David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

10: PillPack (2013). Techstars funded PillPack as part of the Techstars Boston Accelerator in 2013. 11: DataRobot (2013). Techstars funded DataRobot, an enterprise AI platform, as part of our Techstars Cloud Accelerator in 2013. The company later settled in Boston. The Not-Quite-Yet Unicorns.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2015

The lead time to landing your office can be surprisingly high, particularly in denser startup ecosystems like ours in Boston. To use a concrete example, NextView moved to a new space in August of 2013. You should start actively searching for space 3-4 months out.

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Seed Stage Startup Cofounder Technical Review 120

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC?

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

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. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. I’m pleased to now turn to Kayak’s S-1 filing. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

I was wondering what ever ultimately happened to that group of OG unicorns, so I looked back at her original post in TechCrunch from November 2013. To analyze what’s become of the OG Unicorns, it’s first worth noting that at the time of the 2013 post about 2/3rds of the 39 on the list had already been realized via IPO or $1B+ acquisitions.

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IPO Valuation San Francisco Silicon Valley 120

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

I worked throughout different areas in Cybersecurity/Identity and Access Management and in 2013 I took the big step and moved to the Boston area. A few years later, my family and in particular my brother Dino followed to do the same.

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Texas Fractional CTO Cofounder Austin 48

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Every year, I give an open talk to the returning students at Harvard Business School on what makes the Boston start-up scene special. Boston Startup Scene Guide - Fall 2013 from Jeffrey Bussgang. Boston Startup Scene Guide - Fall 2013 from Jeffrey Bussgang. This presentation gives you a sense of why.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Although I formally left the company in March 2013 (but continue to have an advisory role there), I still field countless questions from entrepreneurs who are looking to hire a data scientist. They are currently in the SF Bay Area, NYC and Boston, and have started an online program for those outside these geographies.

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Hiring SQL Artificial Inteligence Engineer 60

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2013, the Q1 increase marks three consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists. California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley Massachusetts California 238

Andrew Payne

JANUARY 30, 2013

January 28, 2013. Boston, MA 02210. Apart from the sadness and tragedy, I think we all need to be very mindful of the growing gaps between technology and our laws. The Honorable Carmen M. United States Attorney for Massachusetts. John Joseph Moakley. United State Federal Courthouse. 1 Courthouse Way, Suite 9200.

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United States Massachusetts Warrant Technical Review 106

ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2014

” In October 2013, Josh Schwartz from Chartbeat studied how users interact with articles on Slate.com and the results were surprisingly similar. So, on average, users will have time to read 28% of the words if they devote all of their time to reading. More realistically, users will read about 20% of the text on the average page.”

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Conversion Georgia Technical Review Design 133

SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Favor launched in Austin in June of 2013. It’s also available in Boston and San Luis Obispo. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Favor, a food delivery service for central Austin, has received $2 million in seed funding.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This is a city-based horizontal accelerator similar to the ones we have in Boulder, Boston, Seattle, Austin, New York City, London and Berlin. I almost grew up in Kansas City, as the two cities my parents looked at when moving from Boston were Kansas City and Dallas (they chose Dallas.) I have a long history with Kansas City.

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View from Seed

APRIL 28, 2015

note: In 2013, Rob Go published a flowchart articulating his VC decision making process. At NextView, we hold regular team offsites to step back and think about how we do everything from invest in seed-stage companies to create better platform initiatives in support of the Boston and New York startup ecosystems.

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Seed Stage Boston Early Stage New York 120

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2013

Amy and I have decided to do a number of smaller events around Startup Life as we travel around the world together in 2013. If you want to see if our paths will intersect in 2013, feel free to email me. We know we’ll be in New York, Boston, Dallas, San Diego, Iceland, and London this year.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2015

We subsequently raised a $225 million fund in 2010 , another one in 2013 , and a late stage fund in 2013. Our 2013 fund was originally raised in 2012, but we didn’t start investing it until 2013 so we renamed it 2013. In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007. Each is $225 million.

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Minneapolis Phoenix Portland Syndicate 70

Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

Here are the posts from 201 1, 201 2, and 2013. Because our data from 2013 is so similar to prior years, I thought I’d do something a little different with this lookback. What Was New In 2013. But in late 2012 we placed a couple bets in pre-launch companies that came to market in 2013 and started scaling rapidly.

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Syndicate Syndication Portfolio Advertising 45

David Cohen

JUNE 29, 2018

They started the company at Techstars in Boston in February 2013, and raised $4 Million around the time they completed the accelerator program. Yesterday the news broke that PillPack is being acquired by Amazon for $1 Billion.

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Cofounder Boston Programming Founder 54

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Our experience with TechStars – starting in Boulder, but expanding to Boston, Seattle, and New York – helped us understand not just TechStars’ role and impact on a startup community, but what drives startup communities over the long term. The application deadline is February 3rd, 2013.

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Portland Silicon Valley Seattle Vertical 151

David Teten

MARCH 8, 2013

I’m leading a webinar for HBS Alumni Angels on “Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices” Click here to register . I’d welcome your feedback on my draft presentation, below: Date: March 22nd, 2013. Among the topics I will cover: Introduction to HBS Angels and the 2013 Webinar schedule.

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San Francisco Venture Capital Angel Groups LLC 114

The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 28, 2014

[i] Lane Anderson, “Social Entrepreneurs: Startups Set to Change the World,” Deseret News, July 31, 2014, [link] Sara Castellanos, “Harvard Student Aims to Improve Health in Uganda with Water Filters,” Boston Business Journal, November 14, 2013, www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2013/11/harvard-student-aims-to-improve-health.html.

