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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

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First: They’re all based in California, and more specifically, in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Menlo Park, respectively. They’re All in California. At Alignable, we see this as a huge opportunity, and so we consider ourselves a Boston company trying to “pull off a California,” if you will. Any of these ring a bell?

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Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders? [New Data]

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Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Also not surprisingly, many are in California (26%). Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. As in all things startup-related, the distributions are not even.