November 12th, 2009 | Cort

A little Yellow and Blue wine, a few Narragansetts, the Hubspot studios, the Dart community and karaoke always makes for a great time. Our topic for the night was The Second Glass and what they should be focused on moving forward.

If you don't know The Second Glass you had better start getting involved! They are a great company that already offers so much for the Gen-Y wine consumer. Whether you want to know what the hot wine of the week is, do some wine tasting or hit up the mega wine event, Wine Riot, The Second Glass is your guide to learning about wine.

We had a couple first timers on the panel last night which made for a fun discussion. The panel included:

Rebecca Corliss: Singing Inbound Marketer @HubSpot and a cappella guru extraordinaire. ROCK STAR.

Joe Coyne: Financial modeling guru at Bain Capital Ventures and a badger for life.

Jayme Moffi: Bioodynamic badass who has worked every angle of the wine industry from distributor to sales to sommelier at restaurants (soon to be on Twitter)

Listen to what they had to say...

Thank you to Microsoft for being this week'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.

One of the real treats of the evening however was the wrap party at Tommy Doyle's. I've got to give it up the the karaoke singers from the Dart community (who you can watch sing below) (more...)

November 9th, 2009 | Cort

Just this past week I was standing in a liquor store trying to figure out which bottle of wine I should buy and take over to a friends house. I'd say I'm confident when it comes to drinking wine but pretty unsure of myself when it comes to buying it.

So thank god for The Second Glass. Tyler Balliet and Morgan First from The Second Glass have created a resource educating the Gen Y wine consumer. They offer everything from a wine publication to incredible educational opportunities and events such as Wine of the Weekend and Wine Riot.

Now that they have established a fantastic brand, listen to what is in store for the next phase of The Second Glass which will probably dominate our discussion on Thursday night at Hubspot!

Get your ticket!

Big thanks to Microsoft for being this week's sponsor! (more...)

November 5th, 2009 | Cort

Such a fun night at Game On! I have to say, I think that was one of our best venues yet as we had the entire downstairs to ourselves, it was quiet and of course the Sarahs were awesome for letting us hang out there all night.

Of course the night was all about Kabir Hemrajani and his company RiotVine. He is going to be pitching this Tuesday at Venrock for Dart's first Capitalize event. If you don't get a ticket remember we are live streaming the event so be sure to participate online!

Helping us out last night in the Pokin' Holes discussion we had a 3 great panelists two of which were first timers.

Alex King: Director of Marketing with @webnoter

Vadim Revzin: Bentley grad and a man looking to micro fund start-ups

Nick Ward: Gainfully employed geek by day, gamer by night

Check out what these guys had to say about RiotVine...

Listen to Kabir pitch and the community's questions... (more...)

November 3rd, 2009 | Cort

The next 7 days should be a lot of fun. We've got Pokin' Holes, Family Dinner - sushi edition and the first episode of Capitalize. Now that I'm writing this I realize how much there is to get done for DartBoston this week!

Our company on Thursday's Pokin' Holes, RiotVine, will be the first start-up to pitch on Capitalize next Tuesday at Venrock. Kabir Hemrajani, founder of RiotVine stopped by last night to talk about his company and what he's working on.

Get your ticket...

Kabir launched RiotVine about a month and a half ago and is now pushing to get the Boston community to try it out. We've created a RiotVine event for this Pokin' Holes so let us know what you think.

Listen to what Kabir had to say on the Pre-Show.

Big thanks to Grasshopper for being this week's sponsor!

Grasshopper - Entrepreneurs can change the world! (video)

We are going to be at Game On! this week. If you have never been there, it's at the foot of Fenway Park.

82 Lansdowne St
Boston, MA 02215

I hope to see you all on Thursday!

October 29th, 2009 | Cort

We had a lot of fun last night at The Lansdowne. Before we kicked off Pokin' Holes, Jake announced the new web-show/Dart event called Capitalize. If you want to learn more about it check out the site... http://capitalize.dartboston.com.

As always the Dart community came out in force last night and I want to thank everyone who came out to support. Jason Shah pitched his company, INeedAPencil and I thought our panel and the community offered some good ideas.

Check out the show below...

Our panel included:

Morgan First: travel obsessed, adventure loving entrepreneur @thesecondglass

Jarrett Sloan: Boston based bike riding , coffee drinking, beer enjoying, PC hating , Alfresco using, tech loving web enthusiast.

Ben Margolis: Web developer, entrepreneur, urbanist, saxophonist, and meliorist

Listen to Jason's pitch of INeedAPencil... (more...)