Kelly Smith | Made in Seattle » Curious Office http://www.kellysmith.com Kelly Smith of Curious Office on the internet, design and photography. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:37:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Kelly Smith to speak at Seattle StartupDay 2009 http://www.kellysmith.com/kelly-smith-to-speak-at-seattle-startupday-2009/ http://www.kellysmith.com/kelly-smith-to-speak-at-seattle-startupday-2009/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:33:38 +0000 Administrator http://www.kellysmith.com/?p=462 Kelly Smith at Seattle Start-up Day 2009 by Seattle 2.0

We are flattered that Marcelo Calbucci has invited us here at Curious Office to speak at the Seattle StartupDay 2009 hosted by Seattle 2.0. StartupDay is the conference for pre-entrepreneurs interested in founding or joining a tech startup. Meet one-on-one with advisors. Learn how to pick the right idea, build your team, fund the business, build your product, bring it to market and make a profit. Learn what’s important for creating a tech business from scratch.

Didn’t know that Inkd was developed by Curious Office and some other cool projects? Check out our website and learn why Curious Office incubates startups!

]]> http://www.kellysmith.com/kelly-smith-to-speak-at-seattle-startupday-2009/feed/ 0 Inkd: The latest project from Curious Office has launched!! http://www.kellysmith.com/inkd-the-latest-project-from-curious-office-has-launched/ http://www.kellysmith.com/inkd-the-latest-project-from-curious-office-has-launched/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:32:01 +0000 Administrator http://www.kellysmith.com/?p=456 Our latest project from Curious Office and Second Avenue Partners launches today! Thanks to everyone on the Inkd team for their hard work over the last several months!

Here’s a nice write-up from TechCrunch.

Pressplane Breaks Out Of Stealth Mode With A New Name (Inkd) And A Solid Product

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]]> http://www.kellysmith.com/my-kelly-smithcurious-office-twitter-account/feed/ 0 Pressplane closes $1.7 million Series A financing led by Second Avenue Partners! http://www.kellysmith.com/pressplane-closes-17-million-series-a-financing-led-by-second-avenue-partners/ http://www.kellysmith.com/pressplane-closes-17-million-series-a-financing-led-by-second-avenue-partners/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:11:38 +0000 Administrator http://www.kellysmith.com/?p=417 Pressplane is the latest company to be hatched by us here at Curious Office and we are pleased to announce the closing of our funding today!

Our $1.7 million Series A financing was led by Second Avenue Partners but we have a roster of other great investors:

Mika Salmi (MTV President / AtomFilms founder)
Rich Barton (Founder, Expedia / Zillow)
Erik Blachford (former Expedia CEO)
Andy Liu (BuddyTV)
Alex Algard (Founder, Whitepages)
Geoff Entress (Madrona)
Andy Sack
Adrian Hanauer (MLS Soccer, Curious Office co-founder)
John Cunningham
Dough Rowan (former Corbis CEO)

Unfortunately, I can’t say exactly what we are working on but I can say it is another “buy and sell marketplace” like our last company (Imagekind) but more around designers and creative content serving businesses. We’re obviously not competing with our new Imagekind owners (CafePress) but we are able to take what we learned from Imagekind and apply much of it to this new initiative.

Mika Salmi at MTV joins Mike Slade from Second Avenue on our board and we can be found diligently working away in these offices on 911 Western which we share with Wishpot.com Come by and say hi sometime!

Pressplane closes $1.7 million Series A

Pressplane Office

Pressplane offices

Pressplane offices

View more photos here.

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