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Madrona
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Madrona is the company blog at madrona.com, writing about startups, business and ai. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Foundation Models: The future still isn't happening fast enough”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Madrona's Seattle startup coverage, including an article on UW graduates moving to Silicon Valley, and its venture portfolio as a starting point for Seattle startups.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A venture capital firm that teams with technology entrepreneurs to nurture ideas from startup to market success.
Most-linked posts?
- Foundation Models: The future still isn't happening fast enough2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-27
What Hacker News says?
This article focuses more on potential employees graduating from UW, but Seattle is a great place to found a startup. In the Valley, everything is pretty crowded, and if you can find real estate, it's not going to be cheap. In Seattle, it's a buyers market and you can grab some office space or a hacker house for a lot less. There are more startup resources in the Valley (accelerators/angels/VCs), but that doesn't me…
Comment linking /
on “A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley”Submitted Intelligent Applications Top as a story · 3 points
HN discussionJohn Cook ( http://www.geekwire.com/ ) has been covering the Seattle startup and tech scene for quite a while. Madrona is the go-to VC in Seattle so their portfolio ( http://www.madrona.com/venture-capital-investments/ ) is a good place to start.
Comment linking /venture-capital-investments/
on “Ask HN: Where are all the Seattle startups?”Submitted Foundation Models: The future still isn't happening fast enough as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of AI Agent Infrastructure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Foundation Models: The future (still) isn’t happening fast enough as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Venture Capital Investing for the Long Run: Madrona Fund VII Extended by $120M as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Difficult Decision for Heptio to Sell to VMware as a story · 1 points
HN discussion