Entrepreneurship
Skillz, the online skill-gaming company, announced this afternoon a Series A round of funding. Led by Atlas Venture, Andrew Paradise’s gaming company raised $5.5 million in the new round...
Boston-based Kibits Corp. announced the launch of their mobile collaboration platform, Collaborate.com. The new service allows distributed business teams to work seamlessly together on projects of all kinds...
Wayfair.com, the Boston-based online shopping innovator, announced today that it is launching a new feature called Inspiration Gallery. Marrying interior design photography to the site's large collection of home decór and furniture...
Apperian, the local mobile application management company, recently announced the launch of a new app tool for its Enterprise Mobile Management platform. The new capability, the iOS App Remote Control...
Eight student teachers from MIT and UC Berkeley are biking from San Francisco to Washington DC this summer. The trip will last eleven weeks...
Local private coaching company, CoachUp, has seen a lot of growth in its first year of existence. Started just last May, the company’s website now has over 7000 coaches available to connect with young athletes for private lessons or coaching...
With offices located around the world, bigtincan, has huge ambitions for helping enterprises manage content globally...
I do some of my best thinking while running, so while training for a half marathon earlier this Spring, a thought popped into my mind: are there skills I’ve acquired over years...
How does a company that has been building mobile apps since the days of the Palm Pilot maintain its edge in the ever-expanding mobile marketplace?
Experts in product development will tell you to understand your user. Some people are naturals at this, most have to learn. Raising money is no different. Some people understand...
Workbar, Boston’s shared-workspace hub, just opened a new location in Central Square, Cambridge. The new co-working spot offers a ton of amenities and a variety of different...
Want to see what the future of shopping looks like? First, download the local shopping app Swirl and head down to Newbury Street. Then, stop into Alex & Ani, Timberland...
It’s hard to believe, but I started VentureFizz almost four years ago. It is crazy how the time flies by. When I originally started the site, I had two goals in mind...
Electric carmaker Tesla Motors has tripled its valuation to $10B over the last two months. What do investors see in the company’s growth strategy? Both Motor Trend...
ShopAdvisor, a locally-developed pricewatching product, won some acclaim since it launched an iOS app at the end of 2010. First, it was featured in the App Store,
In its fourth iteration, the team behind TechStars Boston has become a well-oiled machine. Associates and HackStars rotate quite consistently from term to term, but with each...
Local 3D Printer Company Formlabs had quite busy last weekend. First, they were on the road repping their product at Maker Faire in San Francisco and the International Contemporary...
On Tuesday morning, Anže Vodovnik and Davorin Gabrovec are holding an event in Kendall Square to unveil the mobile version of Zeppelin, their one-stop data and analytics...
Right after OMGPOP released DrawSomething to rave reviews (and traction), I was catching up with my friend Nabeel Hyatt and chatted a bit about the game’s meteoric...
Patrick O’Quinn, the founder of Awesome.me, built his media-sharing-platform company with two personal beliefs in mind. The first is that everyone has greatness in them; second...
When we opened our call for Summer@Highland applications a few months ago, the entire Highland investment team pitched in to get the word out. We came bearing...
This is not just another Big Data story. Or just another post on innovation. Or another good read on entrepreneurship. But it does touch on all of those things. And it shows...
I was lucky enough to graduate college without student debt. I didn’t really think about it much then, but now, as I plan for my two kids to go to college, I am grateful my...
There once was a man named Jon, who dreamed of the day when social games would go beyond the continuous click-fest seen in many social games to feature more...
Infinio Systems, the Cambridge-based storage performance software company, announced today that Steve Papa is joining the company’s board of directors and serve...
Last Wednesday was the New England Venture Capital Association's 1st Annual NEVY Awards. Kudos to C.A. Webb and the whole team who put together such an...
As more local companies begin to expand overseas and international companies seek to establish a foothold in North America, Boston is quietly becoming a hub between...
After winning his first of two NEVY Awards from the New England Venture Capital Association last night, Andy Ory of Acme Packet took the stand to deliver a message...
A huge crowd gathered at Harvard Business School’s Burden Auditorium for the school’s annual business plan/pitch contest on Tuesday. Dubbed the HBS New Venture Competition...
Sending a child to college is one of the largest financial “investments” a family will make. For most, the amount of money involved in paying for college is second...