Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Rinse and repeat for 10 days and I keep reminding myself that I’ve got this to do list of new deals the stack rank and there was that company I had seen and liked a couple of weeks ago. New York, Chicago, Boston, etc. Would it be alright if I brought her by your offices for a super quick coffee?” (In

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2019

Image via Wikipedia From the advice I hear these days, if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be in Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, or one of the few other financial hubs around the world. Is entrepreneurship ever viable or recommended in a small town?

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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. Some lament the relocation of Plastiq and other companies who start in Boston but end up moving to Silicon Valley or other startup hubs.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

As a VC myself, at a New York- and Boston-focused firm, I frequently point entrepreneurs to the same resources. These include the top investor list on AngelList in Boston and NYC , as well as media-produced roundups like Business Insider’s and AlleyWatch’s.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Even students who aren’t in Entrepreneurship Hall can join other innovators at Rochester, in the Center for Student Innovation lab where they can tinker with new ideas, creating physical models and getting advice for their next steps from advisors and even other student participants. Boston University Business Incubation.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Lastly, given our Boston location, it isn’t surprising that seven investments were Boston-based. 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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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2012

For the next month or so I'll be on the road, starting in Washington DC and then proceeding to New Haven, New York, and Boston. I have been getting a lot of questions on Twitter about my upcoming trip to the east coast, so I thought I would post a brief update here.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. Here is some of the best commentary from the community… For starters, why does Boston get a bad consumer rap anyway?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

-Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals , Give and Take , and OPTION B with Sheryl Sandberg Since The Startup Way came out on October 17th, I’ve had a great time traveling with the book, speaking to audiences, and meeting amazing people creating change in all types of organizations.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

FinTech New York Accelerator. Rise New York (good mailing list) – includes the Barclays Accelerator , in partnership with Techstars , and a coworking space for fintech startups. Startupbootcamp Fintech New York. Vestigo (Boston). Dharmesh Shah – 77 investments (Boston). Broadhaven.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 7, 2020

Anecdotally we’ve heard the sentiment that there are still very few firms who can lead seed rounds in New York, while we’ve also seen a recent uptick of Boston seed rounds led by non-Boston firms. SF/Bay Area, New York, Boston, and LA.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 9, 2011

As I was catching up on email from last week (not quite done yet) I was reflecting on the awesome week I had in New York. And the winner is – New York – by seven days. Since I track where I sleep every night (and have since 1/1/09), I was able to quickly answer this question going back 29 months.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. This is also an opportunity to take a step back and think about what the Platform role means for us overall.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. This is also an opportunity to take a step back and think about what the Platform role means for us overall.

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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.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

TechStars is coming to New York City. We’ve created a long term funding model, which I expect David Cohen will write about at some point, that we implemented in TechStars Seattle and will be rolling out to Boulder and Boston this year. The first program runs from 1/10/11 to 4/8/11. Applications are open now.

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View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

To a lesser degree, markets like New York are demonstrating more promise in recent years and I expect that to continue. I also think we’ll see some new geographies begin to gain momentum, especially LA, and perhaps several others. Firm Persistence.

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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. I first met Hardi at the beginning of 2011 here in Cambridge. Fast forward to today and there are over 1.5

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 8, 2012

As the publishing industry gathers in New York for its annual trade show, BookExpo America , they’re discussing everything except the one piece of information authors crave: how many books they actually sell. Authors now go directly to their readerships without the intervention or dis-ingenuity of the New York publishers.

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David Teten

JULY 29, 2011

David is a sports fanatic, and if you see an extra spring in his step, you can be sure one of his beloved Boston teams has gotten the better of its New York counterpart. Having never lived in New York, he very much looks forward to working and playing in the city. Matthew Fairbank.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

I was living in Boulder at this point, but traveling continuously to Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle where I was making most of my investments. ” One of the VCs I overlapped with while in Boston was Charley Lax. ” One of the VCs I overlapped with while in Boston was Charley Lax.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. Some of our most successful deals have been in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Baltimore and London. We love all of LA and fund all regions.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Old assumptions about geography are increasingly being challenged – with huge consumer wins emerging in Boston (CarGurus, Wayfair, Simplisafe, Pillpack), great B2B companies emerging in NY (Flatiron Health, Mongo, Datadog, etc), and unicorns emerging in smaller tech markets and overseas. .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. There’s a much higher probability this kid will stay in Boston now. The key is to be able to keep the best ones local.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

OK, I may be biased having been an early stage VC based out of New York since 1996, but I must say that the vibe, energy, and people at the Techstars NYC Demo Day event yesterday was simply awesome. In addition, over 750 investors came in from all over including London, California, Boston, and DC to network and participate.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

OK, I may be biased having been an early stage VC based out of New York since 1996, but I must say that the vibe, energy, and people at the Techstars NYC Demo Day event yesterday was simply awesome. In addition, over 750 investors came in from all over including London, California, Boston, and DC to network and participate.

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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! I can barely believe we’ve held three of these events already (Atlanta in 2015, and New York + Atlanta in 2016). The post 48in48 Boston here we come! million of donated services to that city’s nonprofits.

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Many other communities are entrepreneur-friendly and, by any measure, have the tools in place to spawn new high growth companies. Boston, New York City, Seattle and Southern California spawn many exciting startups…but do not exceed the Valley in any measure of entrepreneurial achievement.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Plus, Austin is far cheaper than other big names on the list, such as San Francisco, Boston, or New York. Arnold Katz is the Marketing Coordinator for Empire Movers , a fully licensed and insured moving company based in New York City. Denver, Colorado.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

DigitalOcean is based in New York City. #9: Techstars funded ClassPass through our Techstars New York Accelerator in 2012. Techstars funded PillPack as part of the Techstars Boston Accelerator in 2013. The company later settled in Boston. 9: Classpass (2012). ” She was certainly right.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2022

and has rapidly growing operations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, New York City, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., For more information, visit tryhungry.com.

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View from Seed

APRIL 4, 2017

As a seed-focused venture firm with offices in New York and Boston, we believe there’s a responsibility for us to not just be participants in the local entrepreneurial community, but also contributors to it. Gotham Voices’ goal is to highlight the people creating the material just as much as the material itself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. In other locations, the trend was more equal, even somewhat reversed in New York and Boston. In New York, these solo efforts even raised more money, with a median of $4M.

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David Cohen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By expanding our presence in these top markets (SF, NY, Boston, LA), we can better support all of our portfolio companies for the coming decades. New York is the second largest VC ecosystem in the world and officially making it our HQ connects Techstars with more sources of capital, other VCs, founders, talent and market-reach.

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