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• Tableau Shares Jump More Than 50% in IPO

  No question, traders in the stock market knew there was going to be an appetite for shares of data visualization provider Tableau Software. But that hunger for business-tech IPO stocks is even deeper than Tableau guessed.

  Shares of the Seattle-based company (NYSE:... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/17/13

  • Software

  • enterprise

  • IPOs

• Nine Lessons for Innovators from a Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist

  I was pretty slow about getting around to reading Thinking, Fast and Slow. The career-capping book by Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman, one of the founders of behavioral economics, spent months on all the bestseller lists back in 2011. I finally... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/17/13

  • National

  • xperience

  • startups

  • Economics

• Tableau Software to Reap $155M from IPO at $31 per Share

  Wall Street’s hunger for business-tech companies is on display again with the initial public offering of Seattle-based Tableau Software.

  Tableau, a provider of data-visualization software, begins trading today (NYSE: DATA) at $31 per share. That’s a higher price than... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/17/13

  • Software

  • enterprise

  • data

• Check KUOW’s “Weekday” for Science News

  Science news often falls into the trap of becoming “infotainment” designed to generate ratings, and little else. As one essayist in The Guardian recently put it, “freaky copulation techniques in the animal kingdom,” heart-warming tales of miracle cures for kids, or... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/17/13

  • Biotech

  • people

  • Media

• The Daily Grommet Leads Wave of “Anti-Amazon” E-Commerce in Boston

  First of all, the company is no longer called the Daily Grommet. Now it’s just The Grommet.

  “We still execute daily,” says CEO Jules Pieri, “but we dropped the word because it seemed to be superfluous.” She adds, “We love... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang5/16/13

  • Boston

  • Internet

  • e-commerce

  • strategy

• Matterport Isn’t Playing Games with Kinect-Style 3D Camera

  When Tel Aviv, Israel-based PrimeSense came out with its first depth-sensitive, near-infrared camera-on-a-chip in 2010, nobody could have predicted how many uses hardware makers would dream up for the technology within a few short years.

  The first and most famous was... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/16/13

  • San Francisco

  • startups

  • IT

  • Computer Vision

• Matrix Genetics Emerges from Algae Biofuel Wilderness With a Partner

  Matrix Genetics is one of those startups that never really got off the ground in its early days, but never died, either. While the Seattle-based company lived on fumes at various points over the past four years, it saw other contenders... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/16/13

  • Biotech

  • Biofuels

  • startups

• In Pursuit of Big Opportunity, Software Maker Apptio Raises $45M More

  Apptio, which makes software to help corporate CIO’s manage IT operations, has filled up its coffers for a push into what it sees as a major untapped market.

  The Bellevue, WA, company has raised $45 million in a Series E round... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/15/13

  • Seattle

  • IT

  • VC

• With IPO Pending, Tableau Ups Targeted Share Price Again to Max of $30

  Tableau Software has again increased the price range of shares in its impending initial public offering, putting the top range at $30 in a sign of strong interest among investors in the Seattle data visualization software maker.

  Tableau is expected to... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/15/13

  • Seattle

  • IPO

  • IT

• Real Estate Move: DocuSign Buys Cartavi, Strengthens Ties with zipLogix

  Electronic signatures company DocuSign is beefing up its real estate line with the acquisition of Cartavi and a tighter partnership with zipLogix, meant to enable transactions using any device.

  DocuSign—founded in Seattle in 2004, but with its headquarters now in... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/15/13

  • Detroit

  • Seattle

  • Real Estate

  • M&A

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• Cloudant Raises $12M from Rackspace and Others, Opens SF Office

  There’s some more fuel for the online database arms race today: Boston-based Cloudant has secured a new $12 million investment round.

  The money will bankroll Cloudant’s general growth, which includes a new office in San Francisco, complementing Cloudant’s previous footprint in Boston,... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/14/13

  • Boston

  • cloud

  • databases

  • Software

• Madrona, NEA Bet $6.75M on Seattle Big Data Analysis Startup GraphLab

  When Seattle’s tech community pulled together last year to help recruit Carlos Guestrin, a standout machine-learning expert and data scientist, to the University of Washington, some people were hoping a hot startup would wind up here as well.

