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BuddyTV Secures $1,524,211 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=305e68dd-2a87-42e1-95f3-8a74f2221463 Date 10/2/2013 Company Name BuddyTV Mailing Address 190 Queen Anne Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109 Company Description BuddyTV is headquartered in the lovely city of Seattle, Washington, USA. Our goal is to bring entertainment and content closer to fans. We do this by providing original articles, news, spoilers, and interviews on … Continue reading “BuddyTV Secures $1,524,211 New Round”

BuddyTV Garners $1,524,211 New Financing Round

The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research—Analysis and Download

Microsoft Research, the central research arm of that tech giant of the northwest, was founded in September 1991. This is the prehistory. With the recent stepping down of Rick Rashid—the head of the organization since its inception, who took a new job at Microsoft in July—I have decided to post the memo that gave birth … Continue reading “The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research—Analysis and Download”

The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research—and Its Lessons for Today

How many great corporate organizations were created with the words, “Once upon a time?” Not many, I’ll wager. Yet that is exactly how Microsoft Research, one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious corporate research institutions, came to life back in 1991. “Once upon a time,” former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold wrote to Bill Gates … Continue reading “The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research—and Its Lessons for Today”

The End of Personal Computers

Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about the idea that we are witnessing “the end of personal computers,” the “post-PC era,” or, as Microsoft would have it, the “PC-plus era.” The difference in terminology is telling, revealing the intense commercial competition and staggering financial stakes that underlie this transition. For those who have been in … Continue reading “The End of Personal Computers”

A Wild September for Wireless: Putting it in Context

A wild and wacky wireless September it was. In one of the most frenzied months in the history of nearly any tech sector, we saw the following developments dominate the headlines: Verizon bought out Vodafone’s stake in Verizon Wireless for $130 billion. In a week, this financing went from “can they do it” to being … Continue reading “A Wild September for Wireless: Putting it in Context”

CPXi Acquires AdReady for Undisclosed Sum

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b98c241f-6f32-4bdb-95a3-0c2ecbabb55b Date 10/1/2013 Company Name AdReady Mailing Address 2601 Elliott Ave Seattle, WA 98121 Company Description AdReady provides powerful software that enables any marketer or agency to master digital display advertising and successfully reach and convert digital consumers where they live. We simplify the process with an intuitive start-to-finish solution that helps … Continue reading “CPXi Acquires AdReady for Undisclosed Sum”

The Pharma Bureaucracy Index: Who’s Nimble, and Who’s Sloooowww?

Bureaucracy is one of the dirty words in business. Nobody wants to publicly admit their company is bogged down with too many layers of management, or needs a dozen committees to sign off on every little decision. For a couple years now, I’ve been hearing entrepreneurs complain about suffocating bureaucracy in pharma. So I started … Continue reading “The Pharma Bureaucracy Index: Who’s Nimble, and Who’s Sloooowww?”

ReadyPulse Lands $1,660,852 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4c13258f-3662-4083-b4e1-9dee32b40b90 Date 9/30/2013 Company Name ReadyPulse Mailing Address 15 Lake Bellevue Dr Bellevue, WA 98005 Company Description ReadyPulse is the leader in testimonial marketing, and is bringing the power of sponsored stories to e-commerce and social/display ads. ReadyPulse grows, curates, and showcases a brand’s most effective testimonials across channels; social, mobile, email, … Continue reading “ReadyPulse Lands $1,660,852 New Funding”

Northwest Entrepreneur Network Entrepreneur University 2013

The Northwest Entrepreneur Network‘s day-long program of talks, training, and networking for startup entrepreneurs is back for its fourth year. The speaker lineup includes Liz Pearce, CEO of LiquidPlanner, Steve Singh, CEO of Concur, Robin Wolaner, CEO of Vittana, and many more. Here’s the link for more details and registration info.

