dartboston lifestyle
In: Start-Up
21 Dec 2011Realistically, whatever product you’re building at this moment is going to flounder over several iterations. The good news is, there are a lot of people who want to see you succeed and will continue to use your product, iteration after iteration… Right? Through my experience, I’ve watched power users and influencers evangelize products not based [...]
Last week Greg Gomer from BostInnovation and I had the opportunity to chat with Callie Crossley about startups and failure. It was a fun conversation where we got to answer a bunch of questions from callers and share our thoughts about the Boston ecosystem. If you missed it, have a listen.
I’ve had a pretty incredible ride over the past two years. It was about this time in 2009 when Jake and I moved into an apartment on Dartmouth Street which eventually became the hub for all things startup among the twenty-somethings in Boston. Watching Dart evolve from 5 people hanging out in an apartment to [...]
If I hear one more person ask me ‘How do we keep young entrepreneurs here in Boston?’ I will run headfirst into a wall. Not because it’s a bad question but because in my experience the people asking the question are blowing so much hot air that I can’t take them seriously anymore. My head [...]
In: Start-Up
23 Feb 2010‘Never late for an appointment Salmon Chase had no patience for the sin of tardiness which stole precious minutes from the life of the man left waiting.’ – Said of Salmon Chase (6th Chief Justice of the United States and Treasury Secretary under Lincoln) in Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin If you are [...]
If you are a young entrepreneur bootstrapping a start-up in Boston your last thought should be about finding office space. Personally, thanks to a lack of funds for renting an office or getting a desk at a co-working space, I’ve spent my fair share of time finding the most productive spots around town to get [...]
In: Start-Up
19 Nov 2009One issue that has been killing me lately is how people attempt to schedule meetings with others via e-mail. I love meeting new people especially those that are doing things they are passionate about. Many people I try to schedule meetings with are a lot higher on the foodchain than I am, so being able [...]
Hi, my name is Cort and I live in Boston, working in the startup scene. I'm a co-founder of DartBoston and Terrible Labs. I am all about getting out into the community to meet other passionate entrepreneurs and see what people are working on.