Startup Companies

Startpad's mission is to support the Seattle software development startup community. We offer educational programs and co-working space in our downtown offices.

We are building an online media business that will change the way media companies reach large audiences with their content and enable media lovers to get content the way they want it. To do this, we have brought together great minds in online media from Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. Stay tuned as we'll be launching a new product in 2008 that will blow you away and bring your work productivity to an all time low.

WorkMole.com is an online community designed to connect anyone offering services with the people who seek them. From professional carpentry to hobbyist computer repair to mowing lawns during the summer, WorkMole offers an exchange for every type of work and level of engagement.

WorkMole.com was created to be the complete interactive resource for all of you who want to post or hire work (and maybe both). That is why we offer you a wide variety of time-saving tools to manage every aspect of your transaction.

DocVerse helps knowledge workers collaborate on documents easily. Our turn-key service lets people access their documents, paper and digital, from anywhere and collaborate on them with anyone, solving the challenges of multiple versions, full-text indexing, backup and archive. The key difference of DocVerse is that we integrate with the tools you know and use, without requiring you to learn something new.

RescueTime is a web-based time-management tool that allows you to easily understand how you spend your time. One of the coolest things about RescueTime is that there is NO DATA ENTRY. You install a doohicky on your computer and we magically track all of your time usage. For more info, check out the product tour.

TeachStreet intends to become the leading online marketplace for connecting Learners with Teachers in local communities. TeachStreet was established in June 2007 as an online marketplace to connect people who want to learn things with inspirational instructors (Teachers). TeachStreet targets lifelong learners (Learners) with a first-of-its-kind comprehensive database of local learning opportunities ranging from formal evening programs at community colleges to one-on-one training classes with Teachers in neighborhoods.

Catch the Best helps teams save time during the hiring process by getting everyone on the team involved in candidate selection. Every team member has access to candidate information as it arrives, and each person can cast an up-or-down vote on the candidates, making it easy to get everyone's feedback and hire the right person quickly.

We are a startup providing simplified communications using Video Mail - launching a private beta in the upcoming weeks.

SageListings.com will be your unique solution for making smarter decisions regarding commercial real estate.   We want to make commercial real estate data transparent to owners, investors, tenants and brokers.  Here is how we will do it:

SoundSpout is an audio music service for retail locations.

D/C Strategic is a word-of-mouth marketing firm specializing in startups and nonprofits. My approach to marketing is based on the rather obvious idea that people love to talk about what they love. As a marketing consultant I help businesses become something their ideal target communities would love, then put together ways for those individuals to discover and share that business with their network. To find out more or to start learning how to do it yourself, visit my strategy blog or send me an email at dominic@dc-strategic.com.

Founded in October 2004, Faves.com (originally called Blue Dot), is a Seattle-based company whose mission is to help people discover the most personally relevant web content across a broad variety of topics. Faves.com’s free website delivers recommendations personalized to each user’s topics and people of interest. Through a unique Topic Network, Faves.com users are connected to other members who make the highest quality recommendations in their respective areas of interest. Faves.com is led by an experienced group of entrepreneurs formerly from Microsoft®.

WindowsSecrets.com tells you everything Microsoft forgot to mention about Windows. The company is based in downtown Seattle, has six employees, and publishes an e-mail newsletter sent weekly to more than 275,000 subscribers, as of April 2008.

Blue Gecko provides monitoring  administration, and tuning of Oracle and MySQL environments, either on their database hosting platform, or at client's site with Remote DBA services.

AttractiveBanners.com - a place where advertisers meet designers.