Angel Invest Boston

Zipcar’s first investor, Jean Hammond, is Boston’s indispensable angel. Her hands-on approach has been pivotal to the success of her startup and several others. She co-founded the leading accelerator for educational technology startups, LearnLaunch. The interview was great fun and hugely instructive to me. Don’t miss it! Here are some highlights: Sal Introduces Jean Hammond From Studying Biology at Boston University to Running a Food Warehouse Jean Decides She Needs a Rigorous MBA – Goes to MIT Sloan Moved to Edinburgh & Worked at Fast-Growing Computer Networking Startup “By the time I left there [Spyder], I felt like I'd done all the different functions in a little startup and done it while growth was going on.” Jean Hammond Founds AXON “AXON was four years old when 3Com acquired it and had grown quite rapidly to a pretty good business, and we got a pretty good price.” Jean Hammond’s Second Startup, Quarry, Suffered from Bottlenecks in Telecom Infrastructure “We live in a magic world of technology today