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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

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Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. Accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces have proliferated in Cambridge and Boston. The origins of WebInno are humble.

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The Unique but Powerful Way the HubSpot Mafia is Impacting Boston Startups

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The benefits have been touted previously : an anchor for attracting and retaining talent in Boston, as well as a breeding ground for the next set of great Boston entrepreneurs and founders. And that thinking has carried out into the companies as they were being built. But all of that is quickly changing.

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Playbook for Incoming MBAs to Start a Company Out of School

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Like a lot of students, I went into business school a decade ago with a set plan to start a company coming straight after graduation in co-founding an internet startup (… again ). My alternative working title for this post was: “Eight things I kind of knew and only mostly followed as an entrepreneur during b-school.”

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(First Annual?) List of Go-To Early-Stage Service Providers in the NextView Ventures Boston Portfolio

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Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. Plus, my partners and I saw entrepreneurs repeatedly starting from square-one each time, which just didn’t seem efficient if we could help in some small way.

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Fellow VCs: Here’s Where to Invest $1B+

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A couple weeks ago my colleague Dimitri Dadiomov published a post on NextView’s “View From Seed” blog which answered the question “Should we take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders?” From the group, over 260 founders have launched around 90 startups, raising more than $2.5B in capital. Quite the contrary.

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Startups Seeking Sherpas

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I think that the reason founders are attracted to entrepreneurial endeavors often stems from the same intrinsic motivations. But this isn’t an analogizing blog post about having “co-founders.” Startup founders similarly look to bring in outside help with both formal and informal advisors into the orbit of their companies.

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Getting Back the Band Together for NextView’s Investment in BookBub

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Just about fifteen years ago, Josh Schanker and I, along with our co-founders Elliot Shmukler and Tammy O’Neil Bolduc started Sombasa Media together. Our company offered a series of consumer-facing properties, including our flagship property BargainDog, which was an early e-commerce daily deals email newsletter.

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