June 2010
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Betahouse is Expanding (Hopefully)!
Founded in April 2007, Betahouse is Boston’s longest running coworking space. We value community first, and our community consists of early stage startups, entrepreneurs, developers, designers and other creative types working in or around technology. But really, anyone who’s awesome and would add something to the space is welcome. We’ve had DIY biologists, food and culture...
Angel Boot Camp Roundup
(See below for links to photos, slides and video of the event)
When I started planning Angel Boot Camp a couple months ago, I had a hunch there were a lot of people in Boston with the means and inclination to do angel investing. They just didn’t know whether it was right for them, how to be successful at it, or how to get started. If we could only connect them with the people who are...
April 2010
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Elliott Smith - Waterloo Sunset (Ray Davies...
The Wave Pictures - Strange Fruit for David
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David Bazan - Flirted With You All My Life (Vic...
Boston's Best Angel Investors
In the run up to Angel Boot Camp, I thought it’d be interesting to do a poll on who are the best angel investors in and around Boston. While the results are hardly scientific, I do think this list maps pretty well to reality, and if just one entrepreneur benefits from it, I’ll be happy.
So by popular vote, here are Boston’s best angels, roughly in order of the number of votes...
Angel Boot Camp
Assuming you buy the premise that Boston needs more seed capital, what can we do about it? Well, aside from encouraging our venture capital friends to create new funds aimed at seed stage investments, which some have done (e.g. Start@Spark), maybe we can grow the angel investor community. After all, Boston is certainly not short on wealthy individuals, including many who made their wealth as high...
Boston Needs More Seed Capital
All things considered, Boston’s a pretty great place to do a startup. Its concentration of world class schools pretty much assures us of that. But every day I hear from entrepreneurs frustrated in their efforts to find seed capital here. Now, it’s fair to ask whether that’s more a reflection of Boston being short on seed capital or good startups. The answer, of course, is both....