Value Creation Labs

01/07/2025

Hope to see folks today for our first CoFlo of 2025. We’ll be at Backbeat Brewing Company the of every month for pop up coworking, networking and the exchange of gooood vibrations. 🤘🏽

Tomorrow (1/7) is the first CoFlo day of 2025 with our friends from Creation Labs. These monthly events combine co-working and networking - a perfect pairing. Co-working begins at 8 AM and runs all day with coffee and snacks available, and networking begins at 4 PM with beers and food available for purchase. You’re welcome to come in for a few hours or stay all day. You can find more information on their CoFlo website: https://gocoflo.com/.

11/26/2024

We can’t wait to see everyone for the final CoFlo of the year on Tuesday, Dec 3rd!

Join us at Backbeat Brewing for a day of co-working starting at 8 AM, followed by networking at 4 PM. Come for a few hours or stay all day—let’s end the year on a high note!

We're excited to announce that our friends from Value Creation Labs are bringing CoFlo back to the brewery on the of each month, and we're kicking it off on Tuesday, December 3. These events combine co-working and networking - a perfect pairing. Co-working begins at 8 AM and runs all day with coffee and snacks available, and networking begins at 4 PM with beers and food available for purchase. You’re welcome to come in for a few hours or stay all day.

11/11/2024

CoFlo is tomorrow! Join us at Backbeat Brewing Company in Beverly, MA, for a day of coworking.

Doors open for coworking at 8 AM, with networking kicking off at 4 PM.

RSVP here: https://bit.ly/VCL-CoFlo



Destination Salem, Massachusetts

CoFlo: Where ideas flow and connections grow. Join us for CoFlo on Tuesday, November 12th at Backbeat Brewing in Beverly, MA. CoFlo is a monthly event designed…

09/24/2024

We’re excited to be welcoming our friends from Value Creation Labs back for another free CoFlo event on Tuesday, September 24 – a great opportunity for combining coworking and networking. Coworking begins at 8 AM and runs all day with coffee and snacks available, and networking begins at 4 PM with beers and food available for purchase. You’re welcome to come in for a few hours or stay all day for this unique event. You can RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/57723rmp

09/10/2024

A group of us Beverly, MA locals created a new cowork/cohang movement where we activate beautiful spaces during weekday downtimes. Our first partner is Backbeat Brewing and our inaugural CoFlo day is Tues, Sept 17th (8am-8pm). Pop in any time during the day to find your cowork flow or come after 4pm ET, hang out and enjoy the networking meet-up. Details below to RSVP and reserve your spot. It’s all free to the public thanks to our sponsors. Thanks to all those who helped make CoFlo a reality.

We bring together an eclectic community of folks on Boston's North Shore who share a love for building cool stuff and get energy from working around other talented people. We partner with local businesses to utilize their beautiful spaces during downtimes to host pop-up coworking and curated gatheri...

09/08/2023

Join us for an exciting live recording at the heart of SBW2023!

On September 14th from 3-6pm, Zach Servideo will be in action, interviewing the brilliant minds of Gabriela Serret-Campos, Stanley Rameau, and Senofer Mendoza at the prestigious David J. Sargent Hall, 110 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02108.

Don't miss this opportunity to dive into thought-provoking discussions right on the podcast stage of Startup Boston Week 2023!

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08/16/2023

Check out MediaPost's 5 predictions for the advertising upfront season:

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07/07/2023

Contrary to how it may seem from our last post... AI can be used for good – in business, to improve health outcomes, etc. Even though we’re in the collective exploratory phase of using AI, here is an uplifting way AI has been used to cure cancer that would have otherwise led to a more dire outcome.

AI automation throughout the drug development pipeline is opening up the possibility of faster, cheaper pharmaceuticals.

06/28/2023

We should all be concerned about what the emergence of AI chatbots for daily communication use means for our society. ChatGPT has stolen the headlines, with plenty of alternatives coming (e.g., japer.ai, synthesia.io, pictory.ai) – notably Elon Musk building a 'Based AI' because 'ChatGPT' is "too woke" apparently.

Most of these chatbots are programmed to generate language the user wants to hear, and ignore the rest. Sound familiar? This is the 2016 fake news problem times infinity.

We’re tech nerds at VCL and we read The Information, and one thing that we’ve learned from The Information founder Jessica Lessin’s reporting lately is that many AI insiders “believe there will be a splintering of AIs in the future.” (Source here – and you’ll need to subscribe, we highly recommend you do.)

AI’s long-term promise for the average Joes and Sallys of the world is to give people more control over what sources an AI references. Picture Joaquin Phoenix in the movie Her. The AI is so yours you fall in love with it.

Musk is adding himself to the chatbot arms race, with plans to develop an alternative to ChatGPT, which he derided as being too "woke."

06/23/2023

There’s a new fund in VC town!

Forbes reported that solo capitalist Monique Woodard, a startups and VC veteran with two decades of experience in the tech ecosystem, raised a $17M fund for her newly developed firm: Cake Ventures.

The fund is backed by the likes of Bank of America and billionaire Melinda French Gates.

The San Francisco-based fund will fund will focus on pre-seed and seed investments in companies that build technology to aid aging populations, increase the earning power of women in society and the shift to “majority-minority,” as as Woodard put it, a “new majority” of early tech adopters coming from Asian, Black and Latino backgrounds.

This is important. As The Information reported earlier this month, VC's have a worsening diversity problem. An estimated 1 percent of U.S. based VC firms are Black-ownedd, per Wired. That said, Woodward as a Black woman founder is breaking statistics and driving change.

The Black founder-turned-investor will write $500,000 seed and pre-seed checks, backed by investors including Bank of America and billionaire Melinda French Gates.

06/21/2023

Congratulations to Rob Christensen as he has been promoted to Head of US Sales at Vevo:

Exec spent 5 years at Hulu, 6 years at Turner