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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. The origins of WebInno are humble.

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Our Investment in One Jackson: Fresh, Yet Familiar

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CEO Anne Raimondi and my partner Rob were colleagues together at eBay in the early 2000’s before she went on the lead product and/or marketing at many household internet names like Zazzle, InsiderPages, and SurveyMonkey.

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Our Investment in CustomMade: Riding the Next Wave of E-Commerce in High-Consideration Shopping

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Over the past fifteen years on the internet we’ve seen a few waves of e-commerce innovation.

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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 ). Your developed skillset won’t be much different from your immediate classmates’, but it certainly will be from someone in engineering or computer science.

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The Shift Towards Universal Search

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There has been a lot of coverage this past week about the recent upgrading of search engines' user experiences to include other content-type results. universal & blended vertical search was a hot topic at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose last month), but I have heard a lot less buzz about it in startup circles.

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Our Investment in CustomMade: Riding the Next Wave of E-Commerce in High-Consideration Shopping

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Over the past fifteen years on the internet we’ve seen a few waves of e-commerce innovation.

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

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As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” We wanna have a lot of properties with a lotta users on them.

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