Seattle Startup Week | Angel investor Andy Liu illustrates the importance of building rhythms
By 1:00 pm on October 23, the day of his Seattle Startup Week presentation, Andy Liu, local dream investor and CEO of BuddyTV, had already been in contact with four prospective customers. According to Andy, his number one job is to sell. “You know what? As CEO, sales is actually my number one job. Sales to […]
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 […]
Frontier: Outage or Outrage?
If you live in downtown Redmond, this week you’re all-too-familiar with “closed” or “cash only signs.” Saturday, September 20th, was the first day of what has been a massive Internet, Phone, and TV outage. How did this happen? Frontier Communications has reported the following initial cause: IMCO Construction ripped up 1000’s of feet of fiber and copper […]
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 […]
Fall Kickoff: Five Local Fall Favorites
Fall: hands-down my all-time favorite season. What’s so great about fall in Seattle? Here is my personal list of five local fall favorites to kickoff your season. 5) Running. Is there anything better than running in the crisp fall air with leaves crunching beneath your feet? A few events I look forward to in the […]
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 […]