February 2011

Greenhorn TV Episode 61: February 27th – March 5th

We're onto another great week and another amazing month in the Boston startup community. This week promises you over 35 networking events and office hours! We know it's impossible to get to them all, so here's the best events for you to get the most out of the week. Read on to find out the can't-miss events of the week! 
 
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Founder's Friday: InstantNightlife

Who are the faces behind a company? How did the company get started? These are common question you may have about startups you see and hear about. If you don't get a chance to personally meet the founders, you're unlikely to ever know their story. That's what Founder Fridays is all about.
 
This week we have Kayvan Zainabadi,  Co-Founder and CEO of InstantNightlife, an app that helps you pick the best club to go out to. InstantNightlife just celebrated thier 1-year anniversary and recently launched a realtime deals platform where bars & clubs post instant deals to draw people to their venue.

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5 Lessons Learned in a Lean Startup

In honor of both the Lean Startup Circle Meetup on Thursday and the Lean Startup Machine coming this weekend, I'd like to share a few lessons I've learned in the past year as I've served as Customer Development Manager at oneforty and been actively learning the Lean Startups methodology.  

 

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Greenhorn TV Episode 60: February 20th – 26th

 Happy President's Day! Whether you're working today like Jason or enjoying the long weekend like Pardees, we bet you're gearing up for another great week in Boston! This week boasts of over 31 awesome startup networking events and office hours. We know you can't attend them all so we've counted down the best! Read on to find out the can't miss events of the week!

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Founder's Friday: iCreate to Educate

Who are the faces behind a company? How did the company get started? These are common question you may have about startups you see and hear about. If you don't get a chance to personally meet the founders, you're unlikely to ever know their story. That's what Founder Fridays is all about.

This week we have Melissa Pickering from iCreate to Educate, a company innovating the K-12 Classroom.

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3 Steps to Cyber-Networking Success

In the public relations field, everything is about who you know. When I first started I literally had zero connections. Luckily after a few months, I realized how to use web to not only strengthen my connections established through networking events, but to also bring the networking game to the web. Here's my tips on using the internet to help you network! 

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Stop Focusing on Failure, Study Success.

You hear it all the time: "Fail Fast", "Celebrate Failure" and "Learn from Failure."  But is that really what matters?  Does knowing what doesn't work actually help you get significantly closer to what will work?  Are we predisposed to rationalize failure, because we don't want to feel like the insane work hours of a startup were a waste? I don't think we should ignore failure, but we need to do more to study, and immitate success.  There is 100X more to learn and gain value from success. 

Let's examine this topic...

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Greenhorn TV Episode 59: February 13th –19th

 Hope everyone's well rested after this weekend, because Boston has packed the week with some awesome startup events this week! February is in full swing with over 55 events going on this week, and over 200 scheduled for the month. It was hard, but we narrowed down the best events of this week for you. Read on to find out the can't-miss events of the week! 
 
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Founder's Friday: ParallelCities

Who are the faces behind a company? How did the company get started? These are common question you may have about startups you see and hear about. If you don't get a chance to personally meet the founders, you're unlikely to ever know their story. That's what Founder Fridays is all about.

This week we have Sidi Gomes from ParallelCities, a mobile app that will change the way you meet people at events.

 

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Kevin Vogelsang: Understanding the Design Process -- 4 Key Methods

We design art, software, personal schedules, business plans, essays, blog posts, and, hopefully to an increasing degree, our own lives.  This concept of "design" is important, and I think it's absolutely necessary to understand the different design processes we employ, or, more often, the design processes that play themselves out whether we're conscious of it or not.
 

Here are the major types of design that can be observed in most development processes:

 

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Event Recap: Developers Developers Developers Developers aka d8event is a Hit!

This weekend hundreds of students descended upon Microsoft NERD to learn about the latest web technologies for both development and design as well as what makes startups a great place to work. The first floor conference area was standing room only as students from 57 different New England schools eagerly listened and learned from great web experts like Dharmesh Shah, Angus Davis, John Resig, and Annie Wang.  It was a lot of fun to put on the event and I picked up a few things watching the talks. I'd like to share some highlights and lessons learned from the event.

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The Inside Look of the Investment Process for VCs

Many Entrepreneurs understand the basics behind the attributes that Venture Capital (VC) firms base their investment decisions; but do you know what steps they take to get there? The following post will highlight the investment process and the timeline associated for the typical VC process.