Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Peter Chee
I’ve had a few very interesting conversations in the last two weeks. One is with Christine Blumer, CEO of CRB Consulting and the other is with Lisa Hufford, President of Simplicity Consulting. Both of these women are extremely successful people and have had great work experience at Microsoft. Both Christine and Lisa [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Peter Chee
Mary Decker, Reporter for The Redmond Reporter wrote an article in the June 14th newspaper about thinkspace. “Like many of his Sammamish neighbors, entrepreneur Peter Chee thought it would be wonderful to work at home. Instead, he felt isolated. He missed the atmosphere…: Here’s a link to the article.
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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Peter Chee
A local Seattle company, Walk Score, has just launched a new service to calculate the walkability of your neighborhood. I don’t think I can better state what their service is so here’s a quote from their website: “We help people find houses and apartments in walkable neighborhoods. Walk Score shows you a map of what’s [...]
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Posted on June 7th, 2008 by Peter Chee
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Steve Broback, co-author of “Blogging for your Business“. We had a very interesting conversation inside the thinkspace office. He addressed me initially as the “the blogger”. I was humored by that comment. I was glad that he knew that thinkspace had a blog before he had even toured our [...]
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Posted on June 7th, 2008 by Peter Chee
A friend of mine, Julia May, founded a company called “Clickeats”. The company provides online ordering for restaurants. Julia and developer Jay Karlin provide the technology and engine to any restaurants that wishes to provide their customers online ordering. Since most restaurant owners don’t have the time to setup a website and building out an [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Peter Chee
The Eastside Business Journal published an article about thinkspace on May 22. The full article can be found here. Here are a few highligts from the article.
Thanks to thinkspace, almost any small start-up company can overcome daunting obstacles, costs and compliance issues to become a certified “green” business from day one.
“Many small businesses find it advantageous [...]
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Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Peter Chee
After we had written the business plan we started to brainstorm company names. Initially, we came up with direct, descriptive, on-target names like “Redmond Executive Offices”, “Redmond Office Space”, and “Redmond Executive Suites” but these names lacked any imagination and were downright boring. I just could not see myself or anyone that we hired coming [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Peter Chee
On March 13th, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) issued a report stating “buildings represent the greatest opportunity for considerable reductions in CO2 emissions”.
“Every year, buildings in North America cause more than 2,200 megatons of CO2 to be released into the atmosphere, about 35 percent of the continent’s total CO2 emissions. In the United States [...]
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