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Boston Startup Talent: Leaky Bucket or Everlasting Spring?

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Some lament the relocation of Plastiq and other companies who start in Boston but end up moving to Silicon Valley or other startup hubs. 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.

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

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AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. January 4, 2012.

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Autonomous Vehicles: Can You Get There From Here? (Part 2)

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There are also significant startups like Velodyne, Quanergy, and others that are seeking to become major component suppliers of various sensor technologies. And this entire system was engineered for human-driven vehicles. Perception isn’t the only area of vehicle development that will require significant advances.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. 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. What They Do: Travel search engine. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak.

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GrabCAD’s Acquisition: From Talinn to London to Boston

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He was wrapping up GrabCAD’s participation in the Seedcamp accelerator program, and the Seedcamp startups were in the US to visit potential advisors and investors in Boston, New York, and SF. GrabCAD also had very high engagement in terms of the % of engineers actually sharing large, complicated CAD files in the system.

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Introducing Growth Guides – Practical Help for the Seed Stage

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Our first Growth Guide covers Content Marketing for Startups. This growth guide draws upon not only our collective experience but also what we’ve learned from running workshops and talking with a range of startups across stage and industry. We’re excited to be able to bring these Growth Guides to the seed stage ecosystem.

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Revenue = Product Market Fit

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But B2B startups need to take a different tack. Arguably revenue is the best signal of product-market fit for B2B startups. The early goal isn’t to maximize near term revenue… it’ll take time to fully understand your market and establish P-M fit, let alone optimizing the sales & marketing engine.

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