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Year-End VC Report Shows Strength of Internet & Early Stage Investment

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billion in funding in 2792 deals - a 14% growth in funding and a 13% growth in deals over 2009. For those of you looking for a data point that suggests VC is back and on the road to recovery after 2009's tough sledding," the report reads , "the eight quarter high on deals and dollars gives you something to hang your hat on.

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1985: Oil Prices Will Go Up Forever

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I never knew what it was going to be, so I was always very excited when the blue Petcom check showed up at 351 Massachusetts Avenue in my mail cubby. In the Internet bubble, while I kept this lesson in the back of my mind, I ended up suspending disbelief, like so many others, in 2000 and into the spring of 2001. via chartsbin.com.

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IPO Anxiety - East Coast Version (part 1: MA)

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Bill Gurley’s excellent piece on Silicon Valley IPO Anxiety inspired me to take a companion look at the East Coast, particularly Massachusetts and New York, and evaluate the health of the local IPO economy and prospective pipeline. Today, I'll cover Massachusetts; tomorrow, New York. Massachusetts. 2009 Revenue (mn).

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. Web/Internet/IT/eMedia. Internet/Online Only. Internet/Digital Media. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. . --> Suppliers. Webinars Events. Industry Events. MediaNext 2012. E-Media Summit -->. 2010 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Call for Entries OPEN! 2008 FOLIO Award Winners.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

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Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Akamai: The Present.

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First 100 Days: Washington Has Become the New, New York

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The large media companies, too, were seen as great early customers and hotbeds of innovation (I remember how thrilled we were when we secured Time Warner's ground-breaking Pathfinder division as a customer at Open Market back in 1995, thinking we had landed what would be the 800 lb gorilla of the Internet age).

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New England's Top 10 Innovators

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All month, there are numerous high-quality events going on, including an Unconference run by Mass TLC, MIT Deshpande Center's IdeaStream and MITX 2009 Awards night. The founder and former CEO and chairwoman of iRobot, Helen has been the godmother of the robotics industry in Massachusetts. 4) Helen Greiner. 6) Eric Lander.