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Boston Tech Rallies Around Former HubSpot CMO Mike Volpe

Despite scant details on the recent book scandal that led to his firing, many entrepreneurs remain #teamvolpe.

Does This Stealthy Startup Mark the Dawn of the Rapid7 Mafia?

Datawire was founded by a former Rapid7 exec and is backed by the company's CEO.

BostInno Beat – Apple Poaching, Start Tank Closing & a HubSpot...

The Beat is back. Sign up. Tell a friend. Gomer & Chase are on mancation, so Kyle, Galen & Rebecca are on this Beat today. Let's...

Amino Raises $1.65M in Series A from Union Square & Google...

Boston’s Amino, a startup powering mobile-only communities for niche interests, banked a Series A round worth $1.65 million on Tuesday from Union Square Ventures,...

The Where Inc. Mafia: Part 2

In April 2011, Boston's Where Inc. sold to eBay-owned PayPal for $135 million. And now, more than three years later, we are putting the...

The Where Inc. Mafia: Part 1

Since Where Inc. has spanned so many startups and influencers, we'll be breaking down its mafia in two parts.

4 Members of Wayfair’s Tech Mafia

Boston is home to many a tech mafia – in other words, groups of people that used to work at a company together, but...

June 11th, Cambridge: Virality on Facebook

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Facebook-Developers/events/121816812/ Tuesday, June 11, 2013 6:30 PM   Tavern in the Square 730 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA According to Facebook, virality is defined as follows: The percentage of people who have created a story...

Boston Tech-Mafia Mondays: Avid Technology – Nearly 25 Years Later, Still...

Hollywood has been hot for Boston long before Ben Affleck thanks to Burlington, Mass. based Avid Technology. This video and audio production technology company was...

Boston Tech-Mafia Monday: CourseAdvisor – Capturing the Long Tail of Online...

CourseAdvisor was founded in Wakefield, Mass. in 2004 as an online directory and search engine marketing firm for postsecondary education. The company launched at...

Boston Tech-Mafia Mondays: TripAdvisor – Pioneers in Online Travel

Needham-based TripAdvisor was founded in 2000 with a mission to help people make better travel decisions. The destination site organized, made more searchable, and...

Boston Tech-Mafia Mondays: Mobicious – Geotagging and Photo Sharing Visionaries

This week BostInno is spotlighting a more recent, younger company for tech-mafia Monday - Mobicious, a mobile content and services company that got into...

Boston Tech-Mafia Mondays: iRobot

Continuing with our weekly installment of Boston Tech-Mafias, we turn our attention to iRobot.   The company was founded in 1990 by Colin Angle, Rodney...

Boston Tech-Mafia Mondays: Compete, Inc. – Vanguards in Web Analytics

Compete, Inc., which runs the popular website traffic analysis and comparison site Compete.com, was founded here in Boston as a business intelligence company in...

Boston Tech-Mafia Mondays: The Kayak Crew

This week’s tech mafia Monday piece spotlights Kayak.com, one of the Boston area’s flagship web 2.0 companies in the last decade. Kayak.com is...

Boston Tech-Mafia Mondays: The edocs Inc. Mafia

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the Open Market Mafia, outlining the network of people who were early contributors at the...

Boston Tech-Mafia Mondays: m-Qube, Boston’s New Set of Mobile Marketing Rockstars

Last Monday we revealed Boston's Open Market mafia, a play on the PayPal Mafia out west - the team that built and sold PayPal...

Meet the Open Market Mafia

We have all heard the tales of the "Paypal Mafia" out west which churned out a number of successful entrepreneurs from its ranks that...