Seattle Startup Week | Russell Benaroya talks night runs and how to ease the loneliness of entrepreneurship
Last week, thinkspace and Seattle Startup Week, with help from Russell Benaroya (co-founder and CEO of EveryMove) and Andy Liu (angel investor and CEO of BuddyTV), took over the incredible space that Graham & Dunn occupies on the Seattle downtown waterfront. For twenty three minutes, we had the opportunity to bounce around inside Russell’s mind. Russell opened his presentation […]
Seattle Startup Week | Matt Heinz explains why you have to fail in order to succeed
The dust surrounding Seattle Startup Week is settling, but on Wednesday morning, in the midst of the hustle and bustle, we hosted a Startup Week event in our Redmond location. Matt Heinz, president of Heinz Marketing, joined us for breakfast and told us how we could scale our sales and marketing without breaking the bank. […]
Seattle Startup Week | Kicking off with Aviel Ginzburg of Simply Measured
Yesterday, we spent the afternoon kicking off Seattle Startup Week with Aviel Ginzburg of Simply Measured, which recently raised $20M in venture capital funding. Aviel joined us in our Fremont location to talk about what a high growth startup really means. During his presentation, he mentioned Simply Measured’s first incarnation, Untitled Startup, Inc., which, as […]
Seattle Startup Week | Scaling, and funding, and cupcakes! Oh my!
We are excited to be sponsors for Seattle Startup Week! With over 40 events hosted over five days, this is a celebration of entrepreneurship in Seattle. thinkspace is hosting the “Scale Up” track, which will feature four events with EO-sponsored speakers, each with a focus on scaling up. Check out our events below, and see the full line up of Seattle Startup […]
Status Update from Massive Frontier FIOS Outage: Day 5
Day 5: Earlier Frontier held a community meeting at the Redmond Community Center for residents and businesses impacted by the massive Internet, Phone, and TV outage that has been going on since Saturday, September 20. Frontier made it clear that IMCO Construction was the company that ripped up 1000’s of feet of fiber and copper […]
Who does Google think you are?
Yesterday, Google and the Fremont Chamber of Commerce hosted an educational lunch on the ins and outs of Google’s free, online analytic tools. While at the event, I met representatives from other local businesses; watched thinkspace Community Manager and recycling enthusiast Jamie fawn over Google’s sophisticated, color-coded recycling bins; and posed for a photo op […]
Emerge from Corporate to Startup: Approaching Sales With Empathy
Five years ago when taking an HR survey, PR and marketing executive Shauna Causey discovered that she was in the 100th percentile for empathy. And it freaked her out. But five years later, Shauna, along with Don Gerould of Cogent Equity, Sandeep Phadke of Airlift, and senior technology exec Brad Carpenter, was a panelist at thinkspace’s Emerge from […]
Questions To Ask Before Quitting Your Job To Work At A Startup
Twice in my career I have left corporate jobs for startups. The first time I left was because I wanted to be in an innovative work environment where we would be inventing and creating technology that never existed. I tasted what it was like to work in a fast moving amazing technology company. I felt alive and the energy […]
The Power of Positive Constraints
In his CreativeMornings presentation in Seattle this morning, Lee LeFever, founder of Common Craft and author of The Art of Explanation, broached the subject of constraints. Constraints generally have a negative connotation. For champions of free thinking and unbridled creativity, constraints appear to be the things holding you back, the things keeping your imagination in check. […]
Managing to Milestones & #JFDI Recap
The Redmond thinkspace office had its first Acceleration Services event to talk about the importance of project management. The event was held on Friday, May 30th with panelists Liz Pearce, CEO of LiquidPlanner; Trent Scott, CEO of Rainleader and Director of Sales and Marketing at Mouseflow; and Brenda Reed, Project Launch Manager at thinkspace. Josh Anderson, CEO of One into Many, was our moderator. Notable take-aways […]