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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. Already, a handful of groups have spun out to start new ventures, like the teams at Driftt , Bedrock Data , Grokky , and NextView-backed InsightSquared.

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Our Investment in One Jackson: Fresh, Yet Familiar

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The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written.

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Our Second Rotation Investment

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And the CTO James McElhiney is also a seasoned entrepreneur (cofounder of Boston Compliance Systems, which he later sold to Thomson Financial), bringing over 20 years of large-scale development expertise to the company. The CEO Rousseau Aurelien is a serial entrepreneur and former eBay PowerSeller.

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Our Second Rotation Investment

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And the CTO James McElhiney is also a seasoned entrepreneur (cofounder of Boston Compliance Systems, which he later sold to Thomson Financial), bringing over 20 years of large-scale development expertise to the company. The CEO Rousseau Aurelien is a serial entrepreneur and former eBay PowerSeller.