Agile VC

JULY 16, 2014

One of our portfolio companies, Plastiq , announced yesterday that they raised a $10M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and are planning to move their headquarters from Boston to San Francisco. Some lament the relocation of Plastiq and other companies who start in Boston but end up moving to Silicon Valley or other startup hubs.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. 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. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

At NextView Ventures, we have a number of companies in our portfolio which are “marketplace” businesses, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange a good or service. But the most difficult challenge is starting the marketplace engine in the first place, which can be sparked with one of the techniques above.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Silicon Valley, Boston). And take what it learns and regularly update the corporate engineering, strategy, VC groups and business unit heads, on technology and market shifts. Corporate VC needs to be part of an innovation investment portfolio with a mix of incubate, invest and acquire. This is not the the optimal way to start.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kayak is great Boston-area success story. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Of the ones I have been to recently, the Nantucket Conference has been my favorite. Here’s why.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

We graduate more engineers in our greater region than anywhere else in the US. We have top 25 engineering schools than anywhere else, too. We have a large number of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs now developing companies in our local market. Buying local teams with talented engineering groups. Maker Studios.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

Broadcom is acquiring an expert team of engineers focused on security&# – BroadcomConsumer device chip maker Broadcom has acquired Tel Aviv-based security software maker SC Square for $42 million. BROADCOM BUYS ISRAELI SECURITY SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SC SQUARE. “With SC Square Ltd., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I highlight endogenous social impact because many of my portfolio companies might give money to charity or provide low-cost pricing to nonprofits, but that’s not what I think of as an impact company; they’re tacking on social impact on top of their core business, whatever that is. . Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Kalghatgi was Founder and Fund-Manager of Partner 6 Investment Group, a micro hedge fund in Boston, and then joined the founding team of Localytics, a mobile application analytics provider. Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

Rick – I’m a Boston-based VC. In your case, come to Boston. If you’re in a coffee shop and building something cool, the value originates from the builders, that is the scarce resource. There are meetups every day, office hours with VCs, etc. Don - the best path to starting a startup is to work at a startup.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

What product/service is generating revenue that has not yet been adopted in Boston? I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. I ditched coaching as a product and asked myself, The West Coast are early adopters of innovation in talent management.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

What product/service is generating revenue that has not yet been adopted in Boston? I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. I ditched coaching as a product and asked myself, The West Coast are early adopters of innovation in talent management.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. View More in Boston ›. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. Our Events ▾ 6/14/12 · Boston. Boston Events ›. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

We just finished the second year in Boston. And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. You have a company called Oblong (in your portfolio) which is a Minority Report type company. It has worked out great.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” Are you passionate about creating great user experiences within a product? Both internal and external.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. 2) New market (less common form, examples are Lyft and eShares) and 3) New business model (least common, non-K9 portfolio examples are PriceLine and SolarCity).

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Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). These great people are in our network. Even more of them are within our network’s network.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

Almost every company in our portfolio with more than 50 employees either has or is looking at a second (or third, or fourth) location. I’ve found that secondary/tertiary US cities work better than international locations, with the exception of software/hardware engineering locations. LA, Boston) is getting much more challenging.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. The engine at the core of that growth was a highly advantaged customization offering that took years and years for Dell’s competitors to figure out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

As a result, many of these companies get caught by surprise when their optimization activities hit a plateau and competitors who have a true portfolio approach race past them. LTV focuses on the integration of marketing and engineering functions and emphasizes implementation rather than strategy formulation issues.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston. We will highlight the research, the available tax laws, portfolio construction strategies, and highlight new instruments available to investors. Time: 12:30PM?—? 12:00PM Hilton?—?Room

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Nicholas Petri is a market research analyst at OpenView Venture Partners , where he helps portfolio companies by providing in-depth research into their prospects and customer segments. The team opened up a second office for US sales and support in Plano, TX, while the engineering team and CEO stayed in Ireland.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. Our top goal is to break into new markets and add new products to our portfolio. and Indian companies.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. Immediately.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Talking to potential customers and competitors customers. In this kind of work, its hard to predict when things will be done, what impact they will have, and whether youre making progress. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 88

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Over the years, we discovered that UK homeowners and tenants needed more domestic services which we added to our portfolio as and when there was a demand. Anton already had experience in the cleaning business, so that’s where our journey began. I was going to law school during the time of his cancer diagnosis and when he passed away.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Our unemployment rate is high, yet the job boards of local venture-capital firms show hundreds of job listings across their portfolios. Our companies desperately need more lab technicians, search engine marketers, online advertising salespeople, and software developers.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

So many young children were there, fascinated by the fire engines and uniforms. In the weeks leading up to 9/11, when I was working at Intel Capital in Silicon Valley, I was back on the east coast traveling with my family in the Berkshires and then had a meeting with a portfolio company that was headquartered in the World Trade Center.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 11, 2016

So many young children were there, fascinated by the fire engines and uniforms. In the weeks leading up to 9/11, when I was working at Intel Capital in Silicon Valley, I was back on the east coast traveling with my family in the Berkshires and then had a meeting with a portfolio company that was headquartered in the World Trade Center.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Phoenix will act as a platform to channel Gulf investment into OurCrowd’s 220 portfolio companies, building on the pent-up demand in the UAE for opportunities in the thriving Israeli start-up scene. I’m just highlighting here a few companies who have made recruiting Arab engineers a focus. SUGGESTED BACKGROUND READING.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

Once upon a time I was a mechanical engineer, MIT student, and basically went into consulting for about four years at a company called Arthur D. It’s a management and engineering consulting company in Boston. ” So it was a really great problem solving sort of thing back in my mechanical engineering roots.

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Hippoland

MARCH 2, 2018

B) We made no CAN investments! :( C) Though we did no investments in TO/Waterloo, Atlanta, Boston, and really anywhere in the midwest in 2017, we have done a TON of investments in these locations in the past and will likely look heavily there in 2018. 47% of our portfolio companies have at least one female founder.

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Hippoland

MARCH 2, 2018

B) We made no CAN investments! :( C) Though we did no investments in TO/Waterloo, Atlanta, Boston, and really anywhere in the midwest in 2017, we have done a TON of investments in these locations in the past and will likely look heavily there in 2018. 47% of our portfolio companies have at least one female founder.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. And, even though I do enjoy meeting up with the founders in my portfolio for lunch every couple of months, the majority of the interactions with my portfolio founders still happens over email or phone.

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Silicon Valley San Jose Portfolio Cofounder 124

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

You could argue that the recent companies are too early, so I''ll take that challenge and compare it with my own portfolio. All of the companies but one were funded in NYC, with the other in Boston. Of the 20 teams, only half count an engineer as a founder or co-founder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

In addition to supporting their portfolio companies in coming to the event, they also have taken the additional step of underwriting a limited number of discounted tickets that are available to the general public. Our sponsors continue to support the conference as well as deserving entrepreneurs. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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