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| Sep 19, 2023 | WTIA reveals 33 startups in 10th cohort for founder program | All 33 startups in WTIA’s 10th Founder Cohort Program are based in the state of Washington. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser)
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) revealed the 33 startups based in Washington state part... |
| Mar 29, 2023 | Promising Tacoma Startup Expands Restaurant Staffing Pilot Program | Serve Reserves Logo
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Tacoma Startup Serve Reserves, a recruiting & on-demand staffing platform for the food & beverage industry, is expanding their Washington State pilot ... |
| Sep 6, 2022 | WTIA launches cohort for 34 Washington startups, providing free business 101 training and mentoring | Logos from some of the 34 startups selected for the WTIA’s eighth Founder Cohort Program.
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) has announced the 34 startups from around the state that will be participating in its eighth Fou... |
| Apr 4, 2022 | In the US, public-private state associations form networks of support for crypto businesses | When you think of a crypto-friendly U.S. state, Washington is hardly the first to come to mind. Yet, a lot has been happening on the ground in the Pacific Northwest lately. Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill, SB5544, into law on M... |
| Feb 22, 2022 | WTIA picks 30 of Washington state’s ‘best and brightest’ tech startups for Founder Cohort | (BigStock Illustration)
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) has selected 30 Washington state tech startups for its seventh Founder Cohort Program.
The virtual program is designed to help seed-stage startups grow and scale ... |
| Sep 11, 2021 | Seattle startup Lalo is latest ‘death tech’ innovator, with an app to share and collect stories and more | (Lalo Images)
Juan Medina first considered the idea for his new startup back in 2003, after the death of his father, when his wife asked him to tell a story about his dad and Medina realized he hadn’t known him all that well. Stories, jokes... |
| Aug 16, 2021 | Seattle fintech startup Allio raises $5M for robo-advisor investment tool | Allio, a new Seattle startup building a robo-advisor investment tool for consumers, has raised $5 million. “We’re the first micro-savings tool that allows users to customize their investment portfolio using both traditional and contemporary... |
| Jul 20, 2021 | Testing automation platform Stack Moxie raises cash, leverages startup support networks | M.H. Lines, Stack Moxie’s founder, CEO and head of product. (Stack Moxie Photo)
Newish name, new funding: Stack Moxie, formerly known as Automaton, this spring raised $875,000 in pre-seed funding. The Seattle-based startup is a monitoring a... |
| Jun 27, 2021 | How a Seattle fintech entrepreneur built a network of support through multiple organizations | Nate Derby, CEO and chief data scientist for Stakana Analytics. (Stakana Photo)
Seattle is home to a handful of fintech companies, notably money transfer startup Remitly, but it isn’t known as a fintech hub. And the city has venture capital... |
| May 24, 2021 | Washington state launches center to cater to — and potentially regulate — crypto and fintech companies | The Washington State Capitol building in Olympia. (Flickr Photo via Tom Sparks)
Facing explosive growth in NFTs and cryptocurrencies coupled with vague regulations for the wave of new financial technology and investment startups in Washingt... |
| Apr 15, 2021 | Crazy for crypto — or not: Seattle VCs sound off on tech’s hottest topic following Coinbase IPO | Coinbase is the talk of tech world this week as the cryptocurrency startup went public and its valuation soared to $85 billion. (Coinbase Photo)
Sometimes, making an exception can pay off.
That’s what happened to Version One Ventures, which... |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Cybersecurity giant Tanium scores $150 million, following HQ move to Seattle area | Tanium CEO Orion Hindawi recently moved the company’s headquarters to Kirkland. (Tanium Photo)
Tanium may not be a household name, at least not yet. But the fast-growing cybersecurity company, which moved its headquarters from the San Franc... |
| Jan 21, 2021 | WTIA names 22 Washington tech startups selected for latest Founder Cohort Program | (BigStock Photo)
Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) announced the 22 tech startups that have been selected for the organization’s recurring Founder Cohort Program on Thursday.
