In this Episode of Startup Project, Nataraj talked to Mike Fridgen, Managing Director at Madrona Venture Labs a Seattle based tech startup incubator. Some of the companies incubated include Style Genome (Acq by Wayfair), Chatitive (Acq by MailChimp), Message Yes (Acq by Nordstrom) & more. Before joining Madrona Venture Labs Mike was part of founding teams at Farecast (Acq by Microsoft) & Decide (Acq by Ebay) where he led product and growth strategies.

Full Conversation includes:

• Farecast.com (Predicting prices) - Acquired by Microsoft
• Decide.com (next gen consumer reports) - Acquired by Ebay
• Through line across being part of multiple acquisitions
• Incubating companies at Madrona Venture Labs
• Relationship with Madrona Venture Group
• Thematic focus behind companies incubated at Madrona Venture Labs

Nataraj is a PM at Azure, partner at NVC & hosts thestartupproject.io podcast. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/natarajsindam. You can also subscribe to his newsletter at getrevue.co/profile/StartupProject

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