5 questions every startup needs to answer
Before I start laying out my vital five questions, I have a couple of disclosures. These questions although straight forward are not fully answered in many of the businesses that I am working with...
View ArticleBending iron in a facebook world
I like software companies. I really do. In fact, I sit on the board of a software company, consult to another, advise a couple more and I am in the early stages of building a web based business. Super...
View ArticleBubblicious – Warning, Entrepreneurs! Social media valuation bubble distorts...
Color raises $41M in a series A round with no revenue. Twitter is valued at $7.7B with $45M revenue (171 times revenue) in 2010. Facebook is now valued at $65B up 30% over 6 weeks relative to the...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Entrepreneurs Group Boston Early Stage Funding Breakfast
As a proud member of the Boston Carnegie Mellon Entrepreneurial Group, I helped organize and present at a panel session last week at TechStars/Dogpatch Labs in Cambridge. We had a great diversity of...
View ArticleWhat will the fall of 2011 look like for entrepreneurs?
It is that time of the year again — the dog days of August when I wax poetic about the prospects for start-up companies in the coming months. This post is a follow-on to my Summer time or is business...
View ArticleBefore You Start a Business, Plan Your Exit
Not usually the first thing you think of when starting a company, but where you want to end up impacts everything you do. I sit on the board of ChatThreads, where we are in the process of raising an...
View Article10 Reasons why Boston was a great start-up town in 2011 – Looking forward to...
In alphabetical order: Artisan's Asylum – now with 31,000 square feet on the Somerville/Cambridge line, wood shop, welding shop, machine shop, lots of how-to classes and a great mix of artists,...
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