In our healthcare practice, we look to identify and invest in the
biggest trends in the marketplace. So what is the largest healthcare
trend today? If you ask healthcare...
Friday, December 28, 2012Owen 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...
Thursday, December 27, 2012Lee 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...
Friday, December 21, 2012Owen 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...
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...
