Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Even in this age of globalization and virtualization, the geographic area where you choose to live and work can still make or break your startup business. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

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. HBS Startup Tribe.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. You will spend 70-80% of your time helping to identify new investment opportunities and expand NextView’s network and presence in NYC. consumer, etc.).

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

And since we will continue to look proactively at new seed-stage tech startups over the next few years, the question becomes: What, then, will these companies look like? Lastly, given our Boston location, it isn’t surprising that seven investments were Boston-based. Network Effect B2B. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

-Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals , Give and Take , and OPTION B with Sheryl Sandberg Since The Startup Way came out on October 17th, I’ve had a great time traveling with the book, speaking to audiences, and meeting amazing people creating change in all types of organizations. Next stop on the book tour: London.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You are a native of NYC tech with a strong network. You know the ecosystem and have a network that is additive to the rest of the team. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. Who Are We Looking For. You act as an “ invited guest.”. You are hungry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Even in this age of globalization and virtualization, the geographic area where you choose to live and work can still make or break your startup business. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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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. HBS Startup Tribe.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The foundation of your process is an exhaustive list of all the people both in your network and outside it that might have an interest in what you’re building. What about the second cousin who is a startup lawyer? As a VC myself, at a New York- and Boston-focused firm, I frequently point entrepreneurs to the same resources.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

On Monday I was at the White House to help announce the Startup America Partnership. For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Kayak is great Boston-area success story. It is to out friend. Enjoyed this post?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boston University Business Incubation. At Boston University, there’s an incredible array on business incubation opportunities. Only 15 technology startups are accepted at a time, but what the program lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Based in Mountain View, Calif.,

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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.” Each gathering showcases early stage startups in their infancy, not as a capital-raising pitch, but rather as a way to show off their product to peers for both exposure and feedback.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This is intentional, so that we can serve founders better while also enjoying the breadth of portfolio and network effects that are valuable in this business. VC-backed startups used to be an industry that was hyper-concentrated in a few clusters and dominated by very tight profiles of people.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

Coworking spaces are a really cool option for a lot of workers that, for whatever reason, don’t really fit in to a traditional office space like startups, telecommuters, small businesses, and especially creatives in search of collaboration. The Hatchery in San Francisco is a great place for startups to take root. Office Nomads.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But the other archetype is a thirty-something entrepreneur who, taking his experience seeing the playbook of success at larger growing startups or even “established” companies, utilizes that domain and functional expertise as unique insight into founding a company. My own personal story fits in with this narrative.

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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. What does that mean for the rest of us, who reside or grew up in the thousands of small towns that cover most of the landscape?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As the venture capital industry has evolved, more and more seed investors are passing on traditionally “seed stage” startups because there isn’t enough traction. We have offices in New York and Boston, are quite active in the SF Bay area and see significant activity from the diaspora to and from these human capital centers.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

According to the Angel Capital Association: Angels (private money) invest in 55,000 startups each year versus 1,500 companies by VC (venture capital) funding. ” Yes, the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) is exciting, and it will bring a lot more potential investors into the marketplace. I’m not your average angel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

startup ecosystem for many decades. 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. Best startup city rankings have reflected this truth for a long time. Austin, TX.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. One of those partnerships is with Startup America , who was also featured at the lunch. Startup America is an example. Network for Good, Global Giving, Mission Fish (behind ebay’s GivingWorks).

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. And even other strong, but perhaps not standout, companies like Active Network and Demand Media completed their own offerings. What will happen for the startup IPO market? How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

At 11:45am I'll be honored to share the stage with two great entrepreneurs: Introducing The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries with case studies, Intuit’s Scott Cook and Instagram’s Kevin Systrom And in the evening, the book launch party is also part of Disrupt. Startup Weekend and Seattle 2.0 We'll be in the concourse from 5:30-7:30pm.

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VC Adventure

JULY 1, 2021

The demographic shift is due to the growing diversity of our country, but also reflects some special conditions that make startup life and small business ownership especially appealing to women and people of color. It’s not clear yet but we believe there are innovations to be had in enabling more people to invest in startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

startup ecosystem for many decades. 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. with their startups growing by 81.2 Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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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. Those two things aren’t really the same.

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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. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast. Where do you start?

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Editor’s Note: NextView recently kicked off a Boston-based workshop series on technical interviewing with Google. We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve Culture is obviously important at Google and really at every startup and company today.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2012

Donna Harris, Startup America. Patrick Riley, Global Accelerator Network. Shaun Johnson, Boston Startup School. And Taylor McLemore of Prediculous has also put in an incredible amount of work on this event on a volunteer basis. David Cohen, TechStars. Jared Polis, TechStars. Jason Seats, TechStars. Paul Ford, SoftLayer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Building a new startup hub Last week, I had a unique opportunity to spend some time in Boulder at the behest of TechStars. It was a great experience to see a relatively new startup hub in action - and thriving. Their model looks like a key ingredient in the startup brew there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. In other locations, the trend was more equal, even somewhat reversed in New York and Boston. entrepreneur startup investor funding venture capital business' No surprises here. Marty Zwilling.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

In March, Ross and I will be hosting a talk at South by Southwest; it’s called “ Third Coast: How to be a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley.&# We have been thinking a lot about this lately and discussing the challenges we have faced on our own path. Here’s how we viewed each of these: Networking was critical to us.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Pandere Shoes is an Alaskan founded and women-owned startup that creates expandable footwear that accommodates a host of conditions such as edema, diabetes, and neuropathy. . She came up to me after I gave my talk and told me that her company wouldn’t exist without Startup Weekend and Techstars. Their shoes are made in Portugal.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Startup accelerators: There are more of them – and more demand to land a spot within one – than ever before. I have been a part of both Startup Chile and now TechStars in Boston. To get the most out of an accelerator you really need to take advantage of the network of mentors. Build A Relationship.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

My journey over the last decade founding and leading startups has been a successful one, but it has also come with challenges, many of which are shared by other women founders and entrepreneurs. Build your network. For women, networking constitutes more than getting someone’s contact information.

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