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City of Seattle doubles down on startups, names first liaison to boost city's entrepreneurs -... As part of Seattle's effort to help support and expand the city’s startup community, the Office of Economic Development (OED) today announced that Rebecca Lovell will be the Startup Liaison for the City of Seattle.

Don't miss out on Hackfort, taking place this week!

"Hackfort will bring world-class innovators together with the growing, local tech talent that has built up in this creative, emerging city. Among the bands, food trucks and films this year, the inaugural Hackfort will discuss tech culture in Boise with three days of TED-style talks, panels, demos, presentations, product launches and workshops."

http://treefortmusicfest.com/hackfort/

See Mark Cuban's 12 rules for startups here and his thoughts behind each rule at http://entm.ag/wPz5SP

LIVESTRONG Is Giving Out $140K to Innovators Helping People Live with Cancer From now until May 15, LIVESTRONG is accepting applications for its Big C competition for innovators helping people live with cancer. A total of $140,000 i

Fundable Acquires LaunchRock To Combine Crowdfunding And User Acquisition | TechCrunch Fundable, an equity crowdfunding platform for businesses (including startups), just announced that it has acquired LaunchRock. LaunchRock, as the name..

We are proud to announce the winners of the following Global Startup Battle circles!

Innovator’s Circle powered by dotCO - Visionboards.co
Women’s Circle powered by Coca-Cola -Adlet
Activate Circle powered by Amazon AWS - Life Capsule

Check out all the cool prizes these teams have won. Congrats! --> http://bitly.com/bundles/o_6trs7kptua/9

10 Startups to Watch in 2014 Some may thrive for years while others may get acquired, and still others may go nowhere. But all will be worth watching.