Brittany DiCapua started The Boston Food Journal a year and a half ago by sharing food on Instagram and it has morphed into much more than a side project for her. She describes The Boston Food Journal as highlighting the food and dining industr

Ep: 041 - Beck Bamberger - BAM Communications - 'Success', Public Relations & Expanding Comfort Zones

May 10th, 2017 45m 44s

Beck Bamberger is founder and CEO of BAM Communications, a PR firm for startups. Beck graduated UCLA in two years and was then, the youngest MBA graduate from the University of Pittsburgh at age 21. She started BAM Communications while working

Ep: 040 - Kevin Kinsella - Avalon Ventures - From Employee to Founder to Investor: San Diego's Most Interesting Man

May 4th, 2017 48m 24s

Kevin Kinsella is a venture capitalist in San Diego. Kevin has been a part of the formation, financing, and development of more than 125 companies, including several public companies. In the past, Kevin has led international joined ventures for

Ep: 039 - Sumner Lee - Fuse Integration - Warfighter Focused Engineering & Design

Apr 25th, 2017 36m 19s

Sumner Lee is founder of Fuse Integration. Before founding the company, Sumner was in the Navy, and then spent time in SPAWAR and design consultancy. Fuse is a design and engineering firm that brings warfighter focused design to commercial and

Ep: 038 - Brian O'Neill - Designing for Analytics - Designing Indispensable Data Products

Apr 4th, 2017 55m 18s

Brian Oneill has been a product designer for more than twenty years and in the last ten years has been an independent consultant and started his company Designing For Analytics last year. Brian has helped designed products for companies ranging

Ep: 037 - Dave Smith - Liquiglide - Revolutionizing Packaging and Manufacturing Through Permanently Slippery Surfaces

Mar 21st, 2017 24m 1s

David Smith is CEO of LiquiGlide. LiquiGlide’s technology was developed at a research lab at MIT and its function is to provide permanently wet surfaces that can be used in a wide variety of applications including manufacturing, consumer packag

Ep: 036 - Andy Ory - 128 Technology - On A Mission To Fix the Internet

Mar 14th, 2017 48m 21s

Andy Ory sold his last company, Acme Packet, to Oracle for $2.1 billion and soon after co-founded 128 Technology. 128 Technology is on a mission to fix the broken internet. The internet isn’t used for what it was originally designed for and tha

Ep: 035 - Liz Powers - ArtLifting - Creating Opportunities Through Art

Mar 1st, 2017 20m 3s

Liz Powers is co-founder and “Chief Happiness Spreader” at ArtLifting. Liz co-founded ArtLifting with her brother after creating art groups in homeless shelters only to see amazing pieces of art end up in basements and closets of shelters. ArtL

Ep: 034 - David_Delmar - Resilient Coders - Addressing Tech's Diversity Problems

Feb 14th, 2017 34m 16s

David Delmar is the founder and executive director at Resilient Coders and formerly was a design lead at PayPal. Resilient Coders’ mission is simple: they take students from traditionally under-served communities and teach them the skills need

Ep: 033 - Annie Wang - Her Campus - From bootstrapping to over 10,000 contributors

Feb 7th, 2017 40m 32s

Annie Wang is co-founder, Chief Product Officer, and Creative Director at Her Campus. Annie co-founded Her Campus at Harvard University after she and her co-founders saw the potential of bringing a women’s college-focused lifestyle and fashion

Ep: 032 - Rachel_Spekman - MassChallenge - The Most Startup-Friendly Accelerator

Jan 31st, 2017 21m 45s

Rachel Spekman is currently the Director of Programming at MassChallenge, which describes itself to be the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet. MassChallenge awards over two million dollars in equity-free prizes every year to help h

Ep: 031 - Semyon Dukach - Techstars- From MIT Blackjack to Startup Founder to Angel Investor

Jan 24th, 2017 36m 18s

Semyon Dukach is currently the Program Director at Techstars Boston and is an angel investor with roughly over 100 investments. He is also the chairman of SharpSpring, which he took over in 2002 and then took public in 2011. He lead one of the

Ep: 030 - Rob MacLeod - Neoscape - Virtual Reality, Hiring, and 20+ Years of Startup Experience

