Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. At 18, kids are worried about college and that in itself is a sizable market. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Photo by nazreth.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Dr. Said is a dentist himself and argued a good case for a network of dentists with special offers for uninsured consumers. Then Nirupama Mallavarupu from Summit, New Jersey, discussed PTA Portals, a platform for building niche social networks for private groups, starting with Parent-Teacher Associations. Discuss.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. I have a great network. 04:24): But we have a great network.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we partnered with the Indian Angel Network (IAN). Delyver Retail Network. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Photo by barunpatro. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously. In terms of monetization, Vin expects the ad networks to supply ads to his site by selling ads to local restaurants. That sounds great. It may also be expensive to do.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

First up today was John Boyd with MeetingWave , a social media platform that caters to university alumni associations and addresses the challenge of helping them create walled-garden professional and social networking groups under their own brand, as opposed to groups within Facebook or LinkedIn. Photo by duchesssa. Discuss.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

So for example, a few years ago in the town I was living in Lexington, Massachusetts, they offered an incentive for buying solar panels. So they call into the call center, they go out of network, they're not happy, and that cost us money. And that opened up a floodgate of marketing, just crazy amounts of marketing.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The world we live in today is truly global, and I am proud of the 1M/1M initiative's ability to support this global business network. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Photo by peapodsquadmom.

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VC Adventure

JULY 1, 2021

Sweet Grace was born in 2008, as the Great Recession ripped through the United States, particularly affecting working-class communities like Lawrence, Massachusetts where Danaris lives. One of our biggest inspirations and favorite New Builders is Danaris Mazara of Sweet Grace Heavenly Cakes. She had $37 in food stamps to her name.

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Andrew Payne

JANUARY 30, 2013

United States Attorney for Massachusetts. His violation of MIT’s guest ToS is less clear: MIT is famously and widely known for an open campus and network, and there’s a reasonable argument MIT’s effective ToS is much more permissive. January 28, 2013. The Honorable Carmen M. John Joseph Moakley. United State Federal Courthouse.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

LinkedIn provides some great tools for identifying and screening candidates and allows a business to leverage their own network and word-of-mouth to identify the most qualified candidates. Tow other good online resources are Ceridian and HireRight.com both of which can help you to manage the search and the screening process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Co-founder companies are the norm in California, but 40-50% of the startups in New York and Massachusetts have only one founder. No surprises here. Whites and Asians lead the race.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum. Marty Zwilling. angels entrepreneur funding groups startup'

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. Recently, Disney was seen scoping out space in Kendall Square to set up a research lab.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Co-founder companies are the norm in California, but 40-50% of the startups in New York and Massachusetts have only one founder. No surprises here. Whites and Asians lead the race.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

The format is more social networking in nature, and they also will soon provide a recruiting portal for crowdfunding with unaccredited investors, now that the US JOBS Act has been passed. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2010

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Co-founder companies are the norm in California, but 40-50% of the startups in New York and Massachusetts have only one founder. No surprises here. Whites and Asians lead the race.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

There are over 60,000 designers working in Massachusetts alone — the state is well past the national average when it comes to professional designers. In lieu of a physical space we’d launch a website that would link the design community and our audience with our network of exhibitions and events across the city.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

acronyms e.g. MIT for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to Google, a good CTR in the search network is one that is above 1%. With Modified Broad, our modified terms must appear in the user’s query, but can be matched based on close keyword variations. stemmings e.g. hiking from hike.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Stephane Corlosquet – Massachusetts General Hospital. The trend for social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc) is to expose their graph interfaces so new applications can automatically inspect and bring new value to undiscovered social patterns. 4) social network anaysis enabled by Annotations and linked data.

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Andrew Payne

JANUARY 30, 2013

United States Attorney for Massachusetts. His violation of MIT’s guest ToS is less clear: MIT is famously and widely known for an open campus and network, and there’s a reasonable argument MIT’s effective ToS is much more permissive. January 28, 2013. The Honorable Carmen M. John Joseph Moakley. United State Federal Courthouse.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I see it first hand in Los Angeles where given the growth of YouTube networks the worlds of art & technology are colliding. In Massachusetts companies (and VCs) have migrated from out by Waltham to Back Bay (Boston) or Cambridge. I’m sure there’s a lot of truth to that. Many “tech companies” now have green screens.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Co-founder companies are the norm in California, but 40-50% of the startups in New York and Massachusetts have only one founder. No surprises here. Whites and Asians lead the race.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2019

The LGBTQ+ in Tech Forum started off with a networking lunch, which then led to a Keynote speech from distinguished investor Joel Fontenot , Managing General Partner at Reditus Ventures. " @Cwyatt1 Chief Revenue Officer from @upswing during her roundtable discussion on "Management Essentials.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Manuel Rosso , CEO at Rosso & Flynn Modern Butcher , earned a Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a way to establish credibility, but he wishes he had started his entrepreneurial career sooner. Gretel attributes the group’s growth to their “unique and authentic passion for helping ourselves.”

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 22, 2012

Over a year and a half ago, I did a two-part blog post on the East Coast IPO malaise – one focused on Boston (Massachusetts more broadly), another focused on New York. As for the adtech sector, why did DC-based Millenial Media, a mobile advertising network, have such a strong public offering if the sector is out of favor?

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Gust

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Southern Willamette Angel Network – Eugene, OR ( [link].com/bus… Tacoma Angel Network – Tacoma, WA ( [link] twork.com/ ). In particular, the first two, Alliance of Angels and Bellingham Angel Group, are two of the preeminent groups in the country, easily rivaling those of us in California, New York and Massachusetts.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

On April 16, I was in Mumbai doing a live 1M/1M event with TiE Mumbai and Indian Angel Network (IAN). We also had Pritam Roy present Gomolo.in , a social network and online hangout for movie lovers. It would also help him figure out the audience engagement model of how to make the social network compelling. Fragrochem.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Massachusetts needs money. But Massachusetts looked at its burgeoning technology sector and thought that it could squeeze at least $160 million a year out the Commonwealth’s startups and established technology firms for funding of a transportation bill. So, the Massachusetts “Tech Tax” was born.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Past livestream attendees have reported great conversations and networking. They represent more than 10,000 people total. If you're not attending the conference in person, consider meeting up with one of these groups to watch. Most simulcasts are free, although some charge a small fee to cover their costs.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. Below you can see the number of doctors in the athenahealth network - which is over 25,000. There are nearly 1 million physicians in the US.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Kittredge started making candles in his Massachusetts home and started selling them to interested neighbors. The first Yankee Candle Shop opened in 1975 and continued to expand throughout Massachusetts. and sells products through a wholesale customer network of nearly 20,200 stores.

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Brandanew

JULY 17, 2015

Are you a social media enthusiast longing to network with those from your field? Either ways, the rules of the game are pretty simple – the more you network, the better you get at your job. Place: Boston, Massachusetts. image via social media strategies summit here. Corporate Social Media Summit. Place: New York, New York.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction. Arun Ravi from San Francisco, California, discussed inCircled , a proposed new social network that would be significantly more selective about only involving 'inner circle' friends. Discuss.

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