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Thursday, February 21, 2013 Susan Johnston - Contributor, VentureFizz
Today, Cambridge-based content curation tool Curata announces a partnership with San Francisco-based Buffer, a tool that enables smarter sharing on social media. This integration...
Entrepreneurship
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
Wayfair.com, the largest online retailer of home products and furnishings, today announced the launch of Daily Fair, a new flash sale feature to engage...
Entrepreneurship
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
The Harlem Shake is the latest dance video to go viral and we spotted two tech companies in Boston doing their own version of this 30 second dance...
Entrepreneurship
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Dennis Keohane - Contributor, VentureFizz
The hype over new mail app Mailbox has exploded recently as the waiting list for the app continues to grow. Mailbox has a great feature that makes it possible to...
Entrepreneurship
Monday, February 18, 2013 David Beisel - Co-Founder and Partner, NextView Ventures
VCs like to give out homework. They won’t call it that, though. But rather they use words like “diligence” and “information requests.” Just like in school, the homework can actually...
Expert Advice
Friday, February 15, 2013 Alex Taussig - Principal, Highland Capital Partners
I graduated from Harvard Business School in the nuclear winter of job seeking: spring of 2009. I remember quite a few of my classmates thinking they were going to “career...
Entrepreneurship
Thursday, February 14, 2013 Fred Destin - Partner, Atlas Venture
There a bold piece by Marc Andreessen in PandoDaily announcing the "death of retail". As an extension to the theme of "software will eat the world" it's smart...
Expert Advice
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Jeff Bussgang - General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
My first job after business school was serving as a product manager for an Internet commerce software company (Open Market, IPO'96).  Back then, we learned the...
Best Practices
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Dennis Keohane - Contributor, VentureFizz
Cambridge-based Infinio Systems announced a new round of funding this morning. The $10 million Series A investment brings the company’s total investments to date to $12 million...
Funding
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
Foley Hoag LLP today unveiled the first collaborative in Boston’s burgeoning Innovation District, bringing together technology companies, entrepreneurs...
Entrepreneurship