were getting done there.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. In San Antonio we take great pride in our diverse, artistic, affordable and culturally rich community filled with a young and burgeoning creative class workforce.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 31, 2011

This would be all well and good, except the Seattle Police Department neglected one of the principal unspoken rules of Twitter etiquette: dont spam your followers! Well perhaps no more. What the SPD had down, was to post calls to it’s emergency 911 line directly onto Twitter as they came in – even hang-up calls were posted.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2016

Public-facing communications. Philanthropy (community and charitable endeavors, fundraising). As an example, consider the public relations coverage earned in 2015 by Seattle payment processing company Gravity Payments when its CEO announced that every employee of the company would earn at least $70,000 within three years.

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