Hey, I'm Dan! I'm the CEO of Plus and a venture partner at Madrona. I write the DL, a newsletter about tech in the Pacific Northwest

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🚀 Rocketship stocks

Space travel is super hot. Over the last two months, Virgin Galactic’s stock has jumped from $7 to nearly $20...

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List of Seattle Venture Capital Firms

Here's a list of venture capital firms and other investors who are based in Seattle or the Pacific Northwest:

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What's new at Madrona

This year is Madrona’s 25th birthday 🎂, and we are starting the year off with a lot of exciting news! Here’s a quick overview of what’s going on at Madrona and our portfolio companies:

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Seattle's top 18 enterprise startups

Here is the latest list of top enterprise startups to watch in Seattle:

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Get rich (selling software) or die tryin' (anything else)

It seems to me there are two dominant startup models in tech today...

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The disruption of disruption

Last week Ben Thompson published an interesting article called “The End of the Beginning” where he lays out his vision for the future of the tech industry...

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How much money does Twitch make?

So we know that the highest paid YouTuber makes $25M+ per year (btw - he’s eight years old), and the biggest Twitch/Mixer streamer makes $1M per month, but how much does Twitch - the company - make?

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Casper's S-1 and the DTC economy

Casper, the company fka as a mattress startup and now a “Sleep Economy” company, released their S-1 (document you file before an IPO) last week...

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December 2019 PNW Venture Deals

Here are the PNW startups that announced new fundraising rounds in the month of December. These 22 companies raised $320M+ last month.

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Read this before starting a startup

One of last week’s top links on Hacker News was a post called I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea. It’s about one developer’s hard-earned lessons (nine months of work and $40K) on how to validate a Brilliant Startup Idea.

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