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The Startup Offsite

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Unlike at “big companies,” a startup offsite isn’t about a boondoggle, it’s not about fancy hotel rooms, nor is it about silly team-building exercises so dilberts in accounting can interact with dilberts in marketing. Product is marketing is technology is operations is sales; they’re really not wholly separate functions.

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The Unique but Powerful Way the HubSpot Mafia is Impacting Boston Startups

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It’s official: now two months after the IPO, HubSpot has surpassed the $1B market cap threshold and has become that “pillar” company that the tech ecosystem long anticipated. The focus is on creating some awesome technology, which is critical, except that the sales and marketing piece has been an afterthought in many cases.

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Getting Back the Band Together for NextView’s Investment in BookBub

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Taking a step back and looking at the big picture, and BookBub is forging a new road in a book publishing market which is still transitioning in the wake of ebooks’ arrival. It’s no secret that the way that people find, read, and purchase books is increasingly digital.

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Our Investment in One Jackson: Fresh, Yet Familiar

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The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written. Including how large it is – there is $15B spent on U.S.

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Pull the Plug or Keep Searching for the Believer? When Fundraising is Tough.

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At some point, if a company is unable to raise an additional round of capital after speaking with numerous potential funders, the market will have spoken. There is an unnecessary amount of time on VCs part spent in diligence on minutiae (financial models, sales pipeline forecasts) rather than discussion on big-picture direction.

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Our Investment in tapCommerce is the Real Deal

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Yet when you look at actual the figures, it’s truly astounding: this year mobile e-commerce sales will be triple that of what it was just a short time ago in 2011, with tablets driving much of that spending growth. Mobile is literally eating the world.

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The “Come-from-Behind” Lead Investor

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And a lot of it in a short period of time: making diligence calls, using the product, striving to understand your market, engaging with questions to learn more about business. The best litmus test to suss out whether or not a potential come-from-behind investor is worth paying attention to is if they’re “doing work.”