by christianvialva | Jul 16, 2015 | Focus On Founders, General, Innovation, News and Events
Activity trackers and the like have become commonplace in today’s tech news. It seems like every month or so, I read about the release of a new activity tracking device that will help me reach my fitness goals better and faster than without the device. This is all to...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