Part of WTIA’s Startup Program, the virtual Found... |
| Dec 13, 2020 | Entrepreneurs and corporate leaders unite in support of Black-owned businesses | Jasper Kuria, founder of Black Owned Business. (BOB Photo)
When Jasper Kuria considers strategies for addressing racial inequity and social injustice in the U.S., he puts support of Black entrepreneurs at the top of the list.
“It’s really a... |
| Nov 16, 2020 | More Than 50 Organizations Sign WTIA Anti-racism in Tech Pact to Dismantle Systemic Racism Across the Technology Industry | |
| Aug 17, 2020 | How a call to Seattle startup Nexme’s toll-free number led to a seed round worth $500k | The Nexme team, including co-founders Vanessa Alvarez (front, center) and Arian Abdulkader (back, right). (Nexme Photo)
Angel investments don’t often begin with an unexpected call to your startup’s toll-free number.
Seattle-based Nexme had ... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Life-and-career path platform OwnTrail raises $250K, builds ‘work from garage’ office space | The OwnTrail crew working on their garage-based office, from left to right: Carolyn Dunn, vice president of engineering, Rebekah Bastian, co-founder and CEO, and Kt McBratney, co-founder and chief brand officer. (Photos courtesy of Max Bast... |
| Jul 9, 2020 | WTIA announces 26 startups chosen for fourth edition of Founder Cohort Program | (BigStock Photo)
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) has announced the names of the 26 tech startups from across Washington state that will be participating in the organization’s latest Founder Cohort Program.
Part of WTIA... |
| Jun 4, 2020 | Accenture, IBM, Microsoft, Nasdaq, Digital Asset And More Unveil New Token Standards Association | On Tuesday, the InterWork Alliance (IWA) formally launched operations as a platform-neutral, non-profit organization dedicated to creating the standards frameworks needed to increase innovation across token-enabled ecosystems. The new organ... |
| May 12, 2020 | Startup survey: More than 50% of companies have less than 6 months of cash runway to survive | (Bigstock Photo)
For startups, cash is king during an economic crisis. The more dollars in the bank, the longer a company can survive as revenue dries up.
More than half of Seattle-area startup leaders surveyed by the Washington Technology ... |
| May 12, 2020 | Why these tech startups turned down millions of dollars in PPP loans from the federal government | Glowforge CEO Dan Shapiro. (Glowforge Photo)
It’s not easy to turn down financial help from the government, especially during an economic crisis. But that’s exactly what two venture capital-backed Pacific Northwest tech startups did recentl... |
| Jan 29, 2020 | WTIA and Canadian government name 5 startups for Seattle-based blockchain business accelerator | Arry Yu, now chair of the Washington Technology Industry Association’s Cascadia Blockchain Council, speaks at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong)
A new business accelerator focusing on blockchain startups has kicked off ... |
| Dec 4, 2019 | Early stage investing 101: How to break into the club, and why you should give it a shot | (Bigstock Photo)
Early stage investing can be tremendously beneficial for early stage technology companies, the broader startup ecosystem, and of course, investors. But getting started isn’t easy. Minda Bruse and Heather Redman.
We both kno... |
| Jun 28, 2019 | Can Seattle become a financial technology hub? Why some tech leaders are banking on it | L-R: Casper von Koskull, CEO of Nordea Bank, Tom Alberg, co-founder and managing director of Madrona Venture Group, and Rex Hughes of Madrona and Create33, on a recent panel about financial technology at the Nordic Innovation Summit in Seat... |
| Jun 13, 2019 | ‘AWS for blockchain’: ArcBlock aims to build, manage and deploy decentralized apps | Robert Mao, CEO and founder of ArcBlock, presenting at the Make the Impossible Possible Conference in Vietnam in July 2018. (ArcBlock Photo)
If you’re still wrapping your head around blockchain 1.0 (Bitcoin) and blockchain 2.0 (Ethereum), y... |
| May 17, 2019 | WTIA’s Founder Cohort Program launches new class of 24 startups with inside tips from investors | Early-stage investors offered advice to startups on the first day of the WTIA Founder Cohort Program. From left: James Newell, Voyager Capital; Elisa La Cava, Madrona Venture Group; Jennifer Savage, Illuminate; Chris Picardo, Madrona; Camer... |
| May 3, 2019 | Revealed: GeekWire Awards 2019 winners crowned as we celebrate the best of Pacific Northwest tech | (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)
The strength and success of the people and companies across the Pacific Northwest tech ecosystem was on full display Thursday night at the GeekWire Awards.
