YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boston University Business Incubation. At Boston University, there’s an incredible array on business incubation opportunities. Participants can even take advantage of networking opportunities, discounted legal and accounting guidance, guidance from NYU-Poly faculty, and office hours with well-known entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

With a humongous 75,000-square-foot space in SoHo, WeWork bills itself as “the physical social network,” a place where people can get connected and work live and in person. WorkBar in Boston encourages members to “rethink the workplace,” bringing together the “professionalism of an office, flexibility of a gym, and the comfort of a cafe.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

If you need venture capital, maybe you need to spend more time in Silicon Valley or Boston. Status: network, connections, and personal brand. Location and luck: right place at the right time. I’m a proponent of the old adage that you make your own luck in business. From that point forward, results and creativity are the drivers.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. The city I call home, Boston, is not known for its social products. And most notably absent is building a network. 1 Hacker Way.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2012

If you’re like most professionals, you’ll have far less connections on this online network compared to Facebook , but those second- and even third-degree links suddenly look a lot more useful. It’s not about the number of connections that you have, but the true power of your network is the utility that you derive from it.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US. Can’t wait for the next part. Read More ».

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2019

Image via Wikipedia From the advice I hear these days, if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be in Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, or one of the few other financial hubs around the world. What does that mean for the rest of us, who reside or grew up in the thousands of small towns that cover most of the landscape?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

. Aren’t some of the recent successes in Los Angeles just emblematic of the overall long tech boom we’ve seen nationally and has led to growth in funding in NY, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco? To some extent – of course they are. But this time there really is something happening in LA. It is different. More substantive.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kayak is great Boston-area success story. While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. Lots to learn from him. they have purchasing intent ).*.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

As part of this, TechStars announced the TechStars Network , an affiliation of TechStars-like programs across the country along with our commitment to the Startup America Partnership to help 5000 experienced mentors work with 6000 entrepreneurs to create 25,000 new jobs by 2015.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

Today Silicon Valley, New York and Boston, are magnets for entrepreneurs in the U.S. Or is it something about those locations (network effect, risk capital, nurturing network) that makes entrepreneurs in other parts of the country start small businesses or even spend their lives in a 9 to 5 job?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

brevsin : CEO of CampusLive.com Boris Revsin discusses the startup life and his love for Boston. brian_wong : Follow Brian Wong, founder and CEO of Kipp, a rewards network for virtual achievements. skaritt : Social media junkie and CEO of FlockMarketing.com tweets all about marketing through social networking. Media & Art.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Social networking meets online personal health management. One was at Yale and the other at Boston College. When I ran the London Marathon I did this by raising money for Parkinson’s disease. Once I took $3,000 I had a bunch of people to monitor me and felt compelled to follow through. But wait, there’s more !

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

As we know, this space is a very competitive one; Fetch Plus differentiates itself from the rest by targeting companies with holdings, focusing on developing tools necessary for these companies’ holdings to efficiently and effectively build and scale their social media footprint through different networks for engaging fans.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team. You have an edge in the highly competitive world of early stage investing that comes from some combination of your experience, industry knowledge, and personal network. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You are a native of NYC tech with a strong network. You know the ecosystem and have a network that is additive to the rest of the team. You will spend 60-80% of your time helping identify new investment opportunities and expand NextView’s network and presence in NYC (and beyond). Who Are We Looking For.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The Difference Between Apple & Facebook.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Its focus on collaboration and networking will introduce you to other founders who have been at the same stage in their business journey that you’re at now. Boston, USA Oct 1st – 3rd, 2018. Boston, USA. Boston, USA. SaaStock 2018.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

They typically met once or twice in person with the team, help them network outside the building, answer emails, provide critiques, etc. Actually I made up my mind just on my plane to my final round of interview with the Boston Consulting Group. I wrote a handbook for the mentors to explain their roles ( here.).

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Old assumptions about geography are increasingly being challenged – with huge consumer wins emerging in Boston (CarGurus, Wayfair, Simplisafe, Pillpack), great B2B companies emerging in NY (Flatiron Health, Mongo, Datadog, etc), and unicorns emerging in smaller tech markets and overseas. .

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

My head is still spinning from the past 3 days, which have been incredibly packed with events, information and networking. network and meet new people. Naval – There’s more networkers in the system than builders. Rick – I’m a Boston-based VC. In your case, come to Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Gabe, Jamie and the Grove team have grown to 18 people since we backed them and they delivered their first beta product to 50 Boston Early Adopters last spring to raving reviews. But it will take time. Yet it can be personal, low-cost and ubiquitous. We have to imagine our future world to make it happen.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Back in June, the local Boston tech community together celebrated the ten year anniversary of the Web Innovators Group, affectionately known as “WebInno.” Accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces have proliferated in Cambridge and Boston. The post Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG appeared first on GenuineVC.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. Built in Boston.). Built in Boston.). Built in Boston.). Built in Boston.). Built in Boston.). Look for Tenacity. Is Impact or Income Their Motivator?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the first stage the Outpost focusses on networking and partnering in the Innovation Cluster in which it is based (i.e. Silicon Valley, Boston). Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. In addition to getting plugged into the ecosystem’s network, the first role of the Outpost is to partner.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Baptiste , a new writer at OnStartups and local Boston entrepreneur. It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals. APIs provide a way to “federate&# web services from a single website to a distributed network of 3rd party sites. My firm is SKMurphy.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Two years ago Jeff Bussgang lamented about “Lost Generation” of entrepreneurs which I think is especially acute here in Boston. I was in my early 20’s just barely out of school when four of us (peers) started Sombasa Media (aka BargainDog ) here in Boston beginning in 1998. My own personal story fits in with this narrative.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. We don’t have a ‘Paypal’ mafia, a Netscape brethren or an equivalent strong network in tech.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Network for Good, Global Giving, Mission Fish (behind ebay’s GivingWorks). We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley. The best affinity networks are alumni networks (besides religion). Goal: tap into power of developers to solve community problems. Give to the Max” days. Promoting innovation. There are 1.4m-1.6m

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Genuine VC

JUNE 6, 2012

Yet VC’s also seem to have this habit of inviting to people (entrepreneurs and others in their network) to their office for “coffee.” But the “coffee” designation is code that the conversation isn’t expected to be a pitch conversation, but rather a general networking one to connect more broadly. Either he’s in from out of town (e.g.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

From New York, Philadelphia, and Boston to Los Angeles and San Francisco, entrepreneurs came out to share their enthusiasm -- you really are everywhere. Don’t forget to tweet a photo of your book to see it on thestartupway.com Thank you, as always, for your support.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

It doesn’t have to be at a formal networking event. Allow time for people to network (half an hour usually works) and then welcome everyone and do your pitch. That likelihood goes down if you are not in Silicon Valley or Boston. They will typically ask a question about your business and the conversation begins!

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