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John Cook: P-I venture capital reporter

Click here for a listing of conferences, events and social gatherings in Seattle's high-tech industry. To submit an event for consideration on the calendar, e-mail me here.

Forget the ad space altogether. It's time that Microsoft to show the long term vision that created their success in the first place. Clearly there are far more valuable, provocative and lucrative problems for technology to solve than consumer spending and entertainment. It's time for the Blue Monster to think bigger thoughts."

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Blogs
· Business 2.0
· Business Week
· Don Dodge
· Feld Thoughts
· Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
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· Om Malik
· Market Velocity
· MocoNews.net
· Rain City Real Estate
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· Steve Hall
· Silicon Valley Watcher
· Martin Tobias
· VentureBeat
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· Who Has Time for This?
· Xconomy

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· CNet News.com
· Private Equity Week
· Red Herring
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Organizations
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· Nat'l VC Assn.
· WSA
· Seraph Capital Forum
· Technology Alliance

Other VC links
· Topix.net VC News
· PWC MoneyTree Survey
· VentureOne

Seattle startup bloggers
· Avvo
· Marcelo Calbucci of Sampa
· Cleverset blog
· Mike Davidson of Newsvine
· Farecast blog
· Jobster blog
· Greg Linden
· LiquidPlanner
· Kevin Merritt of Blist
· Mpire
· Robert Pease of MessageGate
· Pluggd blog
· Redfin blog
· RescueTime
· Andy Sack
· Kelly Smith of Curious Office Partners
· David Xue of PixPulse
· Zillow blog
· WhitePages.com