Yottaa Looking for Rock Star UX Architect

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Yottaa is looking for a rock star UX architect who can help make deliver an amazing user experience for various web applications. Yottaa Inc (http://www.yottaa.com) is a Boston and Beijing based cloud computing company building a new generation of cloud services revolutionizing what we know about the Internet. With venture backing ...

Boston Area Startups to Watch

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Nine venture-backed startups IPO'd in 2009, but just one of them was based in Silicon Valley: Sunnyvale security firm Fortinet Inc. (Note that Fortinet is led by Tsinghua University alumni, also co-founder of NetScreen). Close-by, San Francisco's Open Table IPO'd in May. Otherwise, it was all Massachusetts, Chicago, Seattle, and Texas. ...

Is The Tide Turning?

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Though unemployment rate is hitting 10%+ in US, things are looking up from what I see: IPO market start to open up for venture backed startups: A123 System, LogMeIn, SolarWind, etc. Notable M&A exits: Cisco/Tanderberg ($3B), Cisco/Starent ($2.9B), Cisco/ScanSafe ($160M), Cisco/DVN($40M), Compuware/Gomez($296M),HP/3Com($6B), Google/Admob($750M), EA/Playfish($300M+)... Good activities from VCs: ...

A Bad Weekend

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

October 11th 2009 looks like a bad weekend. It turned out to be a really bad one: RedSox - what can you say? Swept. Soul crushed. Ortiz, Bay and Youk combined with 2-3 hits over three games. and Papelbon fell from the cliff. Patriots - Ok. This one is not a big ...

Yottaa Looking for Head of Engineering

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Based in Boston and Beijing, yottaa is a stealth mode startup in the area of cloud computing. We are not saying too much about what we do in public yet, but we can say that you will enjoy the deep computer science as well as the plenty “lost in translation” ...