It was so much fun celebrating with more than 900 of... |
| Feb 2, 2019 | NFL player who survived shooting featured as part of new athlete-owned online storytelling platform | NFL wide receiver Stedman Bailey (left) and iinfluence founder Andrew McGee. (iinfluence Photo)
Life changed in an instant on November, 24 2015 for Stedman Bailey. The NFL wide receiver was shot in the head twice while sitting in his car wi... |
| Sep 27, 2018 | WTIA names 24 early-stage Seattle startups as part of inaugural founder cohort program | WTIA CEO Michael Schutzler. (Photo via WTIA)
They are building businesses in blockchain, AI, augmented reality, sports, real estate, education, and even laser insect monitoring. But now they all have one thing in common: the inaugural start... |
| Aug 30, 2018 | WTIA launches founder cohort program to help Seattle community ‘play bigger’ | Seven Peaks Ventures Partner Dave Parker will moderate the session.
Being a startup founder can be a lonely experience. Now the Washington Technology Industry Association wants to help.
The WTIA is launching a “Founder Cohort Program” as pa... |
| Apr 9, 2018 | ‘Depressing and inspiring’: Study finds 5% of Washington tech companies founded by women | WTIA CEO Michael Schutzler. (Photo via WTIA)
New research from the Washington Technology Industry Association shows how wide the gender gap is among the state’s startup founders.
WTIA collected data on 400 active tech companies in Washingto... |
| Feb 8, 2018 | How Techies Can Get Engaged in Seattle | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I meet a lot of tech workers, especially newcomers to Seattle, who want to get involved in the community. Many nonprofit leaders ask me how to engage these techies to voluntee... |
| Nov 27, 2017 | After Successful Pilot, Apprenti Expands Tech Training Program | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Those of us who keep tabs on the tech world hear a lot about the challenges of hiring and retaining IT talent. According to a forecast by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, ... |
| Sep 25, 2017 | Xconomy Q&A: Todd Schulte of Tech Immigration Advocacy Org FWD.us | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 9/25/17, 1:55 p.m. Clarified 9/27/17, 10:01 a.m. See below.] Immigration policy has always been important to the tech industry, but this year is different. Under a st... |
| Aug 13, 2017 | Vermouth takes on Yelp with new friend-based review app, with support from hoops star Sue Bird | Vermouth founder and CEO Jamien McCullum. Photo via Saskia Potter Photography.
Using a traditional review app like Yelp, Google, or TripAdvisor can be helpful for those looking to find more information on a business. But they can sometimes ... |
| Aug 10, 2017 | Tech meets politics: WTIA CEO Michael Schutzler on the economy, diversity, immigration and more | Michael Schutzler, Washington Technology Industry Association CEO. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)
This week on the GeekWire podcast, we explore the dynamic, high-stakes and often controversial intersection of technology, public policy and t... |
| Aug 4, 2017 | Seattle Week in Review: Blue Angels, Smoke, and Surveillance Above | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As the Blue Angels streak across Seattle’s smoke-filled skies preparing for this weekend’s Seafair, we’ll review some of this week’s news, including some of the latest dire cl... |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Washington State Program Could Be Model for Trump Apprenticeship Push | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 6/13/17, 10:25 pm PT. See below.] President Trump, once the star of reality television show “The Apprentice,” is pushing for apprenticeships as a way to connect more ... |
| Mar 8, 2017 | Washington Apprenticeship Program Opens Doors to Tech Careers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A few years ago while working as a crew leader for a moving company, Shawn Farrow was dreaming of a job in technology.
