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:
It’s that time of the month. The October/2009 Seattle Startup Index isout and another month with an astounding 17 new startups added to the list.Until mid of this year, we would had a big month when we added 10 startups tothe list and the average around 6. For the past 4 months we are consistentlyadd (Read More)
The Seattle Times: Business & Technology:
Seattle 2.0's monthly list of Web startups has one significant change this month - 17 new companies appeared in October, compiler Marcelo Calbucci reports. (Read More)
Brier Dudley's blog:
The WTIA held its annual predictions dinner tonight at the Grand Hyatt in Seattle, with a group of tech entrepreneurs and investors sharing a few thoughts on what may happen in 2010.Speakers include Greg Gottesman, managing director of Madrona Venture Group; Bill Bryant, venture partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Redfin Ch (Read More)
Redfin Corporate Blog: Notes on Redfin, technology, real estate and life at a startup.:
Redfin just published an essay on TechCrunch about what we learned from venture capitalists while raising money. Some of the small-is-beautiful thinkers here in Seattle may say it’s just another how-to guide for kissing investors’ fannies rather than boot-strapping a business. Not true! Our point wasn’t to tell people how t (Read More)
Seattle 2.0:
The great thing about social media is that it is an incredibly easy way to stay in touch with people socially, and spread your messages professionally. The dangerous thing about social media is that it is virtually impossible to keep your personal and professional lives separated from each other. Chip Conley, the founder of (Read More)
Seattle 2.0:
I just learned about Vistage, a peer-network of CEO/Presidents of small-to-medium size businesses. They are a large group with more than 14,500 members across the US and the world and with 350+ members in the Seattle region. I’m a big fan of this kind of founder-to-founder/CEO-to-CEO organization because it’s the most valua (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.nPost nPost.com is a site devoted to entrepreneurship and startups. The nPost.com Tech Startup Job Board features opportunities with Internet and Software startu (Read More)
Seattle 2.0:
We all know that we can't hire or fire someone because of their race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or a physical disability unless it means they cannot perform the duties of the job. That's pretty clear-cut. But we all have a slew of unconscious biases in our heads that stem from our life experiences, and what we do (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:
It's only November -- but I wanted to put my prediction in for the fairest web startup of 2010. Currently the top 3 traffic spots on the Seattle Startup Index for Sept. 2009 are: Cheezburger, Zillow, Picnik Now, traffic doesn't make a business - as we all know - because if it did Ben H (Read More)
Seattle 2.0:
Today we are announcing a new resource for the Seattle 2.0 community: a directory of Service Providers working with startups. This is going to be an easy way for you to find and contact service providers when you need them. The directory already includes 35+ companies on more than a dozen different categories. If you are a (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Seattle based Redfin, an online real estate startup, has raised another $10 million in a venture capital round that was led by Greylock Partners. Existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Vulcan Capital and The HIllman Company all participated in the round, and Greylock’s James Slavet joins the Redf (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)
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)