Dennis B. Keohane

I've watch VentureApp grow and evolve...As more and more people have joined the platform, it has become a great resource for startups and small biz.

Yeah, Boston is old, Boston is slow, Boston is passé...blah, blah, blah. But there are some real innovative companies being built in Boston. And while some end up heading for the west or NYC or elsewhere, there are a lot of ventures that stick around. Boston has been looked down upon by national media and snubbed in favor of coverage on “hotter” innovation markets, but the companies being built...

The Sports Innovation Lab, a new sports technology platform, just launched today in Boston. It is the brainchild of former NFL linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski; Josh Walker, a former VP of Research from Forrester, and four-time Olympic ice hockey medalist Angela Ruggiero. Here is their press release: The Sports Innovation Lab today officially launched its market research and advisory platform that...

These guys are crushing it on Kickstarter...over $100K raised in 24 hours... Here is an overview: The Wolfe provides up to 5x the graphical power of your typical modern laptop - enough to completely support most of your gaming needs. And for professionals, enthusiasts, and VR users, the Wolfe Pro provides up to 10x the performance increase -- giving you more power than many desktops.

Scott Miller, the CEO of Dragon Innovation and a partner at Bolt, and Thos Niles, Dragon's COO, joined us at the Harvard i-lab to give advice about navigating manufacturing and getting projects built to completion. Along the way, we dig into some of Scott's wild stories building robots in Cambridge, first at MIT and then for Disney, as well as life during the early days of iRobot. This is one...

Rob May, the the co-founder and former CEO of Backupify (acquired by Datto) and the current CEO of business AI company Talla, is on a quest for knowledge. Probably the smartest person in any room he may happen to be in, May's intellectual interest has led him on an quite the journey thus far. May has gone from being one of the earliest bloggers to find a way to actually make money while writing...

So, MassChallenge CEO and co-founder John Harthorne showed up to our first "Off the Record at the i-lab" chat in full business attire, and immediately began apologizing to the student entrepreneurs present for being "too overdressed." "I normally don't dress like this, but I just came from a meeting with [redacted]." But such is a the life of a man who is constantly running around the globe,...