Mowbi

talentGraphz Record: Mowbi Funding Status: Bootstrapped, Seed Founders Backgrounds: T-ShirtKing.com, Shipyard Brewing Company Investors: Seeking investment Industry: Mobile Application Offering Description: Mowbi is a mobile commerce platform for everybody. Mowbi includes a mobile store, mobile billing and invoicing system, a mobile credit card terminal and text marketing tools. Because of Mowbi’s modular design, it is

Paul Graham is a Brilliant Recruiter

I am sure the epithet recruiter is not something PG will lay claim to, but the facts speak for themselves. Their recruiting program may have developed organically but the new application that lets would be aspirants apply to all of the YC companies at once, makes it clear that recruiting hackers is one of the

When Will These Web Sites Launch Q3 2010

Every quarter we compile a list of new web properties that are in private beta or “coming soon” stage. We hope to give them a bit of exposure and help with early customer sign up. The other goal is to encourage them to come out to the public and start to get feedback from the

TurningArt

talentGraphz Record: TurningArt Funding Status: Seed Founders Backgrounds: Bankfox Investors: ? Industry: Consumer Web Offering Description: It’s like Netflix for Art Prints. Browse the work of our hand-selected artists and build a queue of artwork that you’d like to explore.

Abine

talentGraphz  Record: Abine Funding Status: Seed Founders Backgrounds: Datapower, LRN, Security Metrics Investors: Self Funded? Industry: Consumer Web Security Offering Description: provides Internet privacy solutions for consumers. Abine’s products and services allow regular people to regain control over their personal information while continuing to browse, interact and shop online.

Do Anchor Companies Have an Effect on the Start-up Eco-system?

This article originally appeared as a guest post on Greenhorn Connect on Tue, 06/15/2010 Starting and growing companies that become or have the potential to become huge, is a goal of several initiatives and members of the entrepreneurial community in the Boston area. The reasoning behind this is the premise that huge companies provide a proving

Social Design Meet hosts TestCase: Designing for Conversion

A new group; the Social Design Meet is starting up and TestCase is pleased to contribute at their first meeting. Both groups share the same goal of creating events that are not only great social/ networking gatherings, but also an event where you can leave knowing you learned something. This third TestCase subject is Social

Sembled

Genotrope Record:  Sembled Funding Status: Seed Founders Backgrounds: Great Hill Partners (Boston-based private equity firm). Investors: Friends & Family / Founder Industry: Consumer Web Offering Description: Sembled.com LLC helps consumers identify the easiest “assembly requried” products and strives to reduce frustration and time required in assembling a product with detailed video and photo instructions and

The Angels Investors are Coming to Boston in June

Two really great events for startups to get exposure to angel investors are being held in Boston this June. The first event, Angel Boot Camp is being held June 1, 2010 at Microsoft NERD.  This event is spearheaded by Jon Pierce, local;  Hacker, Entrepreneur, Founder of Betahouse, Founding Member of The Awesome Foundation. The lineup of

Local VCs Return to Entrepreneurship: NOT !

So we were totally wrong on this. It turns out word has it that along with David Beisel, Rob and Lee are forming a new fund to make early stage investments. So much for jumping back into the ranks of entrepreneurs. 🙂 Recently, a couple of local Venture Capitalists have made the jump out of