Tim Reha, Social Media, SEO, Video, Seattle, WA USA



2010 TechFlash Flashies Awards Seattle

I had a great time at the http://www.TechFlash.com Flashies Technology Awards hosted at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, WA USA.

The event was sponsored by my friend Paul Martini and BDO http://www.bdo.com a global accounting firm with a first class operation.



Interview with Andrew Mason, CEO, Groupon, Who was just offered $5.3B by Google

Groupon is creating a big buzz on the web on sites like Techmeme.com this week with news of a possible acquisition by Google in the $2.5 Billion dollar range. Wait, lets take that up to $5.3 Billion according to the Wall Street Journal’s All Thing’s Digital Blog post.

Web: http://www.Groupon.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/groupon
Andrew Mason on Twitter: http://twitter.com/andrewmason

Growth: Adding 100 new employees per month!

About: “Groupon negotiates huge discounts—usually 50-90% off—with popular businesses. We send the deals to thousands of subscribers in our free daily email, and we send the businesses a ton of new customers. That’s the Groupon magic.”

Groupon is one of the super hot internet companies that performed…

Test Ride!  100% Electric, Brammo Enertia Motorcycle

Over the past few years I have had good luck to gain first looks and test rides for a number of electric vehicles. Back in 2007 at the Future in Review we test rode in the Tesla Roadster and Altair-Nano test vehicle.

Electric transportation is moving rapidly into the future with new battery technology moving forward quickly.  This year it was time to investigate the latest in “Electric Motorcycle Technology”, so I contacted Brammo, an Ashland, Oregon based company. A few years ago I was in contact with Brammo’s CEO/Chairman Craig Bramscher,  whom I recall was the U.S.A. importer for a very fast sports car called the Ariel Atom that does 0-60 in 2.3 seconds. At the time Craig said he had something in development but could not tell me what it was at the time. I always wondered what he had in the lab?


TechFlash’s John Cook Interview at the DEMO Innovation Meetup in Seattle

TechFlash is the Puget Sound Business Journal’s technology and venture blog that has grown into a must read on both the local and national news front.

I had a great time working with John Cook to create HD Video for the DEMO Innovation Meetup in Seattle. Here is the video.

John Cook from Tech Flash interviews Andy Sack, Founder’s Co-op and Bill McAleer: Managing Director, Voyager Capital at the 2009 DEMO Innovation Seattle Meetup.

The DEMO Experience: http://www.demo.com

DEMO Conference Format: The feel…

WTIA Predictions 2010 Videos - NW Venture Capital Report

HD Videos of Washington Technology Industry Association’s Predictions event hosted in Seattle, Washington.

The event speakers include: John Cook, TechFlash / Puget Sound Business Journal, Bill Bryant, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Glenn Kellman, President & CEO, Redfin, Kelly Smith, Founding Partner, Curious Office,  Greg Gottesman Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group.

The guest VC’s were asked “How would you invest $2 million in one company next year in 2010?


WTIA Octoberfest - Interview with Mr. Steve Wood, WTIA Chair, Chairman & CEO Perlego Systems

Enjoy this interview at WTIA Octoberfest with Steve Wood, Chair WTIA, Chairman & CEO Perlego Systems. We discuss how startups may benefit from the downturn in today’s economy.

Guest: Mr. Steve Wood

Background: NW technology executive famous for work as #6 employee at Microsoft.

Current: Chair of the Washington Technology Industry Association and Chairman & CEO Perlego Systems.

Articles: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010045372_btinterface12.html

About Perlego Systems: http://www.perlego.com/



Tim Reha interviews Alan Wizemann, Founder, ShopIgniter.com Real-Time Social Media Ecommerce

Tim Reha interviews Alan Wizemann, Founder, ShopIgniter.com, a Real-Time Social Media Ecommerce Platform.

ShopIgniter is built using the Code Igniter Platform http://www.codeigniter.com, an open source PHP framework that also is used to create the new ExpressionEngine CMS platform. Social media and two way communication is built into the platform along with a user friendly design for ecommerce management. ShopIgniter is a startup and leader in the new “Social Ecommerce” space.

I am a beta tester for ShopIgniter, thus contact me if you are interested in deploying this ecommece system for your website.

Visit:

http://www.shopigniter.com

Interview with Mr. Mark Drummond, CEO, Wowd a Technology Startup at Gnomedex

I had the pleasure to discuss a real-time internet search venture backed startup called Wowd http://www.wowd.com at Gnomedex 9.0 technology conference in Seattle, WA.

Wowd delivers popular and timely information to users in four ways:

  • Wowd displays a real-time “Hot List” of popular web pages;
  • Users can search for specific items of interest, and sort search results according to Popularity or Freshness;
  • Wowd generates personalized recommendations for each user, based on that user’s interests;
  • Wowd enables users to do full text search of all public pages that they have seen before, making it extremely easy to find those pages again.



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