Posts Tagged Northwest

Techstars Seattle — congrats Andy

Techstars expands to Seattle

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Metrix Create Space

Scott mentioned this place, have to get there. Via this pretty useful capitol hill blog

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Hey some seattle VCs blog!

Why Seattle VCs don’t blog – TechFlash: Seattle’s Technology News Source — John Cook wonders why we don’t blog. Obviously some of us do — myself, Rich. We do it for personal reasons, not motivated by our business — we’d be blogging if we were still at MSFT, if we were running a vinyard, etc. As such, our blogs reflect 85% our personal interests and a little bit of business interest.

John asserts that “…there’s opportunity for a VC in town to explain what is really going on in the venture industry in clear and concise terms with no BS…“ However, this is not our business. Our business is investing, and to motivate a VC-focused blog, you’d have to be convinced that such a blog would a) improve your deal flow, or b) improve your exits. Not obvious to me at all.

Additionally you’d have to be certain you could sustain the blog — the examples of abandoned blogs that John mentions seems to be a bad outcome.

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Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest – Current Conditions

Frustrating morning, up early and out to the trailhead but road chained off. Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest – Current Conditions is supposed to have current conditions, and you can also call the North Bend ranger station 425 888 1421. However they all claim the road is open but it was clearly chained off. Grrr. Try again next weekend.

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Brett on Stuff » RedTrails – Interesting Hiking Resource

Awesome find by BrettRedtrails, Wish it showed current snow levels!

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Equal Rights Washington

Equal Rights Washington. Good site summarizing political activities in the state to support equal rights

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EveryBlock — A news feed for your block

EveryBlock â A news feed for your block. Early but interesting aggregation of community data sources

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Dreambox to help Kindergartners learn math through games – TechFlash: Seattle's Technology News Source

Dreambox to help Kindergartners learn math through games – TechFlash: Seattle’s Technology News Source. Congrats Ben et al!

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Seattle Startup Introduces Toxin-Free Dry Cleaning | Ariel Schwartz on GreenBiz.com

Seattle Startup Introduces Toxin-Free Dry Cleaning | Ariel Schwartz on GreenBiz.com. — not sure how green this really is but we have been using one of the providers, Corry’s, for a while and are pretty happy

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Snow

OK it was all cute and everything the first day and we got some nice pictures. But now I’ve had enough. A frozen pipe. A tree that failed under the weight of all the snow. An epic driving trip to the airport last night. Time to move on.

Oh and huge thanks to all those who didn’t take snow days and kept on keeping the world running. Our paper arrived every day. The mailman was always here. Our lights, heat, water, phone, TV, internet service all worked like champs. The roads were plowed. UPS showed up. Grocery always open. Starbucks usually open. And many many more — hats off to everyone.

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Lopez to Anacortes Ferry Quotas — Fall 2008

Fall sailing schedule starts sunday. We were at the dock today and picked up the quota list — here you go

Sailing TimeQuota
640AM52
740AM39
1100AM22
135PM150
455PM46 (16 Sunday)
535PM20 (70 Sunday)
840PM46
115PMNo Quota. Saturday Only

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Best Hikes on Lopez Island

Heading up later this week and needed a reminder — A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way » Blog Archive » Hiking on Lopez Island — the shark reef walk is still great and I want to hit Iceberg point again. This map provides some detail on finding the trails, but you really need the chamber handout. If I get one this week I will try to post a scanned copy of.

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Owl!

 first time I’ve ever seen an owl in nature. Apparently a juvenile barred owl. Very curious about us.

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Geoducks

Dark Roasted Blend: Geoducks Are Strange
— some great pictures of a Northwest classic. Always fun to find a geoduck at the market.

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Seattle Startup Index

Seattle Startup Index here — thanks Marcelo — some good Ignition portfolio representation but kind of sad we missed out on Lolcats ânâ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger?

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Naveen is always entertaining

Ankur Jain: âI Would Like To Address My Dadâs Characterâ

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Water Taxis to the San Juans

I didn’t know about these guys — Island Express Charters, San Juan Islands, Washington. I’ve used Paraclete a lot. If you don’t need a car on the islands, way faster and more convenient than the WSF.

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Brett's review of Little Annapurna hike

Brett on Stuff ? Little Annapurna Day hike — what a great review, I wish all trail reviews had this level of detail! Sounds like an awesome hike

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Northwest energy investing activity

William Brentâs Search for Cleantech — good summary from William Brent

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Seattle Startup Index

Marcello is running this Seattle Startup Index — 200 Seattle Startups – November SSI — kind of cool

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