“We moved a lot of people in the tech industry, so I was... |
| Jan 16, 2017 | Tech Moves: WTIA names new chairman; Amazon poaches talent to lead Prime overseas; and more | John Suk. (WTIA Photo)
The Washington Technology Industry Association‘s Board of Directors has a new chairman: John Suk, a Harvard and University of Chicago graduate with a 20-year career in tech leadership in the Seattle area.
Suk is a vet... |
| Aug 19, 2016 | GeekWire Calendar Picks: Startup Grind hosts ReachNow CEO; Tech Crawl; etc. | Car sharing and ride hailing services are become immensely popular in Seattle, with companies like Car2Go and Uber flourishing in the city. BMW’s new service, ReachNow, is a newcomer to the scene.
But it is making waves on the city streets.... |
| Jan 26, 2016 | How the ‘Seattle Tech Universe’ map ended up at the World Economic Forum | Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer of Microsoft, points to the Seattle Tech Universe map during a talk in Davos, Switzerland, while Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber looks on. Photo by Thomas Quirk, Princeto... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | New Map Shows Expanding Seattle Tech Universe | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If the crane-filled skyline, increasing home prices, worsening traffic, and competitive job market weren’t enough to tell you that Seattle’s tech economy is booming, a new map... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | This massive map shows how Seattle’s tech ecosystem has evolved over the last 30 years | See below for full image.
To help quantify the recent history of the Seattle technology ecosystem in visual form, Madrona Venture Group and the Washington Technology Industry Association today unveiled the “Seattle Tech Universe” map, a mas... |
| Oct 26, 2015 | Washington Tech Industry Weighs Approaches to Improving Diversity | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle and its booming tech industry are grappling with how to ensure that the prosperity being created here can be shared by minority groups that have been under-represented... |
| Sep 10, 2015 | MIT Teams With Toyota and Washington State Gets Major Grant Funding | Today's funding roundup might be small, but it's mighty none the less. Fundbox brought in some major capital from big name investors and Harmonix got a nice bout of funding to keep developing awesome video games. MIT got $25 million from To... |
| May 6, 2015 | Parental leave management platform LeaveLogic wins $10K at First Look Forum | LeaveLogic CEO Anna Steffeney.
LeaveLogic, a startup that’s developing a parental leave management platform, won the $10,000 first place prize at Tuesday’s WTIA Spring First Look Forum.
LeaveLogic provides a central dashboard that helps emp... |
| Apr 17, 2015 | Seattle Roundup: Cyber Liability, Gravity Payments, Poachable, Angels | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Catch up on the latest offering from the Washington Technology Industry Association, a bold move made by Gravity Payments, funding for Poachable, and companies tapped for Nort... |
| Jan 29, 2015 | “Nation’s first” smart gun symposium talks safety, risks, and delays | New Jersey State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, seen here receiving a Seattle Seahawks jersey at Wednesday's Smart Gun Symposium. "I'm a Giants fan," Weinberg said, "but they didn't do so well this year."
Sam M... |
| Jan 15, 2015 | Tom Douglas Serving Local, Sustainable Startups to Would-be Investors | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Tom Douglas, builder of food empires, is putting his imprimatur on a new Seattle startup event meant to bring together wealthy, connected professionals and entrepreneurs in wh... |
| Nov 19, 2014 | Commercial water management startup wins $10K prize at First Look Forum | Kirkland Analytics co-founder Matt Rose. Photo via WTIA.
Kirkland Analytics, a startup that helps commercial buildings manage water use, won the top prize of $10,000 at Tuesday’s WTIA Fall First Look Forum.
