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Re: Additions to Hitchhiker Guide 2011

Jon Pierce — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:05:15 -0000

Thanks for the shout out, Rob! Lots of great stuff happening in Boston right now. Another great event this month is RamenCamp, organized by Jason Evanish, Kabir Hemrajani, Josh Bob and Jeff Seibert.

http://ramencamp.com/

Re: Employee Equity: How Much?

Jon Pierce — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:49:00 -0000

Totally agree on the basic framework. But using salary as the basis seems unfair; startup salaries are usually reduced significantly, and sometimes the most senior people make the least. So this method double penalizes them. Instead, you could substitute their "market salary", or you could just take the difference between what you'd expect their total comp to be down the road (i.e. when the company is thriving) and their present comp and use that as the basis for the grant.

Re: Peter Thiel Challenges Entrepreneurs to Think Bigger at MIT Enterprise Forum

Jon Pierce — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:38:53 -0000

Thanks for the coverage, Cheryl. The rising cost of education and the decline in big innovations are important issues deserving of a lot more attention. So it's great to have folks like Peter highlighting them.

The full video is available at http://www.justin.tv/mitef/..., in case anyone missed the link in that last paragraph. The sound quality is poor, unfortunately. But we'll eventually post a high def version. Hopefully the audio will be better in that one.

Finally, a big thanks to Peter and his crew for flying out for this and to Pearl Freier for doing all the legwork.

Re: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community 2011

Jon Pierce — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:47:19 -0000

Great post, Rob!

Re: Twitter Brings Back The Old School Retweet With The Blackbird Pie Tool!

Jon Pierce — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:15:41 -0000

Hey Ted, if you're interested in old school retweets for #NewTwitter, check out my Chrome/Firefox extension.

http://jonpierce.github.com...

Re: Twitter Brings Back The Old School Retweet With The Blackbird Pie Tool!

Jon Pierce — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:12:13 -0000

Want old school RTs for #NewTwitter? Try my Chrome/Firefox extension.

http://jonpierce.github.com...

It embeds a "Classic RT" link right next to the existing one.

Re: Do More Faster

Jon Pierce — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:35:41 -0000

FYI, Brad and David are doing a book tour for Do More Faster and are planning a stop in Boston on Thursday, October 21. Time and place TBA soon.

http://plancast.com/p/27ol

Re: Startup Drinks at Betahouse Well Received by an All-Star Crowd of Startupers

Jon Pierce — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:04:46 -0000

Rich, without your and Bill's encouragement, Kevin and Nils wouldn't have even made the trip up from NYC. Boston owes you one. :) Keep on rockin' with WePay!

Re: Startup Drinks at Betahouse Well Received by an All-Star Crowd of Startupers

Jon Pierce — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:02:05 -0000

As usual, awesome coverage, Kyle. Glad you could make it out. Expect more of this as we expand into our new space. Hope to see you again on Friday.

Re: http://nwc2.tumblr.com/post/758849850

Jon Pierce — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:17:44 -0000

Huge congrats, Tony! Can't wait to see the new space.

Re: http://blog.jonpierce.com/post/705186605

Jon Pierce — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:39:44 -0000

Thanks, Greg! I appreciate your support. Let's chat soon.

Re: http://blog.jonpierce.com/post/705186605

Jon Pierce — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:38:05 -0000

Definitely!

Re: I Want My CIC! … The Benefits for Startups to Be Co-Located

Jon Pierce — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:41:33 -0000

Great post, Mark. Tim's a good friend, and I love what he has done with the CIC.

I run another space in Cambridge called Betahouse, which some friends and I started over 3 years ago for just these reasons. As a hacker and aspiring entrepreneur, I wanted a place where I could work alongside others like myself. The coworking movement was nascent at the time, and I thought it'd be great to build a coworking space focused on a specific community: tech startups, hackers, designers and other creative folk -- my community. So my cofounder and I pulled together a small group of like-minded friends and Betahouse was born -- the first coworking space in Boston, and, as I sometimes joke with Mike Hirshland, the *original* "frat house for geeks" (of course, being down the street from MIT, I would never *really* make that claim). In fact, Betahouse and Dogpatch share many of the same values and goals. Of course, Betahouse is independently run and doesn't have deep pockets backing it. I guess you could call it the scrappy version. :)

That said, we're about to expand, and one of my goals is to line up sponsorship to help subsidize space for startups and other people doing awesome stuff in the community. It's all about the community, after all. The space is the least interesting thing about it.

