Boston Startups – The energy is here in New England again

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Intel is investing in a British startup. This got me thinking about entrepreneurship and venture capital hubs.  Everyone is talking about global startups but alot of people are leaving Boston and New England out of the conversation.  Massachusetts (Boston) has always been a hot bed of technology startups and now it seems to be coming back.

The I am in Boston today actually Cambridge meeting with entrepreneurs and VCs.  This morning I met with David Beisel who is working at Venrock working with startups in Boston.  I’m really impressed with David he is an entrepreneur who understands the web.  He founded the Web Innovator Group in Boston which has been going strong for the past year.  The group gathers the best entrepreneurs from the New England area to socialize and look for funding.  David is also blogging at GenuineVC.com offering a fresh perspective on entrepreneurship here in Boston.

David’s next event is on July 9th this Monday at the Royal Sonesta hotel in Cambridge – right across the street from the Apple store where the top geeks camped out this past week.  I hope to attend and start filming Boston entrepreneurs on PodTech Network.

Here is a list of the companies presenting.

Featured Companies:

• BandDigs (YBR Entertainment) – Gary Wheeler & Aby Alexander

• Beacon Street Girls (B*tween Productions) – Addie Swartz

• GameBrix (Digital Brix) – Naveena Swamy & Nanu Swamy

Companies doing demos:

• iZync – Brad Rosen

• TeachAde – Wade Dyke

• NextCat – Jeff Pucci & Richard Viard

• CurbsideMD (Praxeon) – Kevin Gilpin

• Frevvo – Ashish Deshpande

Here are the attendees:

• David Beisel – Venrock, Genuine VC blog, and WebInno Founder & Organizer

• David Evans – Digicraft

• John Coronella – Online Marketer OnlineMarketer.com

• Alexander Lorenz – Technology Holdings

• Ryan Sarver – Skyhook Wireless, Loki, Sarver.org*

• François Schiettecatte

• Cecil Dorman – BigBad, Inc.

• Jeff Stoler – LaunchPad, ME

• Rod Begbie – http://groovymother.com

• Ben Saren – CitySquares.com, Your Suspect

• Ken Kozik (patent attorney), Greenberg Traurig http://www.gtlaw.com

• Jeff Potter – Atof.net + Relarm

• John G. Norman – H3.com, Duffy’s Cliff (for Sox superfans)

• Fred Good GloGood

• Jake Carey-Rand – Innovative Visions, LLC

• Diane E. Williams

• Divya K. Narendra

• Greg Peverill-Conti – Over the River, Weber Shandwick

• Chris Hill – Cardvio

• Naveena Swamy –DigitalBrix

• Jarrett Goetz

• Geoff Mamlet –New Atlantic Ventures

• Tom Traugott –CRG West

• Jon Pierce

• Yevgeny Ioffe –Thomson Learning, Mi-Si, yevbo.com

• Dave Owens – zync

• Josh Summers – zync

• Jing Ta Chow – zync

• Brad Rosen – zync

• John Florez – iMoondo Video Classifieds

• Andrej Masiar – iMoondo

• Rob Barry – iMoondo

• Malachi Bibel – iMoondo

• Jim Peake – My Success Gateway, LLC,

• Anand Daniel – IDG Ventures Boston

• Thomas Hagen

• Peyton Collie – Eventure 360 and Internap

• Tony Yuan – Nenest Web Application Framework

• Boris Masis – Cultural Care Au Pair (we’re hiring)

