Seattle 2.0:
Follow Friday (known as #FollowFriday) is a Twitter meme where a Twitter user recommends other Twitter users for his friends to follow. The Seattle 2.0 automatically generates suggestions from our Twitter Directory every Friday based on the number of entrepreneurs and startup people following that person.Today we recommend: (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Online real estate broker Redfin is revamping its website to add recent data and photos of recent home sales as well as links to blog discussions of a listing. The Seattle-based startup, which is profitable, represents buyers and sellers in home real estate transactions for far less than the industry rates that take 5%-6% (Read More)
TechCrunch:
More expansion news from Adeo Ressi’s Founder Institute. The startup incubator is steadily expanding. It recently opened up an outpost in Seattle, and now is expanding to New York. “New York City needs a kick in the pants,” says Ressi.The Winter New York City Semester will be led by Razorfish co-founder Craig Kanarick. Men (Read More)
Seattle 2.0:
It’s finally here, all the videos from the amazing speakers at StartupDay 2009. If you attended the event you know how great it was, but if you were at an advisory meeting during a specific talk, now you can watch it. If you missed StartupDay 2009 you still can get the lessons and learn something new. There are more than 5. (Read More)
Seattle 2.0:
NWEN's Entrepreneur University on Thursday is going to be fun! Why? Because in addition to speakers, panels, and mentorship sessions, there will be Entrepreneur Idol to wrap things up. Tweet your startup tagline to #EUidol and the presenters will be chosen on Monday 11/2. For many of you reading, that's today - so get o (Read More)
Seattle 2.0:
We'd like to thank our sponsors who support the Seattle 2.0 and, like us, are passionate about tech startups and want to make Seattle an even better place for them.Eye Level Interaction DesignEye Level is an interaction design studio performing at the intersection of design and technology. They create satisfying user exper (Read More)
Seattle 2.0:
Follow Friday (known as #FollowFriday) is a Twitter meme where a Twitter user recommends other Twitter users for his friends to follow. The Seattle 2.0 automatically generates suggestions from our Twitter Directory every Friday based on the number of entrepreneurs and startup people following that person.Today we recommend: (Read More)
Seattle 2.0:
If you ever worked with any non-profit you know they are pretty behind on technology. But there is a new wave of non-profit organizations being built as “Technology Non-Profits”. Not your typical charity where they use technology, but a whole new way to solve a problem by the means of technology. Vittana is one of those com (Read More)
The Seattle Times: Business & Technology:
Zillow better watch out: The latest thing to emerge from Google's barrage of launches this week duplicates one of the Seattle startup's most valuable features. (Read More)
Brier Dudley's blog:
Confirming the rumors, Google and MySpace today announced they are partnering on a new music search initiative using technology from Seattle's iLike, which MySpace acquired in August.Is Google trying to outdo itself with news today? This will probably get far more use than the navigation service announced this morning.MySpa (Read More)
Seattle 2.0:
The Founder Institute is an organization created by Adeo Ressi, creator of theFunded, to help entrepreneurs in a 4-month long training program. This program already existed in the Bay Area, San Diego and Washington DC before Seattle. The program will run from December 7 to April 5 and include mentorship from Glenn Kelman, (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Adeo Ressi’s Founder Institute is steadily expanding, with a new outpost opening up in Seattle. The startup incubator, which just completed its first successful “semester” in Silicon Valley, recently announced expansions to both Washington DC and San Diego, California.The program was first announced in March 2009. It is a s (Read More)
Seattle 2.0:
“Outsource everything.” – Tim Ferriss, The Four Hour Workweek “Outsource nothing.” – most startups and small businesses. Outsourcing is a tricky analytic proposition for startups. Unless you’re one of the lucky few with angel or VC backing, you need to watch every penny. (Even if you are funded, you should still be watch (Read More)
Seattle 2.0:
One of the hardest things when you are just getting started (or even before you get started with your startup) is to create traffic or revenues model based purely on assumptions. You might be off by a factor of 10 and not know until you have enough internal data to change a projection data point from a gut-feeling projectio (Read More)