Jan 17th, 2017 48m 2s

Rob MacLeod is founder of Neoscape, a one-stop shop for clients including real estate developers, architects, designers, and corporations for everything from 3-D renderings, imaging, filmmaking, animation, interactive development, branding, and

Ep: 029 - Enrico Palmerino - botkeeper - Artificial Intelligence meets Bookkeeping

Jan 12th, 2017 32m 28s

Enrico Palmerino founded botkeeper to focus on the software solution for bookkeeping by using artificial intelligence. Enrico started his first company ThinkLite while attending college at Babson. ThinkLite is a lighting designer, manufacturer,

Ep: 028 - Maya Rafie - Bistara - The Freelance Marketplace to Hire College Students for Creative Gigs

Dec 13th, 2016 23m 41s

Maya Rafie is founder of Bistara, the first freelance marketplace to hire college students for creative gigs. Maya, a freelance photographer, founded Bistara while attending Emerson College. Bistara encourages students to “be your own boss” in

Ep: 027 - Doug Morgan - Lola Travel - What it's Like to be Acquired

Dec 6th, 2016 27m 3s

Doug Morgan is the Director of Engineering at Lola Travel. Doug joined the company when Lola acquired HopOn, the company he co-founded. Lola connects travelers with in-house personal travel consultants who help customers plan, book, and manage

Ep: 026 - Win Smith - Sugarbush - Going from Merrill Lynch to Owning a Ski Resort

Nov 29th, 2016 25m 11s

Win Smith’s father was a founding member of Merrill Lynch and he worked there for twenty-eight years as the executive vice president. However, when new management was brought in and disagreed with the values that the firm had been founded on, h

Ep: 025 - Rory Crawford - BevSpot - Real-time Bar and Restaurant Analytics

Nov 22nd, 2016 25m 58s

Rory Crawford is co-founder and CEO of BevSpot. BevSpot is a hospitality management software that allows restaurants and bars to monitor and order inventory three times faster and provides visualizations to help identify trends in usage, inven

Ep: 024 - Cort Davies - Startup CMO - How Early-Stage Startups can still Achieve Marketing Results

Nov 15th, 2016 45m 5s

Cort Davies is founder of StartupCMO, an aid to small companies with limited budgets for marketing. Cort first got into online marketing after realizing that the Internet was the next big platform after real estate. After helping friends genera

Ep: 023 - Karin Brandt - coUrbanize - Community-Driven Urban Planning

Nov 10th, 2016 26m 18s

Karin Brandt is founder and CEO of CoUrbanize. CoUrbanize allows residents to participate in the development process of their neighborhood. Ideas can be exchanged and considered without having to physically go to meetings and sort through piles

Ep: 022 - Rob Biederman - Catalant - The World's Top Experts On Demand

Nov 7th, 2016 39m 14s

Rob Biederman’s co-founded Catalant (formerly HourlyNerd) while getting his MBA at HBS as a requirement to for his Field III Course. They started by going to small businesses surrounding the campus and asking what problems they were facing and

Ep: 021 - Ken Cowan - Openview - Investing in Expansion-Stage Software Companies

Nov 3rd, 2016 1h 3m

Ken Cowan has made his way from a consultant, to CEO of an automotive services company to an investor. Currently, Ken is an associate at OpenView Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that focuses on expansion-stage software companies. Ken q

Ep: 20 - Rory Cuddyer - City of Boston - Boston's Startup Czar

Oct 31st, 2016 37m 8s

Rory Cuddyer was named the City of Boston’s Startup Manager by the Mayor in March of 2015. But what does that mean and what does he do? I sat down with Rory to find out. Previously, Rory was an advisor the Mayor’s Chief of Staff and was named t

Ep: 019 - Ellen Chisa - Lola Travel - Connecting Travelers and In-House Personal Travel Consultants

Oct 28th, 2016 39m 57s

Ellen Chisa started her career in Program Management at Microsoft then moved to Kickstarter as a Product Manager where she was the fiftieth employee. In 2015 she joined Lola Travel as the first employee as the VP of Product. Lola is Paul Englis

Ep: 018 - Ben Rubin - 10% Happier - Taking The 'Woo Woo' Out of Meditation

Oct 26th, 2016 45m 48s

Ben Rubin started his first company, Zeo, while attending Brown University, to help people learn how to measure and manage their sleep. Following Zeo, Ben co-founded the Change Collective, focusing on helping people drive change through courses