Mike Arrington got wind of this one last night so we’re making it official as well: we’re delighted to announce that Thinkfuse (TechStars Seattle 2010) is a recent addition to the Founders Co-op family of companies. The company is still in private beta so they aren’t saying much about what they’re up to yet, but continue…
I just finished reading Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From (I know, I’m a little late to the party) and among the many ideas now rattling around in my head is that of the “commonplace book“: a 17th Century habit of maintaing a written personal idea log. As Johnson describes in a related blog continue…
One of Seattle’s best (and least-known) entrepreneurs isn’t in the software business. Dave Lahaie is the President and founder of Evergreen Recycling, a global company that matches industrial waste products from one industry with raw materials supply chains in another. By matching waste outputs with manufacturing inputs, Dave’s company saves millions of tons of material continue…
I’ve had this idea bouncing around in my head for a while now – I’m hoping that writing it down will help me see the pattern more clearly. First, a few facts: DST offers $150K in seed funding on ridiculously friendly terms to *any* Y-Combinator company Salesforce pays $250MM for Heroku (or around 80x rumored sales) continue…
Seattle’s newest technology blog – GeekWire – just broke the story this morning: we’re delighted to announce our investment in Highlighter, a social commenting, sharing and note-taking platform for digital publishers (including this blog – just select any text in this post to see how it works). Co-founders Josh Mullineaux, Matt Blancarte and Nate Whitehill continue…