ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

For instance, I saw a local, Seattle startup with a high-value exact-match domain name that (if they launched in this segment) would have put them in direct competition with the likes of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. Startups Can’t Compete With Big Brands.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 2, 2019

That’s why you’ll turn up in a search for “home painters near Atlanta,” but not “party planner in Seattle.” That not only accurately describes the photo, but also includes your business’s name and location. Google then determines, based on what they find, where you should be ranking in a given query.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

For instance, I saw a local, Seattle startup with a high-value exact-match domain name that (if they launched in this segment) would have put them in direct competition with the likes of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Techstars funded the company via our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. Outreach is a sales engagement platform that was funded by the Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. Techstars funded Remitly, an online remittance company as part of our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. 6: Outreach (2011). 7: R emitly (2011).

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

NAME THAT TECH TUNE. 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. Mobile News.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 18, 2010

Gist just announced that they have acquired Learn that Name and incorporated it in the Gist iPhone app. Learn that Name was a Startup Weekend Seattle project from a few months ago. The idea for Learn that Name came from Eric Koester, a lawyer in Cooley’s Seattle office. So – that’s linkage two for me.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

The real definition of copycat marketing is in the name. When Gates and Allen were presented with the opportunity by IBM to create an operating system for its soon to be unveiled PC “personal computer” Gates and Allen quickly scrambled to purchase the rights from a local software developer in the Seattle area for a very modest sum.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., The good news is that these new metro centers are significantly less expensive than Silicon Valley or the East Coast. . with their startups growing by 81.2

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A little company in Seattle called Microsoft. The idea sat there for a decade until a naval officer named Deak Parsons discovered it, went around to every bureau chief, pounded the table on why it mattered, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, until he got them to cough up a check for $5,000 to fund the project. They were running out of cash.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2020

Oh, and they are both headquartered in Seattle. I’m trying to decide if I like the name Starmazon better. Wouldn’t it be interesting if the primary retail point of presence in the US suddenly became Amabucks?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce, connecting local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. And, Trim was named as one of Business Insider’s top five budgeting apps. . Here are some of the highlights: . New Investments . Have a great summer!

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

Frank + Oak (who was named innovator of the year by Canadian Business) announced the launch of its 50/50 Founders’ Fund , in partnership with General Assembly. This seed-stage fund is named 50/50 since Frank + Oak plans to grant 50 percent of the fund to female entrepreneurs and 50 percent of the fund to male entrepreneurs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

And, its capital city of Austin was recently named the top city in the US for startups. 2); Seattle (No. In July of 2019, Texas was found to be the best state in the US to start a business. …Austin appears at No. 1 among the country’s 20 best cities for startups and entrepreneurs, ahead of key markets like Washington, D.C. (No.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

consumer companies were enhanced because they coincided with hardware that allowed us to capture more content instantly – namely images and video. Ask Microsoft, Autodesk or Salesforce.com – the evidence was there from Seattle to Sand Hill Road. It added a new dimension to online social networks … business networking.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

Just ask the people of Portland, Seattle, Boulder, Iowa, Princeton, Dallas or countless other cities that don’t have enough venture capital. And then there are smatterings (Dallas 2x, DC 3x, Philly 3x, Austin, Boulder, Seattle not to mention San Diego 8x, Santa Barbara 8x – where I invested in RingRevenue). Ask SuperCell.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

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. Learning to pivot is the name of the game right now. You can't run a profitable business if your people aren't pleased. Thanks to Ben Zellner, 3000MileMyth ! #4-

