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2016 Community Impact Awards: Pro Bono Projects
Winner: Kinzer Partners
Gold Award:Kinzer PartnersLocation: Seattle | Employees: 12 | Top Exec: Craig Kinzer, founding partner | kinzer.com Kinzer Partners employees have dedicated countless volunteer hours to community-focused organizations, including Marys Place, a leading voice for homeless women, children and families. Kinzer was begun 20 years ago by Craig Kinzer. Today, the firm includes a team of…
On Reflection: Amazon’s Cloud Control
Amazon Web Services is gaining market share at an astonishing rate.
The rapidly growing cloud business of Amazon Web Services (AWS) could soon begin to put the same kind of pressure on the legacy IT sector that Amazon.com has already put on the retail sector. KeyBanc Capital Markets estimates AWS is adding $1 billion in incremental revenues every quarter. Analysts expect annual AWS revenue will more…
Bright Idea: Space Exploration with Flexe Inc.
Need a warehouse in Omaha for eight weeks? Flexes online marketplace will find it for you.
Amazon has poured tens of billions of dollars into building close to 100 highly automated ware-houses around the country to cut costs and reduce delivery times. That reality has put competitors in a quandary. How can they match Amazons capabilities without spending the same kind of money to build a similar network? Seattle-based Flexe (flexe.com)…
Rating the Region’s Power Brands
These businesses drive commerce and culture in the Pacific Northwest.
If youre even this far into an article about the most influential brands in the Pacific Northwest, theres a good chance you work at a company that made the list, or at one that might like to be included. You may have strong opinions about who should or shouldnt have made this list. You may…
Virgin on Business: Testing, Testing
Companies that don't try out all those crazy ideas are, well, crazy.
Somewhere in the acres of South Lake Union real estate that Amazon now occupies is the secret lab where the company comes up with its next big idea. Maybe it looks like a movie-cliche mad-scientist lab, with bubbling beakers and electrical apparatus throwing off sparks. Maybe its a room decorated in tech-sector-employee lounge motif, with…
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