Boston Trip

Boston Trip was awesome! Here are few highlights of what we did and the places we went:

Monday: New England-Canada Business Council and later MIT Entrepreneurship Centre
Tuesday: Visit General Catalyst Partners for breakfast General Catalyst Partners
They invest in early stage companies and help them grow. General Catalyst has approximately $1 billion under management and is headquartered in Cambridge. Deep pocket, eh?
Then we went on a tour of the following companies which General Catalyst has invested on
JumpTap (245 First Street)
To BrightCove (1 Cambridge Center)
To ChoiceStream (210 Broadway)
And at the end we had barbeque dinner at Charles Hotel which was nice!!!

Wednesday:
Very bad weather, rainy and windy.
Breakfast at Choate (Centre of Boston – 2 International Place for a seminar titled "Start-ups 101" (which they normally present to the MIT Entrepreneurship program).
They have a very nice view of harbour. We took picture but since didn’t turn out good due to the storm outside.

Then 4 of us who work for Infusion at this time went to Fidelity Ventures, one of Infusion’s clients, and had a meeting with Stephen Jenvey, an associate in Fidelity. He demoed the solution for us and we got to ask whole bunch of questions in regards to future opportunities in this space. It was very informative.
Then we got a cap to Genzyme's corporate HQ. It was still raining and umbrellas were not helping!

Genzyme Center: This building is one of the first and biggest scientific research laboratory to receive certification under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED(R) (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System(tm). Genzyme has received certification under the LEED system, which was created to define "green" building by providing a common standard of measurement. Very nice I might upload some picturesJ

Then we walked to MIT and got all soaked up! It worth it though the event was great. To be completely honest I don’t think I learned that much from this event. They basically talked about Angel investors and how they are different from VC firms which I already knew most of it.
MIT Enterprise Forum "Talk to an Angel" talk – Cambridge near the centre of Boston. – MIT Kresge Auditorium.
This event was broadcast globally. Panels consists of John May, Cynthia Fisher, David Friend, and Bob Greene and was moderated by James Geshwiler.
And that was it for Boston the next morning we left Boston and came back to Canada. I liked Boston a lot and I would move there if I get a chance. so far I would like to NY and Boston!