Decide.com was featured in the New York Times again this week. Anyone shopping for electronics this holiday season (or ever, for that matter) is crazy to not use Decide. Read the article here.

Decide.com is featured in New York Times article highlighting that Black Friday might not be the best day to get the best deals. Read the article here.

By Len Jordan, Venture Partner, Madrona Venture Group (originally posted on TechCrunch) Whenever I invest in a new company, I send the CEO my customary email with advice on how to work with his or her new board. I’ve spent 24 years in the software industry—including holding operating roles at three early-stage software companies and board [...]

by Scott Jacobson In the last couple of days, two notable digital media services released HTML5 applications optimized for iPad that provide a native app-like experience while bypassing Apple’s app store. Yesterday, VUDU launched a browser-based, streaming video service, optimized for iPad. Today, Amazon launched Kindle Cloud Drive, enabling customers to buy, download and read [...]

We are happy to announce Madrona’s most recent investment, a Series A financing  for Cedexis, the Portland, OR-based market leader in community-based cloud performance monitoring and optimization.  To read more about the company’s financing check out its blog.  Madrona Venture Partner Len Jordan led the round.

Madrona Venture Partner and University of Washington Professor Oren Etzioni published an article in the science journal Nature last week outlines the way we should rethink how Internet search performs and interacts with users.  It is a fabulous article and echoes Oren’s long-standing leadership in Internet search.  The New York Times summarized Oren’s article here. [...]

Today’s Finance Corner on Forbes.com highlights Apptio’s competitive advantage in the hot new sector called Technology Business Management (TBM). Read the article here.

Madrona Venture Group CEO Spotlight, Mike Fridgen CEO Decide from Madrona Venture Group on Vimeo. Madrona is starting a series of video interviews spotlighting different CEOs we get the chance to work with. For our first video, Greg Gottesman interviewed Mike Fridgen, CEO of Decide. Mike talks about being addicted to startups, what he’s learned [...]

Congratulations to the team at Animoto on the close of its new financing round.  We look forward to working with Spectrum Equity Investors and supporting Animoto as it continues to build on its killer product.  If you haven’t used Animoto yet, go and make a video today!  Read more about the financing on TechCrunch.

-by Scott Jacobson One of the best parts of being an early-stage investor is getting to be part of the creation process. Partnering with very smart and passionate entrepreneurs to take the early seeds of an idea and turn those seeds into products that solve interesting, tangible customer problems. I have really enjoyed working with [...]