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2016

For a long time I’ve ranted against naming your startup community “Silicon Whatever.” ” Instead, I believe every startup community already has a name. The Seattle startup community is called Seattle. The Boulder startup community is called Boulder. The LA startup community is called LA.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Jeremy’s entrepreneurial journey has led Melvin Brewing to recently be named the Brewmaster and Brewery Group of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival. Their beer is currently shipped to Portland, Oregon, Denver, Boise, and Seattle. Product is shipped to Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and San Diego on occasion.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In the Puget Sound, where I live in Seattle, there was an unfortunate net break and more than 100,000 Atlantic salmon, which are not native to the Puget Sound area, escaped into the sound. Another problem, other than the food, is space. The more fish you put together the more rampant things like sea lice become.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Namely, on the cloud. DocuSign (Seattle, WA), Provider of electronic signature technology - $27 million. Given the potential complexity of Basecamp's core application - namely to manage projects of all types and sizes, Basecamp runs easy. How ubiquitous is cloud, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) computing? 10 million.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I’m psyched to be joining the board, working with my good friend Greg Gottesman at Madrona on another Seattle-based company. Furthermore, it’s our fifth investment in Seattle, joining SEOmoz, Cheezburger, BigDoor, and Gist (now part of RIM). Marketplace is a good example of how our themes evolve.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’m just pointing out my gut feel for approximate ranges of deals that I’ve seen with Silicon Valley having the highest valuations, NY / LA / Boston / Boulder / Seattle having valuations in a slightly lower range but comparable and sometimes significantly lower prices in markets that don’t have a healthy venture market.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. And then the news came. A woman named Trish Hannon called me with the good news that we had won the project. I didn’t want this to happen again – that people didn’t know me. I also made several trips to New York & Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. And then the news came. A woman named Trish Hannon called me with the good news that we had won the project. I didn’t want this to happen again – that people didn’t know me. I also made several trips to New York & Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

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. He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. I believe investors had forced him to do this.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Entrepreneurs from Boston and/or its schools that left to build their companies elsewhere resulted in some of tech’s biggest names, such as Microsoft, Facebook, Dropbox, and YCombinator. It is too simple to say they all left because they wanted better weather.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

Allay Health: Seattle, Washington. Instead, the sole goal of the program is results , namely: Demonstrably advancing a startup towards true product-market fit. This model has produced a wide array of geographic diversity at a national scale, which we are aiming to replicate in the upcoming cohort. Jambb: Boston, Massachusetts .

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 17, 2020

Austin, or Silicon Hills as it’s now colloquially deemed, was named “ Best City for Startups ” nationwide last year, ahead of Washington, D.C., and Seattle. REACH ® was named among the best in the world for technology accelerators for two years in a row by the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project (SARP).

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Seattle, WA. Maintain consistent NAP (name, address, phone number) across directory sites online. San Diego, CA. San Francisco, CA. San Jose, CA. Washington, D.C. Atlanta, GA. Chicago, IL. Boston, MA. Detroit, MI. New York, New York. Philadelphia, PA. Dallas, TX. The categories that currently qualify include: Locksmiths. Electricians.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2011

Then there's Seattle, of course. As such, the city is a blend of both major media and gaming companies, as well as local, indie businesses - Sierra Wireless, Pixar, THQ, and Vivendi/Activision, to name just a few. The proximity to other tech hubs like Seattle and Silicon Valley may make it easy to overlook Vancouver.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The studio’s design talent boasts some famous names among the list of partners, including Paula Scher, Michael Beirut, Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Harry Pearce, and many more. Since then, it has taken on design work for clients large and small, including big names like The Economist and Apple. Headquarters: Seattle, Washington.

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www.thenameinspector.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Naming and Verbal Branding Services. Pay the balance on your naming package. 10 tips for naming your company, product, or service. Hosting that Biznik workshop on naming has inspired The Name Inspector to post some tips about the actual naming process. Fortunately, there’s no magic to naming.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

David Cohen , who is relocating to NY for January to March of next year, and David Tisch (I’m encouraging him to change his name to just Tisch to save me the brain damage of “which David&# ) will be running the program. The Seattle program is crushing it already and I’m excited to go spend time up there.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Adam Benzion is the founder of Entirely —a Seattle startup focused on social innovation, keen on connecting more people in more places to create special things together. . WeWork, Seattle’s South Lake Union Neighborhood. My office at WeWork in Seattle is cool, energizing and complete. Your day is finally here.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2013

Brad and I – in addition to sharing a first name – are close friends. Techstars’ geographically dispersed structure shares the wealth across multiple startup communities spanning Seattle to London. My bet is that the geographically networked aspect of Techstars will emerge as its long term gift to Boulder.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The good thing about the Apple logo is that it tells the brand name without having to spell it. Walter Issacson’s autobiography of Steve Jobs reveals why Steve choose the name Apple. As shared by the Cult of Mac , On the naming of Apple, he said he was “on one of my fruitarian diets.” It is probably just that, a myth.

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