Thursday, October 21, 2010Dayna Grayson - Principal, North Bridge Venture Partners
Curation, the word of 2008-2009 within the eCommerce world, popularized first by the entertaining shopping site Woot, has now officially expanded to the social media space (see examples). It used to be the...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
Our guest on Octane this week is Angus Davis! Angus is a serial entrepreneur, who spent many years in the Bay Area as an early employee of Netscape and then he co-founded Tellme Networks, which was acquired by Microsoft for...
Monday, October 18, 2010Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
I am still exhausted from all the networking at the Mass Technology Leadership Council's unConference event. Over 600 people attended last Thursday's...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
Our guest on Octane this week is Coach Wei! Coach is serial entrepreneur, who has been busy building his latest startup called Yottaa, which is a cloud computing startup focused on website performance. He recently raised $4M in venture capital funding for Yottaa. He is also the founder...
Monday, October 11, 2010Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
Last week was FutureM... this week the focus turns to BREW (Boston Region Entrepreneurship Week). Although BREW has expanded into a whole month's worth of events, the main emphasis is between Oct 13th & 21st. There are several great events which are all posted on our...
Friday, October 8, 2010Jeff Bussgang - General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
Security Analysis is cited by Warren Buffet as one of his top four favorite and most influential books. Written by Columbia University Professors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, it was first published in 1934. The book is a thick tome that articulates the thesis of value investing – the analytical techniques for valuing...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
We are very excited to have the CTO & Co-Founder of ScanScout as our guest this week on Octane! ScanScout is a video advertising platform company located in Boston that was just ranked by Silicon Alley Insider as the 81st most valuable digital startup in the world!! As a first time entrepreneur...
Monday, October 4, 2010Lee Hower - Partner and Co-Founder, NextView Ventures
If you're a fan of American football, you probably know all about Tom Brady. Even if you're not you've probably heard his name, seen his picture in the news or a magazine, or know about his supermodel wife Giselle. But let me take a second to explain some details about where Tom Brady came...
Friday, October 1, 2010Sean Marsh - Co-Founder and General Partner, Point Judith Capital
I recently attended a conference in San Francisco that was sponsored by one of the leading fund of funds that has been investing in venture capital and private equity funds for nearly 30 years. One of the senior partners of this firm told the story of American Research and Development (ARD) and...
Monday, September 27, 2010Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
One of the core goals of VentureFizz is to provide a platform where we can learn from other successful entrepreneurs - both their successes and failures. Octane is our new series, where we will interview local entrepreneurs in a Q&A format. We are hoping this new series will provide some great information...
