May 2016 Archives - 425 Business

Bothell Bicyclist

Business analyst Susan Clementson traded in her soccer cleats for a bicycle 15 years ago and has since found a happy balance of camaraderie and exercise on the trails. Susan…

Columnists, Lifestyle, News

How to Keep Resolutions to Stay in Shape (And Away From Your Ex)

We all make resolutions at the beginning of each year. To cut ties with that horrible ex-boyfriend. To stop eating gluten. To cut back on coffee. And, of course, to…

Lifestyle

Brad Berger Takes to the Skies to Relieve Stress

The aviation bug bit Bellevue resident Brad Berger when he was 9 years old. After a trans-Atlantic flight to Belgium, the youngster declared that he was going to be a…

News

The New Internship

Words by Alissa Nance and Marissa Irish It’s more than fetching coffee This year’s college graduates — if they haven’t already done so — are about to pound the Eastside…

News, Startup, Tech

Failing to safeguard intellectual property can jeopardize a startup To a startup with no revenue, the most valuable asset is the product. Companies that don’t appropriately protect that product early in…

News

Office Envy: Google

Google opened its Kirkland campus in 2004, and the Kirkland and Fremont outposts combined have swelled to be the company’s third-largest engineering presence in the country. The over 1,000 employees…

News

Disabilities in the Workplace

Inexpensive tweaks are often all it takes for an office to become more accessible and inclusive Each workday, video-game designer Jeffrey Vaughn wakes up between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m.…

News

Grads: Focus on Your Dreams, not Investment Minutiae

Caps, gowns, and graduations — it is that time of year. For those of you who are graduating from college in the coming weeks, it is time to take those…

News

Lessons from a CTO: Corey Mandell

Corey Mandell has been creating technology companies since 1993. After creating a 70-pound, pre-Internet micro-computer for the United States Department of Defense, he got to work starting and selling his…

News

I-405 Toll Hatred

Thousands are fed up with the I-405 tolls. But is the system working? It’s not uncommon to hear honking horns on the Interstate 405 morning commute, but David Hablewitz hears…

Bothell Bicyclist

How to Keep Resolutions to Stay in Shape (And Away From Your Ex)

Brad Berger Takes to the Skies to Relieve Stress

The New Internship

Ideas Worth Protecting

Office Envy: Google

Disabilities in the Workplace

Grads: Focus on Your Dreams, not Investment Minutiae

Lessons from a CTO: Corey Mandell

I-405 Toll Hatred