Danielle Morrill / Seattle 2.0
Despite the wintery weather, friends of Kashless showed up on lower Queen Anne on Friday night to celebrate the company's moving out of the home of CEO Martin Tobias and into an actual office space. Check Out Martin's Fishbowl With the corner window set in the frontmost office, we have...
San Francisco-based Xobni, the email startup co-founded by ex-Expedia employee Adam Smith, has pulled in $7 million in venture financing from Cisco Systems...
Andy Sack / Seattle 2.0
I ran into the urban spoon folks today at Louisa's, my office away from my office on Eastlake. I've been following urban spoon for a few years and told them a couple times how much I didn't like the local search space. The respectfully ignored me and I grew to respect and admire their perseverence and innovative...
The VC "Fit" Test is a tool I've developed that can help companies determine if they are a good fit and should spend the time raising funds now, or should...
Alyssa Royse / Seattle 2.0
I’m getting jaded. Entellium hurt. Count Me In hurts. And no matter which platitude you choose to look at – “tip if the iceberg,” “they come in threes” – you just know that there is more lying going on. We’ve all seen “them” pitch and heard them talk about how great their companies are, when we know from their...
For this week, I'm going to write a few posts regarding the major national legislation in the HR arena that we have to abide by. These laws are investigated...
Matt Hulett / Seattle 2.0
Remember that Pantene shampoo commercial with Kelly Le Brock in the 80's? She starts out the commercial sensually stating, "Don't hate me because I’m beautiful." As a young, puberty-laden kid (with hating Kelly LeBrock the last thing on my mind), this ad made quite an impact on me. The image of an attractive...
There's been quite a bit of chatter in the meetings technology community over a ghoulish e-mail sent out by SpotMe this past week announcing the demise of...
Alyssa Royse / Seattle 2.0
I'm a low-maintenance chick. I like things to be simple, real, logical, rational and dependable. I’d take a Volvo over a BMW any day, think designer clothes are for suckers, and would snuggle up to a good geek before I got anywhere near a playboy type. So it should come as no surprise that I have a soft spot for...
Here’s the e-mail to the Seattle Tech Startups list that draws my latest musing. It’s from the creator of HotPopcorn, a new iPhone app for movie lovers. I...
Andy Sack / Seattle 2.0
I've been noodling on whether it's a good time or a bad time to be an early stage technology entrepreneur or an early stage investor. I'm sure if I did a survey of other enterperneurs and investors, I'd likely get 9 out of 10 people to say that staying on the sidelines is likely the best strategy for this market...
I wish all the readers of this blog an awesome and fullfiling 2009! I hope all those that are planning on leaving their corporate jobs to start a...
Marcelo Calbucci / Seattle 2.0
The Seattle Startup Index (SSI) for November has just been published. Check out on the hottest list of Seattle how did your startup ranked amongst the hundreds of local startups. http://www.seattle20.com/startup-index.aspx
Here are my 2009 technology predictions. It was getting harder and harder since my post is starting to look a lot like everyone else's posts. I look forward...
Matt Hulett / Seattle 2.0
While waiting for a table the other night at a Seattle restaurant, I could overhear a group next to me at the bar lamenting over their cancelled company holiday party. From what I gathered, this was a large public company and the event was cancelled just a week or two before it was supposed to happen. It didn’t...
BigOven was mentioned as one of Saveur Magazine's "100 Favorite Things" for the New Year, in the 2009 edition of the Saveur 100. At #65 on the list, BigOven...
Alyssa Royse / Seattle 2.0
If you hang out with business people often enough, you’ll hear at least one conversation about when – and if – you should listen to your customers. The old wisdom used to be “the customer is always right.” The new wisdom was “customers are stupid and we know better than they do.” The current wisdom is, well, who the...
Is “Real Venture Capital” (RVC) the best place for assets: RVC Is a Different Asset Class from MVC Real Venture Capital (RVC) is anything that takes a risk...
Rebecca Lovell / Seattle 2.0
For those of you who skip to the last page before committing to a novel, or got through high school on Cliff's notes, you might enjoy some quick and dirty tips on positioning a business for angel investment. Not wishing to practice law without a license (insert legalese-laden disclaimer here), read on for some...
Image via CrunchBaseWanted to do some social bookmarking and payment integration for the bookstore, so got that all set up today. When you look at the...