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Show HN: Started.in Seattle – 60+ Video Profiles of startups in Seattle
- knykadar 12y agoFantastic idea and great insights from leaders of the tech world!
- cmedawar 12y agoKeep up the great work, guys!
- smedawar 12y agoThanks!
- kkamperschroer 12y agoThis is so fantastic. I'll definitely use this resource when looking around at startups in the area. Thanks for your work!
- smedawar 12y agoThanks for the kind words! Our goal is to profile every startup in the area (and world).
- canadaj 12y agoThanks! I'm moving to Western Washington later this year and I've been trying to find info on startups! Thanks again!
- smedawar 12y agoAny time! Many, if not most, of the startups we profile are hiring. Check them out!
- canadaj 12y agoAlready am! What would be really cool is a map that shows the location of these startups, so that I can easily find ones that are close to where I will be moving! This is really awesome, thanks again!
- smedawar 12y agoWe'll be launching a jobs board soon. The map will be on there. Also, each profile is tagged with a part of town (e.g. Downtown, South Lake Union, Bellevue, etc). I'll take this into consideration as we make improvements to the site. Thanks for the feedback!
- zacharycohn 12y agoGoogle for "Seattle startup map"
- smedawar 12y agoTotally!
- gtani 12y agothere's a zillion meetups, user groups, SIGs, etc, here's one place to start http://seattlehacks.com/ http://seattlehacks.com/
- ladybro 12y agoNo Capitol Hill startups? ._.
- smedawar 12y agoWe're always looking for more. :) seattle.started.in/apply/
- davmar 12y agocap hill startup here: www.trakstar.com. also, we're hiring! rails devs please apply: trakstar.com/jobs
- smedawar 12y agoseattle.started.in/apply/ :)
- sebular 12y agoI'm not affiliated with these guys, but they're a Capitol Hill startup that's reasonably well known: http://hark.com/ http://hark.com/
- scottru 12y agoHark was a Capitol Hill startup (and some great people), but has been effectively defunct for ~9 months. http://www.geekwire.com/2013/hark-hit-wall-corporate-records-list-void-status-cofounder-aronchick-amazon/ http://www.geekwire.com/2013/hark-hit-wall-corporate-records...
- smedawar 12y agoToo bad! I really loved them. :(
- sebular 12y agoAlso isn't CyanogenMod in Pioneer Square? Or is it too big to count as a startup?
- BlakePetersen 12y agoFrom my experience, working with any vendors from the pacific northwest, they're all MS shops. Is this trend changing considering the added expense of working with any MS Licensed software (where an OSS solution with little or no cost could suffice)? Does MS offer incentives to local startups to build their platform on existing licensed MS products? Or is it more of a Seattle Pride thing? I personally don't feel the MS Business model is one the works well for scrappy young start-ups, yet pretty much every company in the Pac Nor Dub I've worked is completely MS'd out. I didn't even know there was a MS service called Lync until we did a training with Mercent (FYI, Lync doesn't work on Linux, I was shocked too).
- kkamperschroer 12y agoI think you may be generalizing from your experience. Just looking at some of the openings for these companies they are looking for MongoDB, HTML5, Rails, etc. I didn't see any mention C# or other MS specific things.
- BlakePetersen 12y agoYea, my specific instances may be speaking to too narrow of a sampling of Seattle Start-up scene, and it may be that the vendors we do business with are a bit more mature than what is featured here. Mainly, I was wondering if there is any sort of outreach by MS to any of these small companies. I know they have a presence in the Valley and have MS Ventures to nurture fledgling companies with start-up capital, but as far as strategizing to keep new companies in their ecosystem long-term, I was curious to see what sort of efforts they are putting forth to address this.
- kkamperschroer 12y agoAs someone else mentioned already, BizSpark: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
- koji 12y agoI've worked both in the Valley and in Seattle, and in my experience the startup mentalities have been pretty much the same. There may be a lot of former MS people working at the startup, but they don't seem to have any attachment to it. If iOS or Android are where the numbers are, that's where they go. I've also never met a startup in Seattle solely focused on developing something for MS, although there probably are some that exist. Whatever trend you saw in the northwest previously must have changed, from my limited perspective.
- smedawar 12y agoThank you all for the amazing support! I'd love any feedback you have, both positive and constructively negative. :)
- winslow 12y agoI realize that the popup survey/newsletter box is the rage on literally every website (though I don't understand it as I find them annoying). It immediately turned me off to your website. I was watching your embeded youtube video and then all of the sudden your popup takes up my screen and interrupts my viewing of your about us video. Are you seeing a big engagement of this popup survey/newsletter? Are you keeping track of how many people immediately close it compared to filling it out? If you are seeing a great amount of engagement from your visitors with the popup then please disregard me as I may be an outlier. With that said, I think your website is a great idea and you executed well. I love the overall idea and the community is definitely there for this.
- smedawar 12y agoThanks for the feedback winslow! Firstly, once someone closes the window, they don't see the pop-up for at least another 2 months. We hope this cuts down on the annoyance factor. We are seeing pretty good engagement and tracking the numbers. Our bounce rate for July 3rd (the day we hit HN front page) was <0.3%. I mention this day specifically for a couple reasons: 1. We had significant traffic and sample size for that day 2. 92+% of our traffic was from new users (the only ones who would see the pop-up) We've only been using the box for a couple of weeks and will keep monitoring the numbers and the comments. Thanks for your kind words!
- bcbrown 12y agoI'd love to see a page that just had the "What is $STARTUP_NAME" responses for all the startups. Some way to easily browse and discover. A grid of logos and names really doesn't allow me to anything other than jump around randomly.
- smedawar 12y agoExcellent feedback! We'll take this into consideration.
- zhte415 12y agoThe logos and names bit was pretty confusing for me too. A good logo and name should, in some way, hint at what the product or service is. Not necessarily all that directly, but some correspondence should be there.
- akg_67 12y agoYou are missing quite a few local startups such as Qumulo. How are you collecting your list of startups? You may want to consider extracting startups from Greekwire and FormD to build your list.
- smedawar 12y agoWe profile startups that apply to be profiled. We reach out to others, but the majority are from our queue of applications. If you know anyone at Qumulo, we'd love for them to apply at seattle.started.in/apply/. Also, our site is not meant to be a repository, but more of an in depth look at each startup. We only profile 1 startup each week, so you are seeing the work of only 13 months.