Thursday, August 12, 2010Lee Hower - Partner and Co-Founder, NextView Ventures
Much virtual ink has been spilled on the pros and cons of taking seed stage investment from larger VC funds. Chris Dixon and Fred Wilson have their viewpoints, more recently Mark Suster and Brad Feld added their perspectives and helpfully laid out their firms' specific approach...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010Chip Hazard - General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
Last week, SAIC announced that they had signed a definitive agreement to acquire our portfolio company, Reveal Imaging. This is an extremely positive outcome for the company, its customers, employees and shareholders and represents an import waypoint on a fascinating and successful entrepreneurial...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010Richard Banfield - CEO, Fresh Tilled Soil
This is the first in a series of interviews with some amazing entrepreneurs in the Boston area. These folks have been selected because they are not just building a business but giving back to the entrepreneurial community in some way. They might be sharing their hard-won experiences on a blog, funding startups...
Monday, August 9, 2010Alex Taussig - Principal, Highland Capital Partners
Damn...that's a bad pitch! Early stage companies, by definition, have little to hold dear: no revenue, no profits, no awarded patents (usually), no commercially viable product, little customer validation, etc. If a seed stage or Series A startup is valued on anything, it is valued on...
Monday, August 9, 2010Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
3 words sum up this quarter so far: acquisitions...acquisitions...acquisitions. We have seen a total of 7 acquisitions since July 1st: GameLogic (by Scientific Games), Reveal Imaging (by SAIC), Storwize (by IBM), Day Software (by Adobe), Picis (by Ingenix), Workscape (by ADP), and ITA Software...
Friday, August 6, 2010Sachin Agarwal - Director of Marketing, Blueleaf.com
Blueleaf is building the world’s first truly personal financial planning platform. It’s a complex product with a lot of features to meet all the different problems that our customer discovery has shown that people want. Here are ten concrete things we’re doing to get 10,000 sign ups before we even launch...
Thursday, August 5, 2010Matthew Mamet - Head of Customer Development, EditMe
Everyone’s excited about new mobile applications these days, and that includes me. After covering the guys at Peekaboo Mobile earlier this spring, I was happy to spend time with Jacqueline Thong, CoFounder and CEO of UbiqiHealth, developers of mobile and web based tools for patients with chronic...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010Bijan Sabet - General Partner, Spark Capital
When a big company acquires a smaller company it can go all wrong. Sometimes it goes all wrong right at the start because it was an unnatural acquisition (acquired for the wrong reasons). Sometimes egos get in the way and the startup is never embraced properly after the deal. We’ve seen this over and...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
We always like to take a moment to reflect and evaluate all that has happened over the past quarter. For our evaluation, we use the following indicators: Top Deals, Company Buzz Watch, and Job Trends. Overall, it was a productive quarter. There was a great buzz in the air across the entrepreneurial...
Monday, August 2, 2010Monika Desai - Founder and CEO, Open Runway
As an entrepreneur launching my first startup, I rarely think about the fact that I am a woman but it’s hard not to notice when I am usually one of just a handful of women in the room at most of the entrepreneurial events I go to. Take for instance, WebInno. It always seems like 80% of the attendees...
