http://www.93south.net Promoting new technology within the Boston Area Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:42:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Had a great time last night at the North Shore Web Geek meeting.  I arrived a bit late so I did not get a chance to meet everyone there but I'll put it on the list for next month if I am not traveling.   The great thing about this event ... http://www.93south.net/index.php/2008/06/20/the-rise-of-the-north-shore-web-geek/ This weeks 93Startup profile, currently in Alpha, brings a crowdsourcing approach to sourcing vendors for your business.  We all know that finding a new service provider can be a risky and frustrating process.  VendorCity is looking to make that process easier through customer recommendations. I met founder Craig Gillespie at the ... http://www.93south.net/index.php/2008/06/10/93startup-profile-vendorcity-crowdsource-your-vendors/ Our next local 93Startup profile, TotSpot is a very well designed application (it's a Ruby app!) that strives to make it easy to spread the news of juniors latest achievement through the web. Although I have not had the chance to dive deeply into TotSpot yet, I plan a ... http://www.93south.net/index.php/2008/06/05/93startup-profile-totspot-a-place-for-kids/ Does your site need a fresh new look?  Medford's Templamatic is looking to help.  The business, started by local designer Ben Harper,  is building a marketplace for  high quality web templates supplied by a community of graphic designers. Ben, who I am currently working with on professional projects, also ... http://www.93south.net/index.php/2008/06/03/93startup-profile-templamatic-premium-web-template-marketplace/ Our next 93Startup Profile is from another MITX finalist that is taking on the task of managing social communities for top brands including AOL and ESPN.  It looks like they have been doing quite well with "14,000 communities under management". What do you think of Mzinga? Let Boston Know. ... http://www.93south.net/index.php/2008/05/28/93startup-profile-mzinga-enterprise-community-management/ If you have been to many of the local technology events in the area, you probably have run into Genotrope CPO Thomas Summit.  Genotrope, out of Newburyport, is using an interesting visualization technology to deliver a picture of a companies "DNA" as seen through the founders past companies and investors.  ... http://www.93south.net/index.php/2008/05/22/93startup-profiles-genotrope-boston-startup-jobs/ Our next 93Startup Profile is from another MITX finalist and a company that I have covered on 93South before - StyleFeeder, the web 2.0 "personal shopping site". What do you think of StyleFeeder? Let Boston Know. StyleFeeder Location: Cambridge, MA Funding: VC - ($2M Series A in Jan. 08 plus an earlier round) # of ... http://www.93south.net/index.php/2008/05/20/93startup-profile-stylefeeder-personal-shopping-web-20-style/ It was a great turnout for the PopSignal event last night in Boston. All of the usual suspects were out in force and the registration table claimed they had close to the 600 registered attendees there at the event.   ... http://www.93south.net/index.php/2008/05/16/great-turnout-at-popsignal/ Congratulations to our own HubSpot for pulling down $12M in funding as reported on TechCrunch.  The Series B round led by Matrix Partners is in addition to the $5M the company raised last September in a round led by General Catalyst. This may give the HubSpot ... http://www.93south.net/index.php/2008/05/15/hubspot-pulls-down-12m/ For our second 93Startup Profile, we go from a 1 person, self-funded startup to an 80 person well-funded startup out of Littleton. Marathon Technologies is also one of the finalists in this years MITX awards and the first to break the "keep it to just a few sentences" rule. What ... http://www.93south.net/index.php/2008/05/15/93startup-profile-marathon-technologies-disaster-recovery-software/