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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

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And since we will continue to look proactively at new seed-stage tech startups over the next few years, the question becomes: What, then, will these companies look like? But we’re also very active in New York, as five of the most recent startups we’ve funded are based in Manhattan (which is 40% of this recent flurry of investments).

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What Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?

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There’s been a lot of digital ink spilled around the various types of capital available to startups today. As a startup grows, venture debt becomes a viable option to continue that growth. Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

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We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that. Georgiades (Zumper): I started working on Zumper seriously in the summer between my first and second years at HBS (2011), supported by generous HBS startup grants.

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Reflections From Rebounding

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raising $1M in venture funding for a startup that was liquidated 2. All of them were in the process of re-founding or were already operating their next startup. Inspired by Mike’s reflection, and to better understand an entrepreneur’s perspective, I set out to have conversations of my own with founders who have completed the rebound.

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

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All of these stories are useful for recruiting, internal alignment, and business development—they really serve as analogies for different types of startups. If you can tell these stories well, it will be a huge weapon in your startup’s arsenal. Ultimately, your startup is a hypothesis you’ll build into a theory. then go do X.

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What Makes a Great Consumer Startup Marketer?

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While the startup environment in Boston has vastly improved over the last several years , I continue to hear the sentiment that it’s really tough to build a great consumer startup in Boston. In other words, some of the best marketers in modern consumer internet startups are exactly the type of people that Boston has in spades.

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Mattermark’s Clever Origin Story & Why Their CEO Loves Arguing with VCs [Traction #11]

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If startups should do things that “don’t scale,” then this podcast asks a simple question: What ARE those things? You’ll also hear… Why a TV show inspired Danielle to launch a media company, not software startup, and why she was disillusioned with Silicon Valley.