Seattle Startup Life

Goodness, it’s been a looooong time since I’ve updated my blog. Life has been pretty crazy on my end. Apologies to my 2 faithful readers. A few quick updates from around the Seattle world:

• It’s too bad I didn’t have more time, or else I would have tried to weasel my way into getting a free lunch with Judy’s Book’s (now out of business) CEO Andy Sack. From what I hear, he’s great with entrepreneur advice. But alas, his lunch card is now filled for the new few months…
• For some reason, Naveen Jain always entertains me. He’s like the anti-Jeff Bezos.
• comScore is sold to M:Metrics. They’re getting $44.3M in cash plus issue approximately 50,000 options. Not too bad for mobile internet usage.
• Does anyone have a good source as to what Ripl is doing? They seem to be still in beta. I’d love to see how they are differentiating themselves from the rest of the social networking sites.
• And last but not least, Jobster raises more money. For the love of everything good, what do you need more money for? I don’t get it. The site. Is. Horrible. Period. I’m usually a big fan of local startups, but this one oozes of wasted cash. If anyone from Jobster is interested in chatting, let me know.