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Mar 5, 2009	Vivek Kundra, the Nation’s New CIO, Is Supporter of Seattle Startup, Tableau Software	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Today, President Obama appointed Vivek Kundra federal chief information officer, which is a new administrative position in the U.S. government. Kundra, currently the District ...
Feb 3, 2009	Blist spreadsheets become embeddable widgets	Seattle startup Blist is spreading its easy-to-use database to the rest of the web with a new suite of products called Blist Widgets. VentureBeat readers may have already seen these widgets in action — most notably, President Barack Obama’s...
Jan 24, 2009	How Obama Will Use Web Technology	Editor’s Note: The following guest post was written by Kevin Merritt, the CEO and founder of blist, a Web-based list manager and spreadsheet that was used on Change.gov, the Obama Administration’s transition Website. President Barack Obama ...
Jan 6, 2009	How Blist Got Involved with Obama—the Inside Story	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints A Seattle startup is playing an important role in helping President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team get organized. As of yesterday, the Obama-Biden Transition Project has...
Jan 5, 2009	Search Obama’s donors thanks to spreadsheet startup Blist	Change.gov, the website where President-Elect Barack Obama’s transition team can interact with constituents, just unveiled a neat tool using startup technology — through Blist, the simple database for non-experts, the team is sharing its gi...
Sep 23, 2008	Chatterous Chats About Happy Hours, Investors, and Moving to San Francisco	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints It must be the weather—or rather, the climate. How else to explain another tech startup with Seattle roots moving to the San Francisco Bay Area? Last week I heard from DocVers...
Aug 8, 2008	Y Combinator Model “Too Messy” for Microsoft, Says YC Founder	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints On Wednesday, Greg highlighted the provocative suggestion of Kevin Merritt, CEO of Seattle startup Blist, that Microsoft should return to its “risk taking, entrepreneurial roo...
Aug 6, 2008	How To Save Microsoft, and Other Valuable Insights from Blist	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints OK, it’s taken me a few weeks, but I finally have a chance to highlight a couple of entries in a local blog I’ve been following. It’s from the guys at Blist, a Seattle startup...
Jul 14, 2008	Trackvia Raises Series A for Point-And-Click Databases	Trackvia provides software as a service for transforming ordinary spreadsheets into versatile databases. The Colorado-based startup has raised its first major round of institutional funding, the amount of which (while not disclosed) is bein...
May 14, 2008	Blist Gets Updated – Now More Stable, More Social	Blist, the cloud database application, which we covered back in March when they launched into their public beta, just received a big update yesterday. The update addresses, for the most part, stability and performance issues, but it also in...
Mar 27, 2008	Watch Out – Adobe Is Slowly Building an Online Empire	The blogosphere was abuzz today with the launch of Adobe’s online photo-editing and storage platform, Adobe Photoshop Express. The new tool isn’t so much of a web-based version of Photoshop as people had hoped, but more of a simple online p...
Mar 18, 2008	Under the Radar Conference This Week	Dealmaker Media may have put together its best annual Under the Radar conference yet. This Thursday in Mountain View, California, more than 30 selected startups will show their wares and some world class technology speakers will offer their...
Feb 20, 2008	Blist Secures $6.5M for Cloud Database Software	Blist, a browser-based database management application, has raised $6.5M in Series A from Frazier Technology Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures. The company launched in private beta at DEMO this year, although we first covered them this pas...
Feb 20, 2008	Easy-to-use database Blist raises $6.5M	Blist, a simple database for non-experts, has raised $6.5 million in a first round of funding from Frazier Technology Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures. The company started generating buzz last month after unveiling its product at DEMO (ou...
Feb 19, 2008	Blist Brings Bling to Databases and Spreadsheets	Blist , a darling of the DEMO 08 conference , is announcing this morning that they have raised a $6m “A Round” of venture capital. Who knew that spreadsheets made social = big investments? That’s what they do, they make database information...
Feb 4, 2008	Blist claims to be easiest database ever	With all the fancy software on the market, there’s a reason why many people are still trying to use the spreadsheet Microsoft Excel as a database, even though it’s not meant to be one, says Blist CEO Kevin Merritt. Even though the results c...
Jan 28, 2008	DEMO 2008 Companies Roundup	With the DEMO 2008 conference kicking off today, a bunch of tech companies are making announcements. Here are some of the highlights: BitGravity /> Content delivery network BitGravity is launching its streaming video offering, BG LiveBro...
Nov 10, 2007	Blist Prepares Easy Web-Based Database Application	I recently had the opportunity to see a demo of a product coming out in early 2008 called Blist (pronounced like “bliss” with a “t” at the end) that will take on DabbleDB and Trackvia by giving users the tools to easily create and manage da...

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