Latest News December 4, 2009
NetView files IP suit against Microsoft
U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra highlights TiE Boston event
Boston-linked entrepreneurs launch startups elsewhere
Avid to cut 120 in restructuring plan
MedClean to land up to $7.5M from preferred stock deal
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- DEC may be gone, but it's not forgotten
- IBM to buy Guardium
- Red Hat innovation flows from Westford
- IT firm Egenera takes lean business approach, names new CEO
- Gartner to pay $64M for AMR Research
- National Grid to buy Cape Wind power
- FEMA awards $1M to WPI for firefighter monitors
- DEC co-founder Anderson on VCs and Route 128
- Common Angels' Geshwiler talks of angel investing's future
- Constant Contact CFO Wasserman to resign
- DEC may be gone, but it's not forgotten
- IBM to buy Guardium
- Red Hat innovation flows from Westford
- Minerva licenses cancer biomarker technology
- How you can help young entrepreneurs
- Fitnesskeeper lands seed funds
- Four values in family financing of startups
- IT firm Egenera takes lean business approach, names new CEO
- Common Angels' Geshwiler talks of angel investing's future
- Most health IT firms still waiting for stimulus funds
The PITCH
EnerTrac
Headquarters: Hudson, N.H.
Employees: 15
Founded: 2006
The Pitch: EnerTrac is seeking $1 million in funding to ramp up its business using dielectric sensing technology to let home-heating oil distributors monitor the amount of oil in a tank.
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Twitter Updates
Three alternate routes to financing a startup
In this environment, investors and entrepreneurs are devising creative ways to fund startups that look nothing like the traditional venture finance model. If you’re an entrepreneur at the end of your financial rope, don’t let go of that big idea before you’ve read this.
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- Positioning for an exit: Five must-do's before year-end
- By the numbers: Angel investing, VC backing, and VC board seats
- Four values in family financing of startups
- Most health IT firms still waiting for stimulus funds
- Three alternate routes to financing a startup
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- Small businesses get piece of defense deals in exchange for innovation
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Signature Programs
Women to Watch 2009
Mass High Tech’s Women to Watch program honors 10 New England-based women each year who are leading the way in entrepreneurship, technological innovation and lifelong learning.
Celebrate the Mass High Tech All Stars
Each year, Mass High Tech honors the New England tech industry’s pioneers and leaders from such sectors as: Advanced Energy, Biotech, Electronics, Hardware, Internet, Medical Devices, Software and Telecommunications. We also recognize those in support services who make it possible for entrepreneurship to thrive in the region, including lawyers, financiers, educators, public policy makers and association representatives.
Almost 400 members of the innovation community gathered at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel to honor the 2009 MHT All-Stars. You can read the profiles of the 15 honorees and past recipients, and learn more about the awards reception.
Now it’s time to look ahead to 2010, and the 15th Annual MHT All-Stars program. Nominations are now open, and we encourage you to submit the names of the people that you view as the leaders of your industry sector. Who provides ideas, innovation and vision? Which executives have changed the way people do business in your industry? Who are the thought leaders in your market? Who are the trailblazers for new technologies, the market makers for New England? Help us identify these leading players by nominating them now.
Tech Forums
Mass High Tech hosts four tech-focused forums throughout the year that include panel discussions on issues of concern for the bio, cleantech, emerging tech and finance industries.
Watch here for information on upcoming forums and highlights from recent forum events:
- Finance Forum
- BIO Forum
- CleanTech Forum
- Emerging Technologies Forum
Tech Citizenship: How is your company giving back to the community?
Mass High Tech annually honors New England technology companies that use their innovation to improve their communities as part of our Tech Citizenship Awards program. Now is the time to detail how your organization has helped charities and other non-profits through financial contributions, staff time, technology or other forms of assistance. The 24 outstanding tech citizens were honored at a breakfast event at the Seaport Hotel. Read about their charitable efforts and learn how they met the criteria to be named a Tech Citizen. Their stories offer ideas from which we can all learn.
Know a generous company? Nominations are open for the 2010 Tech Citizenship Awards.
Wired-In
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New England Tech Stock Index
The New England Technology Stock Index (NETSI) provides a snapshot view of the performance of the region’s publicly traded companies. View the index »
Mass High Tech’s 2009 Technology How-To Guide covers the issues concerning high tech business and how to tackle them — issues ranging from overseas expansion and venture capital funding to choosing an MBA program and cutting your company’s energy bill.
- How to work with your accountant on taxes
- How to retain employees
- How to expand a company globally
- How to negotiate a real estate deal
- How to hire a business attorney
- How to purchase health insurance for employees
- How to run a successful meeting
- How to handle a public relations crisis
- How to continue your education
- How to select an MBA program
- How to cut your company’s energy bill
- How to choose a temporary placement agency
- How to attract venture capital funding
- How to generate sales leads
On the MHT blog now
On the MHT blog now
Ben Gulak's Uno redesign makes cycle both weirder and more normal
MIT undergrad Ben Gulak's Cambridge-based startup, BPG Inc., has redesigned its electric unicycle -- the Uno. Gulak told Popular Science the Uno now has the ability to transform from a Segway-like configuration with two side-by-side wheels to a more recognizable motorcycle mode. The changes were made to make the self-balancing bike a safer ride. Just in time for the holidays, BPG is taki...
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Community Voices
Views from the front lines of the New England tech economy
Positioning for an exit: Five must-do's before year-end
Gennari Aronson LLP's Lawrence Gennari: Technology companies and management teams are counting themselves lucky to have survived the worst recession in 50 years. As strategic planning for 2010 continues, decision makers planning for an exit or major transaction next year must keep at least five considerations in mind.
Higher ed investment will protect, fuel Mass. innovation
Economic data released this month found that Massachusetts has not reached the end of the recession. Despite that, the commonwealth has great potential to emerge quickly from this downturn and spur robust job creation. But it will require that we focus on our strengths: higher education, innovation and talent.
New England inventors reap implant patents
Suffolk University Law School's Kirk Teska: One of the first patent applications that I worked on many years ago was for a tool used to remove a hip implant that needed to be replaced. So this month let’s take a look at a few published patent applications and issued patents related to implants that name New England inventors.
Startup Watch
Five You Should Follow
Insight Guru Inc.
Boston-based Insight Guru has developed a website that uses earnings statements and other market data to estimate how much each division of a company’s business impacts its market capitalization. The company was founded in 2009.
Other startups featured in our weekly Startup Report and listed in our online directory:
- Check out the Startup Watch archives
- Search the NE Tech Directory
- List your company
- Purchase the directory
Want to be considered for the Startup Watch? Contact the Startup Watch editor.
Business Calendar
Upcoming Events:
Dec. 8th
Sandler Executive Sales Boot Camp Ultra is Free!
Dec. 8th
New England Lotus User Group - December meeting
Dec. 8th
10th-R&D Product Development Metrics Summit
Dec. 8th
Practical Survey Design: Conduct Online Research with Confidence!
Dec. 8th
TCN Women's Entrepreneurship Breakfast
Dec. 8th
"Intrapreneurs & Innovation: Entrepreneurship Within An Organization"
Dec. 8th
Attivio Webinar: How 6 Companies Transformed Information Management with UIA
Dec. 8th
WPI Venture Forum
Dec. 8th
SBANE Roundtable with State Senator Panagiotakos
Dec. 8th
Future of Robotics Summit
Dec. 8th
MA Privacy Law Seminar for Small Business Owners
Dec. 9th
Software Quality Group of NE - Monthly Meeting
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