• Lance Jonn Romanoff – Christian Science Monitor

• Paul Cosway – Ressen Design/Radeo

• Simeon Margolis – http://www.utterz.com http://www.foonz.com

• Jeff Yolen – Sphere

• Yair Marcow – Mavenomics

• Anurag Wakhlu – inoof

• Dean Macri – Cielo Mobile ….on your cellphone browser, URL: cielo.mobi

• Steven Feldman – Cielo Mobile

• Ashish Deshpande – frevvo

• Mok Oh – EveryScape

• Jim Kieffer – Digiwize

• Ryan Rose – Digiwize

• Leo Pellerin – Digiwize

• Jason Freedman

• Carm Huntress – Cardvio

• Erik Sebesta – You Have Not Changed One Bit

• Muthu Arumugam – Memweave

• Lakshmi Saravanan – Memweave

• Daniel A. Batterman – Law Offices of Daniel A. Batterman

• Dev Khare – Venrock

• Erik Rannala – TripAdvisor

• Amey Moot – Fletcher Spaght

• Chris Savage – Unraw & Tropist

• Brendan Schwartz – Unraw & Tropist

• David Laubner – Gotuit & Web 2.0 Toolbar

• Dima D. – Sitrus LLC (Outsourced Software Development)

• Brian Balfour – SocialDegree, ZoomInfo

• Simon Clay-Michael – Isabont

• Hua Wang –

• Diyan Neshev

• Kee Hinckley – Somewhere, Inc.

• John Wall – Ronin Marketeer & The M Show

• Brian Del Vecchio – Virosity

• Eric Sansonetti – Venator Partners

• Stephen Sansonetti

• David Sansonetti

• Vik Kachoria, RealAdventures

• Carl Query – FlipKey

• Dharmesh Shah – HubSpot & OnStartups

• Harsha Raghavan – http://www.harsharaghavan.com

• Jay Meattle – Bzzster!, Compete.com

• Cliff Hirsch – Kerbeaz, Pinestream Not live yet, interested in new networking forum, seeking talent

• Steven Bao – Avecora | (personal)

• Pete Nowicki – HireMinds

• Caroline Meeks – Solution Grove

• Matt Muro – lifeknot.com

• Anthony Longo & Nick Sudano – Boston Real Estate & condoDomain.com

• John Treadway – Digibug and new startup in process…

• Stefan Reitshamer – photominds.com

• Brian Feinstein – Opera New Media

• Adam Katz – Opera New Media

• Susan Chen – http://www.hillaryforwhitehouse.org/

• Maggie Wells – TrustPlus

• John Lohavichan – Exploring new ideas in investment technology

• Michael Reich – TheUpdown

• Steven Menn – BarFrog.com

• Richard Corley – Akorri

• Drew Houston – Dropbox

• Arash Ferdowsi – Dropbox

• Josh Schanker – Sconex and Alloy Media + Marketing

• Steven Forth- Monitor Group

• Margaret Lawrence- Pilot House Ventures

• Jeff Baer- EveryZing

• Jeff Cram- ISITE Design

• Sooz – BostonNOW

• Martin Holzner – Vestmark

• Alexis Kopikis – Propel Consulting

• Alan Osman – Propel Consulting

• Magnus Eliasson – Valassis Interactive

• Michael Rodov – ZepFrog

• Mikhail Gurevich – ZepFrog

• Gopal Shenoy – Gopal Shenoy’s Product Management Blog

• Bobbie Carlton – Beacon Street Girls

• Scott Monty – crayon

• Kiki Mills – MITX

• Mike Volpe – HubSpot Internet Marketing

• Vladislav Yazhbin – RateMyApp

• Shwen Gwee – ETech@Work

• Jovanna Brooks – Trader Joes Fan & Valley Velocity Web Design

• Graham Brooks – Bose

• Mark A Bush – Fluency Voice Technology

• Lucy McQuilken – Intel Capital

• Nick MacShane – Progress Partners

• Bea Bezmalinovic

• Richard Banfield – Fresh Tilled Soil

• Jay Fallon – jayfallon.net

• Matthew Levine – HireMinds

• Jeff Glass, Bain Capital Ventures

• Andrew Rollert, SpotScout

• James Andrews, SpotScout

• Jack Lull, SpotScout

• Rick Burnes, Faneuil Media

• Li Hong, Rilik, serving student club right!

