YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2012

He’s lost 11 jobs in 12 months, been sued by the attorney general of the state of Washington , and his name and reputation dragged in the mud. It’s enough to make anyone wonder if life is worth living.

Software Review 164

Software Review Maryland Bankruptcy Seattle 164

YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

Instead of being limited to domain names such as.COM,ORG,EDU , etc., And, it’s not just brands, it’s also people buying domains to secure their family name or an easy to remember email address for business cards or redirecting to an existing personal website. NEWS ,LIVE,ROCKS,ATTORNEY,REVIEWS, and.VIDEO.

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SEM Los Angeles Software Review Naming 100

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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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

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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Technical Review Taiwan Technology Design 369

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2019

Bean, Oakley, Marmot, and The North Face (to name just a few). Fage had made the mistake of being very different — an unintuitive-to-pronounce name (“Fah-jay”), large cartons, plain whole milk SKUs — and never broadly tapped Americans’ yogurt-eating. Lindsay lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.

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Seattle Flash Technical Review Customer 200

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota. How many fresh college graduates are going to LA or Seattle or New York versus coming to the Bay Area? people looking to move to Austin).

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

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., Seattle, WA. The good news is that these new metro centers are significantly less expensive than Silicon Valley or the East Coast. . Austin, TX.

United States 113

United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 113

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

And the Equifax breach is likely to exacerbate this trend, potentially flooding the dark web with names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and other personal information that fraudsters can leverage to gain access to a legitimate user’s account. They then make purchases with a stored payment method or drain value from the user’s account.

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San Francisco Seattle IP Software Engineering 113

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 7, 2020

Congratulations to Manny Medina and everyone at Outreach , which was named the Fourth Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500™. Outreach was named to this prestigious list thanks in part to triple-digit year-over-year revenue growth and the largest customer base in the sales engagement category.

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North America Technical Review Seattle Software Review 78

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.

Sweat Equity 107

Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 107

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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Marketing Seattle Operations California 113

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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United States Las Vegas San Francisco Silicon Valley 82

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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Cloud United Kingdom Los Angeles San Francisco 72

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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Metadata Dallas Atlanta Engineer 78

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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Venture Capital Seattle Cofounder Software Engineering 42

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Users can now attach their domain names to their dedicated gateways, bolstering brand consistency and accessibility. Empowered introduced “Financing Accelerator”, an online platform designed to simplify clean energy financing for contractors and revolutionize the way financing is seamlessly integrated into the clean energy sales process.

Portfolio 81

Portfolio Technical Review San Francisco Seattle 81

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

You want it to be helpful, be much better if you were buying a ticket to Seattle and the post purchase it, preloaded concerts in Seattle restaurant reservations in Seattle hotels in Seattle where you're like, oh, this is all the stuff I wanted to do anyway. Bob Glazer (15:13): Yeah. I mean, you want it to be relevant.

Marketing 99

Marketing Affiliate Channel Seattle 99

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. No name for a company transforms the idea into one of the world's most admired brands. Remember, Bezos did not have a name for his company, and he didn't have a company. So plus John, look, we're storytellers.

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Seattle Silicon Valley Conversion Naming 90

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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Kansas City San Diego Kansas Dallas 365

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.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 78

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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Naming Seattle Startup Acquisition 120

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

And if you think about Wonder Woman and the Wonder Woman film from 2017 that was so great, her name is Diana. Jane McCarthy (12:19.694) I interviewed for the book, The Goddess Guide to Branding, a CEO named Caitlin Bram. And they have a taproom now in Seattle. I don't want to get their names wrong. Is this okay?

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Customer Charlotte Southern California Hiring 67

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 22, 2008

living in Seattle and your "offline" presence is 15,786 people in the company with power concentrated in New York and Atlanta. 3) they are encoded with the correct tracking parameters (version of the ad, name of the magazine, location of the billboard, offer in the radio ad, etc etc). I think most of it is not malicious.

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Analytics Campaign Maldives Software Review 122

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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Partner Los Angeles South Africa Cap Table 340

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-

Entrepreneur 127

Entrepreneur Metrics Technical Review North America 127

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

SEO 90

SEO Search Generative AI Engineer 90

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.

United States 120

United States San Francisco Afghanistan Seattle 120

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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Boston Seed Stage San Francisco Startup 328

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

United States 48

United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 48

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. The problem that I’ve seen historically in cities like Los Angeles, San Diego or Seattle is that their historic high-net-worth individuals didn’t come from the tech startup world. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map.

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Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Los Angeles 390

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. Colossus, that is a household name, probably be, became even more so the last couple years says leaving GrubHub. Mike Evans (16:32): Yeah, there's, there's a website with a really weird name.

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Founder Chicago Startup Kansas 95

konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 18, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO Before Founding Konamoxt, my last gig was the Chief Technology Officer for a local Seattle Startup. I’m on the Board of Advisers of several other startup companies in the Seattle area. Life is good at Konamoxt.

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CTO Hire CTO Hiring Technical Review 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks. He picked up an expensive defensive player, Byron Maxwell, from the talented Seattle Seahawks for big money. And this comes from hours and hours of investing in personal relationships. So he picked up Murray.

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Leadership Southern California San Diego Hiring 150

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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Seattle New York Metrics Demand 137

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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Los Angeles San Jose San Diego San Francisco 61

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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San Antonio New York City Seattle Los Angeles 171

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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Silicon Valley North America Seattle Portland 146