Women-only Coding School Aims at Worker Shortage, Gender Imbalance

Technology companies are clamoring for more software developers, and the industry as a whole is struggling to recruit more women to its ranks. Enter the Ada Developers Academy, an immersive program to teach women with no prior programming experience the fundamentals of coding and place them in internships for hands-on training. The deadline to apply … Continue reading “Women-only Coding School Aims at Worker Shortage, Gender Imbalance”

Reimagining Work: Scott Berkun’s Year Without Pants at Automattic

From my desk at Xconomy San Francisco—aka my Potrero Hill apartment—I can look out the window at Highway 280, watch the traffic that crawls into the city every morning and back out every evening, and chuckle smugly. There’s never any traffic congestion on the commute from my bed to my coffee machine to my laptop. … Continue reading “Reimagining Work: Scott Berkun’s Year Without Pants at Automattic”

Outdated IT Skills Slowing Enterprise Shift to Cloud Computing

What’s the biggest thing stopping big companies from using cloud computing for their business? People with outdated skills. So says Simon Crosby, co-founder and CTO of Bromium, a cloud security company, and a panelist at this week’s Washington Technology Industry Association TechNW: North to Innovation event on cloud computing and big data. Crosby, who previously … Continue reading “Outdated IT Skills Slowing Enterprise Shift to Cloud Computing”

Agenda Live for Xconomy Healthcare Summit Oct. 15–Get Your Invite

Quick question: What is so important to Americans that the U.S. Congress is willing to shut the government down over it? The answer (as if you didn’t know already): healthcare. Here at Xconomy, we have long been tired of the political spin doctoring that surrounds healthcare. So we set out to convene a very exclusive, … Continue reading “Agenda Live for Xconomy Healthcare Summit Oct. 15–Get Your Invite”

Biotech CEOs Don’t Know It All. They Need Mentors

Biotech CEOs are human beings too. But somehow they are often portrayed, particularly by themselves, as herculean beings that can independently solve it all. Time for brutal honesty: every CEO relies heavily on others’ guidance regarding how the company collective can be successful. Much of this input is appropriately provided by the rest of the … Continue reading “Biotech CEOs Don’t Know It All. They Need Mentors”

Foundation’s IPO Isn’t Bubbly, It’s a Jolt for Genomic Diagnostics

Foundation Medicine, the Cambridge, MA-based cancer diagnostic company, reminded me of the 2000 genomics bubble when it went public this week. The company sold its IPO shares at $18, and the stock (NASDAQ: [[ticker:FMI]]) almost doubled in its first day of trading, closing at $35.35, a 96 percent increase off an already bumped-up IPO price. … Continue reading “Foundation’s IPO Isn’t Bubbly, It’s a Jolt for Genomic Diagnostics”

Oncothyreon Stock Surges on Partner’s Renewed Bet in Lung Cancer

Seattle-based Oncothyreon (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ONTY]]) was written off by a lot of investors last year when a cancer immunotherapy it developed failed in a pivotal clinical trial run by one of its partners. Today, the company bounced back as its partner, Merck KGaA, said it essentially saw enough of a silver lining in the data to … Continue reading “Oncothyreon Stock Surges on Partner’s Renewed Bet in Lung Cancer”

Balancing Act: How a Working Mom Built Steals.com

Working mothers are constantly struggling to strike a balance between spending time with their kids and making the most of their professional skills or supporting their families financially. Jana Francis, co-founder of Steals.com, has achieved this balance, and for her, the most rewarding part is that her employees are able to strike a balance as … Continue reading “Balancing Act: How a Working Mom Built Steals.com”

LearnBIG Lands $1,000,000 Seed Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8f49e3c3-ec4c-4a62-8b15-c30298607fd0 Date 9/24/2013 Company Name LearnBIG Mailing Address 800 5th Ave Seattle, WA 98104 Company Description LearnBIG is hoping to change the way people learn all over the world. We’re dedicated to transforming education by providing a site that combines the power of technology, community, and ease of use for all types … Continue reading “LearnBIG Lands $1,000,000 Seed Financing Round”

Xconomy Forum: Big Insight—Making Sense of Big Data in Seattle

It’s not about the data, it’s about the insight. Entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors in Seattle and the broader Northwest are finding innovative ways to harness the raw data rushing at us from an ever-widening array of sources and put it to profitable, impactful use. Building on Northwest strengths such as cloud computing and enterprise software, … Continue reading “Xconomy Forum: Big Insight—Making Sense of Big Data in Seattle”

