Damon Cortesi, the developer who helped create the infamous Twitter douche bag index at Startup Weekend, has landed a gig as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Madrona Venture Group. The move signals that the Seattle venture capital firm is getting serious about Twitter, the fast-growing microblogging site that limits users’ messages to 140 characters.
"We’ve kicked around a [...]

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One former Seattle Post-Intelligencer journalist not in our "Virtual P-I" feed is Bill Virgin, the newspaper’s longtime business columnist. Like many former P-I staffers, Bill is continuing his coverage. He’s just not doing it as a blog, or even as a news site.
The veteran journalist is launching subscription-based newsletters devoted to Washington state manufacturing and [...]

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- New SBA administrator Karen Mills unveils her new management team. [BizJournals.com]
- Some states are taking small-business struggles into their own hands. MissouriÂ?s House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow small businesses to keep a larger percentage of sales tax and prevent new regulations that burden them over the next three years. [Forbes]
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There’s some bad news for people hoping President ObamaÂ?s plans to spur small-business lending would reap quick results.
A Government Accountability Office report released yesterday says the Small Business Administration will be a few months late installing some new regulations meant to revive SBA lending, which has fallen considerably over the past year. Two changes [...]

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, more  and Icahn’s Blockbuster Move: So Far, a Bust  , more 
and Google: The Recession Takes Its Toll  , more 
A Wave of Relief at Nokia’s Quarterly Results  , more 

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People who buy goods online from from out-of-state retailers don’t always have to pay sales tax at checkout. Over the years, a succession of bills trying to force out-of-state retailers to collect those taxes have sputtered in the U.S. Congress. But this year, supporters of such legislation feel they may have a shot, given the [...]

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Now we know why Bill Gates was always able to stay so calm on stage whenever Microsoft’s product demos ran into trouble: He had plenty of experience with such things, starting at an early age.
An upcoming book by his father, Bill Gates Sr., includes an endearing story about "Trey," as his family calls him, attempting [...]

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