Angela, good news, Russ H. is here: Top entrepreneurs were honored last night at the Ninth Annual Ernst & Young Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year awards. The winners move on to a national competition.
Howard Schultz of Starbucks is a previous national winner while George Russell and Craig McCaw have been among the regional winners.
This year's winners: Emerging Entrepreneur, Naveen Jain, InfoSpace; Service Entrepreneur, Jens Molbak, Coinstar; Software Entrepreneur, Steve Singh, Concur Technologies; Internet Products Entrepreneur, Russell Horowitz, Go2Net; Internet Services Entrepreneur, Daniel Fine, Fine.com; Retail/Distributor Entrepreneur, Terry Drayton, HomeGrocer.com; Healthcare Entrepreneur, Steven Gillis, Corixa Corp., and Supporter of Entrepreneurship, Gary Hansen, Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Washington.
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