July Wine Wednesday Recap- Meet The Parnassus Group and Darby Winery
Wine Wednesday was a hit last night! We had a great turnout at the event and many of the attendees were totally new to the Redmond and thinkspace community (welcome!). Hosting events like Wine Wednesday is one of my favorite parts of my job. Wine Wednesday is designed to be a casual networking event. However, […]
Sales Symposium- Get Ready to Drink From the Fire Hose!
Sales Symposium- Friday, February 25th 2-4pm Join us for an afternoon of peer learning and discussion designed to support your company’s sales goals. thinkspace members, Matt Heinz and Brian Hansford will be sharing their sales expertise with the group. They will take us through four categories pertaining to the sales process: Prospecting Closing the sale […]
Email Marketing is Not Dead, Nor Will it Die Anytime Soon.
Today’s Blog Post is Written By: Brian Hansford, of Zephyr 47 Brian is a thinkspace member, and someone we feel honored to have a part of our community. Email marketing is not dead… nor will it die anytime soon. Even with the rapid proliferation of social media technologies and platforms, email remains a preferred channel […]
Community of Entrepreneurs: "I Had No Idea"
I own my own business. I have only owned the business for a year, and have struggled to no end with getting it off the ground. From general accounting and law related issues, to the alienation and frustration from working at home, I honestly was not enjoying my situation as much as I thought I […]
2010 Best Workplace for Recycling: thinkspace Community awarded for second consecutive year!
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. […]
ProLango Career Mixer: Paul’s Interview with KIRO’s Frank Shier
Paul Anderson, founder of ProLango was interviewed by KIRO’s Frank Shiers last night. (Listen in at the 24:00 mark) One of the key questions that Frank asked Paul was: Frank Shiers: “What is one piece of advice that you can give to a job seeker?” Paul Anderson: “Leave you behind.” Frank Shiers: “What’s that mean?” […]
The Anti-Creativity Checklist
My Anti-Creativity Checklist from Youngme Moon on Vimeo. I was reading the Harvard Business Review and stumbled into this video about “The Anti-Creativity Checklist“. I watched this video and loved it, so I wanted to embed it over here on the thinkspace blog. Everywhere I look, I see companies with imagination, innovation, and out-of-box thinking. […]
Starent Networks acquired by Cisco #tsmember
Starent Networks, one of our very first thinkspace members has been acquired by Cisco. Congrats to members Jeff Jackson, Kevin Smith, Vinod Kumar, Steve Bailey, Paul Mentz, Dale Zook, Brett Johnson, and Mark Nelson! The NY Times reported that on Tuesday, October 13th, Cisco announced that it would pay $35 a share, or $2.9 billion, for Starent […]
Parnassus Group: Behind the Scenes @ The Twitter Conference Los Angeles #140tc
Tony Robbins (Photo by Jim Alden @techfrog) I recently got back from The Twitter Conference LA. The organizers of this event, the Parnassus Group (Steve, Jason, Kim, Joseph) are thinkspace members. I’m fortunate to be able to hang out with them on a daily basis and see what goes into creating events of this magnitude. […]
Energy and Passion: Welcoming Alyssa Magnotti to the team
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 […]