The Best Biotech Graduate Schools in Real Life

[Updated 2 pm ET 9/30] Let’s imagine, for a second, you are someone in your 20s or 30s, getting started in the biotech industry. You want to work somewhere you can acquire a well-rounded set of experiences over the next five to 10 years so that you will have what it takes to be qualified … Continue reading “The Best Biotech Graduate Schools in Real Life”

Vendscreen Garners $500,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=57896c8d-8ec3-435c-b815-0f1e1a719a33 Date 9/23/2013 Company Name Vendscreen Mailing Address 309 SW Sixth Avenue Portland, OR 97204 Company Description VendScreen personalizes the vending experience while utilizing the intuitive ‘Touch & Swipe’ user interface already familiar to millions of people using smartphones and other touch screen devices every day, so our users gain rich information … Continue reading “Vendscreen Garners $500,000 New Round”

Vendscreen Obtains $500,000 New Round

10 Ways to Live Longer, Without Help from Google

With a simple blog post or news exclusive, Google can instantly glamorize any field of research, whether it’s teaching cars to drive themselves, sending robotic rovers to the Moon, blanketing Earth with wireless data from balloons, or—this week—helping people live longer. The airiest of promises from the company evokes the world’s awe and admiration, and … Continue reading “10 Ways to Live Longer, Without Help from Google”

InDi Spinoff Gets $1.5M, Aims to Beat Antibodies in Diagnostics

Seattle-based InDi, aka Integrated Diagnostics, is planning to graduate from startup mode this year and start selling its first product, a diagnostic test that spots lung cancer in a tiny sample of blood. But before it does that, it has decided to spin out some of its key intellectual property into a new startup called … Continue reading “InDi Spinoff Gets $1.5M, Aims to Beat Antibodies in Diagnostics”

Gliph Secures $200,000 Seed Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7492dc2c-5215-47a3-8653-ddee7c37d47b Date 9/20/2013 Company Name Gliph Mailing Address Undisclosed Portland, OR 97239 Company Description Bitcoin is a type of money that you can use to pay for products or services. You use a smartphone or your computer to send it to other people or businesses. Bitcoin is to cash what Email is … Continue reading “Gliph Secures $200,000 Seed Round”

Xbox, TV, & Asexual Phones: Microsoft’s Bing Talks Design and Tech

Sporting a new fall look, Microsoft’s search engine Bing showed off an updated logo Tuesday night in New York as the company called attention to the relevance of design across various types of technology. On an evening populated with luminaries from the fashion and home décor worlds, Microsoft hosted a chat about how websites and … Continue reading “Xbox, TV, & Asexual Phones: Microsoft’s Bing Talks Design and Tech”

Healthcare Megatrends, Part 1: Shifting Risk

While debates continue on the pros and cons of health reform, one fact remains: the marketplace is changing. There has been approximately $1 trillion in health care M+A activity since 2008. Payers are becoming providers, providers are becoming payers and placing insurance products on the exchanges, benefit consultants are creating exchanges, payers are looking increasingly … Continue reading “Healthcare Megatrends, Part 1: Shifting Risk”

Big Insight—Making Sense of Big Data in Seattle Nov. 19

It’s not about the data, it’s about the insight. While the accumulation of data shows no signs of slowing, some argue the term “big data” has passed peak marketing hype. This is a good thing, because it allows people to focus more on the real reason we’re generating, cleaning, storing, and analyzing every bit of … Continue reading “Big Insight—Making Sense of Big Data in Seattle Nov. 19”

Rhapsody Secures New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b1e53283-0772-4d08-b2d9-33647cf0bf54 Date 9/19/2013 Company Name Rhapsody Mailing Address 1420 5th Avenue 15th Floor Seattle, WA 98101 Company Description Rhapsody is the number-one premium subscription music service, with more than one million members, who can listen to more than 16 million tracks on more than 70 consumer electronics devices, including connected audio systems, … Continue reading “Rhapsody Secures New Financing Round”

