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The Boston Consumer Tech Year In Review

Rob Go

I was reflecting on this post last week about the state of consumer web in Boston and shared a few of my thoughts in the comments. It got me thinking about this past year, specifically around consumer tech in Boston. ThredUp: Service started in Boston while the founders were at HBS, raised $7M from Redpoint. IPO’s/Exits.

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The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur

Genuine VC

Two years ago Jeff Bussgang lamented about “Lost Generation” of entrepreneurs which I think is especially acute here in Boston. I was in my early 20’s just barely out of school when four of us (peers) started Sombasa Media (aka BargainDog ) here in Boston beginning in 1998. My own personal story fits in with this narrative.

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"What's Next in Tech" Event in Boston

Altgate

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Technology , Venture Capital and tagged Boston , capital efficiency , Cloud computing , New England , open source , scott kirsner , startup , venture capital. And, oh, by the way, come to the event on June 25. Bookmark the permalink.

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TechStars Data from 2007 to 2009

Feld Thoughts

39 companies have gone through the program to date (30 through Boulder and 9 through Boston). Four of the first ten companies from the inaugural 2007 class have already achieved positive exits. Last week, David Cohen published all of the historical TechStars data. Some of the pertinent summary data follows: In three years, about $16.5

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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. Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

In the valley or in Boston, lawyers will often *defer* up to $25K until funding in return for 0.5%-1.0% The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Also, most startup attorneys will do deferred payment plans.

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

Both Sides of the Table

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. I saw this kind of pricing when I first entered the VC market in 2007. So rounds tend to be “range bound&# where the top end of the valuation spectrum often being done in boom markets (i.e.