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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
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 David Brown - Executive Director, TUGG
Boston tech’s biggest social fundraiser, the Seventh Annual New England Tech Charity Wine Party to benefit TUGG, is set to descend upon South End’s Cyclorama on...
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
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Ashley Lane - Director of Research, Cassidy Turley
In the past 13 years, the topography of greater Boston’s commercial tenant landscape has shifted significantly.  In 2000, corporate campuses were king and rapidly expanding...
Innovation
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
Friday, December 28, 2012 Owen Johnson - Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Betaspring
In a previous post, I discussed the importance of angel investors for the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Startups need angels. But do they need angel groups?  As it turns out, formal angels...
Funding
Thursday, December 27, 2012 Lee Hower - Partner and Co-Founder, NextView Ventures
A little more inside baseball from the VC biz… why VC’s rarely make “crossover” investments, with capital from multiple funds the VC firm manages invested in a single startup...
Funding
Friday, December 21, 2012 Owen Johnson - Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Betaspring
Angel investors are an important source of capital for early stage startups. Without them, many startups would never get beyond the idea phase. However, not all angels are...
Funding
Thursday, December 20, 2012 Ralph Folz - CEO, WordStream
For many new companies, the first few months – and sometimes years – are just focused on getting things off the ground. Creating a solid business model, securing funding...
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