VC Adventure

JULY 1, 2021

Sweet Grace was born in 2008, as the Great Recession ripped through the United States, particularly affecting working-class communities like Lawrence, Massachusetts where Danaris lives. One of our biggest inspirations and favorite New Builders is Danaris Mazara of Sweet Grace Heavenly Cakes. She had $37 in food stamps to her name.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Founded in 2010, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based PowerInbox is an email technology company that hopes to do exactly that by enabling live, interactive email inside of most popular email services, such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Outlook. . Symbyoz : Connect with your network inside emails.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Co-founder companies are the norm in California, but 40-50% of the startups in New York and Massachusetts have only one founder. No surprises here. Whites and Asians lead the race.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2019

The LGBTQ+ in Tech Forum started off with a networking lunch, which then led to a Keynote speech from distinguished investor Joel Fontenot , Managing General Partner at Reditus Ventures. " @Cwyatt1 Chief Revenue Officer from @upswing during her roundtable discussion on "Management Essentials.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Dr. Said is a dentist himself and argued a good case for a network of dentists with special offers for uninsured consumers. Then Nirupama Mallavarupu from Summit, New Jersey, discussed PTA Portals, a platform for building niche social networks for private groups, starting with Parent-Teacher Associations. Discuss.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Manuel Rosso , CEO at Rosso & Flynn Modern Butcher , earned a Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a way to establish credibility, but he wishes he had started his entrepreneurial career sooner. Gretel attributes the group’s growth to their “unique and authentic passion for helping ourselves.”

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Photo by nazreth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Co-founder companies are the norm in California, but 40-50% of the startups in New York and Massachusetts have only one founder. No surprises here. Whites and Asians lead the race.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 4, 2019

They are focused on fostering small business development and entrepreneurial activity amongst under-networked and under-resourced populations in communities that have been traditionally overlooked for economic investment. They also locate their programs outside, but near, communities that are traditional hubs for entrepreneurship.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. At 18, kids are worried about college and that in itself is a sizable market. Discuss.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. Recently, Disney was seen scoping out space in Kendall Square to set up a research lab.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Co-founder companies are the norm in California, but 40-50% of the startups in New York and Massachusetts have only one founder. No surprises here. Whites and Asians lead the race.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we partnered with the Indian Angel Network (IAN). Delyver Retail Network. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Photo by barunpatro. Discuss.

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Gust

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Southern Willamette Angel Network – Eugene, OR ( [link].com/bus… Tacoma Angel Network – Tacoma, WA ( [link] twork.com/ ). In particular, the first two, Alliance of Angels and Bellingham Angel Group, are two of the preeminent groups in the country, easily rivaling those of us in California, New York and Massachusetts.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously. In terms of monetization, Vin expects the ad networks to supply ads to his site by selling ads to local restaurants. That sounds great. It may also be expensive to do.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

In that same original blog post, we also outlined the unfortunate phenomenon that occurs when the market collapses: capital tends to flow towards founders with established VC relationships and away from folks who may be equally talented but are several steps removed from investor networks. Jambb: Boston, Massachusetts . Who you are.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

First up today was John Boyd with MeetingWave , a social media platform that caters to university alumni associations and addresses the challenge of helping them create walled-garden professional and social networking groups under their own brand, as opposed to groups within Facebook or LinkedIn. Photo by duchesssa. Discuss.

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Brandanew

JULY 17, 2015

Are you a social media enthusiast longing to network with those from your field? Either ways, the rules of the game are pretty simple – the more you network, the better you get at your job. Place: Boston, Massachusetts. image via social media strategies summit here. Corporate Social Media Summit. Place: New York, New York.

