Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

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 population each year. This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. University Resources.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A new option for founders who care about control.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Since then, over 400 Insight alumni have been hired as data scientists or data engineers at top tier companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Airbnb, and Google. Keep in mind, I won’t share all of Insight’s secret sauce, but will hopefully provide enough high level lessons and principles that you can apply to your own hiring process.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Instead, it’s more of a Manifesto about the core beliefs that shape our strategy. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

There’s Always One in Boston. “Is Is there a salesperson in Boston?” The standard corporate presentation wasn’t working, so the Boston sales rep made up his own. (I I asked for the Boston sales rep because in the U.S. With that initial sales “success” they began to hire and staff the sales department per the ”plan.”

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View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

I’m quite optimistic about the direction that this is headed based on the momentum of more diverse hiring in the junior and mid-level ranks of the industry. Most of the remainder are funds that are less than 20 years old, such as General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, and A16Z. Firm Persistence.

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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. 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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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If you haven’t yet heard about Female Founder Office Hours it is an initiative you should be aware of whether you’re male, female or any other gender identify. Female Founder Office Hours gives founders the mentorship and the role models to see that it is in not only possible but also to have a plan to make it a reality.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

From New York, Philadelphia, and Boston to Los Angeles and San Francisco, entrepreneurs came out to share their enthusiasm -- you really are everywhere.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. Are we solving the right problem? We can do better by focusing on process instead of personality.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

by Andrew Ostashen, co-founder of Vulsec. Hire qualified internal resources or outsource as needed for the required IT positions. When an organization is within the startup phase, the first thing on their mind is “How do we get our product to market as fast as possible?” Bring on a security-conscious CTO at the beginning.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2019

As mentioned in our previous article, Boston Restaurant Group Founder, Charlie Perkins, tells us that total Occupancy costs should not exceed 8% of gross revenue. And then there is the licensing… especially in the City of Boston, this can be a tough and bumpy road to navigate. Evaluate the Costs. www.cafcoconstruction.com.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

You would have to spend millions of dollars hiring software developers, renting real estate, buying hardware, etc. Until relatively recently, the capital requirements of technology businesses were quite large. just to build a product which you could then start selling (and in reality test whether there was a market at all).

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View from Seed

JULY 7, 2015

I recently sat down with the remarkably thoughtful (and insanely scrappy) Patrick Campbell , co-founder and CEO of Price Intelligently. Patrick and I worked at Google together and were both among the first in our particular office to decide that we wanted to leave and stay in the same city (Boston) and sector (tech).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

Her first book, Unemployable: How I Hired Myself details her life story and guide to financial freedom. It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. We're gonna talk about her first book, Unemployable: how I Hired Myself. Crazy wild Only founders understand what it means to, to want something so badly.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

Bishay would charge tuition but would refund it if the students got jobs as developers and he earned a recruitment fee from the hiring company. That seems steep, especially with programs like Codecademy available for free online and other programs like Boston Startup School free for students that are accepted.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 6, 2016

These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. Sadie (Founder): 305 Fitness is a dance cardio workout with a live DJ. We have locations in NYC, Boston, and D.C. S: I heard about Bond Street through a friend, who went to school with David Haber, the brilliant founder behind it all.

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Technical Review Miami Software Review Boston 54

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” Top founders want to live in a place where employees are serious about working hard. Those two things aren’t really the same.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. Mistakes of Hiring Like most founding employees, people tend to ask me what lessons I learned throughout my tenure at the company (hence, this post).

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

This is a guest post from Rob May , a co-founder and CEO of Backupify , which raised $19.5M I called the recruiter running the search and told him I was going to step down and hire a CEO. So, in order to hire a CEO, we have to give someone their first shot at the job.” Hang out with other founders and CEOs.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. NVV: Lots of marketers are under pressure to come in and generate demand right away, whether because sales is asking for leads or founders are demanding PR or user growth.

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Marketing Sales Cycle Startup CTO Hire 120

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Instead, it’s more of a Manifesto about the core beliefs that shape our strategy. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Hunter Walker

JUNE 6, 2016

These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. Sadie (Founder): 305 Fitness is a dance cardio workout with a live DJ. We have locations in NYC, Boston, and D.C. S: I heard about Bond Street through a friend, who went to school with David Haber, the brilliant founder behind it all.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Miami Software Review Boston 48

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. His blog is full of personal stories, gentle advice, and guidance that will be useful to any startup founder. David Cohen is the founder and Managing Partner of Techstars, the #1 ranked internet startup accelerator in the world.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Silicon Valley Cofounder 60

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Harvard i-Labs in Boston, and with New York University’s Stern School of Business. To find out more about how co-founders can help startups succeed,and how founders can find the right partners, I talked with Kaviani and Julie Edge, Ph.D., who is the founder of Inside Edge Solutions, on the faculty of Washington University in St.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

What is it, and how should founders think about it? Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. Use good judgment, talk to your co-founders/investors/lawyers, and partner with a bank that values transparency and relationships such as SVB.]. first and foremost.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He's the founder of GrubHub and he founded in his spare bedroom and grew it to a multi billion dollar online food delivery. But I ended up hiring a lot of my friends. Marketing Podcast with Mike Evans.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. They get a cheaper price, they wipe out much founder stock value and they reissue you new options. Raise at the top end of normal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2010

If you are a first-time entrepreneur, I often recommend that you team with a co-founder with experiences, connections, and a skill set that complements, but doesn’t duplicate yours. If you live in the middle of nowhere, your chances of finding the right co-founder for your new high-tech startup are poor. Hire a lawyer.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? In the valley or in Boston, lawyers will often *defer* up to $25K until funding in return for 0.5%-1.0% World class In-house UX is one of the most challenging hires you’ll make. He basically outsources everything. Branding/Copy.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

As with item 17, Jay Batson , a long-time Techstars Boston mentor, nudged me several times to finish this up and wrote a draft from his perspective. This new hire was a commercial hustler (code named Scott), moving quickly and broadly to try to secure customers and partners, including some of the tech industry’s largest companies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Supercomputers get Personal Back in Sunnyvale my friend had not only been hired but had convinced the team that we should be building hardware – making a new class of computers not a software application. A few days later Gordon became a founder. We’re building a supercomputer.” We were going to be guessing.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Forming a corporation or limited liability company not only protects founders by limiting personal liability for activities related to the business, it also defines the rights of founders relative to each other and to the business, which is important in case there is ever a falling-out among the founders. Boston Startup Weekend.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Nicole is not new to the NextView family… previously she had worked for a NextView portfolio company that for a while was even working out of our Boston offices! We want to help founders both inside and outside of our portfolio with the things which we think matter most: 1. hiring a great team. building a product people love.

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