In my local Seattle area, I know of only one and it is very popular: Metrix:CreateSpace.
Beacon Capital Partners LLC dove into the Seattle area in 2007 by buying up some of the city's largest towers.
And by that measure, the Seattle area (skyline at right), despite hiring at Amazon.com and Microsoft, is still hurting.
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On the other hand, Boeing's managers have long complained about the Seattle area's chronic transportation woes and Washington state's high taxes.
Aviation Partners says it lacks the resources to fight the suit in Texas, and wants it moved to the Seattle area.
Greg Allen makes wood tools for glassblowers out of the Seattle area.
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It even includes those of us with pea patches in our backyards (this modern victory garden is tended by a Seattle area CFO).
Long before the Seattle area was home to Microsoft and Amazon.com, it was the stamping-ground of the most militant trade unions on the West Coast.
This week a professional recruiter from the Seattle area, Fancy Frenchwood, sent this response to my article Is There Any Place For Profanity In the Workplace?
The free smartphone app (yes, Android users get the love, too) allows users to find instant dining deals on-the-go, but until recently has been limited to the Seattle area.
That shot a torpedo through the budgets for new roads and a better ferry system, and is going to make the Seattle area's traffic jams, already the country's third-worst, even more maddening.
But the actual effect, according to Glenn Pascall, an economist, has been to enfeeble King County, the only body in the greater Seattle area with the geographic scope to deal effectively with transport and other regional issues.
Paul Hanson, a Seattle-area attorney, described her as a "fearless" lover of big cats.
She said he showed up at her Seattle-area store and gushed about how much he loved her brand.
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Almost a year ago, Sony Online Entertainment shuttered its Seattle-area studio as part of a broader layoff of 205 employees.
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When Steven Spenser, 52, was laid off from his Seattle-area software company in 2001, he decided to become a stay-at-home dad.
In addition to the Dreamliner assembly line at its Seattle-area factory, it built a new 1, 000-worker factory in South Carolina to handle the demand.
He realized that many of his Seattle-area friends had a similar problem: They had new money, wanted to give back, but didn't know how to begin.
At WaMu, the chairman of that committee is Mary Pugh, a Seattle-area investment manager whose company once did business with WaMu and who has been a director since 1999.
While James was deciding to leave Microsoft he spent three months meeting with as many do-gooders as he could find near Seattle, including Paul Shoemaker of Social Venture Partners, a group that connects Seattle-area donors with local charities.
Citing questions over the accounting, Forbes last year took Islamic Relief and Seattle-area Crista Ministries off its largest-charities list, which is assembled on the basis of the amount of private donations received in the latest fiscal year.
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Users in the Seattle-Tacoma area pay the lowest interest rate, with a 9.72 percent APR.
An oft-heard statistic while I was in Silicon Valley was that the Bay Area and Seattle (where Microsofties multiply) were the America's biggest consumers of pizza, Levi's and triple lattes.
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Trials of the system will begin in October in Dallas, Seattle and the San Francisco Bay area.
This year, instead of representing India, the Midas List includes one venture capitalist from outside the East or West Coast hotbeds of venture activity John Connors of Ignition Partners, who is based in Seattle but focuses on the Bay Area for investments.
To test their exercise and nutrition program, Duffy and his co-founders enrolled last April 230 people with pre-diabetes in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Seattle, Chicago, and Atlanta.
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Growth was much slower in traditional Asian centers: 57% in the Washington metro area, and 52% in Seattle.
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Seattle's Washington Mutual provides a play area for customers' kids at some branches.
Around the U.S., only the Portland, Ore. area (22.4%) and Seattle (15.5%) come close to that exposure.
If an area like Orange County wants to boost up its Start-up Common, the lessons of Seattle come to mind.
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