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Tuesday, September 27

Tim Porter

Madrona Venture Group

Tim is a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group, a Seattle-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies in the Pacific Northwest. Madrona manages nearly $1.3 billion, and are currently investing out of their $300 million Fund VI that we began investing in mid-2015. Tim is focused on investing in business-to-business software companies.

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Tuesday, October 25

Joe Heitzeberg (Co Founder)

Crowd Cow

Joe is the Co-founder of Crowd Cow. Crowd Cow lets you buy a cow with friends. No, seriously. Prior to Crowd Cow he was President of Madrona Venture Labs. Over the years he has co-founded and invested in numerous companies including Media Piston (sold to oDesk/Upwork) and Snapvine (sold to WhitePages in 2008).

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Tuesday, November 29

Scott Svenson, CEO, co-founder

MOD Pizza

Scott Svenson is the co-founder and CEO of MOD Super Fast Pizza, LLC (www.modpizza.com) the pioneer in the fast casual pizza market. MOD, which was the fastest growing restaurant chain in the US in 2015, is a culture-centric business inspired by a purpose of making positive social impact. As of September 2016, the company had 151 stores trading across the US (up from 92 at the end 2015).

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Past Events

Steve Banfield, CEO

Steve Banfield, CEO

 Dan Lewis, CEO

Dan Lewis, CEO

 Matt Oppenheimer

Matt Oppenheimer

 Sarah Bird, CEO

Sarah Bird, CEO

 Adrian Hanauer

Adrian Hanauer

 Bruce Pavitt, Adam Farish Co Founders

Bruce Pavitt, Adam Farish Co Founders

 Nick Soman

Nick Soman

 Bill Bryant

Bill Bryant

 Jason Stoffer

Jason Stoffer

 Peter Hamilton, CEO

Peter Hamilton, CEO

 Godreau, Feinzaig and Oppenheimer

Godreau, Feinzaig and Oppenheimer

 Marc Barros Co-founder

Marc Barros Co-founder

 Rahul Sood

Rahul Sood

 Glenn Kelman, CEO

Glenn Kelman, CEO

 Six Shiny New Startups

Six Shiny New Startups

 Nick Huzar, Founder

Nick Huzar, Founder

 Martina Welke Britta Jacobs Co Founders

Martina Welke Britta Jacobs Co Founders

 Robbie Bach, Former President Xbox

Robbie Bach, Former President Xbox

 Spencer Rascoff, CEO

Spencer Rascoff, CEO

 Susie Lee, Founder

Susie Lee, Founder

 Gary Rubens

Gary Rubens

 Jane Park Co Founder

Jane Park Co Founder

 Brendan Kennedy

Brendan Kennedy

 Julie Sandler

Julie Sandler

 Rahul Sood, GM and Partner

Rahul Sood, GM and Partner

 Robert Scoble, Tech Geek

Robert Scoble, Tech Geek

 Richard Tait

Richard Tait

 Liz Pearce, CEO

Liz Pearce, CEO

 Rudy Gadre

Rudy Gadre

 Joe Wallin, Partner

Joe Wallin, Partner

 Matt Ehrlichman, CEO

Matt Ehrlichman, CEO

 John Cook

John Cook

 Enrique Godreau III

Enrique Godreau III

 Dan Levitan

Dan Levitan

 Adam Tratt

Adam Tratt

 Ben Huh

Ben Huh

 Oren Etzioni

Oren Etzioni

 Kushal Chakrabarti

Kushal Chakrabarti

 Chris DeVore

Chris DeVore

 Greg Gottesman

Greg Gottesman

 Michelle Goldberg

Michelle Goldberg

 Marc Nager

Marc Nager

 Andy Liu

Andy Liu

 Neil Patel

Neil Patel

 Rand Fishkin

Rand Fishkin

 Jonathan Sposato

Jonathan Sposato

 Todd Dean

Todd Dean

 Rahul Sood

Rahul Sood

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Mike Grabham

Seattle Director

Michael is optimistic, curious and a problem solver. He is a product fit guy that focuses on customers and revenue (aka GrowthHacker). He loves starting companies/teams and enjoys the collaboration with smart people to figure out how to create value for a customer. He is a five time founder and has raised $3.5MM from angel investors. He has sold two companies, closed a company and failed once. Currently he has started a TV show for KIRO 7 called Start IT Seattle and is working on two startups of his own Amazing Airfare.net and the Package Guard.com  Let him know if you need some help. You can visit his blog at michaelgrabham.com or follow him on twitter @grabmike

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Jack Smith

Seattle Co-Director

Gentleman, Ironman & businessman who talks startups, design, tech, IPAs, coffee & Legos. Founder @GetPopRaz, Co-Org @SeattleGrind, Board Member @DECA_Washington

From the Blog

SG Seattle: The Life & Work of 5 Seattle Founders

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Suzi Pratt 2015-08-07T18:19:57+00:00

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4 Tips On How To Make An Unforgettable Email Campaign

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Priya Dandawate 2015-06-16T19:28:29+00:00

It happens at the end of even the best sales pitch — it went well and your customer totally understands the problem. You have even gotten them nodding along, asking to join the Beta. You move in to close the sale, and what are you left with? An email address.

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Seattle celebrates two years

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Mike Grabham 2014-08-23T01:36:00+00:00

It has been 26 months since I sent a fairly random email to the founder of Startup Grind, Derek Anderson, letting him know that I wanted to help out in Seattle (@seattlegrind). Since then the Seattle chapter has had 23 events, over 1,600 attendees and recorded 20+ hours of video of the fireside chats, from the likes of Dan Levitan, Liz Pearce, Robert Scoble, Matt Erhlichman, Adam Tratt and Michelle Goldberg. It has been great for me to be able to talk with these people and get answers to questions that many startup founders are scratching their head over.

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