Startable – Healy Jones’ & Prasad Thammineni’s Blog

I am Healy Jones, a young, former venture capitalist living in Boston currently trying to see if I can survive as an entrepreneur. I am the head of marketing at OfficeDrop, a digital filing system and document scanning company. We manage paper and digital files, online, for small business customers.

In May of 2009 I left Atlas Venture, where I had focused on early stage investments in technology. Previously I was with Summit Partners in their Palo Alto office, where I spent a lot of time hunting down later stage venture investments in communications and internet service companies (I also evaluated a large building product company’s buyout.) Briefly I worked for a small, service business focused, buyout group in San Diego. There, I learned how profitable portable toilet servicing companies are, and also that you should not wear a new pair of shoes to such a company’s service site… I started my career during the dot.com boom in San Fransisco, where I worked for the technology investment banking group of Hambrecht & Quist. I enjoyed the bubble, and stuck it out all the way until the bust, surviving a couple of mergers and ending up with a JP Morgan business card.

Prasad, my co-blogger and the CEO of OfficeDrop, and I became friends at Wharton while we were getting our MBAs. We took a trip together to South East Asia and worked on building the Wharton Follies set. While I was busy trying to network into venture capital firms, Prasad was conceiving OfficeDrop and writing code.

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I enjoy cooking, the ocassional glass of wine (I was president of the Wharton Wine Club) and Boston’s pretty amazing sporting culture.

Besides the MBA from Wharton, I have an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth.

My employer, Atlas Venture (http://www.atlasventure.com/), is not responsible for any of the posting on this blog. All of the items posted by me are my own personal opinion, and are not endorsed by Atlas.

You can reach me by email at: healy (at) the name of my blog.com. Obviously my blog’s name is startable.com…