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Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Owen Johnson - Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Betaspring
Experts in product development will tell you to understand your user. Some people are naturals at this, most have to learn. Raising money is no different. Some people understand...
Entrepreneurship
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
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
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Mark Watkins - General Manager, Telenav
Twitter recently launched a social music discovery site, music.twitter.com. It’s pretty interesting. There have been a variety of music discovery...
Innovation
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
Friday, April 12, 2013 Scott Johnson - Managing Partner, New Atlantic Ventures
Being CEO of a startup is quite similar to being the parent of a newborn.  The neighbors see a clean cooing newborn with smiling proud parents.  But we all know what goes on...
Expert Advice