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New Mass Challenge announced by Gov Patrick

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Massachusetts has just announced a initiative to fund start up activities here in our state. $ 25 million dollars will be allocated to catalyze growth and stimulate innovation.

Check it out http://masschallenge.org/

1 comment June 10, 2009

ApplyGo

Genotrope Record: ApplyGo

Funding Status: Seed

Investors: Founders

Founders or Execs past companies: TalentBurst, UAC

Industry: Consumer Web, B2C, Education

Offering Description: We make it cheaper and easier for institutions to enroll international students. connect institutions of higher education with students from around the world

Add comment June 10, 2009

When will They Launch?

“If you review your first site version and don’t feel embarrassment, you spent too much time on it.” — Reid Hoffman

We try to keep an eye out for the next new companies to appear on the scene.

Over the past few months we have found a pretty long list of new web or mobile companies waiting in the wings to go live.

http://www.gathr.me/

http://www.collegetravel.com/

http://elacarteonline.com/

http://sayagle.com/

http://www.sivvle.com/

http://www.elevenlearning.com/

http://textaurant.com/

http://www.buzzient.com/

http://www.shopazooloo.com/

http://www.boomstang.com/

http://www.calisto100.com/coming_soon

http://www.demoing.com/

In the spirit of Continuous Deployment and Customer Development, we encourage these sites to open the gates and let us in. We are here to help, really!

2 comments May 29, 2009

MyRoar

Genotrope Record: MyRoar

Funding Status: Bootstrapped

Investors:

Founders or Execs past companies: Feedster, Lehman Brothers

Industry: Web Search, Financial Services

Offering Description: MyRoar provides a unique offering for data vendors and data consumers. Unparalleled insights are provided to users who can now do research quickly and easily, resulting in increased satisfaction and productivity.

Add comment April 30, 2009

Webheads, Free Pizza+Beer and a bit of Testing April 30th 6:30-9:30 pm at betahouse

TestCase is a cool event happening @ betahouse this Thursday. While the giant schmoozefest meetups are valuable, we think there is room for a smaller meetup with a more practical approach.

Webheads, free pizza+beer and a bit of testing. Register Here attendance is Limited.

: Cover via Amazon

Josh Porter owner of Bokardo Design and author of Designing for the Social Web, will be conducting a Lightning Usability/Comprehension test with the participating start-ups. Three of them may be new to you.

Come out and have some fun and learn something too. Genotrope is one of the sponsors.

Thanks to our Sponsor of TestCase I

Participating Companies

Add comment April 27, 2009

Bluefin Lab

Genotrope Record: Bluefin Lab

Funding Status: Seed

Investors: ?

Founders or Execs past companies: Another Andy Palmer mentored company. MIT

Industry: Consumer Web, Video Search

Offering Description: cutting edge video search technology applied to the exciting world of consumer media.

Add comment March 24, 2009

Kayanta

Genotrope Record: Kayanta

Funding Status: Bootstrapped

Investors: ?

Founders or Execs past companies: Revivio, Rock Paper Scissors

Industry: Consumer Web

Offering Description: Personalized Search. Helps you find recreational activities based upon personalized criteria.

Add comment March 19, 2009

PrestoRent.com

Genotrope Record: PrestoRent.com

Funding Status: Seed

Investors: ?

Founders or Execs past companies: DataSynapse

Industry: Consumer Web, Real Estate

Offering Description: PrestoRent is a web-community where Landlords, Tenants, and Real Estate Agents connect and get everything done.

Add comment March 11, 2009

Shotput Ventures: new startup accelerator in Atlanta

Shotput Ventures of Atlanta has recently launched with their first session this summer. Using the by now familiar formula of $5,000 per team plus $5,000 per founder in exchange for 5% – 10% of equity on entrepreneur friendly terms.

The team is a strong group of successful entrepreneurs with backgrounds in web and software technology. Certainly a viable candidate when you are applying to the list of startup accelerators built on the mold of Y Combinator. If they have a winter program, they will be even more attractive to the snow bound Boston teams.

The un-answered question is who will be the audience for “demo day”? Will Ron Conway or Sequoia be there? Ultimately the test is how many successful companies will be spawned by the program.

They are off to a good start and we look forward to seeing the companies that spring forth under the guidance of Shotput Ventures.