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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Harvard’s Big Moves to Improve Its Startup Spirit: An HBS Student’s Take

View from Seed

He is currently a second year student at Harvard Business School and will be focused on supporting the early-stage startup community in Boston and its schools. This is his first post to The View From Seed. Boston’s talent pool is unparalleled. He’ll work with NextView through his final semester at HBS. Buildings That Buzz.

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Exploring the NextView Platform? Start Here

View from Seed

We’ll need your contributions and your knowledge around categories like Product & Design , Marketing & Growth , Hiring & Talent , Fundraising , and more. – Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech (microsite). – Flowchart: Seed VC Decision Tree (how one seed investor gets to yes or no).

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. And do your customer development.

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Setting Up Your Accounting System

Feld Thoughts

They reached out to their friend John, a CFO at a late-stage VC-backed company in Boston that was about to file an S-1 to go public. customer behavior, support inquiries, marketing analytics). While they’ve been hard at work on their product, they’ve also incorporated the company, now named SayAhh (thanks Mac!)

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I Stared at Startup Pitch Decks for 3 Straight Weeks – Here’s What I Learned

View from Seed

A few weeks ago, we launched two startup pitch deck templates for raising seed capital — part of NextView’s platform of exclusive startup resources. The “why” is about two things: Explaining the market opportunity. “Content marketing” is not a go-to-market strategy.).

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the venture capital industry. Venture capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.