Mass High Tech featured Swaptree in “The Mover” section of this business journal today. The focus of the post is on my new leadership of the company and our all encompassing focus on the customer experience. Customer experience must be at the core of any strategy for consumer Internet ventures. Full story is here.
Great post today by Rob Go posing the question is Boston the next hot city for entrepreneurs?
This is not new territory to Boston. We have led the minicomputer wars with Digital, Wang, Data General & Prime. We had two big time entrants in the Web 1.0 world with Lycos and Monster.
We surely have some great [...]
It is not very often that you get a chance to participate in building a business category.
I have been a digital citizen since the mid-1990’s when I joined Lycos. In my executive roles at Lycos I had a front row seat to the emergence of the Internet Search category. I also played a pioneering role [...]
Lycos was the original internet Search technology and company. Lycos was the fastest IPO in Nasdaq history. Lycos also was also the first Search company to advertise for the mass market with a series of television ads way back in in 1997 and through the late 1990’s.
Check out the first Lycos Ad that links a [...]
Two companies on my resume made history with television ads. Wang was one of the first computer companies to utilize television ads to build it’s brand. Years later, Lycos leveraged television ads to bolster it’s brand building program distinguishing itself as one of the only Internet players of that time to utilize television ads.
Wang strengthened [...]
The Internet’s been around in some form for decades. It wasn’t until the mid-80s, though, that the Web as we know it started coming together — and those precious dot-com domains started getting snatched up.
I bet you are thinking Google, eBay, Amazon, Yahoo…throw in some oldies like Lycos, Excite, GeoCities, Tripod…forget about it. We are [...]
Boston entrepreneurs talk about the market and opportunities in New England. Scott Kirsner features blurbs from blogs written by several entrepreneurs, including JeffBennett.Org, Bijansabet.Com and TheOnda.Org.
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Scott Kirsner’s Article in Boston Globe On New England Innovation
Highland Capital Partners celebrated it’s twentieth anniversary last night with a party for over 1,200 at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts. The guest list included 250 CEOs, long time limited partners of the firm, employees from Highland-backed companies, and business, technology and thought leaders from around the world.
Highland was founded in 1988 [...]
I had the honor last evening to participate on a panel at the Charles River Ventures Entrepreneur Exchange, held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Intercontinental Hotel. Hats off to the Charles River team for bringing out over 200 entrepreneurs and technologists to attend the event. Jon Auerbach kicked off the evening in an [...]
