Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2013

I was getting ready for a Google Hangout back to my office with my partners and I noticed something about an explosion at the Boston Marathon on twitter. My partners were all shaken also – Seth lived in Boston for many years, Ryan has done several marathons, and Jason just did his first marathon last year in Detroit. During our Hangout I sent some emails out to friends in Boston. The post The 2013 Boston Marathon appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2014

On April 16, 2013 I wrote a post about the horrific tragedy at the 2013 Boston Marathon. I was getting ready for a Google Hangout back to my office with my partners and I noticed something about an explosion at the Boston Marathon on twitter. My partners were all shaken also – Seth lived in Boston for many years, Ryan has done several marathons, and Jason just did his first marathon last year in Detroit. And keep Boston running strong!

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2011

Boston has always been a great entrepreneurial community. When TechStars opened a Boston program in 2009 there was definitely new energy around the software / Internet startup scene in Boston and TechStars was excited to be part of. When I say “Boston&# , I actually mean “Boston/Cambridge&# where the center of mass is really near MIT in Cambridge. I spent the day at TechStars Boston yesterday meeting with all of the TechStars Boston 2011 companies.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 22, 2011

I’ve been spending some time with the current TechStars Boston class. This feels to me like the strongest class we’ve had in Boston so far and might be the one of the strongest TechStars classes overall. This class of companies in Boston is thinking big and is very diverse. It’s been incredibly energizing watching each of the four TechStars cities (Boulder, NYC, Seattle, and Boston) up their game every single year. TechStars angel investors boston

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 25, 2012

Over the last three weeks I’ve had numerous people ask me how my trip to Boston has been going. Tonight, after hanging out at the TechStars Boston Mentor evening and program kickoff, I got into a long discussion with a Bill Warner and Ken Zolot about Cambridge, Boston, and startup communities. At some point in the conversation I blurted out “I have no idea why we call this program TechStars Boston instead of TechStars Cambridge.”

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. But a large majority of our investments are in our backyard of Boston — and, aside from our work as investors, this city is near and dear to our hearts. Over the past few years, the tech community has absolutely exploded locally (and if you’re new here or just want to take it all in, here’s our Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech microsite). Yep, Boston has consumer tech.

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deal architect

MAY 20, 2013

I caught a replay of Bill McDermott''s pitch at SapphireNow last week. Loved it. How could you not with acronyms like B2B2C?:) Seriously, tough to not like his sports talk and see him surrounded by sports world luminaries you see

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

If you want to go to TechStars for a Day in Boston, today is the last day to apply for the Boston program early application deadline. If you are contemplating applying to Techstars Boston, stop procrastinating and apply now. If you are curious about how some of the TechStars Boston class of 2011 have done, take a look at the post titled 2011 Funding: Boston. TechStars boston techstars for a day

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2010

The TechStars Boston application deadline is 1/31/11. However, the early application deadline is actually 1/13/11 – anyone that applies by this date is eligible to come to TechStars for a Day in Boston on 1/19/2011. Boston has always had a wide range of early stage companies with unique characteristics, most notably robotics and network and system layer software, so it’s great to entrepreneurs from these segments show up. TechStars boston

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

” That was the question one of my students asked me three years ago when I quietly told him my plan to start a design museum in Boston with my friend and business partner, Derek Cascio. And we quickly asked, “why isn’t there already a design museum in Boston?”

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 26, 2018

He said: “Being a VC is like taking a walk from Boston to San Francisco” I’d never heard that before so I said: “tell me more.” You start out on a sunny day in Boston. The post A Venture Capital Career Is Like Walking from Boston to San Francisco appeared first on Feld Thoughts. I’m a recent conversation with Eric Paley , he gave me an amazingly wonderful analogy for how the career of a VC unfolds.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 26, 2017

A successful businessman, Ryan Wuerch enjoys running marathons and has run in the Boston Marathon nine times. Started in 1897, the Boston Marathon , organized by the Boston Athletic Association, is the oldest annual marathon in the world. marathon running news boston

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Today, we are excited to re-release an updated Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech ! I wanted to point out a couple things in the updated guide, but the general theme is that we are simply seeing more, bigger, and better things happening here in Boston.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Lastly, a necessary caveat: Boston’s booming tech ecosystem means there are dozens of great service providers available to startups. Preferred Boston Startup Service Providers 2014. A lot has changed since 2013. More Snaps were Chatted. More Things became Internetted of.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 18, 2010

