This blog is a collection of thoughts, questions and interesting content I find across the internet with a focus on my passions for innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership. I’ve been told one of my best skills is asking the right questions, so hopefully I’ll raise a few here. I love a healthy debate or discussion, so I look forward to sparking a few on this blog.
About Me:
I eat, sleep and breathe entrepreneurship and am focused on learning how to build great web startups. I’m a strong proponent of Lean Startups and focused on that for over a year in my role at oneforty (acquired by HubSpot). I believe that any great web startup needs to have customer development at the core of their culture to maximize the odds of success.
I’m also passionate about the Boston Startup community and strive to help make it better for great companies to be built here. If you’re looking to engage the startup community here or just want to find out what startup events, resources and jobs are around, check out GreenhornConnect.com and let me know what you think; I love getting feedback and am always open to collaboration.
I’m now also working on creating a new startup. If you’re interested in the new venture, definitely reach out at evanish [dot] j [at] Gmail [dot] com; I’m always happy to meet other innovators, especially if you’re looking for a hustler that understands the engineering world (I was an electrical engineer and know some coding).
If you’d like to know more about me, you can find me on Twitter (@Evanish) or LinkedIn.
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In the press:
I’ve been very fortunate to have some really cool press coverage. See some of it here:
- WGBH Boston’s Innovation Hub with Kara Miller December 3, 2011
For Facebook and Zuckerberg, location matters
- NPR Market Radio by Curt Nickisch November 7, 2011
Facebook Founder Gives a Shout-Out to Boston
- NPR on WBUR Boston by Curt Nickisch, November 1, 2011
A Need-to-Know Guy: How one young Bostonian became a networking king
- Fast Company Magazine by Curt Nickisch, November 2011 Issue
Unlimited Vacation, but can you take it?
- The Wall Street Journal by Sue Shellenbarger, July, 20, 2011
Person of Interest: Jason Evanish
- Boston Magazine by Curt Nickisch, July 2011 Issue
Hello Jason,
Great work you’re doing here and at Greenhorn. Speaking with my colleagues this morning about a way we can work together. Trying to find your number so I can talk with you via phone… I know, old fashioned… I’m at NCIIA Headquarters: 413-587-2172.
Humera.
Hello Jason,
First and foremost, thank you for the excellent and inspiring work you do at Greenhorn. I am a new entrepreneur working on a very exciting startup ecommerce company. I was introduced to Greenhorn and have learned alot from its articles and overall content. I was hoping to talk to you about the company and share with you my ideas and my obstacles. I hope that I will hear from you and will inspire you with my new idea.
Regards,
jonathan
Hey Jason,
Last Thusday I breifly met you at Mead Hall. You may recall I am the “designer/hustler” at NeighbFav.com
Today I was reading Fast Company and saw the featured article about what you are doing in the Boston community. Props on what you are doing and making the tech community more accessible. Hope to see you around in Boston soon.
Cheers,
-Zac
Thanks Zac.
Good luck with your project. There’s obviously some real monster startups with a head start on you, but that never stopped Google in their early days.
Remember that nothing matters more than team; with the right team you can accomplish anything, while an imperfect team can be crippling. I feel very fortunate to have a great team to work with at Greenhorn Connect and hope you are able to build a great one too.
Thanks,
Jason