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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. Harvard iLab.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e.

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A Special Web Innovators Group Next Monday – Mobile Growth Masters

Genuine VC

Mobile is changing the world. Not just in our “mobile-first” companies, but all of them. However, the consistent challenge which we’re observing in the mobile ecosystem is acquiring customer distribution. Micah Adler , Founder of Fiksu , Boston’s white-hot mobile app marketing startup.

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Bitcoins & Benjamins: The Future of Work & Money

View from Seed

Quilt (a NextView portfolio company incubated in our Boston office) recently launched a fully digital life insurance product that approves policies in just 15 minutes. We also believe blockchain will enable novel distributed services that do not presently exist, for lack of a scalable real-time architecture for managing microtransactions.

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2012 Valuation Survey of Angel Groups

Gust

Pre-revenue software, internet, mobile and telecom deals. Launchpad Angels (Boston). Hub Angels (Boston). Golden Seeds (NY, Boston, CA). CommonAngels (Boston). In 2012 seven of the eight groups from California, Boston and New York were above the median of all groups. Pre-revenue energy and clean tech.

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How Techstars Affirms Today’s Top Technological Trends

ReadWriteStart

The Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Twittering laughter fills the air at the new Techstars office on the edge of Chinatown in Boston, as dozens of young engineers, designers, and marketers gather to raise a glass to Katie Rae, a startup veteran with short, curly blond hair and unstoppable energy.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Recently raised $7 million from Atlas Ventures out of Boston. Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Premium invitation cards and event stationary that is designed online for online distribution or paper print. Developer of Appsaurus , a mobile app recommendation engine.

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