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Polaris Venture Partners is excited to announce that it will bring its spirit of “open source entrepreneurship” to SXSW 2011, by opening a special edition of  Dogpatch Labs.  On Sunday March 13 and Monday March 14 Dogpatch Labs Austin will open its doors to entrepreneurs needing a place to work and hang out.  DPL Austin will be located at Treehouse …

In January 2010 Polaris Venture Partners opened its third Dogpatch Labs in one of the greatest areas of New York City, Union Square. The response in the NY tech community was outstanding, and today there are 14 companies and 37 entrepreneurs who work in the space. In our continued mission to support and invest in the NY seed and early …

Every few months a new group of companies come to build their businesses inside Dogpatch Labs.  The good news is that the rotation of  of companies in and out of all three Dogpatch Labs locations  injects new people, companies and energy into Dogpatch.  The bad news is that we have to say goodbye to people who have become friends all if …

Dogpatch Labs NY opened in January 2010 and has been the home to a number of great companies and entrepreneurs.  Now that we are six months old some of the original members are moving on to more permanent offices.   Just recently we were sad to say goodbye to Scoopst but we hear their new digs are really nice.
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Since joining Polaris Venture Partners over six years ago we have seen multiple business plans for companies that aspire to be the next generation monster.com or hotjobs.  There were promises of innovative technology and algorithms and unique business models.  But it was not until we met Joe Essenfeld founder of JIBE that we finally saw a product vision and business …

Every once in while you enter the perfect storm: great founders and a great idea.  When Billy Chasen and Seth Goldstein the founders of stickybits presented the concept to me and my partners Mike Hirshland, Jon Flint, Ryan Spoon and Jon Steinberg we immediately knew that this was a business that could take off.   Stickybits has launched a new …

Today at Dogpatch Labs we held office hours which historically for all three locations has been a great time to meet new people dedicating their time to build interesting businesses.   One of the companies today is embarking on being a next generation publishing company dedicated to children’s stories.  As they are still in private beta I can’t disclose their …

A few times a month Jon Steinberg and I hold office hours at Dogpatch Labs NY which is a great time for us to meet really interesting entrepreneurs building exciting new companies.   It never ceases to amaze me at the quantity, quality and variety of ventures that are located in the NY metro area.  Last month for example two …

Polaris Venture Partners created Dogpatch Labs with the idea that the perfect environment for really early stage companies to develop and formulate their business was one that fostered open source entrepreneurism.   To make this concept work the space has to be open, desks in close proximity to each other and in some cases multiple companies sharing the same pod of …

Tonight we are having our first internal demo night where all Dogpatch Labs NY members will demo their products.  Great opportunity to get to know each other better and have open discussion about opportunities and challenges.   This is also the first dinner that is being cooked in out great kitchen.  Chris and David, founders of POSTLING are the designated …