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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth
Thursday, September 6, 2012 Jeff Bussgang - General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
There are many companies that are competing to be the “operating system” for small businesses. The theory is that with the advent of the cloud in the digital age, small businesses...
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Best Practices, Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice, Lessons Learned, Voices
Leaders: Ask Your Team This One Simple Question
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 Todd Garland - Founder, BuySellAds.com
Recently, on my way to work, I wrote our team at BuySellAds the following email: Tomorrow, I want each person to email me, privately, 1 thing that I can do to make their...
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Best Practices, Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice, Lessons Learned, Voices
Funky Times...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Michael Greeley - General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
I spent some time this weekend looking at the recent VC funding data for this past quarter to see if any trends jumped off the page. While much of what I could discern in the data...
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Entrepreneurship, Funding, Voices
Series on Trust: Partners and (or vs.) Non-Partners
Friday, August 31, 2012 Jo Tango - Partner, Kepha Partners
This is the fifth and last blog post in a series on trust.  I’ve written in the past about trust between a VC and an entrepreneur (“When Entrepreneurs and VCs Break Up”), between...
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Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice, Funding, Lessons Learned, Voices
Lessons from HubSpot: 10 Keys to Ensure Success for Growing Companies & for Sales People
Thursday, August 30, 2012 Frank Belzer - VP of Corporate Training, Kurlan and Associates
I had to write this post right away, before I forgot some of the details or lost my train of thought...
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Entrepreneurship, First Look, Lessons Learned, Success Stories, Voices
Series on Trust: When VCs Divorce
Friday, August 24, 2012 Jo Tango - Partner, Kepha Partners
This is the fourth post in a blog series on trust. I previously wrote about how trust is critical in the VC-entrepreneur relationship (“When Entrepreneurs and...
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Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice, Funding, Lessons Learned, Voices
Entrepreneurial Advice is Not Always, One-Size-Fits-All
Thursday, August 23, 2012 Luke Burns - Partner, Ascent Venture Partners
A prime component of being an entrepreneur is sharing your experiences and soliciting advice from those who have been successful.  Which sounds helpful all around...
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Best Practices, Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice, Lessons Learned, Voices
Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor
Monday, August 20, 2012 Jeff Bussgang - General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling.  This is a company that took $4 million...
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Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice, Innovation, Lessons Learned, Success Stories, Voices
Series on Trust: The VC and His Investors
Friday, August 17, 2012 Jo Tango - Partner, Kepha Partners
I’ve been writing a blog series about trust.  I started with a post on how VC is a “trust business” and I highlighted why trust between an entrepreneur and a VC is important...
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Best Practices, Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice, Lessons Learned, Voices
What Happened in 2Q12…
Monday, August 13, 2012 Michael Greeley - General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
An interesting report from the law firm Cooley crossed my desk this week titled “Cooley Venture Financing Report” – ok, maybe not that interesting – but the report looked...
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Funding, Opinions, Voices