Great line up of speakers today @ TEDxBoston. You can see it here through livestreaming.
Check out MassChallenge, SCVNGR, Bill Warner and Scott Kirsner’s Ted Talks. There is more too but these are really interesting to me.
Boston and New England is an innovation hub. Great to see this showcased within the TED community.
Yesterday we announced to the members of Swaptree that we have acquired Swap.com. This is an important development for a lot of reasons.
First, the essence of what our members do when they are on our site is very simple, they “swap.” We are committed to continuing to grow our platform for books, music, movies and [...]
Marty Cagan is a master of product management. Marty put his skills to work running product at Netscape and eBay. We are all fortunate that Marty is now spreading the word about product management with his book Inspired, and his advisory and consulting practice. This labor of love has spread the gospel on how to [...]
People continue to question Boston’s viability as a start-up town.
Are you kidding?
If you feel this way you should join in on the fun this week at MassChallenge where over 300 start up ventures are pitching to be selected to participate in the incubator’s program this Summer. Let me enunciate this once more OVER 300 START UP [...]
Rachel Botsman is the co-author of the upcoming book What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Harper Business, October 2010). Rachel has authored this book after years of research. Rachel was featured recenthly at TED where she spoke on the power of collaboration and sharing through current and emerging technologies, and on how [...]
Boston is a unique city. It has a long history by America’s standards. This history has played a big role in the establishment of so many educational institutions from the earliest grades through college. People flock from across the world to be educated here. This educational platform has spawned enormous research, product development, advancements in [...]
Swaptree was featured in a segment on saving money this morning. The advent of swapping on the Internet is reinventing this age old way of exchanging things. Check out the video here: Swapping On The Internet
Great web sites are all about the user experience.
Swapping on the web must be all about the user experience. We must strive to add value to that simple and safe swapping opportunity that you have with your family and friends, while adding the scale of Amazon and networking of Facebook. It is a tall [...]
I have to admit that I was not a big reader as a kid. Of course I enjoyed books, but I enjoyed the outdoors, sports and being with friends and family a whole lot more. It’s safe to say that in my earlier years, “summer reading” was not always top of mind.
In truth, I have come [...]
The list of events continue as part of New England Innovation Month. Here is what is on tap this week:
JUNE 22: Cambridge, MA
Founder Dialogues
JUNE 22: Cambridge, MA
MIT Enterprise Forum: From Disruption to Innovation
JUNE 23: Cambridge, MA
Momentum Summit: How Start-Ups Get Big
JUNE 24: Boston, MA
Branded in Boston (SOLD OUT)
JUNE 24: Boston, MA
Emerging Technologies Forum: Health [...]
