We’re kicking off monthly highlights of our Cascadia Blockchain Council member companies with Dragonchain. They’re headquartered just over the bridge in Bellevue headed up by Joe Roets (CEO), Jonel Cordero (COO), Shirly Roets (CAO), and recently hired, Lawrence Lerner (President,…
As we approach FullConTech, we’ve been gathering collaboration stories from a wide variety of sources in an effort to learn more about how people are working together to solve problems and what lessons they’re learning along the way. I recently…
When Norman Rice become Seattle’s mayor in 1989, he stepped into a heated controversy. The city’s voters, by a narrow margin, had approved Initiative 34, which prevented the city government from spending money on public schools until the school board…
“We face deep divisions across the country. Now more than ever we the people have to step up: to reckon with injustice across ideological divides and to repair our frayed social fabric.” This is written on the Citizen University National…
Every Seattleite has an opinion about the city’s growing traffic problems and how we can solve them. Unfortunately, astute observations alone are not enough to make these problems go away, but now that we have access to a growing body…
Meet Zheng Li, Director of Product at Raygun, a startup that has already won several awards in New Zealand and is making a splash in the United States. She is small in stature, but don’t let her physical size fool…
Technology education changes lives. In June, Stephen Fishburn, owner of Get Well Cities, and I officially launched Esperas. Esperas is a 12-month technology training internship for men and women exiting homelessness. In 12 months, Esperas trains interns for careers as…
Tomorrow is the first day of fall, and you know what that means: school is in full swing, hot drinks are back on the menu, your favorite scarves and sweaters are in rotation again...and the tech community is buzzing with…
After the success of co-ed softball, the IT Sports League is kicking off its inaugural dodgeball season. Play starts September 13th at the ID Community Center in Seattle. Teams will play once a week for eight weeks. According to league…
Congratulations to Simply Measured, this year’s IT softball champions! On July 28th, Simply Measured beat TINYPulse/Avvo 15-9 at Interbay Fields to win the first softball championship in the IT Sports League. Simply Measaured executed an unstoppable defense, keeping TINYPulse/Avvo from…