VentureFizz Stories

For the tenth episode of our Career Inspiration podcast, I interviewed Sam Zales - Chief Operating Officer at CarGurus.

Markforged offers a platform for 3D printing, as well as a range of 3D printers for industrial uses. While many companies work solely in plastic, Markforged printers can print carbon fiber, stainless steel, fiberglass, and titanium, as well as plastics and other materials. Founder and CEO Greg Mark told us the story of how Markforged went from being an idea to a major disruptive force in this highly competitive industry.

Having company culture is important, but sometimes employees can lose focus on it when a company starts to grow and bring on people. As someone who is with a company that has a unique culture and has grown in employee ranks, Christina Luconi offers advice to companies in growth mode on how they shouldn't lose focus on culture.

To give our readers an insight into the company’s engineering team, we connected with OM1’s Head of Engineering, Nick Brachet. We learned about how the team is trying to cut through the noise with healthcare data and the culture of the engineering team.

VentureFizz is giving our readers an inside look to the blockchain and cryptocurrency scene in Boston. For Part 3, we profiled a collection of startups who are utilizing this type of technology.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the booming tech sectors, not just in Boston but in the tech scene at large. However, it can be challenging for companies to jump in and figure out what to do with AI. John Arsenault gives insight on what companies can do and offers comparison to early Internet companies.

VentureFizz is giving our readers an inside look to the blockchain and cryptocurrency scene in Boston. In Part 2 of this series, we spoke with several investors about how they are involved with Boston’s blockchain/cryptocurrency scene.

In the ninth episode of the VentureFizz Career Inspiration podcast, Keith Cline interviews Seth Matheson, Director of Talent Acquisition at Toast.

The new year is upon us and nearly everyone is making some kind of resolution for self-improvement. For her first post of 2018, Christina Luconi writes about how those who are willing to take on the challenge of keeping their resolution and how they can keep it.

VentureFizz is giving our readers an inside look to the blockchain and cryptocurrency scene in Boston. For the first part of this series, it’s a crash course on what the terms in this new frontier mean.

In the eighth episode of the VentureFizz Career Inspiration podcast, Keith Cline interviews Brian Gilbert, Director of Talent Acquisition at iRobot.

Over the past few years, Boston has emerged as a player in the food and beverage industry with a variety of innovative startups coming out of the space. Allen Bonde of Repsly writes about some of the companies to come out of this space and what they have been up to.

The holiday season has been very festive across the Boston tech community.  Lots of holiday gatherings, charitable giving, and ugly sweaters!

With the year coming to a close, everyone is given a chance to reflect on what they have accomplished in both their personal and professional lives. For her last post of the year, Christina Luconi writes an open letter to her team at Rapid7 thanking them for a great year at the company.

Over the years, the application of Lean principles has been successfully incorporated into many areas of organizations. Jim Hannon of NeuEon writes about how the Lean principles work in business consulting and development and how they can be applied to other areas of a business.