The Spokane-based company says it... |
| Sep 19, 2014 | GeekWire Calendar Picks: Shareconomy Live, Cigars & Startups, and more | The sharing economy has generated a lot of buzz (and heated debate) since services like Uber and Airbnb first emerged. Seattle itself has become an epicenter of the controversy with the 15-month battle over the legality of transportation st... |
| May 16, 2014 | Roundup: StratoScientific, Pro.com, Seattle Steam, Bitcoin Miners, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It was a very good week for a new father-and-son medical devices company, StratoScientific. Another home improvement startup, Pro.com, is revving up in Seattle. Seattle Steam ... |
| May 15, 2014 | Smartphone stethoscope startup led by 15-year-old wins First Look Forum | StratoScientific CEO Suman Mulumudi, 15, shows off one of his products on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Hanging out on Jimmy Fallon’s show one week, a first-place finish at a pitch competition the next — things are rolling for the fol... |
| May 12, 2014 | Watch this 15-year-old Seattle entrepreneur pitch an amazing iPhone-enabled stethoscope to Jimmy Fallon | Check this out. 15-year-old Seattle inventor Suman Mulumudi recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, showcasing his new Steth IO iPhone-enabled stethoscope.
The son of a cardiologist even gave the late night comedian a heart... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | WTIA Buys Troubled NWEN in Nonprofit Consolidation | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Washington Technology Industry Association, the state’s top trade group for tech companies, is taking over another nonprofit that serves tech entrepreneurs.
The WTIA annou... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | Boosting support of startups, Washington Technology Industry Association acquires NWEN | The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) today announced that it has acquired the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN), combining efforts of the two non-profit organizations
The WTIA will acquire all of NWEN’s intellectual pro... |
| Mar 16, 2012 | Concur’s Steve Singh, DocuSign, Founder’s Co-op Among WTIA Winners | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Even South by Southwest hangovers and the start of March Madness couldn’t keep people away from the Washington Technology Industry Association‘s annual Industry Achievement Aw... |
| Mar 14, 2012 | Watch my dog help me make the picks for the WTIA awards | We’ve already made it through Oscar season, and now we’re gearing up for March Madness. But before we get there, I’ve got one piece of business to take care of.
The Washington Technology Industry Association is celebrating its 17th annual I... |
| Feb 8, 2012 | One-time popular music service iLike officially bites the dust | Freddie Mercury. Wikipedia photo
“And another one gone, and another one gone. Another one bites the dust.”
Freddie Mercury of Queen may have summarized the current market perfectly. As we’ve previously reported, a number of high-profile Int... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | Ignition’s Cameron Myhrvold Joins the Lineup for Mobile Madness NW Dec. 6 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We’re adding another name to the already power-packed list of speakers for Mobile Madness Northwest on Dec. 6: Cameron Myhrvold, founding partner at Ignition Partners. And spe... |
| Oct 17, 2011 | Mobile Madness NW: Xconomy and WTIA Join Forces for an All-Star Forum Dec. 6 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The region that pioneered national wireless networks is at a turning point.
Carriers are heading toward more consolidation, piling up tons of user data, and scrambling to buil... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Introducing the Seattle Startup Recipe (or why this is a great place to start a company) | It takes more than a few hot startups to make a thriving technology hub. And while Seattle’s tech community has been battling a bit of an inferiority complex in recent months, there are certainly a lot of good things going our way too. (The... |
| Feb 24, 2011 | DocuSign, Isilon, Swype and More Take Honors at WTIA Industry Achievement Awards | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Hundreds of techies braved Seattle’s latest snowpocalypse for one of the community’s biggest shindigs: The Washington Technology Industry Association‘s Industry Achievement Aw... |
| Nov 18, 2010 | Ballmer Will Say Adios, IPOs Will Return, Amazon Will Crack $200: Predictions for 2011 From WTIA Panel | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Microsoft, desperate to become a real player in mobile, will do something bold like acquire Finnish wireless giant Nokia. CEO Steve Ballmer will ride off into the sunset. Amaz... |
| Jul 29, 2010 | The Northwest Tech Scene, Public Policy, and Collaboration: WTIA CEO Susan Sigl on Her First 100 Days & What’s In Store | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Three months have flown by since Susan Sigl succeeded Ken Myer as the CEO of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA). The 26-year-old organization is the largest... |
