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.” Accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces have proliferated in Cambridge and Boston. Plus, tech has moved on from the Web 2.0 Yes, WebInno is becoming BIG.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

But your co-founder had been senior at one of the big enterprise software companies and if I remember correctly American Express had run a big pilot with you. New York, Chicago, Boston, etc. We hop on the call and walk through the spreadsheet and get lost in the weeds. Weren’t you the one who went to … oh, no. That wasn’t you.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2013

A month ago a successful Boston entrepreneur who has been incredibly engaged in the Boston startup community was thrown in jail for three days after a CPB agent decided she didn’t have a valid visa (she did have a valid visa, and she was from that extremely dangerous country of Canada.).

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health. In the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, momentum shifted to the enterprise as large businesses supported innovation in PCs, communications hardware and enterprise software.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

School of Webcraft : Mozilla Foundation’s School of Webcraft is a peer-powered school that offers free web development education. Mozilla Developer Network : Find plenty of resources for learning web technologies on Mozilla’s Developer Network, including lessons in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Along with their demise came a dismissive attitude about most entrepreneurial web-related endeavors.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” What Is Web Personalization?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The free software hiring advantage This is one of those startup tips Im a little reluctant to share, because its been such a powerful source of competitive advantage in the companies Ive worked with. Especially for a startup, not taking maximum advantage of free software is crazy.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Wave after wave of hardware, software, biotech and cleantech products have emerged from what has become “ground zero” of entrepreneurial and startup culture. For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help) Ive been asked to speak this year at the Web 2.0 It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Im especially interested in hearing from those of you who are planning to attend the Web 2.0

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A serial entrepreneur, Gudema’s previous venture was the internet marketing company Magic Hour Communications, which he grew to one of the top companies in the national Web SaaS market before selling the agency in 2009. What you’ll learn if you give a listen: What you can learn about marketing from software companies.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 29, 2010

The early bird registration discount for this year’s Business of Software in Boston expires on Friday. In addition to speakers like Seth Godin, Joel Spolsky, Dharmesh Shah and Eric Sink, there are excellent networking opportunities with the other 300 attendees (a lot of self-funded software companies in the audience).

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Built in Boston.). TripleLift is native programmatic advertising simple, scalable, and effective on the visual web. Built in Boston.). Built in Boston.). Troops is smart CRM software that makes work easier. Built in Boston.). 10% Happier is meditation for those allergic to New Age-y nonsense.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The Business of Software 2010 was last week in Boston. The whirlwind of the conference was such that it took me about 48 hours before I could hold a conversation about anything but starting a software company. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The same might be said of good software. Here we have the beginnings of a theory of design for software.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. LA has the annual Monty Conference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free Im honored to announce that my Lean Startup session at the Web 2.0 I plan to apply these models to my own ventures, especially within new contexts separate from software and web development. Expo SF (May.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business of Software is a conference organized by Neil Davidson and Joel Spolsky , and was held this year in San Francisco. The speaking line-up is a who’s who of software bloggers and authors, including Geoffrey Moore, Paul Graham, Dharmesh Shah and Joel Spolsky. There were several great presentations during the conference.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.

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David Cohen

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I just got back to Boulder from an amazing week in Boston and I wanted to reflect on it while it is fresh in my mind. This year we had 220 alumni founders in Boston for the annual gathering, which culminated in a demo day with entrepreneurs from the Boston TechStars program. Here I am interviewing Fake Grimlock.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

Providing productive shared working space, Hatchery members include Web 2.0 Professionals at Co+Hoots include designers, lawyers, marketers, writers, software developers, offering not just camaraderie, but services as well. Current members include marketers, writers, web developers, and non-profit tech companies. Ignition Alley.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Our mystery keynote is now revealed and I couldnt be more excited.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How should one go about pricing their software product? How should one go about pricing their software product? 8 things your VC won’t tell you | The Next Web – [link].

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

That’s what I found most attractive about software development: building things. I left security and founded Blaze, a web performance company, where I spent seven years or so at the front line of the evolving DevOps movement. The first was that DevOps changed the world of software. And I’ve always taken initiative.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. was starting.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 29, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Biggest Problem Facing Consumer Web Companies in Boston – [link]. 21 Fresh Free Fonts for Graphic and Web Designers – [link]. – [link].

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www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Real-Time Web. I signed into Bing using my Facebook account to search for “Boston Marathon training plan,” and I got a fairly standard page of results. Indeed, three of the five people displayed have run the Boston Marathon at least once, and one coaches charity runners. Social Web. Enterprise. The Talent Wars.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

million live projects, arguably the world's most popular project management software. In addition to being a fantastic piece of software (more on that in a bit), it is also a prototype of where all of the smart money in technology investing is these days. How ubiquitous is cloud, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) computing?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

” And she’s like, “Well, this web design thing is actually pretty interesting. ” Lance Cummins: That business lasted exactly two years because I had no idea how to run a business, but it got my interest in all things web, so learned a ton. ” So we lived in Boston. I love the Boston accent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. No more, no less.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). So, if you’ve been a successful internet founder or have launched great web/mobile products, most founders would love to have you in a round even if your check size is small. Don’t be allured by seniority.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

My experience is in Enterprise Software - where we are forced to chunk features into formal releases. Definitely highlights the beauty of the web. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). So, if you’ve been a successful internet founder or have launched great web/mobile products, most founders would love to have you in a round even if your check size is small. Don’t be allured by seniority.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 28 Free Typefaces for Web & Graphic Designers – [link]. 25+ Best Free Pixel Fonts You’ll Love | Bloom Web Design – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. When something goes wrong with production software, its almost always because of an unintended side-effect of some piece of code.

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