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. Led by Oak Investment Partners with participation by General Catalyst, Sequoia, & Accel and others. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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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. We are very thankful and humbled at the trust our customers, partners and employees put into the Good Dog Labs and Lighthouse brands. New England has been good to me?—?I

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Texas Fractional CTO Cofounder Austin 48

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. In fact, it’s quite the opposite - making sure you have the same goals as your financing partner is probably the best thing you can do as an entrepreneur to maximize your chances for success.

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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. Partner with companies like Insight. Because, let’s face it: data scientists aren’t necessarily easy to find.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

According to the National Venture Capital Association/Dow Jones VentureSource, the VC industry is dominated by men (89% of VC Partners), specifically white men (76% of the total). Of all VC Partners studied, just 10% identified as Asian, 1% as African-American, and less than 1% as Latino. trillion of U.S.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My business partner – Anton and I started Fantastic Services as a solution to a problem. My partner and I originally started a business for all the classic “selfish” reasons – we wanted to follow our own path, we wanted the flexibility to work from anywhere, we wanted to remove the cap on our potential income.

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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. Introductions: Dan Rosen (Partner, Commerce Ventures; Learning Officer- HBS Alumni Angels).

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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. We make 2-4 investments per year per partner. We don’t do chip-in investments – each investment is a full-allocation of partner time.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. billion in 2013. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. But is all of that changing?

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Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In this first edition of 2014, the highlight is in the 2013 performance of VC-backed companies in Israel, reaching a decade record in return. With current locations in San Francisco, Boston, London, and Shanghai, the medical giant’s innovation centers work on developing new approaches to a range of diseases.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC. “From 2008 to 2013, that was not a good time for exits,” Adams said.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them. So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013. It really started in Boston. Thanks to Nancy D.

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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. Pretty extraordinary.

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Technology IPO Boston Cofounder 28

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

She started ArtLifting with her brother, Spencer, in 2013, and acknowledges her youth and enthusiasm have been assets. Ignoring those negatives around you and figuring out who are the most strategic partners to be able to scale that impact. . … Liz Powers is a social entrepreneur with a passion for helping homeless people.

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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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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. Successful companies – to inspire, partner with, poach from and/or sell to.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

My partner Rob also wondered if Facebook is the next Yahoo! , These companies report gross ad revenue but then subtract out “TAC” (Traffic Acquisition Costs) which is basically accounting-speak for the revenue share they pay to the partner sites where the ads actually appear. or the next Google. Read More ».

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