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

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Although these startups are very diverse businesses themselves, they face similar requirements (especially in that they’re currently all in the seed to Series B range of company stage). And the results were pretty interesting, especially as they clustered with meaningful overlap among companies.

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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

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Each gathering showcases early stage startups in their infancy, not as a capital-raising pitch, but rather as a way to show off their product to peers for both exposure and feedback. Originally, I had invited a dozen or so internet entrepreneurs to a Cambridge bar where we crammed into the back room wearing hand-drawn nametags.

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A Choir of Angel Investors Sing Different Parts

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Addressing both of those issues can stem from the motivations as to why someone would want to put their hard-earned cash into a risky early-stage startup in the first place. This can benefit entrepreneurs because of a one-pitch-many-investors process, but can be challenging too. The Fellow-Entrepreneur Angel.

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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. This entrepreneurial HubSpot spirit has — and will continue to have — a ripple effect throughout the Boston early stage startup ecosystem.

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Our Newest NextView Team-Member: Jay Acunzo

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resources, events, content, and other initiatives to help entrepreneurs) is not entirely new, to our knowledge this addition is the first such dedicated role here in Boston. Being a unique position, we were focused on finding someone equally as unique who was also entrepreneurial, energetic, and embedded in the early-stage tech ecosystem.

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A Choir of Angel Investors Sing Different Parts

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Addressing both of those issues can stem from the motivations as to why someone would want to put their hard-earned cash into a risky early-stage startup in the first place. This can benefit entrepreneurs because of a one-pitch-many-investors process, but can be challenging too. The Fellow-Entrepreneur Angel.

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Early Seed Financing Terms Endure… Whether We Like It or Not

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It’s really interesting, but perhaps only applicable to a more limited set of entrepreneurs. When you compromise on terms in the early stages, you will have to pay the price in the later stages. Terms don’t start as in-your-face numerical figures… but they do end up that way when it comes time to exit.

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