Monday, May 23, 2011

Must-Read Blog Posts of the Week



List of interesting blog posts from the Seattle Startup community on the last week:


PR Propulsion
We wondered what would happen when the Bronx Zoo?s cobra was found.� During our long, dreary and wet Pacific Northwest winter, the one bright spot was...

Luke Timmerman/Xconomy Seattle
Everywhere you look this spring, there are signs of bubbly enthusiasm for technology. Microsoft just paid $8.5 billion for a company that isn?t profitable...

William Carleton/William Carleton, Counsellor @ Law
There's a huge tension between the concept of crowdfunding and the method of angel financing that is actually in place for startups today. Because the...

John Cook/GeekWire
Faves.com had a smart team, top angel investors and big aspirations to become a dominant player in the emerging social network arena. But the 7-year-old...

Meadow Creek Blog
Entrepreneurs and small business owners often miss huge opportunities to make serious returns on their investment of time and money. All too often they have...

Brier Dudley (Seattle Times)
After launching a string of hit humor Web sites, Ben Huh is turning his attention to online news. The founder of Seattle-based Cheezburger -- a network...

Conversation Marketing
Caution: Lots of 'inside joke' humor for Hitchhiker's Guide readers in this post. If you haven't read the books, consider moving on quietly while avoiding...

Asher Bearman/The Venture Alley
CONTRIBUTED BY Asher Bearmanasher.bearman@dlapiper.com Some good news for the VC industry this morning as the NVCA released the Q4 2010 venture capital...

TechFlash
Kushal Chakrabarti believes in the power of education to break the cycle of poverty. The former Amazon software engineer is the CEO and co-founder of Vittana...

Randy Stewart/Ignite Seattle!
Here?s our schedule: 7:00pm: Doors Open. 7:30pm: Icebreaker game. As always, this is optional, but definitely a lot of fun! This time it should only be about...



From Seattle 2.0


Andy Sack
TechStars Seattle Inaugural class was really special - as experiencing something for the first time often is. �We tried lots of things. �We learned which things worked (i.e. meetings at 11:11pm...

Marcelo Calbucci
{Preamble: ?I?m going back to the roots of Seattle 2.0. When it got started I would write my own experience building my startup. Then we brought more contributors and I focused more on writing...

Aaron Franklin
Even if you know the problem you?re solving, it?s possible that you don?t know exactly what you?re building. While common advice says to build your product and get to market, this advice glazes...

Matt Paulin
Ever had someone pitch an idea to you? �Not just an offhanded, ?hey, what do you think of this?? but where they have put some serious thought to it. �They might start off with one type of idea, and...


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