by edelfreitas | Feb 26, 2015 | Incubators, Innovation, Marketing and Selling, News and Events, Startups
Well, the VDC isn’t technically a corporation, so this was not REALLY a corporate video. However, the video that was created stated clear value propositions and call-to-actions, so, in that sense, it achieved a business purpose. Hence, a corporate video and a...
by william.brah | Feb 23, 2015 | General, Incubators, Innovation, Startups
The Venture Development Center (VDC) at UMass Boston welcomes SQZ Biotech (SQZ), a company founded by MIT colleagues Robert Langer, Klavs Jensen, Armon Sharei and Agustin Lopez Marquez. SQZ contacted the VDC in July 2014 as they were ready to expand their internal...
by edelfreitas | Jan 14, 2015 | Incubators, Innovation, Mentoring, Startups
“Paint them a picture of nirvana; of how beautiful it is going to be and how their problems will be solved.” – John Hamilton Recently, I got the opportunity to sit down with accomplished sales executive and Venture Development Center (VDC) Entrepreneur in...
by edelfreitas | Nov 20, 2014 | GEIR program, Innovation, Startups
Bryan O’Connell, from Limerick, Ireland is the founder of FirstLine, a consumer-oriented healthcare mobile application. FirstLine’s mission is to reduce the friction and cost involved for consumers attempting to access a primary care physician. Bryan received...
by vdc | Jun 18, 2012 | Innovation, Startups
(This article was published on June 18, 2012 by BostInnovation.) More than 15,000 people from around the world have descended upon Boston for the annual BIO International Convention. Among them are economic development officials hoping to entice companies to move to...
by vdc | Nov 20, 2009 | Innovation, Internships
For many of our students, working in a startup is a new experience. They’ve just been steered in other directions. Big firms seemed safer bets. But no longer. According to a new Kauffman Foundation report, two thirds of new jobs are being created by new (not...