If you'd like to learn more about Betahouse, here are some links:

http://blog.jonpierce.com/post/705186605/betaho...
http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/06/29/fear-n...
http://bostinnovation.com/2010/07/11/in-betahou...

I'd love to have you stop by next time you're in town. Perhaps we could even pull together an event of some kind. I'd also love to have you as a speaker whenever we do the next Angel Boot Camp (an AngelConf-like event I put together last month).

http://seedboston.com/angelbootcamp/
http://blog.jonpierce.com/post/698262425/angel-...

Catch you on Twitter. I'm @jonpierce.

Re: In Betahouse Expansion, Community will be Key

Jon Pierce — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:43:15 -0000

Thanks, Kyle. For any of your readers interested in learning more about Betahouse or the expansion plans, check out my blog post:

http://blog.jonpierce.com/p...

There's also a form linked from the post (and from http://betahouse.org) where anyone interested in possibly joining can express interest as we ramp up.

Re: Leap of faith

Jon Pierce — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:55:26 -0000

Funny. Xconomy's new Boston editor, Greg Huang, asked me yesterday to offer one piece of advice to new entrepreneurs. I said "be fearless". Sometimes it's not about knowing what we should do, it's about mustering the courage to do it... to make that leap... and to keep going in the face of adversity and doubt. Good post.

http://www.xconomy.com/bost...

Re: Top 8 Boston Angels on Twitter

Jon Pierce — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:06:03 -0000

Very cool! All of these folks made my list of Boston's best angels a while back [1], and you can follow them (and more angels) on Twitter through a list I created [2]. Also, if anyone missed Angel Boot Camp, the video, slides, photos and links are online [3].

1: http://blog.jonpierce.com/p...
2: http://twitter.com/jonpierc...
3: http://blog.jonpierce.com/p...

Re: Goodbye, Boston

Jon Pierce — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:27:31 -0000

Wade, it has been an absolute pleasure reading your stories and getting to know you these past years. You've made a huge impact on the community and will be sorely missed. Best of luck in San Francisco!

Re: http://blog.jonpierce.com/post/705186605

Jon Pierce — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:49:14 -0000

Thanks, Kevin! The expansion is long overdue. But it's great to finally be taking the next step in our evolution and getting back to doing all the things we were doing before or had aspired to do. Looking forward to chatting more!

Re: http://blog.jonpierce.com/post/705186605

Jon Pierce — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:46:40 -0000

Thanks, Michael!

Re: http://blog.jonpierce.com/post/705186605

Jon Pierce — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:46:06 -0000

Awesome. Let me know if there's anything specific you'd like to hear. Congrats again on taking the next step with Josh.

Re: http://blog.jonpierce.com/post/705186605

Jon Pierce — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:45:01 -0000

Thanks, Chris! Great seeing you again last night at the Xconomy dinner.

Re: http://blog.jonpierce.com/post/705186605

Jon Pierce — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:44:24 -0000

Can't wait to show it to you, Brian! Looking forward to having you back in Beantown.

Re: http://blog.jonpierce.com/post/705186605

Jon Pierce — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:43:47 -0000

Thanks, Paul. Hope the new gig at Google is treating you well.

Re: A Seed Ecosystem is Growing in the Northeast

Jon Pierce — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:39:44 -0000

Excellent coverage, Joe! Great to see so much seed-stage activity in Boston.

Re: Joining Spark Capital

Jon Pierce — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:32:16 -0000

Congrats to both you and Spark! I look forward to seeing you around town, Andrew. Welcome to Boston.