Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Boston Next Hot Start Up Town

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 [...]

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Flybridge Invests In Oneforty

Applications are what drive computers, smart phones and platforms.  This is not a new phenomena.  When I started my career selling for Wang…our customers wanted our computers to power their word processing and increasingly other applications that were developed on the Wang hardware platform.
The Apple iPhone is a remarkable success.  The form factor and design [...]

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

TechStars Boston Plans Spring 2010 Boot Camp

I was delighted to participate in the TechStars program this past Summer as a Mentor for the program.  I got to work with some great startup teams.  It was also a wonderful experience collaborating and networking with so many successful entrepreneurs in the Boston community.  It is great news to hear that plans for TechStars [...]

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Jeff Bennett Blog Top Posts-October 2009

1. Video Can Be Viral…Needs To Be Authentic Though
2. Happy Birthday Daily Grommet
3. Rue La La Going Oo La La On Acquisition
4. Social Apps Exploding – Farmville Having Bumper Virtual Season
5. Fitchburg-Leominster Reinact First Football Game From 1894
6. New Best Friend Growing Quickly
7. “Inbound Marketing” Added To Jeff Bennett Blog Reading List
8. Daily Grommet Launches [...]

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Jeff Bennett Blog Top Posts-September 2009

1.  ReadWrite Lauds Oneforty
2.  Happy 90th Birthday Johnny Pesky
3.  Over 2 Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded
4.  Photo.Net Tribute To Photography
5.  Oneforty Launches Twitter App Store
6.  NameMedia Niche Sites On The Move (Again)!
7.  Small Businesses…Start Blogging
8.  Verrill Farm Grand Opening
9.  Social Media Makeover
10. Hats Off To Derek Jeter
11. Tech Stars Boston Big Night
12. New Best Friend
13. It [...]

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

ReadWrite Start Lauds Oneforty

ReadWrite Start was covering the TechStars Investor Day in Silicon Valley today.   TechStars showcased thirteen companies that completed the incubator/boot camp in Boston and Boulder.  My favorite TechStars venture was Oneforty.  ReadWrite lauded OneForty in their blog today:
“This service is best described as “Twitter’s app store”. ReadWriteWeb covered the company’s funding announcement just 15 days [...]

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Oneforty Launches Twitter App Store

Twitter has taken the world by storm and really transformed one-to-many communication.  Twitter has allowed  you to inform your friends what you are doing.  Twitter has allowed traveling food trucks to let their loyal followers where they will set up shop.  Twitter has allowed teachers to connect to their students for collaborative projects.  Twitter has [...]

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Tech Stars Boston Big Night

Last night was the Investor Night for the nine start ups that endured the Tech Stars boot camp this Summer in Cambridge.  Tech Stars is an innovative program that was founded by David Cohen and Brad Feld out in Boulder, Colorado.   A small number of ventures get seed funding, office space, counsel from a community [...]