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Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
Actifio™, the radically simple copy data storage company, today announced it has closed a $50 million investment round led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV)...
Funding
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Joel Lehrer - Partner, Goodwin Procter
Whether you’re a founder thinking about using third party software for your start-up, or thinking about how best to structure licenses to your software, it’s important to...
Best Practices
Monday, March 4, 2013 Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
Today, Startup Institute, formerly known as Boston Startup School, announced the building of Startup Institute New York. Startup Institute launched a year ago...
Entrepreneurship
Monday, March 4, 2013 Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
As they say in sales: "Time kills all deals."  But the statement applies to recruiting, too.  Here's a dreadful scenario you'll find familiar.  You and your team spend countless hours..
Expert Advice
Friday, March 1, 2013 Dennis Keohane - Contributor, VentureFizz
There was a great deal of buzz surrounding the official opening of PayPal’s new Boston headquarters on Thursday evening. A crowd of about four-hundred attended...
Entrepreneurship
Friday, March 1, 2013 Rob Go - Co-Founder and Partner, NextView Ventures
Early stage companies are often refining their stories or narratives.  It’s important for lots of reasons – inspiring team members, recruiting, creating focus, getting...
Entrepreneurship
Thursday, February 28, 2013 Stephen Kraus - Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
February is always a special month for me.   Yes, in the Hallmark sense, it is the time of the year to celebrate love but, for me, February is one big celebration of the best thing in...
Expert Advice
Thursday, February 28, 2013 Matt Douglas - Founder and CEO, Punchbowl.com
There are two types of people in a start-up: those who have the hunger, and those who don't. If you're working at a start-up and not sure if you are hungry...
Expert Advice
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 Dennis Keohane - Contributor, VentureFizz
Trinity Pharma Solutions announced the release of AgileM, a mobile analytics platform that is a first of its kind in the life sciences industry. The company believes that the...
Entrepreneurship
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
The AdTech sector in Boston continues to thrive with many companies like DataXu and Fiksu seeing incredible growth.  Nanigans is another company that is leading the charge...
Entrepreneurship