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New Venture Focuses on Science of Deal, Not Art of the Deal By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER SAN FRANCISCO — Here is how the venture capital game used to be played around here: A friend calls a friend who knows a guy. A meeting is taken. Wine is drunk...

by Claire Cain Miller:  A friend calls a friend who knows a guy. A meeting is taken. Wine is drunk (at, say, Madera lounge in Menlo Park). A business plan? Sure, whatever. But how does it feel? This is decidedly not how Google, that apotheosis...

SAN FRANCISCO: Software developers who tried on an Apple Watch for the first time on Friday predicted a rush of new apps over the next few months, particularly in areas including health and messaging. Developers, who had been limited to using software...

Business leaders gathered at this year’s Seattle based IMMERSE Summit (previously Sea VR) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. Road to VR‘s Michael Glombicki caught...

Benjamin Romano The biggest backer of Pacific Northwest technology startup companies, Madrona Venture Group, has raised a $300 million sixth fund, which it plans to invest in about 30 local startups during the next three to four years. Madrona follows...