December 15th, 2009 | Cort

A new month, a new boardroom. We had a great turnout last night for episode 2 of Capitalize at Flybridge Capital Partners. The boardroom and chatroom were packed with the Dart community eager to watch Ratingworld's pitch. (more...)

December 1st, 2009 | Cort

It's almost time to get back into the boardroom for Episode 2 of Capitalize. On December 15th we are coming back across the river to the offices of Flybridge Capital Partners at 500 Boylston St in the Back Bay.

At the boardroom table this month will be one of Flybridge's General Partners, Michael Greeley (check out his blog). I had a chance to sit down and talk to Michael for a few minutes about himself, Flybridge, Stay in MA and young entrepreneurs in Boston. So take a minute to learn more about Michael and hear what he had to say and learn who won a ticket to the show... (more...)

November 10th, 2009 | Cort

What a great night! Kabir really brought it all when he pitched his company RiotVine to David Beisel of Venrock.

Granted this is but a small piece of the start-up capital raising process but seeing what actually happens in the boardroom and getting to meet the incredible VC's and Angels in Boston's capital community is priceless.

I want to thank David again for hosting the first ever Capitalize episode. If you enjoyed the show please send him a tweet thanking him for hosting! (@davidbeisel)

And that brings us to episode 1! Check out the video below of Kabir pitching at Venrock...

[podcast format="video"]http://dartboston.com/capitalize/episodes/venrock.m4v[/podcast]

Thank you to Microsoft for being this month's sponsor! To learn more about all the great stuff Microsoft is doing for the Boston community be sure to follow Microsoft NERD and Gus Weber on Twitter.

Please feel free to leave us feedback in the comments section as we would love to hear what you think and how we can make the show more informative for you guys as well as help you better connect with the awesome people that make up Boston's capital community!

November 6th, 2009 | Cort

We are only a couple days away from Episode 1 of Capitalize.  For the first show we've got Kabir Hemrajani pitching his company RiotVine at Venrock to David Beisel.

RiotVine is the social, event planning tool.  They leverage your twitter network to recommend events that you might be interested in based on events that your friends are attending.

Listen to Kabir talk about his company on last week's Pokin' Holes Pre Show or check out RiotVine on Pokin' Holes...  And you can also check out our RiotVine event for the show... http://bit.ly/capitalize1

I have to send out a huge thank you to David Beisel from Venrock for hosting the first event.  He and I had a great conversation about the event this morning and we're super excited for Tuesday night.

For those of you who weren't able to win a ticket: (more...)

October 30th, 2009 | Cort

If you didn't get a chance to see Jake talk about Capitalize last night, check out the video below. A broader explanation of the event is here...

The show will be at Venrock from 7pm - 9pm on November 10th.

The company pitching is RiotVine and founder Kabir Hemrajani.

To get a ticket...

If you want to get a ticket you have to come out to Pokin' Holes and Family Dinner events or watch them on the stream. We will get everyone's name at the event and then raffle off a few tickets at each event.  Remember if you get a ticket and you don't go I am going to blacklist you from future events.  If you get a ticket you are committing to this event!

Winners of tickets from Pokin' Holes 10/29:

Sergei Revzin
Chong-Zi Chen
Ben Margolis
Adam Conrad
Jarrett Sloan