Friday, February 15, 2013Alex Taussig - Principal, Highland Capital Partners
I graduated from Harvard Business School in the nuclear winter of job
seeking: spring of 2009. I remember quite a few of my classmates
thinking they were going to “career...
Thursday, February 14, 2013Shaun Johnson - Co-Founder, Boston Startup School
Around
Valentine’s Day you tend to see people looking for love everywhere they go. But
what about a job they’ll love? At Boston Startup School, we’re playing cupid...
Thursday, February 14, 2013Fred Destin - Partner, Atlas Venture
There a bold piece by Marc Andreessen in PandoDaily announcing the "death of retail".
As an extension to the theme of "software will eat the world" it's
smart...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013Jeff Bussgang - General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
My first job after business school was serving as a product manager for
an Internet commerce software company (Open Market, IPO'96). Back then,
we learned the...
Monday, February 11, 2013Justin Fossbender - Principal, Connell & Partners
The transition from pre-IPO to a
publicly traded company is significant in many areas, including executive compensation
levels and practices. Connell & Partners conducted...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013Sean Marsh - Co-Founder and General Partner, Point Judith Capital
I was reading in Xconomy yesterday the Taylor Yates description of his trek to Silicon Valley with his MIT Sloan classmates and I couldn’t resist sharing with the Boston community...
Friday, February 1, 2013Lee Hower - Partner and Co-Founder, NextView Ventures
I’ve been enjoying my iPad Mini for a couple months month now. I
thought seriously about getting a Nexus 7 (in fact gave one to my sister
as a gift recently), but because...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013Nick Petri - Market Research Analyst, OpenView Venture Partners
Forecasting acquisitions in the technology world is an inexact science. And that’s putting it nicely. Occasionally they make sense, like when Amazon purchased Kiva Systems...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013David Skok - General Partner, Matrix Partners
“If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” – Lord Kelvin. This article is a comprehensive and detailed look at the key metrics that are needed to understand and optimize...
Friday, January 25, 2013Joselin Mane - Co-Founder, BostonTweetUp
“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” This statement is the reason why we go to networking events. Because of social media a new style of networking has been...