Jon Hirschtick, Repeat Founder - Innovating in the Cloud

<p><strong><span style="color: #e67e23;">Sal's Investment Syndicate List:</span> <a href= "https://www.angelinvestboston.com/our-syndicates">Click to Join</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Purdue University Entrepreneurship</strong></li> <li><strong>Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish & Richardson</strong></li> </ul> <p>Thrice-exited founder Jon Hirschtick of SolidWorks and Onshape fame, talks about the promise of cloud-based technologies and how to build successful businesses in the space. Jon’s a good sport and a fun guest.</p> <p>Highlights:</p> <ul> <li>Sal Daher Introduces Jon Hirschtick, Founder of SolidWorks and Onshape</li> <li>“...the problem we were solving with Onshape is around the use of CAD, Computer-Aided-Design t”</li> <li>“...I had a year off and I could see the emergence of cloud technologies and I thought back to the problems I had seen users having.”</li> <li>“...Onshape is the Google Docs of CAD...SolidWorks was the Microsoft Word of Onshape. What came before SolidWorks was like the Wang Word Processor of CAD.”</li> <li>“...Marc Andreessen, he was an investor in Onshape”</li> <li>It Was hard to Raise Money for SolidWorks but Its Success Made It Easy to Get Onshape Funded</li> <li>Jon Hirschtick Was on the Famous MIT Blackjack Team</li> <li>SolidWorks Was Jon’s Idea of Taking Computer-Aided Design from Specialized Work Stations to Desktop PCs</li> <li>Jon Hirschtick Proved All the Naysayers Wrong on SolidWorks</li> <li>Why Jon Hirschtick Thinks Boston Is a Great Place to Start a CAD Company</li> <li>New York’s Unlikely Rise as a Startup Hub</li> <li>“...Boston city government is not perfect but...compared to San Francisco and...New York City, we're models of efficiency, we're Singapore.”</li> <li>Jon Hirschtick Thinks There’s Room for Improvement in Massachusetts’ Non-Compete Law</li> <li>How Cloud-based Technologies Drive Innovation</li> <li>The Way Data Is Organized Is Archaic, It’s Trying to Emulate Paper Records</li> <li>The Cloud Shatters Barriers Impose