Cyanogen Lands $7,000,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=269a5f7e-95a6-490a-aab2-f628c9090972 Date 9/19/2013 Company Name Cyanogen Mailing Address 542 1st Ave S Seattle, WA 98104 Company Description CyanogenMod (pronounced sigh-AN-oh-jen-mod), is a customized, aftermarket firmware distribution for several Android devices. Based on the Android Open Source Project, CyanogenMod is designed to increase performance and reliability over Android-based ROMs released by vendors and … Continue reading “Cyanogen Lands $7,000,000 New Round”

Rhapsody Garners New Financing Round

Cyanogen Secures $7,000,000 New Financing

Sonivate Medical Garners $460,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cfeada6a-787f-4306-b6de-0c548df4b899 Date 9/18/2013 Company Name Sonivate Medical Mailing Address 8305 SW. Creekside Pl. Beaverton, OR 97008 Company Description Sonivate Medical designs, develops, and manufactures high-performance, miniaturized ultrasound probe solutions which combine ultrasound technology with an innovative physical probe design. Website http://www.sonivate.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $460,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Sonivate Medical Garners $460,000 New Round”

Nuiku Secures $1,600,000 Seed Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c8d5a91a-b7d5-4a78-bfbe-8c6a81992d54 Date 9/18/2013 Company Name Nuiku Mailing Address 16544 NE 79th St Redmond, WA 98052 Company Description Nuiku is a virtual assistant for sales. CRM and other sales tools were built for management and designed around process automation. Given the advancements in voice, mobility, cloud, SaaS and analytics, we can now focus … Continue reading “Nuiku Secures $1,600,000 Seed Financing”

Roundup: UW Tech Policy, Deals for F5, WaveDivison, Enclarity, & More

The new University of Washington Tech Policy Lab promises to be a great resource for lawmakers and others trying to keep up with the implications of fast-evolving technology on many aspects of society. Read on for details on that plus a new Staples.com development center in Seattle; acquisitions news from WaveDivision Holdings, F5 Networks, and … Continue reading “Roundup: UW Tech Policy, Deals for F5, WaveDivison, Enclarity, & More”

AppThwack Secures New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=53a4e3e4-83e5-47ff-96bf-9004f36e24b7 Date 9/17/2013 Company Name AppThwack Mailing Address 1227 NW Davis St Portland, OR 97209 Company Description AppThwack is a Portland, Oregon-based company focused on building automation tools and services, particularly in areas involving complex interactions between distributed devices. Website http://www.appthwack.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “AppThwack Secures New Financing”

Don’t Be Naïve: 7 Things to Know Before Taking a Biotech Startup Job

You’ve spent years working hard to hone your skills in science, medicine, or business. You’ve accomplished things, and you have the talent and desire to do more. You may be bored, or stuck at a dead end job in academia, Big Biotech, or Big Pharma. You are intrigued by a job posting you just saw … Continue reading “Don’t Be Naïve: 7 Things to Know Before Taking a Biotech Startup Job”

Do VCs Add Value?

Vinod Khosla’s recent comment during an interview with Michael Arrington that 95 percent of VCs don’t add value (and that 70-80 percent might actually add negative value in their advising) got me thinking about the underlying dynamics of the question. I agree with Khosla that a surprisingly large portion of VCs add little value, but … Continue reading “Do VCs Add Value?”

Mentoring Startups is Hard: Five Ways to Be a Better Mentor

Mentoring has become a more significant part of the economy today than since, perhaps, apprenticeships in the Craftsman Age. Why? The rise of entrepreneurship and our expanding freelance economy are driving massive transformation, and workers are increasingly required to find their own means of making a living. During the Industrial age, most labor was focused … Continue reading “Mentoring Startups is Hard: Five Ways to Be a Better Mentor”

NPR Highlights Seattle’s Pediatric Cancer Innovator, Jim Olson

People who listen to one of NPR’s most popular shows during their morning routine just found out about the work of one of the important innovators in Seattle’s biotech community. Listeners to NPR’s nationally syndicated “Morning Edition” show heard two separate in-depth reports this week about the work of Jim Olson, the pediatric oncologist at … Continue reading “NPR Highlights Seattle’s Pediatric Cancer Innovator, Jim Olson”

