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• With Orders Piling Up, Zulily Built a Shipping Arm—in 8 Weeks

  When you build a fast-growing business, there are bound to be a few “oh shit” moments. Darrell Cavens, the CEO of moms-and-kids retailer Zulily, knows that feeling well.

  Cavens runs one of the fastest growing startups in the Seattle area, a private-sales site... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/25/12

  • Seattle

  • startups

  • e-commerce

  • retail

• Michigan VC Report Highlights Positive Trends

  On the heels of Renaissance Venture Capital announcing earlier this month that it had its first close of $60 million on its second fund, the Michigan Venture Capital Association (MCVA) released its annual report on the state of Michigan’s venture ecosystem.... Read more »

  Sarah Schmid5/25/12

  • Detroit

  • Financing

  • Venture Capital

  • deals

• Twitter’s Former CTO Talks About Joining CornellNYC Tech

  Greg Pass is bringing more technology “street cred” to the team that is establishing the applied science and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island in New York. The former chief technology officer of Twitter on Wednesday was named the founding entrepreneurial officer... Read more »

  João-Pierre S. Ruth5/25/12

  • New York

  • people

  • startups

  • IT

• Rooftop Farming Startup UrbanHarvest Wins UW Student Competition

  Why pay for produce to be trucked up from California when you’ve got rooftops that could be converted to greenhouses? That’s the question posed by UrbanHarvest, a startup company founded by two University of Washington students. And as of today, they’ve... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/25/12

  • Seattle

  • students

  • startups

  • Competition

• Can Pocket (née Read It Later) Become the TiVo of the Web?

  On the iPhone, the first page of the home screen—the one you see when you wake up the device—has room for only 20 apps, counting those in the dock. The iPad home screen holds 26. For me, that means the home... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/25/12

  • IT

  • startups

  • publishing

• DeVos’ Start Garden Aims to Give Grand Rapids a Jolt

  A young member of a prominent Michigan family known for its wealth, its power in political circles, and its philanthropy has launched a new endeavor to try to stoke the flames of entrepreneurship in West Michigan.

  The DeVos family looms large in Michigan, particularly... Read more »

  Sarah Schmid5/24/12

  • Detroit

  • innovation

  • startups

  • Early Stage Investing

• Nokia Joins X Prize in $2.25M Wireless Health “Sensing Challenge”

  When the X Prize Foundation’s Peter Diamandis took the stage in San Diego this morning at the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) annual convergence summit, he said it was the perfect audience for announcing the foundation’s newest competition—the “Nokia Sensing X Challenge.”

  The challenge,... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow5/24/12

  • San Diego

  • Health IT

  • Wireless Health

  • Incentive Prizes

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