Boston’s HackFit Puts A Healthy Spin On The Startup Building Hackathon

We’ve been to several Startup Weekends, Angel Hacks, 48 Hour Launch events, and other hackathons. On the surface they attract a similar “type” of person: the guy or gal who sits around and codes around the clock eating pizza, drinking beer, and keeping their eyes open with 5 Hour Energy and RedBull. Justin Mendelson, the

Mark Cuban, NEA And More Back Boston Startup Tivli

Tivli is a startup that’s bringing college students live TV over the internet. The company streams live TV, including broadcast channels, to students on their web connected devices, no matter where they are on campus. The Boston Business Journal reports that Tivli was founded by 2009 Harvard engineering graduates Tuan Ho and Nicholas Krasney. They

In The Wake Of The Boston Marathon Bombings Paul Graham Turned To Watsi, And Then Took His First Board Seat On Their Board

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Y Combinator founder Paul Graham is a busy man. Based on the West Coast, when America’s hearts turned to the Boston Marathon bombings, his did as well. Being so far away there wasn’t much he could do to help the situation in Boston so he turned to Watsi.

Graham tweeted on Monday “When terrible things happen to people I can’t help, I go to watsi.org and help people I can”.

Watsi is a crowdfunding platform that allows users to connect with patients with real serious needs for low cost medical care and enables users to fund high impact treatments.

Would CISPA Have Slowed The Boston Bomber Investigation?

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When CISPA passed the House Of Representatives on Thursday afternoon Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas) cited the Boston bombings “In the case of Boston, they were real bombs,” McCaul said, adding that we also need to arm ourselves against “digital bombs. These bombs are on their way.”
Others are citing the amazing Reddit photograph pictured above suggesting that CISPA would have prevented that image from coming to light. We take a look at that in this story.

Boston Startup: CareerApp Gives Jobseekers The Building Blocks For Success

While there are hundreds of startups in the jobs space, Boston startup CareerApp has a totally different approach. They aim to give job seekers the building blocks to success. Building blocks are the foundation to the app itself. CareerApp is divided into 15 building blocks that are easy to understand, navigate and use to build

Boston Augmented Reality Startup PAR Works Gets Two Big SXSW Honors

Augmented reality has been a hot space for startups for the last three years. Now in 2013 it’s starting to expand outside of just cool games. One Boston startup, PAR Works, has done some amazing things with augmented reality and for that they’ve received two pre-show honors from SXSW. First off the company was selected

Techstars Boston Unveils Spring 2013 Class

Techstars, one of the most widely respected accelerator programs in the world, has just announced their Spring 2013 class for their Boston location. The session kicked off yesterday and will end on May 23rd with Demo Day. Techstars Boston has graduated 57 companies since their first class back in 2009. One of the biggest advantages

NMX 2013 Interview With Boston Startup UberVu

Boston startup Ubervu is a new social media dashboard startup. Sure there are a lot of startups in the space however what sets Ubervu apart is their intelligence layer. Ubervu finds what people are saying about companies across the social web. They take that information and convert it into easy to understand usable data to