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Thursday, March 7, 2013 Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
Boston based Spindle announced today the release of version 2.0 of their iPhone app with some exciting new features and expanded coverage in three more new cities...
Entrepreneurship
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
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Nick Francis - Co-Founder & CEO, Help Scout
You are bound to hear the question dozens, maybe hundreds of times as a founder. How are you going to compete with Company XYZ? Can you differentiate from your...
Expert Advice
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
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Nick Worswick - VP & General Manager, Seamless
In Part 1 of my blog on building a 3-Step Plan to Get the Most from New Sales Hires, I discussed the tendency of high growth companies to act under pressure and hire sales people...
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