Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Summer is always the time when large numbers of new participants in the tech ecosystem arrive and start to get their bearings. 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. The Grand-daddy.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

I was reflecting on this post last week about the state of consumer web in Boston and shared a few of my thoughts in the comments. It got me thinking about this past year, specifically around consumer tech in Boston. Zipcar: Ok, not exactly consumer web/software, but a great consumer tech company nonetheless.

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Technical Review Boston Software Review IPO 54

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

These authors speak from their own wealth of experience in creating and growing technology startups, marketing, and fundraising. Book smarts represent your current depth of understanding of technology and business concepts. If you need venture capital, maybe you need to spend more time in Silicon Valley or Boston.

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Silicon Valley Angel Investor Technical Review Boston 325

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

This week, I want to take a local lens and analyze these special companies that have been created in Boston. We looked at the companies in New England (call them "Boston and surrounding") that had exited in the last 10 years (2003-2013) with greater than $500 million in market valuation. We found 43 such companies. 2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004)

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), probably won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Arizona or a similar location.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The impact of a memorable story was highlighted for me recently as I reviewed the classic book, “ Sell With A Story ,” by Paul Smith, who is an expert trainer on increasing business results through storytelling. The words can be simple, like “I was meeting with a customer in Boston,” or “When my home was devastated by a tornado.”

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Elevator Pitch Technical Review Boston Sales 313

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. It’s also surprisingly difficult for students to get plugged-in to everything that is happening in the local tech ecosystem. Applications due Nov 20 th !

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Boston Technical Review Community CTO Hire 56

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 19, 2017

Buying the latest in trendy tech gifts can seem impossible. Below is a simple list of budget-friendly tech gifts you or a loved one will love. With a nearly 5-star review by users on Amazon, Fire TV allows you to cut the cable cord for good without missing your favorite media entertainment. Tech gifts are always welcome.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Welcome to the future of work where employees may reside anywhere from Bali to Boston or Barcelona – how can you tap into this global talent pool to create your own successful enterprise with remote workers? As Tony Stark brought unique technological skills to his business, so should your employees.

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Technical Review Business Plan America Hiring 146

Feld Thoughts

JULY 5, 2016

Suddenly, tell alls are focusing on high tech companies instead of movie stars. Because, ahem, Hubspot is in Boston, where the majority of Lyons’ book was based. The post High Technology Tell All Books appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Other times I don’t.

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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. Every ad, every review, or lack of one, tells a story about how much you care, and what customer experience one might expect.

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Silicon Valley Missouri Technical Review Boston 269

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. Step-Function Ad Tech.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2012

This is also the premise of David Gowel’s book “ The Power in a Link: Open Doors, Close Deals, and Change the Way You Do Business Using LinkedIn “ Gowel – whom the Boston Globe once called a “LinkedIn Jedi” – is a former U.S.

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Technical Review Software Review Social Media Boston 150

Board Effect

JULY 13, 2023

Among this year’s winners, joining the likes of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and the Animal Rescue League of Boston, is Crisis Text Line. Cyber Risk Public and nonprofit entities are a particular target for cyber criminals due to their perceived lack of IT security resources.

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Technical Review Software Review Indiana Government 52

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim." But along the way, something strange happened.

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CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

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. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Arizona or a similar location. It decreases your odds of being bought.

Silicon Valley 149

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

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. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location. It decreases your odds of being bought.

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Silicon Valley Las Vegas Phoenix Montana 256

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Angels invest in one out of every forty deals they review (2.5%) versus the one out of 400 by VC’s (0.25%). They are professionals with full-time jobs, who often don’t have time for due diligence (and may not even know how to do it) and often make decisions through trusted referrals or based on gut feelings (more on gut feelings later).

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Angel Investor Technical Review Software Review Accredited Investor 159

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . When we started the firm, we were also more narrowly focused geographically due to our smaller team and network.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review) I continue my series for Harvard Business Review with the Lean Startup technique called Five Whys. Five Whys has its origins in the Toyota Production System. Applied to a start-up, heres how it works. Speed up or slow down?

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Technical Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 132

View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

There is always some debate about the methodology and accuracy of the list, but I think it’s a pretty interesting data set that reflects some of the things that have been happening in tech and VC over time. I also think we’ll see some new geographies begin to gain momentum, especially LA, and perhaps several others. Firm Persistence.

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Venture Capital China Technical Review Africa 313

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The impact of a memorable story was highlighted for me recently as I reviewed the classic book, “ Sell With A Story ,” by Paul Smith, who is an expert trainer on increasing business results through storytelling. The words can be simple, like “I was meeting with a customer in Boston,” or “When my home was devastated by a tornado.”

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Elevator Pitch Technical Review Boston Sales 211

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

You can usually find 2-3 investors per location but it’s not uncommon to see VCs in: Boston, NY, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. I think that’s in part due to market conditions being favorable to venture capital and in part it’s due to the significant uptick in Los Angeles as a major tech hub in the US.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Aside from the top 25 , what was interesting was its list of 20 non-tech stars - that list even included beer brewer Boston Beer Company at No. Most of us who live outside the United States wouldn’t be too familiar with most of the names on that list; perhaps in due time we will.

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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. There are many more to consider, but these would be a good starting point. Financing at scale.

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Technical Review America Massachusetts Finance 106

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve spoken our goal of funding more ambitious project before and we’ve enlisted the research help of a Principal in our firm – Kevin Zhang , who has an interest in Agtech (agriculture technology). Their vision is to create technology and products for a world where food is grown in and around where people live.

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Technical Review Software Review Founder Boston 150

Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Here is an article from Katherine Dunn in MIT’s Technology Review which explains the ecosystem at MIT and how it has grown more extensive and networked over time. Technology Review: The Entrepreneurship Ecosystem. Does your university or college offer a full fledged entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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Technical Review Technology Initial Public Offering Boston 39

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. We just finished the second year in Boston. Brad on blogging.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

They fail to leverage available data and technology to stay in touch and remain up-to-date on customers’ business performance and health. Consider a Boston-based restaurant called Angelica’s. He co-founded Kabbage in Atlanta, Georgia, to leverage the power of real-time data automation through technology.

Small Business 140

Small Business Boston Georgia Technical Review 140

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

.” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment. Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993. Informal enough for me to play around with it for a while.

San Francisco 159

San Francisco Boston Angel Investor Venture Capital 159

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Needless to say, she received rave reviews from everyone we spoke to about her. When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Boston Early Stage Portfolio 120

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Needless to say, she received rave reviews from everyone we spoke to about her. When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Boston Early Stage Portfolio 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

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. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location. It decreases your odds of being bought.

Las Vegas 120

Las Vegas Silicon Valley Phoenix Montana 120

David Teten

JULY 29, 2011

A bit belatedly (due to a backlog of blog postings), I wanted to announce ff Venture Capital ‘s summer intern class. He enjoys playing indoor/beach volleyball, writing Yelp reviews, and shamelessly spreading the gospel of comic books as a serious art form. We’re actively recruiting interns for the fall. Franklin Bi.

Software Review 133

Software Review Venture Capital New Jersey Technical Review 133

David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

… While we do lots of work in these areas due to the attractive opportunity set, we are not an impact investor, and impact qualification is not a criterion that we use in evaluating or funding companies. Less need for a belief in breakthrough technology. Realistic projections.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The phone call would sound something like: “We have a company with great technology and a hot product but at the last board meeting we determined that they have a marketing problem. There’s Always One in Boston. “Is Is there a salesperson in Boston?” I asked for the Boston sales rep because in the U.S.

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Burn Rate Silicon Valley Marketing Boston 250