Boston

“You're going to see, I will predict it now. They're going to ban Waymo's in New York, Boston, DC, and they're going to limit them with licenses.”

“What we have found over a long period of time is that 90% of what we're going to invest in Is in seven large urban markets, so Boston, New York, DC, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, LA, and resorts, which the vast majority of the resorts that we invest in are up…”

“Most people aren't really using that much AI and R&D yet. They all want to, they're primed to, but there's a lot of concerns about accuracy, IP, security, legal. And I think the farther you go from SF, the like, Larger those concerns, concerns get.”

“And so today in California, we'll probably do 50,000 conversations at least in Vietnamese and Haitian Creole. Today in Boston, we'll do thousands of conversations in Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish.”

“So we have an intern this summer who's launching DC for us. That's coming in August. In September, we're launching Chicago and Boston.”

“Yanni Sippis and his team were building the largest net zero office in Boston, and they were getting ready to pour a low-carbon version of concrete, one that had never been used in the entire history of commercial construction.”

“One of the seaport's new buildings is one Boston Wharf Road. It's the city's largest net zero office building, which in this case means that it does have embodied carbon, but it operates with no net emissions.”

“Boston, the IPO is the finish line. It's so come Valley. It's the starting line.”

“And we started this effort a decade ago when we launched Rise of the Rest, started doing, you know, bus tours around the country, then launched investment fund, which made now 200 investments in a hundred different, different cities in what we call Rise of the…”

“Boston is actually the highest density of physicians in the entire country, but they have the worst access issues because the vast majority of doctors there are working in academic environments.”

“We were this tiny company in Boston for, you know, almost two years before we even opened the San Francisco market.”

“Well, at that point, we had, we were doing our first batch, I think it was like, 50, and I think we sold most of those, if not all of them, at that Masters, yeah, Championships regatta.”

“So, so first of all, I saw this happening in many different groups, right? Not just this one group. And also, I talked to my friends in other cities in the US. People were doing this in Boston. People were doing this in Seattle. So Chinese immigrants were doin…”

“We didn't actually have a rep in California for many years after we started, right? Cause it was just better for us to put another rep in Boston”

“If you look at like on a metro basis, all of our existing metros are producing, you know, cash flow. So you have your call calling your cash cows, right? Philadelphia, Chicago's Boston's, Miami's all of our Texas markets of the world that are producing cash fl…”

“Even at scale with TaskRabbit, Boston was like number 10 market. For us.”

“I think the culture of Bostonians is a very do-it-yourself mentality. And so that was some friction for this type of service, and I felt like if we could just get to San Francisco, where, you know, it's the tech company capital of the world, like, this is the …”

“We had no plan. We had no strategy. We had no business model. All we knew is that we were going to take some of the money we just made selling our travel business, and we were going to hatch companies in Boston.”

“My favorite example is Kiva Systems, the robot company that Amazon bought. No one would back hardware in Silicon Valley when they were being founded. Came to Boston, found folks interested in backing what today we call hard tech.”

“At the moment, that's Kendall Square in Cambridge with Harvard and MIT, and then the Boston area, which has more research hospitals, you know, inch for inch than any other place in the world.”

“We start with three cities. Those are going to be New York, Chicago, and Boston. Before the end of the year, we'll be operational in all three, and then we'll take it from there.”

“Part of the interesting thing about venture in Europe Is again, that it's very diffuse, you know, in the States it's basically New York, Boston, San Francisco in reverse order. And there's a strong sort of bias against somebody who doesn't come to one of those…”

“It talked about taking the firm's resources and expertise, I think it was a hundred million dollars, and investing it alongside coaching in black business development and entrepreneurial growth in the greater Boston area.”

“When I touched base with them, I learned that we did 3100 meetings with company management teams during the first nine weeks of quarantine, which was about mid-March in Boston.”

“I had about 25,000 dollars. My dad essentially lent me, gave me 75,000 dollars, and that 100,000 dollars became the grub steak, the equity, that allowed us to build that first 400 square foot cookie store. In downtown Boston.”

“In general, the companies in places like Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston probably are a little overvalued because of the supply-demand dynamic, because most of the venture capital is based there, and most of the venture capitalists want to be able to…”

“If you take 10 A players, In Boston, out of those 10 A players, maybe two of them will be in tech, and the other eight will be in financial services, or in pharma, or biotech, or blah, blah, blah. And on the West Coast, you know, out of the 10 A players, nine …”

“We have about 40 people total, and we're split still between Croatia, so Zagreb has our tech team some of the founders, I have a couple marketers in Zagreb, and the balance of the team, about 20 people here in downtown Boston.”

“So the business actually goes back to 2008 in Croatia, but the first few years, it was more of a consultancy than a software company. And so the pivotal moment was in 2014 when really the product became more commercialized. The business headquarters moved to B…”

“We have about a hundred people in the company. We are located in San Jose, Boston, Montreal, and Nashville.”

“Well, there were five beer distributors in Boston. I went to each one of them. They all turned me down.”

“I think I pitched four DVCs in Boston and, you know, didn't raise a dime.”

“And at the time that we started in 2010, you know, there were relatively few seed funds here in the New York area and the Boston area. Fast forward to today, you know, 2017, there's obviously been a proliferation of seed investors.”

“I'm originally from the Boston area, and anytime somebody wants to talk about their idea, they want you to sign an NDA, and you know, they're really secretive and closed, and when I came to Silicon Valley back in 2000, it was so different. You know, sign NDAs,…”

“Well, there were five beer distributors in Boston. I went to each one of them. They all turned me down.”

“We're about 80 folks. We have offices in Boston and Oakland, California.”

“We've got a great team here 50 plus people in Boston and then around the country, helping us build community”

“No investors wanted to give two guys who were making t-shirt quilts any investment money, and so I was back in Boston sleeping in our office, and, you know, there was about 8000 dollars left in our bank account, probably just a couple more weeks of runway”

“Obviously with a three unit building, we're increasing that to about, you know, 7000 a month.”

“We're probably spending about a 100,000 dollars in energy upgrades.”

“Hopefully it'll be around 800,000 for construction. You know with construction projects, it's normally, you don't realize how over budget you are until like sort of the last few payments, but I think it's gonna be right around 800,000 dollars for about 30, 320…”

“He invested 250 K in real estate and made 1.5 million back on it in a, on a Boston real estate deal, because he's just thinking about different ways to scale up.”

“I think Boston is still great at a number of areas, but I think New York has really become, by a significant margin, the most exciting startup hub on the East Coast.”

“I would argue that if you were in, in entertainment, you might want to consider LA. If you were in, in the life sciences, you might want to consider Boston. If you are in, in media and ad tech or something or other, you might want to consider New York for that…”

“NextView was the first to move on it in Boston in the early stage world.”

“Boston has this thing called Street Bump where you can report potholes so that when they send out pothole crews, they can be more efficient in, in filling those potholes.”

“The day before was when all, all the lawyers had agreed, and we basically said, tomorrow we're gonna sign the papers. And I remember I got really emotional that day. I was sitting there at my desk in in Boston, and I just cried.”