Jon Pierce of BetaHouse has decided to organize an Angel Boot Camp in Boston on June 1st. Jon Pierce also wrote about why he’s doing Angel Boot Camp as well as listing some of Boston’s Best Angel Investors. Tags: Angel Investing angel investors boston conference Entrepreneurship The idea is that anyone interested in learning more about how to get started with angel investing can attend and learn from some people who’ve been there and done that.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Leading global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has announced the opening of its first-ever Center for Business Excellence, right here in Singapore. In the News BCG Boston Consulting Group Center for Business Excellence Singapore

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

My long time friend Warren Katz pointed me out to an event on March 3, 2010 called EO Boston Accelerator Shark Bowl 2010. You present to a group of judges including Warren (MAK Technologies), Rich Farrell (Full Armor), Clark Waterfall (Boston Search Group), and Michael Hackel (DiningIN) who are all EO Boston members. In 1993 I was the founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization Boston Chapter and member #1. Tags: Conferences boston Entrepreneurship eo

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 17, 2013

I haven’t wanted to blog since Boston happened. Felt trivial to post something about my move from iOS to Android or how the new Chromebook experience is going. I’ll get to those, but they hardly seem relevant right now. People react differently to tragedies like this. Where someone lives, how old they are, where they come from, their relationship to the tragedy…all of these factors slant how we react.

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Fred Destin

APRIL 10, 2014

Now that I am leaving Boston I can talk about its startup ecosystem in all candor. When Oculus VR was sold recently, I know many people were surprised to hear Boston mentioned in connection with the company. Culture matters, and here in Boston the startup culture has been building fast.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

This week, I want to take a local lens and analyze these special companies that have been created in Boston. We looked at the companies in New England (call them "Boston and surrounding") that had exited in the last 10 years (2003-2013) with greater than $500 million in market valuation.

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Agile VC

JULY 16, 2014

One of our portfolio companies, Plastiq , announced yesterday that they raised a $10M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and are planning to move their headquarters from Boston to San Francisco. The Boston ecosystem may have failed young entrepreneurs 7-10 years ago.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

The city I call home, Boston, is not known for its social products. Here is some data shared by TJ Parker, CEO of Boston-based Pillpack, as first reported by PitchBook: Bos raised roughly same VC as NY since ’06 & ’10 w/ nearly double the exit value, ranked below in ecosystem.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

In the “truth is stranger than fiction” category, my CU Boulder bathroom donation (well – the gift I gave to CU Boulder that resulted in me getting to name a bathroom) made the TV news tonight in Boston on Fox 25. There’s apparently a new bathroom news cycle because of William Falik’s gift to Harvard Law School for the Falik Men’s Room at Harvard Law School.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

I hope to meet some of the local investor and founder community when I visit Boston October 3-5: On October 3 evening , SMA is hosting a discussion on “ New Models for Engaging Talent: the On-Demand Professional ” at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf. The post Visiting Boston Oct. Boston HBS Alumni Angels

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Boston, Massachusetts. Boston has recently been announced as the best American city in which to launch a new company. But why is Boston so good for business? One of the best things about setting up a startup these days is that nothing is out of bounds thanks to the Internet.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Back in June, the local Boston tech community together celebrated the ten year anniversary of the Web Innovators Group, affectionately known as “WebInno.” Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. Accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces have proliferated in Cambridge and Boston.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

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.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

He was wrapping up GrabCAD’s participation in the Seedcamp accelerator program, and the Seedcamp startups were in the US to visit potential advisors and investors in Boston, New York, and SF. GrabCAD today announced their acquisition by Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS).

