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  • NWIRC and Slingshot partner up!

    A great article by Jim Davis on Slingshot and the NW Innovation Resource Center is in the June 2016 issue of the Bellingham Business Journal. 

    "It’s a start-up to help start-ups.
    The nonprofit NW Innovation Resource Center is creating a new venture called Slingshot-NW to help inventors and entrepreneurs market whatever they dream up.
    Inventors are often “garage geeky guys and girls” who want to make things, but don’t have the desire or experience to sell it, said Diane Kamionka, the executive director of the NW Innovation Resource Center, which helps entrepreneurs throughout northwest Washington.
    “Inventors are just not very good marketers,” Kamionka said. “They know their product, but, with rare exception, it’s not what they do to go and sell it.”
    So Slingshot is being created as a marketing tool to help these businesses get off the ground."
    You can read the full article here on the Bellingham Business Journal web site, BBJToday.com.
  • Slingshot hires new CEO

    Slingshot-NW, Inc. is proud to announce they have hired Bryan Brown as their new CEO.  After graduating from Whitman College with a BA in Philosophy, Bryan did what all Philosophy majors do and quickly got involved in the technology industry of Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond and became a SQL database engineer. By 2001, he was ready to venture out on his own and co-founded a software company that created a platform for online communities that, at its peak, supported over seven million members.
  • Announcing Slingshot

    We are thrilled to announce the launch of Slingshot-NW, Inc.  Slingshot is a new marketing platform for products created by inventors and entrepreneurs of the Pacific Northwest. Slingshot works in partnership with the NW Innovation Resource Center (NWIRC) based in Bellingham, WA and serves inventors and entrepreneurs from all five northwest Washington counties: Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom, Island and San Juan.