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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
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 Elicia Basoli - Gaming Communications & PR Consultant
There once was a man named Jon, who dreamed of the day when social games would go beyond the continuous click-fest seen in many social games to feature more...
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
Thursday, April 25, 2013 Sarah Strauss - Senior Marketing & Relationship Manager, iProspect
NFL fans at iProspect and around the world are abuzz about the upcoming draft. There’s much speculation about which team will choose which player...
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
Thursday, April 18, 2013 Christine Fiske - Customer Acquisition & Online Marketing Expert
It’s Wednesday morning, my baby son’s first birthday. It’s a day and a half later, and the tragedy at the Marathon has started to sink in.  That Monday’s disaster hit close to...
Success Stories
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