Steve Blank

JULY 24, 2012

The VC’s suggested I should spend a day at Onyx Software, an early pioneer in Sales Automation in Seattle. I jokingly said, “If the software business doesn’t work out you guys got a pretty good football team here.” So I called on my friends at Onyx and got on a plane to Seattle. I Know A Great Customer.

Seattle 259

Seattle Cofounder Engineer Sales 259

The Startup Magazine

MAY 16, 2018

Mendlen flew into Silicon Valley from Seattle specifically for this event to chat with the “Wiki of People” CEO. Microsoft General Manager Dave Mendlen is in Palo Alto today to participate in a rare fireside chat with the CEO of Lifograph, Dea Wilson.

Silicon Valley 98

Silicon Valley Wiki Technical Review Seattle 98

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC?

Los Angeles 376

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

My views, influenced by watching Brad’s tireless efforts across the country, were first encapsulated in a post I wrote about Seattle titled, “ A Few Key People Can Make a Huge Difference.” Seattle has GeekWire , LA has SoCalTech and so on. ” that is right around the corner. Local press matters. Austin has Dell.

Community 378

Community San Diego Silicon Valley Los Angeles 378

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2011

Trovers are passionate about sharing the unique things they uncover while exploring their cities or far away places,” says Jason Karas, CEO of Seattle, Washington-based Trover. The idea was first born as an idea among the management team at TravelPost , a community for travel enthusiasts. Trover CEO Jason Karas.

Mobile 176

Mobile Networking Seattle Washington 176

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

Not just in Silicon Valley but in LA, NY, Seattle and other major tech markets. Our inability to cost-effectively educate large numbers of people to compete in the future world where software really does begin to eat the world (in Marc Andreessen’s wise words). “ And my fear? The only thing that slows us down?

Silicon Valley 299

Silicon Valley Technical Review Early Stage Cofounder 299

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Today, especially in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, or Seattle, none of these facts hold. In other words, the most compelling reasons for NOT relying on remote engineering talent to build software no longer apply. We test for software engineering fundamentals, and we use technology-specific tests.

Technical Review 184

Technical Review Silicon Valley Nigeria Distribution 184

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2010

I’m always on the lookout for what I consider to be genius level software engineering talent. A few weeks into TechStars, I realized that not only was I hanging out with genius level software talent but that Ian and Adam thought about hardware and the combination of hardware and software in unique ways.

Seattle 121

Seattle Software Engineering Boston New York 121

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? I’ve been able to study the Southern Cal software dev scene as an insider for over 2 years now. But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. What is Drupal?

Software Developers 22

Software Developers Software Development PHP Silicon Valley 22

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. Software Developer. at Avvo, Inc.

Venture Capital 42

Venture Capital Seattle Cofounder Software Engineering 42

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. That was before we even discussed the required software development. What Startups Should Do.

Sweat Equity 107

Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 107

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.

Software 48

Software SQL Colorado Fractional CTO 48

YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

Bill has over 20 years’ experience working in the technology industry and has held marketing or business development leadership positions at Software as a Service (SaaS) companies ranging from early stage startups to Fortune 500 companies in the greater Seattle area.

SEM 100

SEM Los Angeles Software Review Naming 100

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. That was before we even discussed the required software development.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 78

deal architect

AUGUST 20, 2013

This snarky comment in a Seattle Times blog summarizes the stability and security concerns people continue to have about cloud computing “With the three largest cloud software companies (Amazon, Google, Microsoft) in the U.S. all having glitches in the same. Cloud Computing, SaaS'

Cloud 246

Cloud Seattle Security Software 246

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. So if you are outside the U.S. we are not going to invest. It has worked out great.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

SiliconHills

JANUARY 28, 2020

The company, which has 200 employees including 15 in Austin, creates online survey and insights solutions software. Austin is like where Seattle used to be in 2005, small, but ready to go,” said Vivek Bhaskaran, CEO […]. QuestionPro has moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Austin.

San Francisco 114

San Francisco Austin Seattle Software 114

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. How could a company like ours be so callous as not to support their software (even one more than 4 years out of date)? we would support 6.0

China 333

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. How could a company like ours be so callous as not to support their software (even one more than 4 years out of date)? we would support 6.0

China 328

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 328

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The company is mainly known for the software and PCs that the company rolls out each year. They were also focused on giving the people software for the home. And that was how Windows software was born. The company was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. #4. The company is worth $1.6

Artificial Inteligence 179

Artificial Inteligence Stock Social Media Seattle 179

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.

