One trip to China in 2004 was all it took to sell Seattle technology entrepreneur Dave Parker on the idea of doing business there. Even today, Parker is still ebullient as he describes how impressed he was with Chinas booming but nascent consumer market. He says he likened todays China to the Wild West era…

If the phenomenon of fantasy football had a Hall of Fame, publishers Ian Allan and Bruce Taylor would likely be charter inductees. The co-founders of Seattle-based Fantasy Index Magazines LLC laid out the first edition of Fantasy Football Index on a bootlegged copy of PageMaker 1.2 in 1987, when the internet was merely a dream….