  They weren’t disappointed.... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/14/13

  • Seattle

  • Startup

  • big data

• Henri Termeer on Startups, Drug Prices, Getting Older (Part 2)

  Yesterday, we ran the first part of a wide-ranging interview with Henri Termeer, the legendary biotech entrepreneur and former CEO of Cambridge, MA-based Genzyme. He spoke about what kinds of startups he likes to get involved in, the trend toward... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/14/13

  • National

  • BioBeat

  • people

  • startups

• Henri Termeer on Startups, Drug Prices, Getting Older (Part 1)

  Henri Termeer could have easily faded away into obscurity a couple years ago. The biotech pioneer could have relaxed at his oceanside home in Maine, played a little golf. Or, if he wanted, he could have made loads of money at... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/13/13

  • National

  • BioBeat

  • people

  • startups

• Life After PowerPoint: Prezi Zooms Ahead in Digital Storytelling

  Not every speech is improved by visual aids. Abraham Lincoln made do without PowerPoint at Gettysburg (though wags have tried to reimagine that), and Franklin Roosevelt’s voice on the radio in 1933 calmed a nation rattled by the Great Depression... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/10/13

  • National

  • xperience

  • IT

  • startups

• Salesforce Collects Flake and His Seattle Startup Clipboard

  Clipboard, the Gary Flake-led startup that aimed to give people a way to privately organize their online lives, is being acquired by Salesforce.com and will shutter its service at the end of June.

  The “bittersweet news” is disclosed on Clipboard’s website... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/9/13

  • Seattle

  • Startup

  • M&A

• Seattle Seeks to Stir Up More Startups With New McGinn Initiative

  Seattle is the latest big city government to throw its weight behind the technology startup community, as mayors and economic development officials across the country grasp at an elusive formula for fostering more new companies with potential to create jobs.

  From... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/9/13

  • Seattle

  • startups

  • Government

• Dendreon Shares Fall Again, as Provenge Sales Slump

  Dendreon has made a habit of disappointing investors, and it did so again today.

  The Seattle-based biotech company (NASDAQ: DNDN) said today it generated $67.6 million in first quarter sales of sipuleucel-T (Provenge), down a whopping 17.6 percent from the... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/9/13

  • Biotech

  • cancer

  • Drugs

• Out of Bezos’s Shadow: 7 Startup Secrets from Amazon’s Andy Jassy

  If you want to understand Amazon’s culture of innovation—and the lessons it holds for startups, big companies, and the tech world at large—you could do a lot worse than talk to Andy Jassy.

  Jassy is senior vice president of Amazon Web... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang5/9/13

  • Boston

  • Internet

  • strategy

  • people

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• Zillow Takes Questions via Twitter in Real-Time During Earnings Call

  Seattle online real estate company Zillow took a new, more open approach to its first quarter earnings conference call Tuesday, accepting and answering questions via social media side-by-side with those of professional analysts on the phone.

  Michael Graham, managing director... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/8/13

  • Seattle

  • Public Companies

  • social media

• Trulia Buying Market Leader for $355M, Upping Zillow Competition

  Home shopping website Trulia is bolstering its offerings for real estate professionals with a $355 million cash and stock purchase of Kirkland, WA-based Market Leader.

  San Francisco-based Trulia’s acquisition of a company right under the nose of top online real estate... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/8/13

  • Seattle

  • San Francisco

  • Real Estate

• The VC Will See You Now at the “World’s Largest Office Hours”

  The three laws of getting a meeting with a VC: 1) If you don’t know somebody who can provide a referral, don’t even try. 2) Start about four months in advance. 3) Once the meeting is on the books, assume that... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/7/13

  • San Francisco

  • startups

  • VC

  • investing

• Targeted Tableau Software IPO Price Would Value Company at up to $1.5B

  Tableau Software, the Seattle data visualization company, is aiming to offer 7.2 million shares of stock for sale to the public at between $23 and $26 a share, valuing the company at nearly $1.5 billion on the high end.

  Tableau would... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/6/13

  • Seattle

  • IT

  • big data

• Lessons For Drug Development From The Aveo Buzzsaw

  Drug development is a tough business. Small companies that dare to try often end up in public train wrecks when they head to Washington to meet the FDA. It’s a shame, a colossal waste, every time a company gets that far... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/6/13

  • National

  • BioBeat

  • cancer

  • Drugs

• Do You Need an Extended Warranty? Do the Math, Says SquareTrade

  Consumer Reports, the nation’s most respected source of product reviews and buying advice, does not mince words about extended warranties. It calls them a bad idea and money down the drain. The website Consumerist agrees, calling extended warranties useless... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/3/13

  • National

  • xperience

  • Mobile

  • Hardware

• NW Biotech Education Group Faces Loss of Federal Money, Deep Cuts

  The Northwest Association for Biomedical Research (NWABR), a nonprofit that fosters science education and public understanding of research in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, is contemplating the deepest cuts in the organization’s history, as it expects to lose about half... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/2/13

  • Biotech

  • Education

  • people

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