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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. What They Do: Travel search engine. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA.

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

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Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers.

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GrabCAD’s Acquisition: From Talinn to London to Boston

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All of us at NextView extend our congratulations to founder Hardi Meybaum and the rest of the GrabCAD team. He had a clear vision of what he hoped to achieve with GrabCAD… to make collaborative CAD design easier in our connected world, where CAD engineers and product designers are more distributed.

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Boston Startup Talent: Leaky Bucket or Everlasting Spring?

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To these folks, Boston’s founder pool is a leaky bucket… a young founder who moves to Silicon Valley, New York, or elsewhere is a sign of frailty of Boston’s startup ecosystem. And talent flows in many directions (all three co-founders of NextView are all Silicon Valley transplants to Boston).

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Introducing Growth Guides – Practical Help for the Seed Stage

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They include practical time-saving advice as well as Q&A with founders on how they’ve tackled these issues, making them a useful read for both execs and individual contributors. So stay tuned because in coming months we’ll be developing Growth Guides that cover a range of issues from product to sales to engineering.'

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

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I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) for college students and recent grads to work in startups.