24 Hours With the City of Renton’s Kelly Beymer

When the City of Renton made an organizational change a few years ago, city departments were pooled to create new sections.  One such area of responsibility was the community services…

Community Services Administrator, City of Renton

Legal Review: Understand New Labor Laws and More

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That maxim could apply to many business issues, including reading and understanding the fine print of provisions before signing contracts,…

From new employment laws to old-fashioned due diligence, lawyers offer some heads-up advice to those in the business world

An Orange Obsession

The color orange might be an unusual choice when selecting an office motif. At the headquarters of tinyBuild — the independent game developer-turned-publisher based in Bellevue — the color orange…

With a $15 million funding boost, Bellevue-based independent game publisher tinyBuild seeks to build the next video game franchise.

My Space: Paul Midgen

Computer coding might just be a series of 0s and 1s, but Paul Midgen approaches it with a creative and impassioned eye. He likens the process to cooking — executing…

Computer coding might just be a series of 0s and 1s, but Paul Midgen approaches it with a creative and impassioned eye.

Going Wireless

In 2008, physicist and technologist Hatem Zeine launched a small startup called Ossia with a specific vision: to create a technology that in many ways behaves like the WiFi technology…

For more than a decade, Bellevue-based Ossia has been working to develop the first technology that can wirelessly charge devices at a distance.

Eastside Ambitions

It’s hard to believe that Vulcan Real Estate, the development company started by the late philanthropist and entrepreneur Paul Allen, only recently made its first moves into Eastside commercial real…

Vulcan Real Estate’s Scott Matthews believes the timing was, and still is, perfect for the company Paul Allen founded to begin — and continue — focusing on Eastside projects

Simplified Service

When a business is faced with customer bottlenecks or backlogged operations, reinvention often is its only recourse. This rule of thumb, however, doesn’t always apply to government entities. Not so…

The City of Bellevue’s Service First desk on the first floor of City Hall offers residents one-stop access to information and services

Twenty Years On, These Three Investing Principles Are as Important as Ever

Twenty years ago, I created The Coffeehouse Investor and authored a book by the same name to help investors build wealth, ignore Wall Street, and get on with their lives. …

Twenty years ago, "425 Business" contributor Bill Schultheis authored a book to help investors build wealth, ignore Wall Street, and get on with their lives. Today, those principles hold true and are worth reflecting upon as 2019 comes to a close.

Businomics: December

Connecting the dots between the economy... and business!

Eastside’s Expansion Continues

Bellevue’s Central Business District (CBD) is in the midst of one of its largest-ever expansions, with proposed developments totaling more than 5.9 million square feet. Among the most notable are…

Bellevue’s Central Business District is in the midst of one of its largest-ever expansions, with proposed developments totaling more than 5.9 million square feet.