by william.brah | Mar 10, 2016 | GEIR program, Incubators, Startups
A Unique Public-Private Partnership, GEIR Program Will Add 20 New Entrepreneurs, Housed at UMass Boston On Thursday, the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence (GEIR) program announced a major gift from Goodwin Procter LLP, its second corporate partner. The...
by william.brah | Mar 6, 2016 | GEIR program, Incubators, Startups, Tech transfer
54% of the life science companies (including MIT spinout SQZ Biotech, pictured above), launched at the VDC were founded by foreign-born entrepreneurs that came to Massachusetts for graduate study and remained to launch a company. The Massachusetts Global...
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...
by christianvialva | Sep 10, 2015 | Focus On Founders, General, Incubators, Innovation, Views
The Flaw in Silicon Valley’s Diversity Approach With its glass walls and windows overlooking the Boston harbor, the Venture Development Center (VDC), located at UMass Boston, can sometimes feel like a bubble. As you walk through the glass doors at the...
by edelfreitas | May 20, 2015 | Focus On Founders, General, Incubators, Innovation, Internships, Mentoring, News and Events, Startups, Tech transfer
As most incubators do, we always like to catch up with our graduates to see how they have been doing since they have “left the nest” of the Venture Development Center (VDC). I got a chance to see how Dr. Jill Macoska, director of the Center for...
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”)...
