http://www.curiousoffice.com A Seattle-based seed stage investment and technology development organization. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:34:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some of you may know that Curious Office is a co-investor alongside Fanzter's original lead investor Second Avenue Partners and others. Today it was announced that Fanzter acquired Mustache, Inc, purveyor of popular iPhone applications, Streaks, Summizer, and Brackets. Jon Maddox of Mustache, will be joining Fanzter, Inc. as ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/06/24/mustache-inc-acquired-by-fanzter/ Congratulations to the 2009 Business Plan Competition Winners! It’s been a terrific BPC this year: They had a record 90 student teams apply to the competition by sending 5 to 7 page executive summaries. Eighty-one judges screened that group down to 33 teams at the beginning of April. ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/05/22/curious-who-won-the-university-of-washington-business-plan-competition/ One of the web's larger graphic design portals did a nice expose one usability and design. Inkd was included as an example of good design. Smashing Magazine wrote the following: When it comes to building customer’s trust in your company, a professional, trustworthy design becomes crucial. In the Web, ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/05/15/our-own-inkdcom-profiled-on-smashing-magazine-today/ Over at our print design marketplace, Inkd, we've compiled a blog post containing the top 15 graphic design magazines. Most also have free trials and discounts for designers belonging to organizations or for students, and all of these magazines have resource rich companion websites.Some magazines are highly focused on ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/05/15/the-15-best-magazines-for-print-designers/ You sure know how to make some noise and get some press. So it seems everyone knows who you are. But maybe that's not the case. Where are you from and how did you wind up working in tech? I am actually a Seattle native. Born ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/05/11/interview-martin-tobias-of-kashlessorg/ Today we interview Dan Morrill, Program Director in the Computer Science department at City University of Seattle. He's a committed technology activist and blogger and has some interesting things to say about Cloud Computing and why it makes sense in the educational realm. Dan shares his personal views ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/05/04/interesting-things-going-on-city-university-in-seattle/ Ok gang, here's our next daily Curious CEO Interview! This time it's T.A. McCann, founder of Gist which is all about collecting and organizing key information about your contacts. A lot of people have ideas. When you meet T.A. the first thing you might notice about him is ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/04/21/interview-ta-mccann-founder-of-gist/ If you haven't seen one of the Envato design marketplaces or graphic design tutorial sites at least once in your life then odds are you don't do web design. That's ok because the network that Collis and his team have built up is just incredible for any business person ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/04/20/interview-collis-taeed-of-envato/ You've been around this technology game for awhile. How'd you get started? Hopefully it hasn't been too long! I was lucky to be selected for an internship at GTE Telenet when I was in my second year at GWU in Washington, DC. It was funny in the beginning. They asked ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/04/17/interview-david-geller-of-eyejot-and-whatcounts/ I have to tell you. This was an interview that I was thrilled to do. We here at Curious Office are investors in SEOmoz along with Ignition Partners but that isn't why I was excited about this post. First off, I REALLY love the SEOmoz products. ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/04/16/interview-rand-fishkin-of-seomoz/ I've know Max for quite sometime. In fact, we share offices together down in Pioneer Square. He's a rare technical guy who has an amazing marketing mind. If you were to ask me what one could learn from Max? I'd tell you that he keeps a ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/04/15/interview-max-ciccotosto-of-wishpot/ We both know some of the same Expedia folk (Rich Barton, Erik Blachford, Matt Hulett). Those guys get plenty of press :) Let’s talk about Mark Britton. Where did you grow up and how did you wind up in Seattle? My journey to Seattle has a boomerang trajectory. I grew up ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/04/14/interview-mark-britton-founder-of-avvo/ Divvy let's you design your own online reservation and billing system for just about anything. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting founder Aaron Freed but I do know one of his colleagues Jenny Hall who formerly ran Trendi.com. Hopefully I'll get a chance to meet Aaron ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/04/13/496/ I'll admit right up front that I really like Tony. He is the co-founder and CEO of RescueTime, a company he started in September of 2007 with a vision to allow individuals and businesses to understand how they spend their time and to help them spend it more effectively. ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/04/10/interview-tony-wright-of-rescuetime/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Interview with Matt Hulett of WidgetBucks"][/caption] Matt is an old friend of mine going back to the days when we worked at RealNetworks together. He went on to work with my old friend Mika Salmi of AtomFilms and eventually found himself running WidgetBucks. Today, WidgetBucks ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/04/09/interview-matt-hulett-of-widgetbucks/ Hope to see you there! Please join John Cook, Todd Bishop, Eric Engleman and the rest of the TechFlash team on the evening of April 29! http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/04/08/just-got-my-techflash-live-tickets/ So, many of you are probably familiar with Colour Lovers. Intended for colour professionals, colour obsessives and designers who want to up their palette game, this site offers entry into a subject many don't think about much but which affects us in an infinitesimal number of ways. There are ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/04/07/monitor-the-brand-called-you-via-friendscallme/ I have the honor of being a panelist/judge for the upcoming Seattle 2.0 Awards event on May 7! The Seattle 2.0 Awards recognizes the amazing accomplishments of the best of over 300 Seattle area technology startups (despite the challenging economy), and the exceptional people who are behind their heroic efforts. They ... http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/03/27/maybe-inkd-will-be-an-award-winner/ The results are amazing. Internet Explorer is just 11%! Check out the rest of the browser stats for Inkd.com here. http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/03/26/curious-about-the-browser-stats-for-our-new-company-inkdcom/ http://www.curiousoffice.com/2009/03/24/thanks-to-seattle-times-for-mentioning-the-inkd-launch/