An interesting thing is happening: accelerators across the globe are
working at their stated goal of massively increasing the number of
startups, while also making them more...
The dilemma has become quite acute these days since there’s been an
expansion of available capital from VCs to fund growth companies. The
more capital available, the more...
Thursday, November 29, 2012Matt Fates - Partner, Ascent Venture Partners
We are very pleased that our second B2B Enterprise IT Forum was so well received. Thank you for all of the positive feedback. We had a strong turnout, smart...
Monday, November 19, 2012Eric Peckham - Founding Partner, Tufts Venture Fund
Tufts University has
supposedly been fairly quiet on the startup scene—neighbored by Harvard and
MIT, innovations and ventures coming from Walnut Hill in Somerville don’t...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012Rob Go - Co-Founder and Partner, NextView Ventures
I got this question on a panel last week, and coincidentally, I had a
couple folks on Twitter tweet out the same question. Generically
speaking, the question is...
Thursday, November 8, 2012Fred Destin - Partner, Atlas Venture
Story of of the last few years in Venture Fund Land : large institutional investors concentrate money with fewer managers and flagship brands AND / OR find emerging managers...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012Michael Sheeley - Co-Founder, Kickscout
I recently read Jack Dorsey's blog post, Let's reconsider our "users".
It is a great post and it reminded me of a post I wrote a few years
back and was advised (for whatever reason) not to...
Monday, November 5, 2012Izzy Azeri - Co-Founder, Stackdriver
You are starting a new software company and you need to put
together a business plan. Part of that plan is a budget, and most of the
near-term expenses in that budget are...
Thursday, November 1, 2012Nick Petri - Market Research Analyst, OpenView Venture Partners
With Windows 8’s official release last week, many were shocked by the degree to which the new operating system departed from many longstanding Windows conventions...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012Larry Kim - Founder and CTO, WordStream
On the heels of Google’s “disappointing” earnings announcement last
Friday – they generated a whopping $10.8 billion in advertising revenues
in Q3 2012, up 5% from...
