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As Havard Business School professor Josh Lerner thanked the audience to conclude his interview of NEA Chairman and Co-founder Dick Kramlich, the keynote event this morning at this year’s HBS Venture Capital and Private Equity Conference, Kramlich interrupted him. Speaking to a room of hundreds...
Ignorance isn’t always bliss. Most web users live in the dark about who tracks what information about them online, but with the launch of Do Not Track Plus (DNT+), Boston-based online privacy firm Abine hopes to change that. DNT+ is a free browser add-on that blocks websites from sharing information...
College kids are bored, competitive, really into prizes, or all of the above. That’s my takeaway from the news that CampusLIVE has surpassed one million engagements this month. The company offers a destination for college students to compete against friends and classmates in “challenges” designed...
In rather undramatic fashion, Techstars Boston has just announced the newest class of startups for its spring accelerator program. These 13 lucky startups will work under a strong network of mentors for the next three months in their fancy Boston office in Kendall Square which is shared...
TechStars grad Promoboxx, which connects brands and retailers, has just locked up a HUGE deal with Chevrolet that is sweeter than actually having tickets to this year’s Super Bowl. For the first time ever, Chevy is pre-releasing its Super Bowl commercials through co-branded campaigns, each customized...
I once called Somerville based Echo Nest underwhelming and claimed that I have yet to be ‘wowed’ by their music intelligence platform. I was then hit in the face by comments of passionate supporters, a huge Nokia partnership, a Spotify deal and now a Twitter partnership – all in the last three months. Clearly, I spoke...
There’s a shortage of software designers and developers. It’s not a potato famine; I think we’ll survive. However, it is a real problem for many tech companies. Out of necessity springs invention. I’ve noticed lately a common solution to this problem has been independently created by multiple sources...
Typically, I avoid prediction posts for the simple fact that the social marketing and social business space changes so dramatically almost every day. Human behavior is hard to predict and the way we leverage tools and communicate with each other is always evolving. However, after reading a few 2012...
When asked, “Which schools in the Greater Boston area are direct competitors of Babson College,” President Len Schlesinger responds, “None.” He then points to a cartoon designed by Hugh MacLeod that hangs on a wall in his office and reads it out loud. “Don’t be the best in the world at what you do. Be the...
Recent TechStars grad Kinvey, has just announced a strategic partnership to provide seamless integration between a mobile app’s data backend on Kinvey and Urban Airship’s push notification capabilities on iOS and Android mobile platforms. The partnership will allow mobile app developers a streamlined...
Upon receiving word that Cambridge- based Shareaholic was launching deals, I almost fainted. How could a startup with an impressive early track record be moving into the online deals space crowded by the likes of Groupon and LivingSocial? Well, the long and the short of it is that, they are, but it’s not what you think...
When Krishna Ramchandran started playing golf three years ago, it didn’t take him long to realize what his problem was. I realized I was really bad,” he says, very matter-of-factly. Most golfers are, when they get started, but Ramchandran wasn’t happy with his lot and set out to change it. “The iPhone...
What was originally intended to be 100 people sitting around Harvard’s new Innovation Lab, turned into an event with 800 RSVPs and at least 300 attendees in the University’s Burden Auditorium. Modeled after the NY Tech Meetup, that takes place monthly on New York University’s campus and has grown...
It is no surprise that RunKeeper is up to something big. Even though the South End-based company has been quietly building the future of digital health tracking and assessment, they are starting to make some serious waves in and outside of Boston. According to sources close to the deal, RunKeeper...
As mentioned last night I spent some time chatting with serial entrepreneur and angel investor Jason Calacanis at the unConference on Friday. Calacanis is the founder of Open Angel Forum (which was also in Boston last week), the Launch conference, and Mahalo. Before founding these...
Last Friday I attended MassTLC’s unConference with over 800 of Boston’s finest innovation enthusiasts. At first I had planned to attend at least 4 sessions and provide writeups for the BostInno audience, but immediately got off track because of some incredible conversations, ones that had me...
Most funded startups never make it past the initial seed round. What is stopping them? Three of Boston’s top investors – TechStars’ Katie Rae, Matrix Partners’ Antonio Rodriguez, and Eric Paley of Founder Collective – gave a bit of insight into what can make or break a startup aiming to make it to the next...
This summer AngelList took Boston startups by storm. We were constantly hearing success stories and questions on how to get on the site and more importantly how to raise money on it. For those that don’t know, AngelList is an online community of startups and investors [read: Facebook for...
Boston based Gemvara has been making serious waves in the past few months. After raising $15 million back in March, the company has gone on a hiring spree and added some impressive names. Recently, they brought on Corinne Grousbeck, wife of Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck, as VP of Brand Marketing...
MIT Media Lab startup Bluefin Labs, which has incredible technology that discovers and analyzes, in real-time, what people say via social media about the shows and ads that they’re watching on television, has just made two big enhancements to their first product offering Bluefin Signals. Bluefin Signals...
Boston based Springpad, ‘the smart note app,’ that helps you stay organized and remember the things you like and which are important to you, just announced a major user milestone. Springpad’s users have doubled in the past 6 months from one million to two million. The recent surge in user growth...
When looking for new gadgets on the internet it is easy to get lost in Amazon, Best Buy or any number of e-commerce sites. These sites throw a ton of products at you with no regard for what you are actually looking for. A new startup that launched yesterday is hoping to change your gadget buying...
Over the past few years I have started to see an unnerving trend. Being an entrepreneur or working at a startup is now the “cool thing to do.” Before startups, working at a Hedge Fund was the “it” job. And by no means am I an expert in startups (yet) but my experience over the last few years has led me to observe...