| Mar 16, 2010 | A Chat with Susan Sigl, Incoming CEO of Washington Technology Industry Association | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
By now, you may have heard that Susan Sigl has been named as the successor to Ken Myer as head of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA). This is one of the lar... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | New “Innovation Tax” Puts Tech Industry and Professional Service Firms at Risk | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The challenge currently before our Governor and Legislature to balance the Washington state budget in the face of declining tax revenues is not an easy one. No one envies the ... |
| Mar 5, 2010 | Amazon, Cozi, Pathway, Talyst, and VholdR Among Winners at WTIA Awards Bash | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Pardon me if I’m still a little hung over, but last night was a blast. Eight hundred techies packed into the Showbox SoDo in Seattle for the 15th annual Industry Achievement A... |
| Jan 11, 2010 | DreamBox, Gist, VholdR Among WTIA Finalists | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) announced today the finalists for its 15th annual Industry Achievement Awards on March 4. Among the nominees are DreamBox... |
| Nov 19, 2009 | Microsoft Will Buy Twitter, Adobe to Buy Picnik, and Other Bold Predictions for 2010 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It wasn’t so much the predictions as the discussion that was most interesting at last night’s annual predictions dinner, organized by the Washington Technology Industry Associ... |
| Oct 29, 2009 | Top Tech Events of the Fall—an Xconomy Guide | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
My head is exploding trying to keep up with all the tech-business events going on around Seattle these days. Here’s a quick guide to the most prominent ones on my brain, in th... |
| Sep 24, 2009 | Top 10 Takeaways from WTIA’s Healthcare-IT Event: Follow the Money, Startup Opps, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The role of information technology in healthcare reform is such a huge, sprawling topic that it’s hard to make any real progress in just an hour or two of discussions. Yet tha... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | Are You Ready to Rock? Listen to Xconomy’s Battle of the Tech Bands Finalists Here | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s all about the party. It’s all about the networking. No. For today, at least, it’s all about the rock.
Seattle’s first-ever Battle of the Tech Bands is happening one week ... |
| Jul 7, 2009 | Let’s Rock: Five Finalists Selected for Xconomy’s Battle of the Tech Bands | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
And then there were five. Here at Xconomy, we have made our selections for the five finalists who will compete at our inaugural Battle of the Tech Bands in Seattle, to be held... |
| Jul 2, 2009 | Who’s Playing at the Battle of the Tech Bands? Stay Tuned… | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We are in the final stages of selecting the five finalist bands who will perform on July 30 at the Xconomy Battle of the Tech Bands, to be featured at the Washington Technolog... |
| Jun 15, 2009 | Gates, Allen Beat Deadline for Battle of the Tech Bands—Did You? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Alas, the deadline has come and gone. Finis. At the stroke of midnight on Friday night, the doors officially closed on any new band submissions for Xconomy’s Battle of the Tec... |
| Jun 10, 2009 | Friday Is the Deadline to Enter Xconomy’s Battle of the Tech Bands | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Two more days… That’s all that stands between us and the start of the ultra-competitive judging process to determine the finalists for Xconomy’s Battle of the Tech Bands. In c... |
| Jun 3, 2009 | Gates, Allen Gear Up for Xconomy Battle of the Tech Bands | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here at Xconomy, preparations are in full swing for our Battle of the Tech Bands, which is happening at the WTIA Summer Celebration on Thursday, July 30, at the Pyramid Alehou... |
| May 28, 2009 | AdReady, Swype, TeachStreet Win WTIA Awards | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-area software startups AdReady, Swype, and TeachStreet won “best in show” at the Washington Technology Industry Association’s Fast Pitch Forum and Tech Showcase yester... |
| May 27, 2009 | Top 5 Takeaways on Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Tim Draper of DFJ | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
On a gloriously sunny Seattle afternoon, venture capitalist Tim Draper stopped by to impart some words of wisdom. The founder and managing director of Silicon Valley-based Dra... |
| May 4, 2009 | WTIA Releases Fast Pitch Lineup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Washington Technology Industry Association announced today its list of 24 local startups that will participate in its Fast Pitch Forum and Technology Showcase on May 27. T... |