The iPhone 5S and 5C: Everything Is Amazing and Nobody Is Happy

Our expectations about how fast personal technology should evolve have come totally unglued from reality. That was all I could think this week as I surveyed media and consumer commentary about the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C, which Apple unveiled at a Sept. 10 press event. From any reasonable point of view, these new … Continue reading “The iPhone 5S and 5C: Everything Is Amazing and Nobody Is Happy”

CPUsage Secures $925,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9a255d34-15f5-4eb5-99cc-1c466e0c5746 Date 9/12/2013 Company Name CPUsage Mailing Address 122 NW 3rd St Portland, OR 97209 Company Description CPUsage delivers dead-simple, highly scalable and cost-effective cloud computing resources to companies with massive computing needs. We do this a powerful platform that allows developers to focus on consuming compute power at scale, not managing … Continue reading “CPUsage Secures $925,000 New Financing”

Easy Metrics Lands $3,300,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0840faae-53cd-47b5-9521-1e314ed43deb Date 9/12/2013 Company Name Easy Metrics Mailing Address 1004 West James Street Kent, WA 98032 Company Description Easy Metrics is a SaaS based Business Intelligence system that helps companies with labor-intensive operations to identify and optimize their labor costs. The company combines its robust technology with a proven cost management methodology … Continue reading “Easy Metrics Lands $3,300,000 New Financing Round”

Kauffman Report: It Takes Decades to Build a Startup Hub

The Kauffman Foundation caused a stir in economic-development circles last month with a report showing that high-tech startups are more evenly spread across the United States than many people assume. When researcher Ian Hathaway, an economic advisor with the advocacy group Engine, ranked metropolitan areas in terms of their per-capita density of high-tech startups, his … Continue reading “Kauffman Report: It Takes Decades to Build a Startup Hub”

Xconomy is Looking for Detroit Innovation Champions

In 2010, Xconomy opened its fourth news bureau in Detroit, joining Boston, Seattle, and San Diego. Even though this was a time when record numbers of global media were parachuting into town and writing stories showcasing “ruin porn” and what they deemed as the hopelessness of the Motor City’s plight, Xconomy had a different mission … Continue reading “Xconomy is Looking for Detroit Innovation Champions”

9Mile Labs: First Demo Day and Research on Accelerator Effectiveness

9Mile Labs, the new Seattle area startup accelerator for business-to-business companies, delivered nine new companies to potential investors Tuesday. Begun earlier this year on the premise that the high rejection rates of other startup accelerators such as Techstars indicated a need for more accelerators, 9Mile Labs set out “to build a world-class entrepreneurial community in … Continue reading “9Mile Labs: First Demo Day and Research on Accelerator Effectiveness”

Roundup: Raikes Leaving Gates Foundation; Front Desk, Versium Funding

Somewhere between the news of Steve Ballmer’s planned retirement from Microsoft and its blockbuster acquisition of Nokia’s mobile devices business, Seattle tech news took a very brief summer vacation. Did you notice? Now it’s back to school, back to work. In recent days, we’ve tracked financing news for area startups including Front Desk and Versium … Continue reading “Roundup: Raikes Leaving Gates Foundation; Front Desk, Versium Funding”

5 Reasons You Should Drop Everything and Start Growing Bugs

Around the world, since the dawn of time, humans have eaten insects. The Western aversion to the idea is a recent phenomenon. With feed conversion ratios double that of chicken, and nearly six times that of beef, edible species like the common house cricket are a popular food source worldwide. In countries such as Thailand, … Continue reading “5 Reasons You Should Drop Everything and Start Growing Bugs”

Brandlive Lands $1,600,000 Series A Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b467e6da-fbd7-4be4-b462-336bb4e1a13e Date 9/10/2013 Company Name Brandlive Mailing Address 2100 SE Water Ave Portland, OR 97214 Company Description Brandlive is the leading solution for live video commerce. Retailers and brands leverage the platform to create highly engaging online events for their products – combining live video, social interaction and instant commerce. Website http://www.yourbrandlive.com … Continue reading “Brandlive Lands $1,600,000 Series A Financing Round”