Thursday, July 22, 2010Mok Oh - Founder and CTO, EveryScape
1. Not all $ is equal - Investors will be your partners, advisors, and sometimes (but not too often) co-workers. Be sure you can leverage their experience and specialties. Depending on how much value add they can be, the investment will (and *should*) be worth more than...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010Matthew Mamet - Head of Customer Development, EditMe
Baydin is a local startup building plugins to improve the way we use email. A former TechStars graduate, Baydin has launched a few different products to make using email better in MS Outlook - Unsearch, which won this year's Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad competition , and Boomerang, the "email snooze...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010Brian Balfour - Co-Founder and VP of Marketing, Viximo
This week's topic on Fizzlosophy is: What are 3 points of advice for first time entrepreneurs raising venture capital? Today's guest contributor is Brian Balfour. Brian is a Co-Founder of Viximo, a social gaming platform company based in Cambridge. Viximo is funded by Sigma Partners...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
On June 22nd, Eric Paley of Founder Collective hosted his second Founder Dialogues event. This event's guest speaker was Mick Mountz, CEO and Founder of Kiva Systems. We are excited to have the video from this event down below. Kiva Systems, based in Woburn, is a developer of...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010Bettina Hein - Founder and CEO, Pixability
I like to boast that I’ve never had a real job. I started my first startup right after graduate school and have done nothing but startups for 10 years. Has it been exhilarating? Yes. Has it been non-stop fun? No. Has it been incredibly rewarding? Yes. But what has enabled me to last 10 years? Acting like...
Monday, July 19, 2010Mike Troiano - President, Holland-Mark Digital
Having a chat with my team tomorrow morning about the most important but under-appreciated skill in business: Selling. I graduated from Cornell with a degree in advertising, and promptly leveraged my Ivy League credentials into 28 rejection letters from the best agencies in Boston and...
Monday, July 19, 2010Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
Last week, Bain Capital Ventures launched a new website & initiative to provide early-stage entrepreneurs with help and answers to their key questions as they start and build their businesses. This new initiative is called the Bain Capital Ventures Innovation Center (BCVIC). On this site, you will find...
Friday, July 16, 2010Nathan Burke - Marketing Manager, Aprigo
Ah, hyperlocal news: The promise of delivering local stories, events and announcements (and ads) based on geographical relevance. Internet giants like AOL and Yahoo! have pumped tens of millions into creating content factories that target to the granularity of the neighborhood, and now...
Thursday, July 15, 2010Rob May - Co-Founder, Backupify
If I pitch a VC and they don’t ask any good tough questions, I’m not sure I want to take their money. Let me say that again. If I pitch a VC and they don’t ask any good tough questions, I’m not sure I want to take their money. I bring this up because the more fundraising I do, and the more...
Thursday, July 15, 2010Carl Schwartz - Vice President of Marketing, Swaptree
1 :: Start with your goal(s) in mind. What are you trying to accomplish? More traffic? More brand visibility? More revenue? If you can't measure it in some way, it's probably not worth doing. Clear goals will lead to clear successes (or learning opportunities anyway). Resources...
