OncoveryCare
oncoverycare is the first virtual survivorship clinic with a mission to help survivors lead happier, healthier lives. If we’re going to talk about oncoverycare, first we need to talk about its co-founder, Hil Moss.
Carla Price, Enablement Leader
Carla Price is a Revenue Enablement leader who’s carved a path into startups, leveraging her education, to give her colleagues the tools they need to succeed. Through her career she’s been influenced through the help of family, friends, and colleagues. Especially her dad, a former social worker who’s battling Alzheimers. Carla has learned a lot from her father about what it means to find fulfillment in her work. He has been a lifelong teacher for her and others teaching countless students how to demonstrate leadership, communicate, and build relationships.
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Markit Social
Markit Social is “software for creators and event marketing”. Founded in 2021 out of the Tufts Venture Accelerator and a recent graduate of the Techstars Boston accelerator program, Jonathan Chang and his team are on a mission to reinvent events for creators and Gen Z attendees.
The Endeca Effect – Steve Papa & Alumni Learnings
Steve Papa was a driving force behind the Endeca experience in the way that he built, challenged, thought and resourced the talented folks that worked for him as the Founder & CEO. These are the bonus learnings John, Steve, Andrew, Vinay & Julie learned from him and one thing he learned from each of them:
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The Endeca Effect – Career Insights + Conclusion
Startups are hard. Aside from some outliers, it’s hard to do unreasonable things and it’s a lot of work. All the Endeca employees were forged through this difficult but rewarding experience. If you sign up for the work, you need to be committed to it. It’s not a normal job. In the current era “there’s a lot of people who try to argue there should be more entrepreneurs. But it’s like being a professional athlete without training” says Steve Papa.
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The Endeca Effect – Products
The context of Endeca at the time, as we’ve highlighted, was the tug of war between being a platform company vs. a vertical application company. In order to raise capital in 2001 to get the company off the ground, they had to pitch a platform and didn’t necessarily have the persuasive arguments for why they should be a vertical application company instead.
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The Endeca Effect – People
Good people that work well together is a fundamental necessity in startups. Finding ways for them to grow to keep them together long enough to find success is even more important! One way to do that is to ask unreasonable things of them. The Special Operations group was another place where Endeca could bring in talented folks they didn’t necessarily have a place for yet and keep them busy before reorganizations or strategic repositionings as the company grew.
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The Endeca Effect – Markets
Large markets matter. Being bold matters even more. Timing, of course, matters too. The biggest lesson, according to Steve Papa, was a “failure of imagination”. With the right imagination, timing & strategy Endeca could have potentially built an e-commerce business that rivaled the scale of Shopify. But they didn’t see it. And different things are possible at different points in time (and cycles). Maintaining focus through market cycles is also such an important way to learn and build. They built the Endeca platform with eBay as their scale target in terms of product variety, scale of users, throughput, SKUs, etc. A “pile of all the stuff in the world” and a completely unreasonable ask.
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The Endeca Effect – Overview
In 2011, Oracle acquired Boston based Endeca for $1.075B. The acquisition ended an 11 year journey spanning the Dot-com bubble, 9/11, the Great Financial Crisis, 3 Super Bowl wins, 2 World Series titles, 1 NBA Championship, 1 Stanley Cup and the punishing drumbeat of technological progress.
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Dan McCarthy, VP Product @ Cyvl
Dan McCarthy has been building bridges since undergrad, only the context of what kind of bridges and how they are built has changed. A consultant turned Product leader, Dan serves as the Senior Director of Product at Kard, a remote fintech startup.
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