November 2014 Archives - 425 Business

Office Envy: ArenaNet

Video game developer ArenaNet has seen many successes in its 14 years. Its Guild Wars 2, for example, is one of the best-selling PC games of all time. Meelad Sadat, the company’s head…

Lifestyle

Hitting the Trails

Despite his work with a booming business, Chuck Haigh still finds time to get himself and his family into the mountains. Those who come of age in the Puget Sound region often do…

Multimedia

Itinerary: Spokane

The Eastern Washington city with a gritty reputation is fast remaking itself as a regional business hub. If you haven’t been to Spokane in a while, it’s not the dusty city…

Columnists, Tech

Cubicles & Cocktails: Tired? Info from wearables can lead to better sleep

It was almost 8 a.m., and I was exhausted. Despite getting about nine hours of sleep — approximately two hours more than the average American — I felt like I…

Startup

Disrupt: Fund and Done

Knowing how to woo investors can turn a great idea into a well-funded company Want to create a startup company that will change the world? Excellent. But no matter how…

News

Positive Trend for Eastside Economics

The Great Recession was declared over by many experts in 2008, but recovery, of course, wasn’t immediate. Some areas of the country are still trying to get back on track.…

Lifestyle

Let’s do Lunch (or Breakfast, or Dinner)

Eastside execs share their favorite places to take clients No longer is taking clients out for a meal solely about impressing them at the fanciest restaurant in town. The ubiquity…

News

Bellevue Collection Changing, Expanding

Kemper Freeman Jr. and his family helped build Bellevue, and they’re not done yet. Now he’s building more It’s nearly impossible to talk about retail on the Eastside without talking…

Columnists

The Coffeehouse Investor: Trying to ‘Beat the Market’ Is a Fruitless Endeavor

In 2013, Eugene Fama of the University of Chicago was named Nobel Laureate in economics. His research on the efficiency of capital markets revealed that information on publicly traded companies…

News, Startup

Retail Success Driven by Location and Lease

For our retail-themed issue, we thought it would be great to dive into the subject of leases with Michelle Bomberger, owner and CEO of Bellevue’s Equinox Business Law Group. We…