Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

I saw these addressed well in a new book, “ The Startup Community Way ,” by Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway. These guys have been building startup communities like Techstars for over 30 years, so they know what works and what doesn’t. Despite the reach of the Internet and cold calls, there is no substitute for warm introductions.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

” That was the question one of my students asked me three years ago when I quietly told him my plan to start a design museum in Boston with my friend and business partner, Derek Cascio. Before we get too deep, a little bit about me: my name is Sam Aquillano and I’m the Director of Design Museum Boston.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

GrabCAD & Professional Communities. Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. January 4, 2012.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

When you started Snyk, did you think about the importance of building a community from the offset, and is that what drove your decisions in terms of building and architecting the product? The community approach is instrumental to the developer tooling landscape. It’s a community movement, rather than a technology or specific practice.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 4, 2013

Taught by volunteers from the local tech community, Startup Institute has four tracks for students looking for the necessary acumen to work at a startup – web development, product and design, marketing and sales/business development. The Startup Institute started as a branch of startup incubator TechStars in Boston.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Today, we are excited to re-release an updated Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech ! I wanted to point out a couple things in the updated guide, but the general theme is that we are simply seeing more, bigger, and better things happening here in Boston. To name a few: 1. More exciting, industry-leading companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. Think about Facebook had it stayed in Boston.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. But a large majority of our investments are in our backyard of Boston — and, aside from our work as investors, this city is near and dear to our hearts. Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Lastly, a necessary caveat: Boston’s booming tech ecosystem means there are dozens of great service providers available to startups. We kindly ask you don’t simply list your own organization, as that’s not the best way to offer unbiased value to the community.). Preferred Boston Startup Service Providers 2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2019

Image via Wikipedia From the advice I hear these days, if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be in Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, or one of the few other financial hubs around the world. In small towns, this may mean sponsoring local events, supporting complementary businesses, and community involvement.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The benefits have been touted previously : an anchor for attracting and retaining talent in Boston, as well as a breeding ground for the next set of great Boston entrepreneurs and founders. The post The Unique but Powerful Way the HubSpot Mafia is Impacting Boston Startups appeared first on GenuineVC.'

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. After all, people rarely say they are mad because they are not being heard.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

University-level courses, tutorials, cheat sheets, and coding communities all offer excellent ways to pick up a new language, and maybe even a new job, too. The New Boston : The New Boston offers an incredible collection of video tutorials for all types of programming, including iPhone and computer game development.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

To help foster this innovation, many colleges and universities have opened business incubators, helping students and others in their community to help make their innovative dreams a reality. Offering a “holistic entrepreneurship program,” this residential community has entrepreneurship at every step of the college experience.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 10, 2020

When Amy and I had life dinner on March 1st, we were both tired after a three-week trip to Boston, Miami, and Atlanta. Many direct benefits are wired into the local community, so there is a powerful feedback loop around feeling good about helping by actually helping. ” Prescient, but not really what we meant.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

The city I call home, Boston, is not known for its social products. Here is some data shared by TJ Parker, CEO of Boston-based Pillpack, as first reported by PitchBook: Bos raised roughly same VC as NY since ’06 & ’10 w/ nearly double the exit value, ranked below in ecosystem. Social Has Been a Tale of One Coast.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Back in June, the local Boston tech community together celebrated the ten year anniversary of the Web Innovators Group, affectionately known as “WebInno.” Accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces have proliferated in Cambridge and Boston. The post Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG appeared first on GenuineVC.

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View from Seed

MARCH 20, 2020

A week ago, I thought I’d be travelling for my first business school spring break — not cooped up in my Boston apartment. Telemedicine can combat access issues by removing geographical constraints for patients in rural or medically underserved communities. Life has been turned upside down in the span of days.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 25, 2012

Over the last three weeks I’ve had numerous people ask me how my trip to Boston has been going. Tonight, after hanging out at the TechStars Boston Mentor evening and program kickoff, I got into a long discussion with a Bill Warner and Ken Zolot about Cambridge, Boston, and startup communities.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Two years ago Jeff Bussgang lamented about “Lost Generation” of entrepreneurs which I think is especially acute here in Boston. I was in my early 20’s just barely out of school when four of us (peers) started Sombasa Media (aka BargainDog ) here in Boston beginning in 1998. My own personal story fits in with this narrative.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2013

I was getting ready for a Google Hangout back to my office with my partners and I noticed something about an explosion at the Boston Marathon on twitter. My partners were all shaken also – Seth lived in Boston for many years, Ryan has done several marathons, and Jason just did his first marathon last year in Detroit.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 22, 2012

Over a year and a half ago, I did a two-part blog post on the East Coast IPO malaise – one focused on Boston (Massachusetts more broadly), another focused on New York. 9-0 in IPOs and 3-1 in big M&A in favor of Boston? But then why have consumer plays like Boston-based Kayak, TripAdvisor and Zipcar done so well?

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

He was wrapping up GrabCAD’s participation in the Seedcamp accelerator program, and the Seedcamp startups were in the US to visit potential advisors and investors in Boston, New York, and SF. Companies like GE, ABB, and others are also using Workbench or have tapped the GrabCAD community for outsourced design work.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Roughly half (49%) of nonprofit leaders say they do not have the right board members to “establish trust with the communities they serve,” according to Leading With Intent. Building a board that reflects the diversity of that community helps to foster relatability, credibility and trust among community members.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. This is also an opportunity to take a step back and think about what the Platform role means for us overall.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. This is also an opportunity to take a step back and think about what the Platform role means for us overall.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

With free coffee and Internet, workspaces, and built-in community, coworking spaces provide a great place to get things done without feeling the isolation of working at home, or trying to overcome the frenetic nature of working in a coffee shop. Ignition Alley.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In it we talk about the continued failure of the federal government to help small businesses and highlight some encouraging ways that local communities have stepped into the void to help. Op-ed: Communities across America rush to save Main Street as federal relief for small business stalls. Last week, the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2013

A month ago a successful Boston entrepreneur who has been incredibly engaged in the Boston startup community was thrown in jail for three days after a CPB agent decided she didn’t have a valid visa (she did have a valid visa, and she was from that extremely dangerous country of Canada.).

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2011

.&# While I think the bay area is a special place, anyone that knows me knows that I strongly believe there are several great entrepreneurial communities throughout the US and the potential for many more. Boston has always been a great entrepreneurial community. Last night at dinner I met a bunch of the TechStars Boston mentors.

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VC Adventure

JULY 1, 2021

Sweet Grace was born in 2008, as the Great Recession ripped through the United States, particularly affecting working-class communities like Lawrence, Massachusetts where Danaris lives. How could this function in communities and Main Streets in America? She can identify the exact minute the bakery was born.

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Welcome to the future of work where employees may reside anywhere from Bali to Boston or Barcelona – how can you tap into this global talent pool to create your own successful enterprise with remote workers? Mastering remote business has gone from unique selling point to necessity in today’s increasingly remote work world.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Today, we’re excited to unveil the official Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech — a comprehensive overview of what tech entrepreneurs and professionals need to navigate and succeed in our local community. In 2009, I published a simple link roundup titled A “To-Do” List for New Entrepreneurs Arriving in Boston.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 8, 2022

The combo convinced me that software was for creativity and community — 100% impacted the rest of my life. Did Boston work for you right away or was there an adjustment period? Boston was great and is an easy city to like with great public transit and good institutions. Do you have any “AHA!”

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

My partner Rob wrote bit more on his blog about our motivations for adding our first new team member at NextView Ventures — a Director of Platform and Community. Active contributor to the Boston entrepreneurial community with extensive network across technology startups.

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