Seattle - Startup News

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Seattle Encourages Its Inner Silicon Valley

Technology start-ups are sprouting all around in Seattle with Google opening its second campus. “The Seattle start-up ecosystem is vibrant, and growing rapidly,” said Oren Etzioni, an artificial-intelligen more...

Discuss | Topic: Startup Help | by Jitendra 335 days ago (nytimes.com)

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Startup iLike helps bands get the word out to fans

Seattle based music startup is using its base of 13 million registered users to help bands to get the word out to fans. Co-founder Hadi Partovi says,"Our overall directional statement is that we think more...

2 Comments | Topic: Music | by Jitendra 462 days ago (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

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Facebook CEO visits Seattle - likely investment from Microsoft

Facebook is looking for investors. Likely investment size is $500 million most likely from Microsoft in exchange for a 5% stake as per this Forbes article. Google is also rumored to be in the running. more...

1 Comment | Topic: Social Networking | by Vic 469 days ago (money.cnn.com)

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Seattle Startup Weekend event announced for Jan

Startup Weekend is proud to announce that its 14th event - the Seattle Startup Weekend will be held January 25-27 2008. There are seven categories: Design, Developer, PR/ Marketing, Business Development, more...

Discuss | Topic: Events and Meetups | by Jitendra 386 days ago (startupweekend.com)

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Ignite Seattle on 2/19 - Ignite Portland on 2/5

The next Ignite Seattle is February 19th at the CHAC. It's great to be back! At the last one we had over 350 people watch 15 great talks (all of which can be found online). Watch the videos (courtesy of more...

Discuss | Topic: Conferences | by Vic 343 days ago (radar.oreilly.com)