“Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me About the Rewarding Careers in Startupland?”

by william.brah | Feb 12, 2019 | Hiring, Internships, Student Successes, Women Rising In Tech

UMass Boston grad Gabriela Veloz (’14) and her CloudHealth Technologies colleagues talked to UMass Boston students about career opportunities in venture-backed startup companies. Remember those times when you’d wish someone just a little ahead of you would...

Women Rising in Tech Companies: Jing Jiang (’12)

by william.brah | Feb 5, 2016 | General, Hiring, Mentoring, Startups, Women Rising In Tech

According to a study by Catalyst about the gender divide in technology-intensive industries, “Women coming out of business schools, looking to advance their careers, are looking elsewhere.” Anna Beninger, the report’s author, says women see these...

Where Did All the Money Go in 2015? LaunchSource Already Knows.

by william.brah | Dec 3, 2015 | Fundraising, Hiring, Incubators, Marketing and Selling, Startups

There is a normal lag in investment deal reporting, so we have to wait to see what 2015 will look like, but based on deals reported from January through mid-November 2015 (with comparisons to the same period in 2014) by VentureDeal, we know the headlines will be about...

Meet the UMass Boston Students Who Just Published in the Journal Science

by william.brah | Oct 22, 2015 | Hiring, Startups, Student Successes

For any scientist, let alone an undergraduate, getting published in Nature or Science is very difficult to do. Less than 1% of the researchers at the entire university last year authored a paper in either journal, according to Nature Index. So, imagine the high-five...

Solving the problem of finding bad fits for sales roles

by william.brah | Jun 16, 2015 | Focus On Founders, General, Hiring, Innovation, Internships, Marketing and Selling, Startups

For venture-backed SaaS companies in the Boston area, it seems that the only real limitation to their growth is the speed at which they can hire. Not just hire software engineers and the like, but entry-level business development reps. Without them, quarterly targets...

The Emerging Companies Map Is a Gift Every Ambitious College Grad Will Love

by edelfreitas | May 13, 2015 | General, Hiring, Incubators, Innovation, Internships, Marketing and Selling, Startups

This is a map of 400+ venture-backed tech companies that have been funded in the past two years. (The map was updated on November 22, 2015.) These are companies working on the hottest areas and technologies in Massachusetts (one could say “in the world”)...