Seattle 77

Seattle Advisory Board Alaska Boston 77

deal architect

MAY 4, 2013

on the innovation blog Seattle: Cloud capital The reinvention of search QR wallpaper Campuses: The Valley’s next design frontier Nigeria’s booming Nollywood Taming a Hurricane? Ford as a software leader Energy ROI'

Seattle 220

Seattle Cloud Search Software 220

David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

… “ Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process. Here budgeting software can help: feeding it automatically with actual numbers, combining them with a limited number of key variables, and calculating forecast scenarios using predefined formulas.

Agile 60

Agile Management Forecast Silicon Valley 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Computer Vision AI has typically needed vast quantities of well-annotated images to use as data to train the software. It’s worth noting that LexSet’s team is distributed with additional team members in Seattle and myself in Los Angeles, giving us great range to take sales meetings all across the country.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Los Angeles Cofounder Silicon Valley 63

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Over the past few months I’ve had a number of people ask me if I know of any TechStars like accelerator programs for people creating non-software / Internet products and services. If you fit in this mix or know someone or an organization that does, can you leave a comment on this post?

Internet 119

Internet Software Seattle Vertical 119

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. To prepare for this we invested in Virtual Tour cameras and software and packaged it with our other services. #4- Creating virtual tours. Photo Credit: Luca Sforza.

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Metrics Technical Review North America 119

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”. We should also provide emotional benefits instead of just physical features and focus on what we can add or take away to improve people’s lives. Nuts and Bolts.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Software Review South Carolina Startup 100

YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

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.

Marketing 113

Marketing Seattle Operations California 113

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. Satya strikes again. However, Fred Wilson blogs and Jackson Palmer smartly tweets that Git is already a decentralized system with GitHub built on top of it. Many tried and couldn’t get in.

Acquisition 71

Acquisition Azure Open Source Seattle 71

Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

million live projects, arguably the world's most popular project management software. In addition to being a fantastic piece of software (more on that in a bit), it is also a prototype of where all of the smart money in technology investing is these days. How ubiquitous is cloud, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) computing?

Cloud 72

Cloud United Kingdom Los Angeles San Francisco 72

SiliconHills

MARCH 28, 2019

The jobs will be in the fields of software and hardware engineering, research science and cloud computing. Amazon, based in Seattle and Northern Virginia, already has more than 1,000 employees in Austin at two buildings in the Domain area. Amazon announced Thursday that it plans to add 800 jobs to its Austin Tech Hub. And […].

Austin 97

Austin Virginia Seattle Cloud 97

SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Tableau Software of Seattle has opened an Austin office and is hosting an open house on Thursday, Sept. The company, which creates business intelligence software, is hiring developers, sales and operations employees for its professional services practice based in Austin. It expects to hire more than 150 employees locally.

Austin 66

Austin Software Hiring Seattle 66

SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Tableau Software of Seattle has opened an Austin office and is hosting an open house on Thursday, Sept. The company, which creates business intelligence software, is hiring developers, sales and operations employees for its professional services practice based in Austin. It expects to hire more than 150 employees locally.

Austin 66

Austin Software Hiring Seattle 66

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

We both believe that TechStars like programs can existing in over 100 cities in the US, covering many different industry segments (not just software and Internet), and the value of coordinating the mentor, entrepreneur, and investor activity across the entire country is extremely powerful.

America 149

America Fractional CTO Startup United States 149

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I’ve been lucky enough to attend BookExpo at the Javits Center in New York City, ALA (American Library Association) Midwinter in Seattle, and several other regional events where I’ve had the chance to meet all the champions of young adult literature and sign my book for them. What software? Or more organic? Listen to music or silence?

Social Media 56

Social Media New York City Software Review Seattle 56

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

2 hardware startups having a heavy software layer (using AR and AI) . We are geographically agnostic, though focused on North America with main “hubs” in SF, Toronto, NYC, and Seattle. 8 investments. Only 1 investment in SF Bay Area . 5 consumer companies (is consumer back?! :)) . 2 crypto/blockchain applications .

North America 116

North America Seattle Early Stage Cofounder 116

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.

Seattle 317

Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317