Gesmer Updegrove LLP

Boston Software Systems

Sara and Richard McNeil, a dynamic husband and wife leadership team, founded Boston Software Systems in 1985 and run it today with a virtual team operating in 10 states. The company markets the leading scripting software tool (software programming) in...

CarbonRally

Carbonrally proves that it can be fun to be “green.” Carbonrally’s web site allows members to sign up for free and compete individually or on teams by accepting a series of carbon-reduction challenges to effect climate change. Carbonrally challenges include actions such as foregoing disposable coffee cups, commuting by bike instead of....

Constant Contact

More than 300,000 small businesses, associations and nonprofits trust Constant Contact to help them connect with their audience—making the company a major email marketing player. But who did Constant Contact trust when they themselves were  starting out as a small business?

CYCLE Kids

Founded in May 2004, CYCLE Kids, a nonprofit located in Cambridge, MA, works with inner-city schools to promote healthy lifestyle choices through a curriculum based on teaching children how to ride a bike.  With growing numbers of underactive, overweight children, CYCLE Kids promotes the benefits of exercise ...

DSP Engineering, Inc.

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology was developed in the 60s, along with mainframes, but came to market in force in the late 80s and 90s as fax-machines and dial-up modems transformed business and personal communications. (Even if you don’t know the technology, you know the beeping sound it makes as your fax machine connects).

Entrepreneur-in-Residence

 

Many of our case studies have a beginning and an end that follow the normal course of an  entrepreneurial client’s path from start up to financial transaction. But since many of our active clients are still in, or emerging from start up mode, here are some of their early returns on their Gesmer Updegrove experience. Each works with Steve Snyder, our Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

I-Many

Some entrepreneurs are in the right place at the right time and score big as a result. You know the types. Others make it with sheer tenacity, sweat equity and a loyal team.

Alan Hyman of I-many falls in the latter category. Alan started I-many in 1989 as Systems Consulting Company (SCC), offering software to automate Medicare reimbursement payments.

 

Mariposa

Mariposa makes hand-made, original gifts for the home and table. Visit their Web site to see what makes a Mariposa branded piece unique and learn that “all Mariposa’s designers, including John Updike’s son, Michael Updike, are artists: painters and sculptors who view each piece they make as art, not a product.”