Monday, December 13, 2010

Must-Read Blog Posts of the Week



List of interesting blog posts from the Seattle Startup community on the last week:


Gregory T. Huang/Xconomy Seattle
In the Wild West of group-buying and daily-deals sites, there?s about to be a major showdown. Investors have been talking about consolidation in this sector...

Brier Dudley (Seattle Times)
An Australian school that offers training in video game development is opening its first U.S. campus in the Seattle area. The Academy of Interactive...

Kate/Kate Walling
Wanting to accomplish something is often not enough- no matter how badly you want it. �It definitely helps to be passionate about what you do, to have goals...

Jeanette Mifsud/Mixtur Blog
Here at Mixtur we get the opportunity to work with a lot of startups, especially ones in the tech sector. Sometimes the entrepreneur behind the company is...

TechFlash
You can use the Internet to find just about anyone, from lawyers to real estate agents to future spouses. But up until now, it was a chore to find a tennis...

Marcelo Calbucci/Marcelo Calbucci
Conceivian is hiring ! Over the next several weeks we?ll be posting many new job openings. The first person we are looking for is a Ruby on Rails Architect...

William Carleton/William Carleton, Counsellor @ Law
According to this page on the SEC's site, the SEC plans to "[p]ropose rules to revise the accredited investor standard" in the first quarter of...

Daniel Luxemburg/ProgrammableWeb
Last month saw the first-ever "Small Business Saturday" (at least according to American Express, the initiative's sponsor). Small business get...

Jeff Pecor/Yapta
According to a number of recent reports, simply erasing your cookies (the text that Web servers store on your computer, identifying you as a repeat visitor...

Conversation Marketing
In the last month there's been a lot of hand-wringing about search engines changing their algorithms, social media sites tweaking their privacy settings...



From Seattle 2.0


Alyssa Royse
It?s easy to get me excited about an idea. It?s hard to get me excited about the prospect of an idea turning into anything more than just an idea. I bottom-line their practical implementations so...

Marcelo Calbucci
How far along are you on your startup venture? Just got started? Will start soon? A couple of years into it? Imagine you can travel on time, go to the future 3-4 years from now and see that kaput...

Aaron Franklin
You know the saying ?don?t mix business with pleasure?.�Yet websites repeatedly try to mix productivity with entertainment. The news of Facebook?s improved messaging system had the...

Kristina Hudson
Okay, so you think you?re ready for prime time i.e. your company is gaining traction, you need to start�hiring additional talent and finding a space in which to collaborate becomes critical to the...

Gerry Langeler
On the first day of Christmas, my start-up gave to me: A programmer working for free. � On the second day of Christmas, my start-up gave to me: Two venti Starbucks and a...

Nathan Parcells
As a team comprised of first-time founders, our relative naivet� to the challenges of creating a successful company has in some ways been an asset, clouding our vision of how high a mountain it is...

Marcelo Calbucci
Are you looking for some visibility for your startup? Well, how about you stop procrastinating and apply for the SXSW Accelerator to showcase your tech startup in Austin, TX, on March 14-16, 2011...


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