VentureFizz Stories

On this episode of The VentureFizz Podcast, Keith Cline interviews Kent Bennett, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

Over the last two weeks, Christina Luconi focused on the challenging art of both giving and receiving feedback. This week, she is wrapping up this series with yet one more challenge many of us face; accepting positive feedback.

On this episode of The VentureFizz Podcast, Keith Cline interviews Rick Grinnell, Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures.

On this first New York episode of The VentureFizz Podcast, Keith Cline interviews Graham Brown, Partner at Lerer Hippeau.

LinkSquares developed an AI-oriented platform to help legal and finance teams review contracts and hopefully give them the right information from the agreement. Co-Founder and CEO Vishal Sunak discussed with us how the platform works and named a few of the company’s clients. Sunak also went into detail about how his previous career at Backupify helped inspire the founding of LinkSquares.

Last week, Christina Luconi shared her thoughts about the art of giving feedback. Just as challenging, however, is the art of receiving feedback. In her newest post, Luconi focuses on receiving difficult feedback, as the majority of us are capable of hearing the good stuff.

On this episode of The VentureFizz Podcast, Keith Cline interviews Armen Zildjian, VP of Sales at Drift.

PTC is one of the Boston tech scene's pillar companies. Various alumni from the company have gone on to start their own companies and hold executive leadership roles in the tech sector. Here's a slideshow of notable alumni.

Providing feedback is arguably one of the most significant gifts we can give to each other in the workplace. That is, of course, if it is done well. This week, Christina Luconi writes about how one can politely give constructive criticism.

Check out our Office Tour featuring lots of pictures from Kensho's office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

On this episode of The VentureFizz Podcast, Keith Cline interviews Julia Austin, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School (and more!)

Wentworth Institute of Technology fosters the majority of their engineering talent for their accelerator program named Accelerate. We spoke with Co-Founder of Accelerate Monique Fuchs and Accelerate's Program Director Max Rollinger about the mission of the program and their recent partnership with Workbar.

There are several work methodologies and mindsets (such as Scrum) that companies in the Boston tech scene apply to their employees. Christian Ollenborger writes about the Agile mindset and how it can positively affect business operations.  

Parsec is on a mission to change the way gamers access PC games. We learn how co-founders Benjy Boxer and Chris Dickson created Parsec, and how their interface works in the best interest of their consumers. 

There isn’t one straightforward answer to building the perfect employee training program, but there are a few things that are consistently present in all the best ones. Having participated in a variety of hypergrowth companies over the years, Christina Luconi shares what she has learned with people development.