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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How much money do VCs make? đź’¸

Last week, Version One, an early-stage VC based in Vancouver and SF, published a great blog post on the returns to-date for their first fund, a $15M fund raised in 2012.

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Softbank 2 -- Looking for the next 105 Robinhoods

Last week, Softbank announced that they raised $108B in their second Vision Fund with investors like Apple, Goldman Sachs, and Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund.

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Seattle Unicorns

All of the Seattle unicorns founded since 1994 (when Amazon was founded)

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Microsoft on 🔥🔥🔥

After Microsoft’s Q4 earnings call last week, the WSJ wrote, “Microsoft’s comeback is no longer tech’s best-kept secret.” The company made over $125B in revenue and $10.6B in profit last year, beating analysts’ forecasts

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Seattle Tech Trends - What's Happening in Real Estate?

There is a lot of interest in real estate in Seattle, and over the last decade, Seattle has become a major center of real estate innovation and investment. Here are some of the trends we are seeing

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1% Ideas

Businesses for the 1% are great. You don’t need to sell a lot of stuff to generate a lot of revenue, and you get to sell super cool stuff - like a four day astronaut training course that ends with a trip into space.

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Starting a Startup from Microsoft

Last week at Madrona, we hosted a lunch and learn with our interns and Brian Saab, the CEO of Unearth, a modern mapping platform. He talked about his journey from Microsoft to startup CEO, and it was a really insightful session

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Zillow, how much is this photo worth?

It’s hard to live in Seattle without seeing an article on home prices or artificial intelligence every day, but this article about Zillow is actually a cool demonstration of how much AI is changing the game

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June 2019 Venture Deals

Here’s a roundup of PNW startups that announced new fundraising rounds in the month of June.

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Advice from Jeff Bezos

A couple years ago, we had a 20th anniversary celebration for Madrona, and one of the events was a fireside chat between Jeff Bezos and Tom Alberg, one of Madrona’s founders and the first outside investor in Amazon.

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