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By Niel Robertson on March 18, 2010
After almost 18 months, the whole team here is extremely pleased to present Trada to the world. As you learn about what Trada is doing, we hope you get as excited as we are. We fundamentally think we’ve invented, developed and continue to perfect a totally new way of doing paid search. It’s a way [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged advertising, AdWords, Boston, Entrepreneurship, Iceland, launch, Online advertising, Seth Levine, startups, Trada, Trada News
By Brad Feld on March 15, 2010
One of our internal mantras at TechStars is to “publish your data.” We encourage ever team to do this starting very early in their life. To this day, I still get daily performance reports (I refer to them as TPS reports) from many of the companies that have gone through the program.
Last week, David Cohen [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Entrepreneurship, startups, TechStars, Venture Capital
By Brad Feld on March 11, 2010
Over the years, a number of companies I’ve been an investor in have had hackathons. These are typically day long events where everyone in the company works on whatever cool new ideas they have. On Monday night I got a note from a company I’m on the board of about a hackthon they just completed. [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged agile development, Entrepreneurship, hackathon, Programming
By Zoli Erdos on March 5, 2010
Under the Radar is Silicon Valley’s most established startup debut platform: a conference series organized by Dealmaker Media, covering business applications, social media, entertainment, mobility..etc.
This year’s conference in Mountain View, CA on April 16th will focus on Commercializing the Cloud – that’s a fairly wide definition, and one that perfectly mashes with our focus [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Dealmaker Media, Entrepreneurship, events, marketing, Networking, Silicon Valley, startups, vc funding
By Brad Feld on February 24, 2010
Today, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) introduced the StartUp Visa Act of 2010. The group of us behind the Startup Visa project have been working closely with key members of each Senators’ staff on this and we are incredibly pleased with the proposed bill.
Following is the text from the press release [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, Immigration, Startup Visa, startups, Venture Capital
By Brad Feld on February 22, 2010
Every day I get emails from folks either raising money or telling me about their new idea and asking for feedback. The conventional wisdom is that VCs rarely invest in things that reach them randomly (or “over the transom” in someone’s VC vocabulary – I can’t for the life of me figure out why that [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, fundraising, pitches, Video
By Brad Feld on February 21, 2010
I’m extremely impressed with Vivek Wadhwa’s posts on TechCrunch. He’s been blogging periodically for them since last fall and has shown that he’s willing to take on difficult, controversial, and complicated issues and discuss them in data driven and systematic ways.
Recently, Vivek wrote a post titled Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC’s have [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, Information technology, NCWIT, Vivek Wadhwa, women
By Brad Feld on February 10, 2010
Scott Kirsner had a fun article in Boston.com today titled The Red Line Tour of Innovation in Boston. Several of the stops were regularly hang outs of mine between 1983 and 1995 most notably #10 (Miracle of Science) and #11 (Toscanini’s) but also including #5 (MIT Media Lab), #6 (Muddy Charles Pub), #7 (MIT Lobby [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged ADP, Boston, Boston Globe, Cambridge, Entrepreneurship, startups
By Brad Feld on February 8, 2010
Lots of little things go into building a great company over the long term. Rally Software is one that I’m proud to have been involved in from the beginning. I remember when Ryan Martens, the founder, would sit for entire days in a small conference room near my office covering the white boards on the [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged babies, Entrepreneurship, Kerpoof, mom, rally software, work culture
By Sandy Kemsley on February 6, 2010
After we heard from Gurbaksh Chahal, the rest of DemoCamp proceeded as usual. We were in the Ted Rogers School of Management, part of Ryerson University, in a really great lecture hall space that seats a few hundred people; it seemed like most of the seats were filled that night.
First up was Albert Lai of [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged barcamp, DemoCamp, Entrepreneurship, Facebook, google, Social network, startups
