by vdc | Apr 27, 2011 | General
Guest post by Marc Cenedella, CEO & Founder of TheLadders.com It was the fall of 2003 and the four of us co-founders were all working from our homes. TheLadders was a free product with 15,000 subscribers to our weekly newsletters at that point. We’d get together...
by vdc | Apr 22, 2011 | General
The bay area, envied the world over for its industry of innovation, grabbed about 48% of the nation’s venture capital investment in Q1 2011. It does so consistently. What is it about the bay area that makes it a hub for startups??? It just has the right kind of...
by vdc | Apr 7, 2011 | General
Sadhana Palugulla, UMass Boston, computer science major, is the new Customer Support and Data Administration intern at Buzzient, a Cambridge-based startup that provides social media analytics software, attracting business customers from gaming to financial services....
by vdc | Mar 28, 2011 | General
What would happen if every employee had a clause in their contract that said, “You make it, you use it?” That’s called eating your own dog food, an expression describing the act of a company using its own products for day-to-day operations. A company that eats...
by vdc | Feb 26, 2011 | General
The recent visits to the Venture Development Center by Boston Seed Capital, Golden Seeds, Founder Collective, Race Point Capital, Boston Harbor Angels and Project 11 Ventures show that you can get in front of the right people more effectively by joining a program that...