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Andrew Payne

JANUARY 30, 2013

United States Attorney for Massachusetts. His violation of MIT’s guest ToS is less clear: MIT is famously and widely known for an open campus and network, and there’s a reasonable argument MIT’s effective ToS is much more permissive. January 28, 2013. The Honorable Carmen M. John Joseph Moakley. United State Federal Courthouse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2010

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Co-founder companies are the norm in California, but 40-50% of the startups in New York and Massachusetts have only one founder. No surprises here. Whites and Asians lead the race.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

On April 16, I was in Mumbai doing a live 1M/1M event with TiE Mumbai and Indian Angel Network (IAN). We also had Pritam Roy present Gomolo.in , a social network and online hangout for movie lovers. It would also help him figure out the audience engagement model of how to make the social network compelling. Fragrochem.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

LinkedIn provides some great tools for identifying and screening candidates and allows a business to leverage their own network and word-of-mouth to identify the most qualified candidates. Tow other good online resources are Ceridian and HireRight.com both of which can help you to manage the search and the screening process.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

This week, the Massachusetts Legislature is about to vote on a bill to (finally) reform education in Massachusetts - to lift the cap on charter schools, empower commissioners to reform the worst-performing schools and create "Readiness Schools" that get around the usual bureaucracy and drive towards academic excellence.

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Andrew Payne

JANUARY 30, 2013

United States Attorney for Massachusetts. His violation of MIT’s guest ToS is less clear: MIT is famously and widely known for an open campus and network, and there’s a reasonable argument MIT’s effective ToS is much more permissive. January 28, 2013. The Honorable Carmen M. John Joseph Moakley. United State Federal Courthouse.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

On September 15, 2016, UMSL Accelerate joined the Global EIR network and began taking applications for its international accelerator program, Gateway Accelerate. Missouri is our fourth state to go live following Massachusetts, Colorado, and Alaska. Today is the last day to apply , so if you are considering it, don’t wait.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2015

Last year Jeff and a bunch of his friends in Massachusetts created the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur in Residence pilot program. So when I started seeing what Jeff was doing in Massachusetts, I started working on a similar approach in Colorado with Craig Montuori, and Chris Nicholson of Venture Politics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. I have a great network. 04:24): But we have a great network.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2019

If you are making an international move or simply changing cities, moving for work opens up new opportunities to build networks, make new relationships and expand your experience. Massachusetts. In addition to the obvious advantages of the new position, there are social, professional and tax ramifications tied to relocating for a job.

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VC Adventure

MAY 6, 2020

EforAll combines immersive business training, mentorship and an extensive support network to help support their entrepreneurs. I’ve gotten to know them well over the past two years (Brad and his wife Amy, as well as Greeley and I are financial supporters of EforAll).

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 31, 2015

Between Techstars, Galvanize, Silicon Flatirons, the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network, and many other accelerators, there will be significant mentorship opportunities. The program in Colorado follows a similar approach with one major difference. We have a broad model for engagement in Boulder for new entrepreneurs.

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The Next Web

JULY 27, 2013

Are traditional investors really that great when you can leverage your social networks for cash? The manufactured lock-picks snapped too easily, his backers started to turn on him, and soon he was being contacted by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office. What actually happened, however, was a much sadder story.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

Experiment to see what works for you, but remember that Facebook is a social network and not everyone is sold on this social commerce concept, yet. Roughly three out of four consumers rely on social networks to guide their purchase decisions according to Gartner, July 2010. Case Study: MVMT Watches via Shopify.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Kittredge started making candles in his Massachusetts home and started selling them to interested neighbors. The first Yankee Candle Shop opened in 1975 and continued to expand throughout Massachusetts. and sells products through a wholesale customer network of nearly 20,200 stores.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction. Arun Ravi from San Francisco, California, discussed inCircled , a proposed new social network that would be significantly more selective about only involving 'inner circle' friends. Discuss.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 30, 2016

On Tuesday, Jerry Colonna and I had a fireside chat hosted by the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network titled Making Mental Health a Priority. For example, I came up with the notion that if every cigarette butt that I passed on the sidewalks in Massachusetts wasn’t parallel to the street then my mother would die.

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