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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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Namely, on the cloud. DigitalTown (Burnsville, MN), Developer of a national network of online communities for high school students, alumni and boosters. $10 DocuSign (Seattle, WA), Provider of electronic signature technology - $27 million. How ubiquitous is cloud, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) computing? 10 million.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Users can now attach their domain names to their dedicated gateways, bolstering brand consistency and accessibility. The schedule features high-profile keynotes, two different learning tracks (strategic and technical breakdowns), round tables, workshops and plenty of networking opportunities.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

He created a scalable model that grew from a small team in a Seattle garage to one of the world’s largest employers. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Content Is Profit hosted by Louis and Fonzi Kame, brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. It was just an idea.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Mike founded GrubHub in his spare bedroom and grew it into the multi-billion-dollar online food delivery colossus that is a household name. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode or the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the Nudge Podcast, hosted by Phil Agnew and brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Oh, and if you’re in Chicago or Seattle you have your home town events, too. Here’s yours: Chicago (Nov 7) Seattle (Nov 9). **. On the web each website wants you to log in to their website using a proprietary user name and password. Call it “Strategic Twitter.” ” **. Well think of it this way.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

Also, we expect consumers will figure out that they can type in much longer queries, not just restaurants in Seattle, restaurants in Seattle for a family of four with an infant, and the dad loves spicy food and oh, by the way, the wife is lactose intolerant. (06:04): 06:04): That's a long query. powered by

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. And when you think about the three C’s you begin to realize that the first two of these activities are ones where the economic powerhouse networks are driven in cities outside of Silicon Valley.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The funds not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. Great companies like BeachMint that are growing at a rapid clip have to dig deep into their networks to meet hiring needs. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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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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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. Name (required). Oregon Entrepreneur Network (OEN). Silicon Forest Network. It helps everyone. You got Your Year on Twitter in my Vizify. (0)

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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. . Network without really trying. Weekly events, meetups, and happy hours are business as usual in these communities and provide priceless networking opportunities.

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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 prediction is that cultivation of cross-regional networks will be Techstars’ biggest economic impact.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

All of you people who haven’t seen my blog, please remember my name or that website address. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. I changed the name, by the way, to MTGParadise.com. He’s German.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). The closing event was the filming of a live version of Jason Calacanis’ “This Week in Start-Ups” (appropriately named TWiST – episode is here ).

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The Next Web

JANUARY 22, 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. . I needed a logo for my new startup. Every company needs an eye-catching, memorable logo, and my main issue was never the design. Crowdsourcing: You’re doing it wrong.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Think partners coming together to tap their own networks for your follow-on rounds of financing. You want to see some signals of success before signing your name on the dotted line. Read on to learn more and decide whether this is the right program for you. This is true. The thing is though…numbers don’t lie and patterns are important.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

In that same original blog post, we also outlined the unfortunate phenomenon that occurs when the market collapses: capital tends to flow towards founders with established VC relationships and away from folks who may be equally talented but are several steps removed from investor networks. Allay Health: Seattle, Washington. Who we are.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

Momentum currently has a graduate base of 30,000+ and growing with offices in NYC, DC, Seattle and Los Angeles. How did you come up with your business name? We have tens of thousands of graduates who have gone through our programming, but very few know where the name Momentum Education comes from. That is a great question.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 12, 2011

On January 5th, he left a friend’s home in Seattle having given away his own home, cars, and possessions and with just a laptop, $10 is cash and a backpack with a few changes of clothing. Over the next two months I donated everything I owned, flew to Seattle, and launched the experiment on January 5, 2011.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

Momentum currently has a graduate base of 30,000+ and growing with offices in NYC, DC, Seattle and Los Angeles. How did you come up with your business name? We have tens of thousands of graduates who have gone through our programming, but very few know where the name Momentum Education comes from. That is a great question.

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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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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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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I launched a free traveler’s blog on the BootsnAll Travel Network because it gave me a built-in audience, so that someone besides me and my Mom would read my work. Do a general search for your name on Facebook, scrolling all the way down to see “Posts by Everyone.&#

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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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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This segment of the population consumes large amount of data so their challenges are more around network speeds and tiered data-plans and handset capabilities (that is, what they can do with the handset). Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998? For others, the concerns are more about cost.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped many Canadian startups with everything from naming their business , to logo design , packaging design , product design and more. Toronto has obvious and dedicated support and enthusiasm for startups and entrepreneurs, and nowhere is that more evident than in the Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything. Copycat programs run by people with lower standards, both financial and moral, have given startup accelerators a bad name and drawn a wary eye from investors and media.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.)

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

And Apple is famous for taking existing ideas (wireless networks, media creation, mice, mp3 players, smartphones) and doing them really, really well. For example, crowdspring offers design ( logo-design , website design, print design, product design , packaging design ) and naming services ( naming your business or product ).

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