NEVCA's popular "Beers with" series is back! This month, we feature an edtech pioneer who will give you a window into how he scaled three game changing companies: The Princeton Review, 2U, and Noodle. At Noodle, John is building a recommendation engine to help anyone find educational...

Join us at the MassChallenge Headquarters for:  The MassChallenge Sampler: An Accelerator Mini-Series Episode III: Marketing The importance of being branded In Partnership with MITX  MassChallenge and MITX bring you the essentials of marketing and branding as you establish your startup....

How to Tell Your Brand's Story Effectively Instructor: Mike Troiano While selling a startup takes some talent, the truth is there's more science under the surface of the art than most entrepreneurs realize. What You'll Learn: The structure and secrets of effective startup positioning. How...

Almost Awesome, Inc. hosts an NSCoder event based out of Workbar on the third Tuesdays of each month with the next meeting on February 19th at 6pm.   Think of it as individual work in a group environment.  Bring your pet rock iPhone, iPad or Mac development projects and spend 3 hours...

Investors don't want to hear about slow and steady growth. To grow quickly enough to attract funding, you need to get "talent scouted" by a VIP with power. Those power-VIPs are customers, distribution partners, journalists, or a superstar to join your team. Don't sell your company short by...

Whether you're looking to make your web app run faster or scale better, one great way to achieve both is to simply do less work.  How?  By using caches, the data hidey-holes which generations of engineers have thoughtfully left at key junctures in computing infrastructure from your...

Backbone is a powerful library for building client-side web applications, but its flexibility comes with a cost. Most real world applications are far more complex than the typical “To Do List” examples and tutorials, but Backbone provides little guidance on how to manage the structure and complexity...