| May 4, 2009 | Microsoft’s Cloud Platform, Azure, Looks to Combine Best of Google, Amazon Web Services | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The idea of computing “in the cloud” is certainly, well, in the air—to the point where I think people are starting to become allergic to it. It seems that “cloud computing” ha... |
| Apr 21, 2009 | User Interfaces, Cloud Computing, and Ray Ozzie—A Guide to the Season’s Tech Events | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It is high season for tech gatherings in Seattle. The next couple of weeks will feature a dizzying array of events chock-full of compelling computing content, not to mention t... |
| Mar 26, 2009 | Ontela, Visible, Wetpaint Win WTIA Awards | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The 14th annual WTIA Industry Achievement Awards were announced last night at the Paramount Theater in downtown Seattle. The winning companies, as determined by online communi... |
| Mar 11, 2009 | Washington Is “Well Behind” Other States in Cleantech, but Gaining in Smart Grid, Efficiency | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
“If you’re a technology junkie, cleantech is the candy store for you,” said Byron McCann, co-founder and managing partner of Seattle-based Ascent Partners, an investment bank ... |
| Mar 5, 2009 | How to Turn Cloud Computing Into Big Business—A Peek Inside Amazon Web Services | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
On Tuesday night, I attended an intriguing event in the Washington Technology Industry Association’s cloud computing series, on “Scaling Into the Cloud with Amazon Web Service... |
| 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 26, 2009 | Apptio, LiquidPlanner, Ontela, Pet Holdings, Picnik, Wetpaint Among Finalists for WTIA Industry Achievement Awards | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The first round of voting is done. This morning, the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) announced the finalists for its 14th annual Industry Achievement Awards.... |
| Jan 15, 2009 | VCs More Concerned About Capital than Economy, Says WTIA Report | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As expected, the economic downturn is hitting venture capital hard. The top challenge for Washington state VCs for the first quarter of 2009 will be the availability of capita... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | Going Global: Ken Myer of WTIA Talks China Trip, Mobile Market, and Achievement Awards | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Last month, Xconomy reported on a visit to China by five Seattle-area tech companies as part of a mobile-telecom mission organized by the Washington Technology Industry Associ... |
| Nov 12, 2008 | Long Live Microsoft, Farewell Yahoo, and Flat Is the New Up: A Panel of Predictions for 2009 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Everyone loves a good prediction. Well, last night there were many of them. I attended the Washington Technology Industry Association’s “Predictions for 2009” dinner event at ... |
| Oct 30, 2008 | Financial Crisis Already Having Moderate Impact on Washington Tech Businesses, Survey Says | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Three weeks ago, the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) launched a survey on the effects of the economic downturn on the technology community. The specific goal... |
| Oct 28, 2008 | Washington Venture Capitalists Brace for the Worst Between Now and Year’s End | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
OK, this isn’t all that surprising. In the early days of the fourth quarter of 2008, the majority of Washington state’s venture capitalists see the national economy as the top... |
| Sep 26, 2008 | Monetizing Web Services with WidgetBucks (and Others) at the Westin | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I’ve always thought “Web services” is a boring name for one of the most lucrative areas of tech-business innovation. The term encompasses many interactions on the Internet—eve... |
| Aug 5, 2008 | WTIA’s Ken Myer Aims to Get VC Views on Future, Not Past | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Every quarter, we journalists do the national story about trends in venture capital investing. We slice and dice numbers that tell the narrative of where money went over the p... |
| Jul 18, 2008 | WTIA’s Summer Social: Busy Times, Hating Starbucks, and an Offer I Can’t Refuse | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
“The only tall blonde women in Seattle are recruiters.” This and other astute observations from Aviel Ginzburg—by day, a mild-mannered developer at Seattle-based Appature, and... |
| 15-летний изобретатель придумал стетоскоп для iPhone | Школьник из Сиэтла, штат Вашингтон, совершил следующий шаг в кардиологии. Суман Мулумуди решил не тратить попусту летние каникулы и придумал цифровой стетоскоп, который отображает диаграмму сердцебиения прямо на экране iPhone. Steth IO пред... |
