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Child Entrepreneurs: Not Your Average Lemonade Stand

August 3, 2010

Last week, as I was leaving the dog park, a child approached me and asked if my dog was a “good boy today”. I chuckled and told him “of course”! He then asked if I would like to purchase one of his home made dog cookies to reward him. After watching my dog gobble up [...]

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2010 Best Workplace for Recycling: thinkspace Community awarded for second consecutive year!

July 29, 2010

In June, King County named 75 local companies to its 2010 “Best Workplaces for Recycling and Waste Reduction” list – recognizing businesses with exceptional recycling programs and for their commitment to reducing the amount of waste their company produces.  This is the second year in a row that thinkspace has been named to this list.  [...]

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Bringing Yoga to You… and You… and YOU!

July 19, 2010

thinkspace will now be hosting PhyzzYoga classes every Tuesday from 12-1pm! What better way is there to spend your lunch than re-centering your mind and body with a little bit of Yoga? Karen Lindenberg, Owner of PhyzzYoga, came and taught our first class last week and let me just say that she was a great [...]

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Entrepreneurial Masters Program @ MIT

July 1, 2010

About one month ago I got back from the Entrepreneurial Masters Program (EMP) at MIT.  It’s a join run program with the Entrepreneur Organization and MIT.  It has been an amazing experience and every day I think about what I’ve learned.  I’m amazed by the other 64 entrepreneurs in my class and humbled to be [...]

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Social Developers Meetup: Are you a developer building something socially cool?

June 21, 2010

Ever since the Parnassus Group started putting together Twitter Conferences in March of 2009, they have thought that the next wave of digital innovation is going to be built by ordinary geeks on top of the rich and emerging foundation of social data platforms. All kinds of cool things are being built by local (Seattle) [...]

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Ignite Seattle: Seattle’s vibrant community

June 15, 2010

Ignite Seattle was tonight and it was the 10th time it has happened. I have to say tonight’s Ignite was the best one that I’ve attended. The speakers were great and everyone one of them did a great job. I went to the Ignite Prefunk event at Pintxo which was coordinated by Giyen Dave Manningsmith [...]

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Ever been laid off? Watch “Lemonade The Movie”

April 28, 2010

I got contacted by Tyler Hurst @tdhurst to see if thinkspace would be interested in doing a screening for “Lemonade The Movie” created by Erik Proulx @eproulx.  After watching the trailer, it brought back the memories of my past back when I got laid off from a startup that I was at back in November [...]

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Bye Bye Boring Bio Workshop with Nancy Juetten

April 8, 2010

I really can’t wait to hear Nancy speak at our upcoming “Bye Bye Boring Bio” workshop on Wednesday, April 14th from 3-4pm! She always has such great insight and terrific takeaways that you can use immediately to spice up your bio. Her information is priceless and there is so much to learn that it’s often [...]

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Seattle Twitter Community Comes Together in Different Ways

December 21, 2009

Who will win? Background about Kenji: Kenji’s a huge sports fan. You can tell by looking at his Twitter avatar with his Seahawks logo etched into his photo. He’s also an avid Fantasy Football League player, as this is one of his five leagues that he’s in. Background about Peter: In the past, I worked [...]

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thinkspace Donates Office Space to The Redmond Foundation

December 14, 2009

This fall, Peter Chee, CEO of thinkspace, decided to start donating office space to The Redmond Foundation, which is being founded in honor of Redmond’s upcoming centennial in 2012. The Redmond Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to building a healthy, vibrant and engaged community in the city of Redmond. I asked Peter a couple [...]

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Twitter’s view of what people think about you

November 17, 2009

Twitter launched a new feature a few weeks ago, called “Lists”. The feature allows users the ability to create lists and add other Twitter users to that list. For example, I created a Twitter list called “thinkspace Community” and added over 30 people that are thinkspace members to that list. It’s helpful for me because [...]

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Buy-Sell Agreements Workshop November 10th

November 3, 2009

thinkspace  |  Tuesday November 10th  |  12-1:30pm For owners of small businesses, a buy-sell agreement can be one of the most critical components of business planning. A buy-sell agreement should define each of the owners equity interest in the business. However, business owners are often focused on making their business succeed, maximizing revenues, and minimizing [...]

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Nicole Donnelly at thinkspace

October 16, 2009

Wednesday, November 4th  |  12:00pm  |  thinkspace “Selling cookies for profit as a little girl was the first in a long line of successful entrepreneurial ventures. Whether I was riding off a big jump at the X Games as a world-class professional snowboarder or launching, growing, and ultimately selling the majority of Babylegs LLC — [...]

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Energy and Passion: Welcoming Alyssa Magnotti to the team

September 15, 2009

The thinkspace community keeps growing!  However, this time it’s the thinkspace team that has grown. We’re excited to announce Alyssa Magnotti (@alyssamag) to our crew. Alyssa (ah-lee-sa), joins as our Community Manager, where she brings her infectious positive energy to help build our community inside thinkspace as well as outside in the Seattle area community. As [...]

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Thinkubator: Build a new business with zero overhead!

August 21, 2009

An interesting thing happened at thinkspace a few weeks ago.  I was talking in front of one of Paul Anderson’s ProLango Career Seminars and happened to meet a person in that group.  We had a very casual conversation in the elevator and struck a common connection as she was talking about SQL Server.  I’m a [...]

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