ThredUP launched in Boston in 2009 as a place to swap outgrown children’s clothing with other parents. Today, people sell gently-used children’s, teens’, and women’s clothing directly to thredUP, and buy directly from thredUP. It’s now …
Author: jim
I now count 40 active FinTech startups in the greater Boston area, which includes Portland and Providence in my view. I did not include companies like asset manager F-Squared though they have capital from local angel …
In 1998, at a technology conference in New York, John (Launny) Steffens, vice chairman of what was then Merrill Lynch & Company, told his audience, ”The do-it-yourself model of investing, centered on Internet trading, should be …
In StartupsTags Boston, entrepreneurs, MassChallenge, Springboard, startups, venture capitalPublish Date
Open Runway, retailer of high-end, custom-made shoes and handbags, is shutting down. Open Runway, which began life as Sole Envie, was part of the movement toward mass-customization of fashion items that includes Gemvara, Blank Label, and …
Boston should have – and in fact, does have – a fairly robust FinTech cluster, addressing a wide range of opportunities within financial services. These are the once of which I am aware, in alphabetical order: Abine Argopay …
Does it make a difference if your home market is France or Germany, rather than the U.S.? To balance responses from U.S. investors and entrepreneurs posted in part one, I reached out to entrepreneurs and observers …
In Startups, Venture CapitalTags Birchbox, clones, going global, Her Campus, Hub Angels, LaunchPadPublish Date
The Boston Business Journal recently noticed a trend of European entrepreneurs coming to the U.S. early in the lives of their companies, or establishing U.S. beachheads in Boston. Which has me wondering: How soon in the …
This week saw the first of what I hope are many Boston FinTech Demo Days. Ten startups presented for about seven minutes each and then fielded questions from the audience. Large touch-screen monitors allowed presenters to …
The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge recently hosted a panel on mobile payments. The mobile payments/mobile wallets space in the U.S. is still highly fragmented. Merchants want to accept any form of payment that reaches critical …
This is a really nice idea. Unpitch is a new event at which 60 entrepreneurs will sit down on December 11th with well-known angel and early-stage venture investors. No presentations or demos. Just sit down and …