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Talking Marketplaces
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Matthew Witheiler - Principal, Flybridge Capital Partners
There’re a lot of marketplace businesses being started out there - I probably see 2 a week these days.  Given the interest in the space I thought I’d share some high level thoughts...
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Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice, Innovation, Technology Trends, Voices
5 Documents to Have In Hand When Approaching a VC
Friday, November 18, 2011 Daniel Killeen - Associate, OpenView Venture Partners
When going out to raise money, entrepreneurs expect to have to provide a good deal of information to potential investors. Any decent venture capital fund is going to need...
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Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice, Funding, Voices
How early product failures led to huge successes
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Don Dodge - Developer Advocate at Google
Failure is not an option...it is a requirement...to future success. Failure gets a bad rap. It is actually an important element...
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Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Lessons Learned, Voices
If You Sell Technology - Learn from Steve Jobs
Thursday, October 27, 2011 Frank Belzer - VP of Corporate Training, Kurlan and Associates
With the recent passing of Steve Jobs the worlds of business and technology have certainly lost a real visionary and leader. Furthermore Steve represents someone that was...
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Best Practices, Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice, Lessons Learned, Voices
What's in a name: thoughts on domain names and corporate names
Friday, October 14, 2011 Dave Broadwin - Partner, Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag
Sometimes it seems like all clients have the same issue at once.  One series of issues that seems to be among the popular issues du jour is what to do to secure domain names...
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Best Practices, Expert Advice, Voices
Advice maybe cheap. But take it even if you don’t act on it.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Bilal Zuberi - Principal, General Catalyst Partners
Until only a few years ago, I was a first-time entrepreneur struggling to get attention & advice from experienced entrepreneurs and investors. I did not need funding from them...
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SaaS CEOs: Measure Customer Engagement - Increase Conversions & Lower Churn
Monday, October 3, 2011 David Skok - General Partner, Matrix Partners
The goal of a SaaS CEO should be to increase the profit they make from each customer (LTV), and lower the costs in sales and marketing that it takes to acquire each customer (CAC). Measuring Customer Engagement is a key tool...
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Size of Round Does NOT Equal Level of Success
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Jon O'Shaughnessy - Associate, Dace Ventures
This subject annoys me to no end. It seems to pervade the startup ecosystem, dominate media coverage over funding, and be the focus of far, far too many entrepreneurs’ discussions. The topic is...
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Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice, Funding, Opinions, Voices
Boston and Northeast startup scene thriving
Thursday, September 22, 2011 Chuck Freedman - Chief Platform Evangelist, Litl
As I took the train from Manhattan to JFK airport, I tweeted “The Northeast is thriving”. In two weeks, I attended two events that only got me more excited, hopeful and inspired about tech startups in Boston...
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Start-ups and the Employment Law Gauntlet
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Prithvi Tanwar - Attorney, Foley Hoag LLP
One of the big positives about working at a large firm is access to legal experts in disciplines that interrelate with key issues that our start-up clients face. I was rehashing some conversations...
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