Innovation
I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great...
Every technology investment is made in the belief that this will be the big one. The deal that will produce not just a great return but a stark, raving, mad return with multiples that...
A lot of ink has been spilled about the challenges of building large scale consumer internet companies in Boston. Here’s a recent example that is quite thoughtful although misses...
Cambridge mobile photo-sharing startup Spottah wants to...
I met Mary-Alice Brady a few months back at the Venture Cafe. She had a table set up and was raising awareness for her startup...
In my other day job, working at another startup school, I spend my time trying to change the way we educate undergraduate engineering students. One of the...
In 2012, Betaspring expanded it's focus on accelerating gaming-related companies. Building on a strong design/CS...
Below is a terribly written note, but I hope it conveys the point I am trying to make…May is a special time in Boston. With finals & graduation around the corner, students...
I could build Instagram in a week. How many times have you heard someone say "I could build [insert hot startup name here] in a week"? I hear it all the time. But, I have yet...
At Xconomy’s very successful Mobile Madness event a couple of weeks ago, I was struck by the vibrant mobile startup scene in Boston. Its not that mobile focused startups are new to...
When it comes to buying and selling secondhand things, there have been few technological innovations after the garage sale and Craig’s List. But a new startup called peddl is using its MIT...
Pinterest is the hot new thing. The new kid on the blog. The new story in town. On hearing about it from multiple people, I decided to give it a shot. I actually had to wait to be let in...
There’s something magical happening in Boston right now, and it’s going to make history. Like many Startup scenes, Boston’s is truly exploding, vibrant with...
"There are moments in a company's life where you have to jump..." - Mike Baker. Towards the end of last year, Silicon Valley Bank...
One of the paradoxes in building a large internet services or software company is the challenge of building a platform. That is, creating a technology base upon which your own...
You see the future... you have the technology... however, the market and mass consumer...
I am often asked “what is new and exciting” by pretty much anyone that knows what I do for a living. And it is a great question that I relish answering – usually. Of late, however...
We’ve been developing Smarterer for the better part of a year now, quietly building a platform that uses crowd-sourced questions to validate peoples’ social and professional skills. Like many...
The view from the fourth floor of the American Twine building is impressive—not so much...
On Friday I was able to participate in Facebook's mobile-social hack in Cambridge. More than 60 developers were in attendance for the all day event with several teams hacking...
Recently, I’ve been putting my strategist hat on with regards to tablet ecosystems, both as a management consultant for CSMG, and in deciding where to devote energy as a...
Wayfair is easily one of the greatest success stories in the Boston area over the past ten...
One of the most memorable lines in film history comes from “Field of Dreams.” Shoeless Joe Jackson, a baseball legend from the early 1900’s, convinces an Iowa farm owner named...
There’re a lot of marketplace businesses being started out there - I probably see 2 a week these days. Given the interest in the space I thought I’d share some high level thoughts...
Startup founders have boundless ambition. Most founders can imagine their platform concept having broad appeal and meeting the needs of many customers, with numerous...
SXSW Accelerator returns for its fourth edition to showcase some of the web’s most exciting innovations... which could include you & your company! This event provides an outlet for...
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg came back to Harvard for the first time since 2005. And by Harvard, I mean the undergrad campus - not the business school. The event was framed...
Failure is not an option...it is a requirement...to future success. Failure gets a bad rap. It is actually an important element...
One of the themes that we've been most interested in at NextView over the last 12+ months has been the impact of consumer web trends on business software...
November is here... it has already snowed... but at least we have two things to look forward to this month. First, the greatest holiday of the year...Thanksgiving! No gifts...