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Monday, May 20, 2013 Eric Paley - Managing Partner, Founder Collective
Venture backed startups are incredibly ambitious. A startup team comes together to try to create something highly improbable and well beyond what can reasonably be expected...
Expert Advice
Friday, May 17, 2013 Rob Go - Co-Founder and Partner, NextView Ventures
Right after OMGPOP released DrawSomething to rave reviews (and traction), I was catching up with my friend Nabeel Hyatt and chatted a bit about the game’s meteoric...
Entrepreneurship
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Michael Gaiss - Founder, ThinkB1G & EIR, UMass-Boston Venture Development Center
The topic of unpaid internships comes up frequently in conversations that I have with companies looking to bring on young talent. It is an area where many people do not...
Expert Advice
Friday, May 10, 2013 Alex Taussig - Principal, Highland Capital Partners
When we opened our call for Summer@Highland applications a few months ago, the entire Highland investment team pitched in to get the word out. We came bearing...
Entrepreneurship
Friday, May 10, 2013 Michael Greeley - General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
This is not just another Big Data story. Or just another post on innovation. Or another good read on entrepreneurship. But it does touch on all of those things. And it shows...
Entrepreneurship
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 Ariel Diaz - Co-Founder & CEO, Boundless
When your grand idea for an edtech startup begins to take shape and you’re ready to get the engines revving for a team and product, it’s time to get some funding behind the...  
Funding
Monday, May 6, 2013 Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
Last Wednesday was the New England Venture Capital Association's 1st Annual NEVY Awards.  Kudos to C.A. Webb and the whole team who put together such an...
Entrepreneurship
Friday, April 26, 2013 Matt Fates - Partner, Ascent Venture Partners
Given that IT security is a $60 billion market, you might think that we have robust solutions for keeping enterprise networks and data protected. But you’d be wrong...
Technology Trends
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz
We held our first networking event towards the end of January.  It was titled: The State of Product Management (you can read about it here).  The event was a huge...
Expert Advice
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Michael Gaiss - Founder, ThinkB1G & EIR, UMass-Boston Venture Development Center
In a world competing for the best talent world, a startup's own website should be viewed as a critical communication component for attracting, wooing...
Best Practices