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Keep the Gusher of Startup Talent Right Here

by william.brah | Apr 30, 2015 | GEIR program, Incubators, Innovation, Mentoring, Startups

These are companies that can add two dozen employees per year as they rocket upward. This year, we do not have to stand by and watch another group of talented MBAs and PhDs graduating from our local universities leave the country because they can’t secure...
LabCloud: For Fast-Growing Laboratories and Vendors Eager to Reach Them

LabCloud: For Fast-Growing Laboratories and Vendors Eager to Reach Them

by edelfreitas | Apr 17, 2015 | Focus On Founders, Fundraising, Incubators, Innovation, Marketing and Selling, Mentoring, R & D, Startups

Research labs spend more than $35 billion a year on laboratory equipment and supplies. But as big companies restructure their research and development to reduce costs and risks, they rely more and more on research done by smaller companies. These smaller labs are a...
Fast-growing tech companies find a solution to filling sales jobs

Fast-growing tech companies find a solution to filling sales jobs

by william.brah | Apr 9, 2015 | Focus On Founders, General, Hiring, Incubators, Innovation, Marketing and Selling, Startups

Sasanka Atapattu, of LaunchSource, left MassTLC’s Sales & Marketing Summit on April 7, 2015 at UMass Boston with a pocketful of business cards. It’s no wonder why. Growing venture-backed tech companies are struggling to fill entry-level sales jobs, and...
Why the “Uber for Healthcare” is moving to Boston

Why the “Uber for Healthcare” is moving to Boston

by william.brah | Apr 2, 2015 | GEIR program, Incubators, Innovation, Startups

There seems to be a near-endless succession of bright young people promising venture capitalists that they can be “the Uber of X”, where X is anything one of those bright young people can imagine wanting done for them. San Francisco is ground zero for...

Focus on Founders: Big Data Collaboration Between HPC and Breast Cancer Therapeutics Companies

by edelfreitas | Apr 2, 2015 | Focus On Founders, General, Incubators, Innovation, R & D, Startups, What's Offered

In a recent interview with one of our companies, Bioarray Therapeutics, I got an inside look at how founder, Marcia Fournier, made use of the Venture Development Center’s supercomputing facilities.  The supercomputer was developed by another VDC company,...
Gov. Baker Decides International Student Entrepreneurs Are Worth Keeping in Massachusetts

Gov. Baker Decides International Student Entrepreneurs Are Worth Keeping in Massachusetts

by william.brah | Mar 6, 2015 | GEIR program, Innovation, News and Events

Last November, we wrote about a program to help qualified international students stay in Massachusetts after graduation if they are starting or growing a high potential business. Called a clever immigration workaround by Fortune, it is being piloted by the Venture...
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