• Leland Cheung – Masthead Venture Partners

• Jay Sun – http://barbariangroup.com

• Chris Visvis

• F Mark Modzelewski- Bang Ventures

• Nick MacShane – Progress Partners

• Mike Matczynski – Endeca

• Drew Volpe – Endeca

• Greg Gibson – Notati

• Praveen Yajman – Ampient

• Mitch de Leon

• Mark Withington – BostonPHP.org

• Chandra Bajpai – ProspectMarkets

• Juanito – www.Hispanito.com / Hispanic social network

• Bill Nilson – Tech Doc

• Sean McGonagle – Cultural Care Au Pair (we’re hiring)

• Jay Neely – Social Strategist – Innovation, Communication, Consulting

• Sal Siino

• Chris Lee – MIT, Ascent Venture Partners

• Drew LeBlanc

• Tom Lee – VideoAd Factory

• Matt Nichols – Highland Capital Partners

• Meagan Nichols – Morgan Stanley

• David Reich – MIT Sloan, Innosight

• Brian Kim – SpotScout, Inc.

• Gant Asbury – SpotScout, Inc.

• Tom Boilard – Mobleo

• Stevan Vigneaux

• Jonah Lopin – Sloan MBA, 2007

• Doug Haslam – Topaz Partners Tech PR for Entrepreneurs

• Shaun Scovil – New Dimensions in Technology, Inc. (NDT)

• Samantha Smith – Emerge PR

• Mike Champion – tourb.us

• Matt Griffin

• Jim Kinchley – Trufina

• Ben Levitan – In-Q-Tel

• Todd Cronin – Bandsintown.com

• Phil Sergi – Bandsintown.com

• Jon Follett – Hot Knife Design, Inc. Web and UI design

• Oliver Scheck

• Art Huston – Akamai Technologies technology innovator

• Nancy Loderick –

• Chris Sheehan – CommonAngels

• Jeff Feldgoise – wis.dm

• Eric Shealy – Innovation Advisors

• Han Pieter Duyverman – Mendix VP International

• Derek Roos – Mendix Mendix, CEO

• DerckJan Kruit – Mendix Mendix, CFO

• Roald Kruit – Mendix Mendix, CFO

• Christopher S. Penn – Financial Aid Podcast, Student Loan Network CTO

• Mark Laich

• Dale Bertrand

• Kenny Bourse – – Your Student Loan News Source

• Kandee Newell

• Clarence Smith Jr – DYKC?

• DowntownWomensClub.com Online marketing and career resource for professional women

• Raju Gupta – Socrato

• Matt Searles – MattSearles.com and The Asymmetric Biz Cult Podcast

• Jerry King – uLocate

• Steve McAveeney – Trip Advisor

• Dan Gilmartin – uLocate

• Tara Greco – TJX

• Chris Keller – Fafarazzi

• Todd Galloway – Fafarazzi

• Erik Price – Allurent

• Jason Toy – rubynow

• John Li – rubynow

• Kevin Gardiner

• Indigo Tabor – Top10 Sources

• Graham Langdon – The Million Dollar Wiki

• Matt Lipman – The Million Dollar Wiki

• Dag Holmboe

• Josh Berg – Silverback

• Lee Schneider

• Barry Greenstein

• Paul Reed

• Travis Connors – Egan-Managed Capital

• Ross Pascal – A2 Capital Partners LLC

• Emily Lee – Healthy Diet News – Eating Well

• Jason Stevens – Beyond Event Services

• Patrick Kuharic – LimoZip.com

• Stephanie Rogers – CultureJunkie and Hill Holliday

• Rajeev Tipnis

• Ira Cohen

• Xiaolan Shen

• Lee Hower – Point Judith Capital

• Rachel Summers

• Healy Jones – Atlas Venture

• Webster Mudge

• Alejandro Martinez

• Nick Katis – Digit Wireless

• David Chancogne – Traackr/Ignesis

• Lori Rouleau – Rouleau Associates lori@tomersearch.com

• Ben Ortega – patooki – Connecting Homeschooling, Founder

• Eugene Kuznetsov – IBM, DataPower

• Richard Tibbetts – StreamBase

• Chip Griffin – StartRocket

Boston startup scene is coming back strong!