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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 …

Recently I wrote about how having a focus on delivering quality content to your customers makes a difference.  Whether it is merchandise, video entertainment, editorial or jobs.  In that post I referred to a Polaris Venture Partners company JIBE.   I talked about how the founder Joe Essenfeld was totally dedicated on having the best job listings possible from brand …

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 …

One of the most exciting things about working with early stage companies is having the conversation about iterating on the product and/or pivoting on the business model.  In the Polaris Venture Partners portfolio we have had a number of companies successfully go through this process. Notably was JibJib which started out as a “portal” for humor and as mentioned in a …

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 …

Since starting my career the one thing that has always amazed me is the lack of process and discipline most people put behind the recruiting process. As we all know,  great teams build great companies.  Yet for most companies, even those with seasoned executives and Board members, they treat the recruiting process as a necessary evil.   Having spent many …

As one of the proud sponsors of the NYC SeedStart Summer 2010 Program I wanted to put out a reminder that applications are due on February 28, 2010. 
 NYC SeedStart is an 8-week summer program designed to provide seed funding for technology teams to build a product and launch their company.   Up to 10 teams will be given a small amount of funding, …

It was recently announced that Walmart will be acquiring the video streaming company VUDU.   This is really interesting to me on many levels.  First let me say that as a VUDU consumer I love the service.  The selection of movies is good and the speed and quality of HD content that is delivered to my TV is outstanding. 
Can Walmart build …

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 …