Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Aren’t some of the recent successes in Los Angeles just emblematic of the overall long tech boom we’ve seen nationally and has led to growth in funding in NY, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco? To some extent – of course they are. But this time there really is something happening in LA. It is different. More substantive.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

Not just in Silicon Valley but in LA, NY, Seattle and other major tech markets. This was obviously prior to the Internet and everything that led to: (mobile smartphones, social networks, new payment technologies, etc.). The future certainly looks brighter to me. That’s why I say, “ It’s Morning in VC & the Startup World.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2013

” Many students who have undergone the program and picked up web development include Sandi Lin, CEO and co-founder of Seattle-based Everpath ( www.everpath.org ), Bradley Kipp, co-founder of Virginia-based UpHex ( [link] ), and Mike Wyatt II, a GM factory worker-turned-developer based in Missouri.

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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. Trover CEO Jason Karas. People find fulfillment in introducing something remarkable to another person.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Seattle might not be the biggest city on the map, but it’s got a reach that extends to all corners of the globe. The Seattle tech community is particularly popular, with a large number of companies busy working away on the next big thing.

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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. I didn’t want this to happen again – that people didn’t know me. I also made several trips to New York & Boston. I realized that it is not enough to know one partner per firm and it is not enough for only the management team to like you.

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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. I didn’t want this to happen again – that people didn’t know me. I also made several trips to New York & Boston. I realized that it is not enough to know one partner per firm and it is not enough for only the management team to like you.

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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.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

Though the program is 3000 miles away, I am especially excited to see what startups emerge from the TechStars Kinect Accelerator program which is going to be held in this spring in Seattle.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2012

Latman has chronicled that experience and the aftermath in the book “ The Good Fail: Entrepreneurial Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Microworkz “ If you’ve never heard of Microworkz, the now-defunct small, Seattle- area computer company that sold low-cost PCs was once lauded for trying to get computers into the hands of those who (..)

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. Ask Microsoft, Autodesk or Salesforce.com – the evidence was there from Seattle to Sand Hill Road. in terms of time spent on the sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Ask Microsoft, Autodesk or Salesforce.com – the evidence was there from Seattle to Sand Hill Road. The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later. Social Networking goes Real Time.

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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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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2021

Pienza , a Seattle based B2B startup studio led by Bizible founder Aaron Bird, raised $5.1M. . The company also welcomed Kelly Kramer to the Board of Directors, appointed Marc Andreessen from Board Observer to Board Director, and promoted Emilie Choi as president and COO. . Jam raised a $3.5M seed to Figma-tize product collaboration.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

And we are just starting our first year in Seattle.”…” Of the Boulder companies there have been 41 companies that have gone through the Boulder program and there is some mortality…” “I guess it’s 5 or 6 that have failed. “It has worked out great. So we had probably had well this is the fourth year we’ve done it in Boulder.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 16, 2020

The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce – it connects local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. . Today we’re excited to announce that we led DemandStar ’s $2m seed round. It should come as no surprise that government procurement is riddled with inefficiency.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2013

TechStars Seattle applications for year four of the program are now open ! The startup community in Seattle is expanding rapidly and TechStars Seattle is right in the middle of it all, located in South Lake Union surrounded by Amazon, Microsoft and tons of other amazing startups. We love Seattle as a startup community!

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Seattle, WA. Seattle is home to Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, and other well-known companies, but it has recently grown into a welcoming place for startups, entrepreneurs, and small business owners, too. Those pioneers are attracted to the eclectic, entrepreneurial spirit that the city breathes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

I profiled one of these interactions from when I last visited Seattle. 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. What is working, what isn’t? What are their projects? What is the local funding environment like?

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Wednesday night I’ll be in Seattle doing a Startup Life Meetup with some of the contributors to the book Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur. The post Seattle Startup Life Meetup – Wednesday 2/20 appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2019

Lindsay lives in Seattle with her husband and two children. She developed the Ironclad Method for value-creating brands while working with billion-dollar businesses like Starbucks, Clorox, Zulily, T-Mobile, and IMDb, as well as many burgeoning start-ups.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Today, especially in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, or Seattle, none of these facts hold. The tools required for effective remote work were either rudimentary or didn’t exist. Bandwidth sufficient for efficient communication was unavailable or prohibitively expensive.

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David Cohen

MAY 1, 2013

TechStars Seattle is on fire. In total, the 29 past TechStars companies from the Seattle program have raised nearly $40M in venture capital so far. In total, the 29 past TechStars companies from the Seattle program have raised nearly $40M in venture capital so far. in funding. Everymove is now at 6.1M And Tred has raised 1.7M

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

I was living in Boulder at this point, but traveling continuously to Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle where I was making most of my investments. I was making angel investments with my own money and working my ass off helping get a few companies that I’d co-founded, like Interliant and Email Publishing, off the ground.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A little company in Seattle called Microsoft. The industry was known as IBM and the Seven Dwarfs because IBM’s competitors were so far behind. If there was a superpower in any industry, it was IBM in IT. There were a couple of little competitors in the 80s, who didn’t seem like much. They were running out of cash.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 8, 2022

I admit I also enjoyed the year and a half I lived in Seattle after I graduated but at some point I knew I would be back in the bay. We ran into each other socially a few times at bars in Seattle but I feel compelled to note we didn’t date at all until after I had completed my treatments. and she rightly made fun of me for it.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

While we have expanded our partnership to two GP and have a bigger fund, our fundamentals stay the same: we invest at seed / pre-seed, in companies that leverage network effects, and across North America (hubs are SF, Toronto/KW, NYC, Seattle). and love marketplaces , social platforms , and Smart SaaS.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. Marketo competes with MarketBrite and Eloqua. 10mm in Series C. Investors: Mayfield Fund (lead), with existing investors: InterWest Partners, Storm Ventures. Read more: PEHub. GroundTruth. If I have them pegged correctly I believe they compete against Flurry.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

KS: For the first several years of Textio’s life, our team was entirely co-located in Seattle. By the time the pandemic started, we had brought on a couple of sales people in New York and San Francisco, but we were still 95% colocated in Seattle. How did Textio get smarter about remote teams over time?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A software engineer at heart, Jason was an early engineer at a few Seattle startups (Zillow, Optify, BuzzLabs), before migrating to San Francisco to start Sift Science in 2011.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Seattle is home to Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, and other well-known companies, but it has recently grown into a welcoming place for startups, entrepreneurs, and small business owners, too. Those pioneers are attracted to the eclectic, entrepreneurial spirit that the city breathes.

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Gust

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Check out: Alliance of Angels - Seattle, WA ( [link] els.com/ ). Northwest Energy Angels – Seattle, WA ( [link] s.com/ ). Seraph Capital Forum – Seattle, WA ( [link].com/ WINGS – The Medical Technology Angel Group – Seattle, WA ( [link] com/ ). com/bus… ).

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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.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

With our friends at Boundless , we are sponsoring a week of screenings in Seattle. The post Seattle Screenings of For Here or To Go? Amy and I have been big supporters of a movie about immigration called For Here or To Go? It’s playing at the Landmark Theaters Crest Cinema Center from Friday 9/22 to Wednesday 9/27.

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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.

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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. Startups Can’t Compete With Big Brands.

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Haystack

AUGUST 7, 2018

Earlier this summer, my friend Michael told me about a small investment his team made up in Seattle in the Amazon ecosystem. We were about to move houses and with all the impending details that process was generating, I initially didn’t give it a proper look.

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