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Andrew Payne

OCTOBER 1, 2016

During the legendary Boston winter of 2015, I pulled out of a downtown parking garage one evening and nearly rear-ended a dumpster. It was sitting in the middle of a usually busy three-lane road, a place where no dumpster should ever be. It was dark and there were no cones, no markers, no construction signs…nothing. This scenario is why (I feel) 100% autonomous, “no-steering-wheel”, driverless cars are much further off than experts predict.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The benefits have been touted previously : an anchor for attracting and retaining talent in Boston, as well as a breeding ground for the next set of great Boston entrepreneurs and founders. This entrepreneurial HubSpot spirit has — and will continue to have — a ripple effect throughout the Boston early stage startup ecosystem. The post The Unique but Powerful Way the HubSpot Mafia is Impacting Boston Startups appeared first on GenuineVC

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Every fall, I deliver a presentation at Harvard's iLab, open to the community, on what makes the Boston startup scene so special. It has become a nice opportunity to step back and appreciate all the rich resources entrepreneurs have at their fingertips in the Boston community.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A few years ago, I did an analysis on the Boston-based companies that were worth more than $500 million in value, which I called Boston Unicorns. To get a sense of the future anchor companies in the Boston region, let's first look at the public companies.

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Rob Go

MAY 2, 2013

It was a wonderful showcase of all the great companies, people, and investors that have helped the Boston technology market come roaring back in recent months and years. I was reminded last night why I moved to Boston from Silicon Valley many years ago and why I think the ecosystem is so great. In particular, I love this place because: Boston is a town of substance. Wayfair in particular was honored as the “best startup” in Boston, and what a startup it is.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

500’s list of fastest growing companies in the U.S. […] The post Austin-based Consero Global Buys Starting11 of Boston appeared first on SiliconHills. By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Consero Global started out in 2006 with the goal of taking the pain out of finance and administrative duties for small to medium sized businesses. The Austin-based company has since grown tremendously earning it a spot on Inc.

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David Teten

JANUARY 17, 2013

Boston Harvard Business School HBS Alumni Angels StartupsI’ll be at the Harvard iLab for a complimentary discussion and networking event on being an entrepreneur, Wednesday, January 23, from 6-8pm. It’s hosted by: Harvard Alumni Association, Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs, Harvard Venture Partners, Social Innovation Collaborative, and Aspiring Minority Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs (AMBLE). This is for Harvard grads). Harvard Innovation Lab (125 Western Ave, Allston, MA).

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Fred Destin

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The new report ranks Boston ranks 6th overall, behind SV, Tel Aviv, LA (oddly), Seattle (oddly) & New York but also highlights its breadth and depth and concludes it is a "real alternative to Silicon Valley". Boston startups are 24% more likely to monetize directly than SV startups.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Every September, I give a presentation at Harvard''s i-Lab to provide a guide to the Boston start-up scene. Students from around the world descend on Boston every fall to attend the amazing universities, but often fail to venture outside the ivory tower and explore the local start-up scene.

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Fred Destin

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Webb at NEVCA pushed through a survey that looks at the relative attractiveness of Boston as a startup market. Nearly two-thirds of respondents consider Boston’s community to be “thriving”. Belief that Boston-based VCs are often too conservative and too close-minded.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 6, 2017

Boston was so welcoming and passionate in helping us build 48 nonprofit websites in 48 hours, that we already can’t wait to come back next year! Love this team, and major thanks to Delta Air Lines for their support in bringing us to the Boston area! She is a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing, and was 3rd in the world in ballroom dancing when the second bomb blew the bottom part of her left leg off. 48 nonprofit sites were built for the Boston community!

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. The goal was to assemble data in order to share it back to our portfolio companies (especially the newer ones) so that they didn’t have to recreate the wheel in determining a short-list of firms to talk to when evaluating new options.

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Fred Destin

MAY 3, 2012

Today was TechStars Boston Demo Day (#tsdemoday). Overall, what is abundantly clear is that Boston is "leaning in" (QOTD, unattributed). Boston is back, and Techstars is one of the reasons why. Entrepreneurship Boston

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Fred Destin

MARCH 6, 2013

Edition 1 of LunchBeat Boston got 150 odd people dancing at the HackReduce space, and with that massive endorphin rush I bet we upped everyone's productivity this afternoon. We're all heads down building our startups and sometimes we forget to have fun. No more.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 2, 2017

I’m boarding a flight in a few hours to Boston, where we will be holding the fourth 48in48 event! And get this, our event this weekend is the first of four this year (Boston, Minneapolis, Atlanta, New York)! The post 48in48 Boston here we come! I can barely believe we’ve held three of these events already (Atlanta in 2015, and New York + Atlanta in 2016).

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