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Wednesday, February 6, 2013 Sean 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...
Lessons Learned
Friday, February 1, 2013 Lee 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...
Technology Trends
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Nick 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...
Entrepreneurship
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 David 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...
Best Practices, Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice
Friday, January 25, 2013 Joselin 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...
Best Practices
Friday, January 25, 2013 Alison Howard - Marketing Director, Highland Capital Partners
Six years ago, we started an experiment here at Highland to see if we could find a better way to get to know the most promising entrepreneurs at local universities. We recognized...
Entrepreneurship
Friday, January 18, 2013 Matt Fates - Partner, Ascent Venture Partners
Gartner made headlines recently when it predicted big data would create 4.4 million jobs by 2015. The analyst firm opined that there’s not enough hired talent to...
Entrepreneurship
Thursday, January 17, 2013 Sean Marsh - Co-Founder and General Partner, Point Judith Capital
While it is likely that 2013 will be a year of reckoning for many seed funded companies, I think the most important point about the so-called “Series A Crunch” was recently made...
Funding
Friday, January 11, 2013 Michael Greeley - General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
One of the more interesting press releases from the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) is the VC Quarterly Fundraising announcement which came out...
Funding
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 Pawan Deshpande - Founder & CEO, Curata
2012 was a huge year for the content marketing space, and 2013 is likely to follow suit. A growing marketing tactic in both popularity and success, content marketing is being...
Technology Trends