425 Business • 21st May 2020 Tour Tulip Fields From Home Skagit Valley's six million tulips — 65 varieties and all — can now be enjoyed from anywhere in the world.
425 Business • 6th May 2020 A Voicemail Box to Reduce Recidivism Corrio was designed by Alex Peder while he was incarcerated so he could better stay in touch with his kids. The startup now helps hundreds of people in prison do the same.
425 Business • 29th April 2020 New Tulip Town Owners Innovate Amid Crisis Despite Tulip Town's longevity and popularity, this past month has been strange and unprecedented. But five friends who grew up in Skagit Valley are making pivots to ensure the farm's prolonged success.
425 Business • 19th March 2020 Date Night In Mystery started just over a year ago to help people get over that date-night slump. Just over a week ago, the startup made a quick pivot to help its partners during the COVID-19 crisis.
425 Magazine • 16th March 2020 Local Company Tackles Deforestation — With Toilet Paper The entrepreneurial spirits of Eastside native Austin Watkins and business partner Ryan Fritsch has led the two to recently launching an environmentally friendly toilet paper brand called Cloud Paper.
425 Business • 16th March 2020 Lending a Hand Even for those who have experienced one, it’s often hard to anticipate all that divorce entails. This startup aims to make smoother the complex and expensive process.
425 Business • 18th February 2020 A Painless Process Buying or selling a brick and mortar location can prove difficult for small business owners. Enter BizPappa, a company that co-founder Shan Sundaram said envisions itself as the Zillow or Redfin of mom and pop stores in the Seattle and Eastside markets.
425 Business • 27th January 2020 The Unexpected Power of Animation Terry Thoren has spent his career making cartoons like Rugrats and The Wild Thornberrys. The Snohomish resident now owns a company called Wonder Media, which creates animations that educate and empower kids of all ages.
425 Business • 18th December 2019 Going Wireless In 2008, physicist and technologist Hatem Zeine launched a small startup called Ossia with a specific vision: to build a transmitter that keeps a wide variety of devices constantly charged.
South Sound Business • 12th November 2019 Speeding Up the Gig Economy National staffing agency PeopleReady has been connecting people with “gig” work — often a piecemeal of temporary jobs — relevant to their skills for almost 30 years.
425 Business • 11th November 2019 Checked Baggage Sporting events, concerts, and the like have placed more and more restrictions on the kinds of items permitted in their venues. This startup helps solve problems that arise in the wake of new rules.
425 Business • 15th October 2019 Coding Dojo Partners with Bellevue College for 12-Week Program Earlier this month, Coding Dojo and Bellevue College announced a partnership in the form of a 12-week program of coding classes designed for working professionals.
425 Business • 14th October 2019 Combating Costs The cost of health care is on the rise. Local hospitals search for solutions.
425 Business • 9th October 2019 More Than a Co-Working Space Since the first co-working space was established in San Francisco in 2005, the concept certainly has caught fire worldwide. The Riveter has taken the idea and feminized it.
425 Business • 3rd October 2019 Another FCC Authorization for Ossia Today, Ossia announced its second FCC certification with the authorization of the Cota Forever Tracker, which wirelessly charges asset tracking systems that enable real-time tracking of semi-trailers and more.
425 Business • 17th September 2019 Playing the Long Game Peter Rex has a big vision. The 37-year-old founded a growing company called MakeRise, a family of technology, real estate, and investment businesses with the mission to “elevate humanity.”
South Sound Magazine • 13th September 2019 Comprehensive Perinatal Services Come to Tacoma Accessing comprehensive and caring perinatal services can be difficult. In the time leading up to and following the birth of a baby, mothers face a wide host of potential obstacles that are easier navigated with active support from others.
South Sound Business • 19th August 2019 Smart Solutions, Measured Growth Historically a blue-collar industrial area, the South Sound is typically not known as a region where blossoming tech startups want to put down roots. That's changing.
425 Business • 12th August 2019 Tech Hiring Made Easier It’s no secret that just about everything is going digital. As it does, companies across industries — banking, defense, retail, healthcare — are looking to hire tech workers in order to keep up.
South Sound Magazine • 31st July 2019 Food Truck Marketplace Opens This Friday As Tacoma continues to expand and lives up more and more to its City of Destiny moniker, two local women saw the need for something that will undoubtably make Tacoma even cooler: a semi-permanent collection of food carts.
