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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

I’m thrilled by the companies we are investors in, as well as the founders that lead them. It’s commonly said that the biggest risk facing a new VC firm is disharmony among the partners. This is of particular risk if the founders of the firm never really worked together before, as was the case for us at NextView.

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20 must-attend tech conferences for female entrepreneurs in 2014

The Next Web

Earlier this month, I asked members of the Young Entrepreneur Council about the top events for founders in 2014. Big Omaha. I attended Big Omaha last year and was thrilled with the speakers and attendees I met. But we thought we’d dive a little deeper and get opinions from our female members. Empact Showcase 2014.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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How Self-Coaching Can Transform Your Life And Career

Duct Tape Marketing

David is the Founder and CEO of David Novak Leadership, the parent organization to five nonprofits dedicated to developing leaders at every stage of life, from ages 5 to 65. And lastly, he was a co-founder, chairman, and CEO of one of the world’s largest restaurant companies: Yum! Marketing Podcast with David Novak.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

This meant: Less capital to start a company thus the rise of “micro VCs” Younger, more technical founders (not as big of a leap to take a risk on a 24-year-old when it’s $250k and not $5 million. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Gilt Groupe, AdoreMe, Thrillist, Birchbox?

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, BlueSpark. Co-founder, Polyvore. Founder, Monsoon and Badmash. Founder, Tout. Founder, Crowdvine. mashagenzel How $40 Saved Us Nine Months and $2MM Paul Howe.