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MITX Innovation Awards Celebrates Boston’s Best and Brightest

The crowd gathered at the Copley Westin for the Tenth Annual MITX Innovation Awards were introduced to a few of the most impactful local companies and had the chance...

2013 MITX Innovation Awards to Celebrate the Best Local Companies

On Monday evening, key members of the Boston tech and innovation community will be gathering at the Westin Copley for the Tenth Annual MITX Innovation Awards...

Indie Game Uprising in Boston, Upcoming Festival Shouldn’t Be Missed

In the video game industry there are the ‘big gun’ developers – BioWare, Irrational, EA, Harmonix and others – and then there are the smaller, independent developers...

By the Skin of Their Teeth: The Magic of TechStars Demo Day

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...

 

Zeppelin, the Inbox for Business Data, Launches New Mobile Product

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...

Highlights & Pictures from our Scaling to 1M+ Users Event

The members of the Boston tech / innovation community that attended VentureFizz / Dissero's "Scaling to 1M+ Users - Customer Acquisition Strategy" event arrived...

The NEVY Awards in Pictures [slideshow]

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...

The 2013 NEVY Awards: A Community Celebration

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...

 

Betaspring Spring 2013 Investor First Look

Yesterday the Havana Room in the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) hosted Investor First Look, a preview of the fifteen companies exiting from the Spring 2013...

The Top 10 NFL Draft Picks According to Social Media

NFL fans at iProspect and around the world are abuzz about the upcoming draft. There’s much speculation about which team will choose which player...

Our Next Event! Scaling to 1M+ Users - Customer Acquisition Strategies

We held our first networking event towards the end of January.  It was titled: The State of Product Management (you can read about it here).  The event was a huge...

Leading TV platforms & developers will gather in Boston April 27-28 for the TVnext Hack (#TVnextHack)

Join ESPN, RAMP, Watchwtih, Viggle, the Echonest, TMS, Klout and more in Boston April 27-28 for the TVnext Hack (#TVnextHack), part of Hill Holliday’s 3rd...

My Marathon Story – Carry On Boston

It’s Wednesday morning, my baby son’s first birthday. It’s a day and a half later, and the tragedy at the Marathon has started to sink in.  That Monday’s disaster hit close to...

And now... the nominees for the 2013 NEVY Awards!

The New England Venture Capital Association is hosting their first NEVY awards party on May 1st at The Sinclair in Cambridge.  Make sure you register for this event...

Four Competitors from the HBS New Venture Competition

Harvard Business School is producing a mini-documentary series profiling each of the companies that are competing as part of the HBS New Venture Competition (NVC)...

Highlights from Xconomy's Mobile Madness Event

Many local mobile entrepreneurs braved the snow, ice, and the freezing wind to gather for an afternoon of frank talk about the future of mobile technologies at...

Highlights From Startup Institute's GiveHack [Slideshow]

Hopping into the seventh floor elevator at Communispace with an armful of candy boxes, Matt Slaman wanted to revamp his sales pitch.   “We should offer free candy...

Non-Competes & Other Highlights from MassTLC's Annual Meeting

Tuesday morning, members of the Boston (and Massachusetts at-large) tech / innovation community gathered at the Renaissance Hotel in the Innovation District...

Boston’s Wanderu Wins Big at SXSW’s Accelerator Contest

Local transportation innovation company Wanderu walked away from SXSW’s Interactive Accelerator Competition Tuesday night with a victory in the “Most Innovative Web...

VF Tidbits: Boston Startup School (now Startup Institute) Expands to NYC

Today, Startup Institute, formerly known as Boston Startup School, announced the building of Startup Institute New York. Startup Institute launched a year ago...

Recap from PayPal & StubHub's Office Opening Event [slideshow]

There was a great deal of buzz surrounding the official opening of PayPal’s new Boston headquarters on Thursday evening. A crowd of about four-hundred attended...

Recap from last night's WebInno

Deja vu was the order of the evening for WebInno 37 at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge last night. For one, I was back in the very room of one of my most tragic adventures...

Watch Jumptap, RunKeeper, and now Axceler Do The Harlem Shake

The Harlem Shake is the latest dance video to go viral and we spotted two tech companies in Boston doing their own version of this 30 second dance...

Is HBS becoming a tech feeder school? I hope so.

I graduated from Harvard Business School in the nuclear winter of job seeking: spring of 2009. I remember quite a few of my classmates thinking they were going to “career...

Boston Startup School: Dating for hackers and startups

Around Valentine’s Day you tend to see people looking for love everywhere they go. But what about a job they’ll love? At Boston Startup School, we’re playing cupid...

VF Tidbits: Foley Hoag launches TEC@FoleyHoag

Foley Hoag LLP today unveiled the first collaborative in Boston’s burgeoning Innovation District, bringing together technology companies, entrepreneurs...

TUGG Event Raises $207K [photos]

VentureFizz is a proud supporter of TUGG and I was honored to attend their 7th Annual Tech Charity Wine Party last Thursday at the Cyclorama in Boston.  It was my first...

The Bowdoin to Boston Tech Trek

I was reading in Xconomy yesterday the Taylor Yates description of his trek to Silicon Valley with his MIT Sloan classmates and I couldn’t resist sharing with the Boston community...

"Fresh Talk" with the Winklevoss Twins

Fresh Tilled Soil, the UI and app design company that recently moved to Watertown, has created some programs geared toward spreading their love of design and...

1000 Techies for Social Enterprise? Game on! 1/31/13

Boston tech’s biggest social fundraiser, the Seventh Annual New England Tech Charity Wine Party to benefit TUGG, is set to descend upon South End’s Cyclorama on...