Community Voices
Views from the front lines of the New England tech economy

With Komen and SOPA, the web has finally grown up
MHT Managing Editor Rodney Brown: It wasn't until a pair of recent events that one could truly say the Internet in general and social media in particular was more than a way for people to share funny cat pictures or post horrified exclamations about what is happening on Glee.
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Self assessment for driving revenue growth
CustomerCentric's Jim Naro: I often get called into an organization when revenue growth stalls. I start at a high level to discover where there are missing links and broken pieces within the sales organization. I've outlined a starting point for assessing your own organization.
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Even startups need severance agreements
Parker Scheer LLP's Barry Scheer: As a business attorney, I am often asked by struggling startup company executives, faced with having to lay off employees, whether they are obligated to make severance payments...Both severance payments and severance agreements generally provide intangible benefits and social utility that far outweigh their cost — even to struggling companies.
- Navilyst Medical to be bought for $372M by AngioDynamics
- Enterasys leaving Andover, moving back to NH
- Facebook data can – and should – change Congress
- ConforMIS grabs $89 Million in Series E financing
- FDA approves Vertex cystic fibrosis drug
- Dana-Farber lands $10M grant for cancer imaging research
- Sanofi hits Genzyme with layoffs
- iRobot takes $6M stake of InTouch Health
- FDA OKs Cynosure cellulite reduction device
- MIT makes solar panels from plants
- Foundation Medicine gets OK for sequencing lab
- Startup Co3 Systems lands Series A round
- ConforMIS grabs $89 Million in Series E financing
- Startup MyCare gets $1M in seed funding
- Sanofi hits Genzyme with layoffs
- Energy Leaders Breakfast Club: Green Communities Act, energy costs, and volatility
- Stem cells may shed light on hepatitis, MIT researchers find
- PurposeEnergy pulls a $650K funding draft
- Fledgling Holyoke computer center gives $600,000 in grants
- RatePoint closing after quiet Constant Contact partial buy
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