Boston Roundup: Skyword, SimpleTuition, Jelly, Pebble, MIT
Curt Woodward
A smattering of fundraising announcements involving Boston-area companies and investors, along with a student entrepreneurship program in this collection of ...
Nine Lessons for Innovators from a Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist
Wade Roush
I was pretty slow about getting around to reading Thinking, Fast and Slow. The career-capping book by Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman, one of the founders ...
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Rebecca Monk, Founder, Bathrooms.com: The 3 Phases of Scaling to a £5m Turnover
Rebekah Monk, Founder at Bathrooms.com, talks to Lexi Mills about how she grew what started as a side project to a £5m turnover business.
Bathrooms.com is a consumer website that sells ...
East Coast Life Sciences Roundup: Termeer, Atlas, OSI Pharma & More
Ben Fidler
All eyes in the biotech world will soon turn to the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting in Chicago, but for now, the industry keeps humming ...
Canada’s startup visa program in ‘hyperdrive’ but U.S. is ‘dysfunctional’ (interview)
Give me your smart, your educated, your startup founders yearning to build companies? As research indicates that the U.S. is an increasingly difficult place for foreign founders to ...
Third Rock’s Ninepoint Medical Grows Up, Plans $35M Series B
Ben Fidler
Ninepoint Medical earned the distinction of becoming the first—and to date, the only—medical device maker seeded by startup creation specialist Third ...
Atlas Leans on Amgen, Novartis to Build New Startups
Ben Fidler
[Corrected on 5/16/13, 9:11 a.m., see below] Fresh off raising $265 million to bankroll its ninth fund, Atlas Venture has forged strategic partnerships with Amgen ...
In Pursuit of Big Opportunity, Software Maker Apptio Raises $45M More
View the Slideshow Benjamin Romano
Apptio, which makes software to help corporate CIO’s manage IT operations, has filled up its coffers for a push into what it sees as ...
VC Meets AC/DC: Video from the NVCA Live Concert
Wade Roush
For a minute I thought I was back in 2008, when Xconomy organized Boston’s first Battle of the Tech Bands. But no, this was 2013, and I was in San Francisco, ...
Boston Roundup: Matrix, Grommet & Rakuten, Ambient, Summer@Highland
Curt Woodward
Updated 10 a.m. with new item
Some news on VC fundraising, startup investment, corporate layoffs, and student entrepreneurship in this midweek rundown of items ...
