I'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.
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#32No Capitol Hill startups? ._.
We're always looking for more. :) seattle.started.in/apply/
I'm not affiliated with these guys, but they're a Capitol Hill startup that's reasonably well known: http://hark.com/
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#33Re: Show HN: Started.in Seattle – 60+ Video Profiles of startups in Seattle
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any time! Many, if not most, of the startups we profile are hiring. Check them out!
Already 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!
Google for "Seattle startup map"
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#35Thanks! I'm moving to Western Washington later this year and I've been trying to find info on startups! Thanks again!
there's a zillion meetups, user groups, SIGs, etc, here's one place to start
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#36You 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.
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#37From 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…
The "added expense of MS software" is largely a myth. Windows is about 30% more expensive on AWS than Linux, and most startup expenses are dominated by payroll, not hosting. Choosing a platform on price in this situation is counterproductive - you should chose whatever allows you to iterate faster until your product idea sticks with your customers. As a rule that's a platform you know the best, can find help for most readily, and can hire new team members the fastest. Hiring for Microsoft stack in Seattle is easier than in most other places.
I say "largely" because occasional startup will be maxing out their hardware trying to build next Google or next Netflix. If hosting can become comparable to payroll in your startup, then it becomes a factor in the platform choice.
If that wasn't enough, Microsoft has Bizspark program where the give you a ton of stuff for free for startups.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Living in Seattle and having worked with numerous companies I'm going to happily contest this: Your statement is simply not true, all the way around.
As someone who seems to have a lot of insight into this, to the best of your knowledge, could you speak to what factors would most heavily influence this decision (in the context of being made by a founder in Seattle)? Was MS never even in the running or could it possibly boil down to the cost issue I touched on or perhaps that founders or early engineers chose a different route due to past personal exposure (and wou…
Not to sound snarky, but it comes down to the simple fact that Seattle is a major American city, with many many many people, and is riding upon an internet wave that excludes no one. Your argument may apply historically, but now --definitely not. Everyone is simply doing their own thing, incentives or not.
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#39I'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.
The 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.
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#40From 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…
I was expressly hired at my current gig (re-startup) in Pioneer Square to migrate from an existing .NET solution to JVM on AWS with a heavy Cassandra component (all on Linux). I started a company up here some years ago and we opted for the Windows platform due to the availability of talent. I think that has changed in recent years, and I feel like the Seattle startup scene these days has a really healthy balance of a lot of different technologies.