Andy Sack: I’ve been surprised by how much negative commentary has been flowing in the local startup community about the role of venture capitalists. If you believe the recent comments on blogs and the chatter at startup events, Seattle venture capitalists are out of touch, slow, arrogant, and generally unsupportive of entrepreneurs.
As a managing partner at [...]

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Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is still riding high from his big acquisition deal with Amazon.com. Hsieh just tweeted about giving Zappos staffers a "big bonus" and said he and Zappos CFO Alfred Lin are "personally buying a Kindle for every employee."
According to recent Twitter updates, Hsieh and Lin were visiting a Zappos fulfillment center in [...]

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Want to save a little cash on your tax bill? A new Seattle Internet startup by the name of ValueAppeal believes it has devised a mathematical formula to determine whether homeowners are paying too much in property taxes.
Better yet — especially for you penny pinchers in the audience — ValueAppeal creates a customized report that [...]

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Tech-savvy Caltrain riders are using Twitter as a form of empowerment, employing their laptops and mobile phones to post and check delays, report lost items and receive other information that previously had been difficult to come by., more 

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Check out the winners of this year’s International Design Excellence Awards—all 151 of them, more 

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The Web-calling provider will offer an app for leading smartphones and enable cheap long-distance and international calling via cellular networks, more  and Microsoft-Yahoo: A Rival for Google?  The deal, if approved by antitrust regulators, could give the Internet search giant a viable competitor. Advertisers are optimistic, more 
and Resveratrol: The Hard Sell on Anti-Aging  Online ads for resveratrol [...]

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It’s not as big as Microsoft’s previous attempt to buy Yahoo for nearly $45 billion, but the 10-year search and advertising partnership announced by the companies this morning is generating plenty of interest on blogs and in the mainstream media. Here are some of the most interesting stories, posts and tweets we’ve encountered.
ReadWriteWeb: "It’s Official: Microsoft [...]

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More maintenance work is planned Saturday night at Fisher Plaza East, which was hit by a fire and electrical outage earlier this month. Adhost Internet LLC, one of the colocation providers at Fisher Plaza, writes in a blog post that the eight-hour window is the second phase of a three-part process of "restoring normal power" [...]

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