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Uganda Entrepreneur Boston Distribution 67

Andrew Payne

JANUARY 30, 2013

January 28, 2013. Boston, MA 02210. Apart from the sadness and tragedy, I think we all need to be very mindful of the growing gaps between technology and our laws. The Honorable Carmen M. United States Attorney for Massachusetts. John Joseph Moakley. United State Federal Courthouse. 1 Courthouse Way, Suite 9200.

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United States Massachusetts Warrant Technical Review 72

Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

Whether it’s angling for multi-billion dollar franchises in faraway places like India, or competing for a small startup in Boston — the gloves are off and founders in the right position stand to benefit. By now, one wonders what tech news will be tucked into the public record the days before a major holiday travel week approaches.

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Acquisition Cofounder Balance Sheet Boston 65

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

” She reminded me this morning that yesterday was a three city day (Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles.) That was an uncomfortable shock, as I attribute a lot of physiological damage from that race as one of the root causes of the depression I ended up having in early 2013.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 15, 2013

At that time I was working at Bain Capital Ventures, having just moved from Boston to spearhead the launch of their West Coast Office. 2013 big data startups Bloomreach founders SEO' It’s hard to believe that it has been 4 ½ years since the founding of Bloomreach.

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Mobile SEO Cofounder Boston 141

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2015

MTV acquired the company in 2006 for $175m plus an earnout , which after a long “discussion” that ended in 2013, resulted in a total purchase price over $700m. In 2013 Alex and Eran asked me to join their board. We arranged a financing that made sense for both parties so Foundry Group could invest.

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Colorado Angel Investor Boston Finance 70

ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2014

The BostonGlobe.com achieved a 17% increase in subscribers and The Boston Globe newspaper attained 3,000 new customers and a total of more than $3.6 How The Boston Globe Leverages Value to Thrive in a Turbulent Marketplace. For instance, at the time of the tests, The Boston Globe was a division of The New York Times Company.

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Clickthrough Cost Tucson Customer 100

Feld Thoughts

MAY 21, 2012

Lean Startup Machine has a goal of doing 50 events in 2012 and 200 events in 2013. The next ones are in San Francisco (5/25), Toronto (6/8), Rotterdam (Netherlands – 6/8), Los Angeles (6/15), Boston (6/15), and Seattle (6/29). If you are in any of these cities, I encourage you to check it out.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 4, 2016

In the early summer of 2013, around the time Stratasys acquired MakerBot , Formlabs started shipping their Form 1 printer. In 2014 Max hunted me down at a talk I did in Boston hosted by Katie Rae and Reed Sturtevant with my uncle Charlie about his book The Calloway Way: Results and Integrity. In the fall of 2012, Formlabs did a $2.95

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Finance Term Sheet Cofounder Boston 70

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

So we packed up, moved from Boston to Boulder, and decided to build a life in Colorado, while I continued to invest. .” But at almost 30, I just didn’t feel done, and in many ways I felt that I was just at the beginning of a new journey (which turned out to be true.)

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Alaska Widget Colorado Angel Investor 166

Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 25, 2014

A University of Florida professor has a nice analysis of the 2013 IPO market and shows that there were 146 IPOs in 2013 (51 VC-backed, although NVCA claims 82 VC-backed), up from 94 in 2012 (48 VC-backed) which had been in turn up from 81 in 2011 (44 VC-backed). Second, it is another nice win for Boston.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2013

Now here in 2013 I’m beginning to see a movement happening. I always envision Zuck going to Harvard bars, wearin a hoodie, talkin s**t to MBA students in a Boston accent just like he’s Matt Damon straight out of Good Will Hunting … “ I dropped out and I’m worth over $13 Billion now.

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Cleveland Bootstrapping Boston New York 102

Rob Go

APRIL 13, 2015

I hosted a group of HBS students in a tour of startups in downtown Boston a couple weeks ago. Lending Club: IPO Market Cap: $8.4B, Revenue: $98M (2013), Employees: 628 (2014), Rev / Employee: $156K. Zulily: IPO Market Cap: $2.6B, Revenue: $331M (2012), Employees: 886 (2013), Rev / Employee: $374K.

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Technology IPO Boston Cofounder 28

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

When I first heard about VC firms in the late 1980s, and my first company (Feld Technologies) started writing portfolio management software for some Boston-based VC firms, many of them had funds with SBIC leverage, although even by the late 1980s this was changing and many of them had shifted away from the SBIC.

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SBIC Venture Capital Colorado SBA 142

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

She started ArtLifting with her brother, Spencer, in 2013, and acknowledges her youth and enthusiasm have been assets. Liz Powers is a social entrepreneur with a passion for helping homeless people. The Harvard graduate has received multiple awards and grants for her work. Being naive is good. …

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Africa Cofounder Entrepreneur San Francisco 120

Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Here in 2013 Larry would sell out the Big House , but if you take the WayBack machine to 2003 you’ll learn he came to speak to a group of about 30 and literally told us Google would never, never go public. GOOGLE GLASS COULD HAVE IDENTIFIED THE BOSTON BOMBER.

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Michigan Boston Jordan Austin 96

Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 23, 2013

I gave them a briefing of why Boston and NYC have such vibrant start-up environments, with the former being in the midst of a renaissance and the latter emerging from nowhere over the last 5-10 years to legitimately become one of the world’s major start-up centers. Today, Boston and NYC are shining examples of these elements.

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