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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

Boston is a great place to start and build a company. However, Boston is a transient town, especially for the student population that refreshes a large number each year. This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. The Grand-daddy. The Grand-daddy.

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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. Here is some of the best commentary from the community… For starters, why does Boston get a bad consumer rap anyway?

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(First Annual?) List of Go-To Early-Stage Service Providers in the NextView Ventures Boston Portfolio

Genuine VC

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. When we took the poll itself, one founder said: “This is a great idea. We would have loved to have it when we were getting started.”

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. We just finished the second year in Boston. So having spent a lot of time thinking about this Silicon Valley is a thing in and of itself. So everybody goes through this phase of we want to be the next Silicon Valley.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. March 13, 2018 9:30AM?—?10:30AM 10:30AM Hilton?

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What Makes a Great Consumer Startup Marketer?

View from Seed

While the startup environment in Boston has vastly improved over the last several years , I continue to hear the sentiment that it’s really tough to build a great consumer startup in Boston. This is expressed by people outside of Boston, but it often comes from those within our community too. VP Finance and Analytics.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Enable Google Analytics tracking. You just have to sign up for Google Analytics, get your account number, and plug it into your site. Use Googles built-in Analytics/AdWords integration, to track the effectiveness of each ad you run. The nice thing about services like SnapPages is that they offer this built-in. Amazon PostRank

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