Posts by Dharmesh Shah

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Why Raising VC Funding Does Not Equal Success

venture capital May 20, 2008

My startup, HubSpot (which provides online marketing for small business) recently released the news that it has closed a Series B round of VC funding of $12 million, bringing our…

Insanity? Why A Bootstrap Entrepreneur Raised $17 Million in Venture Funding

venture capital May 16, 2008

If you've been following OnStartups.com for any period of time, you likely know that I'm not a big advocate of startup founders going out and trying to raise venture funding in the…

Scalable Funding: Can Venture Capital Be More Like Amazon EC2?

venture capital May 12, 2008

I'm becoming an increasingly big fan of infrastructure services like Amazon's EC2 and S3. The reason is simple: You pay for what you need at around the time that you need it. This is…

7 Unlikely Sessions At Upcoming BarCamp Boston 3

I'm looking forward to BarCamp Boston coming up on May 17th and 18th. If you're in the Boston area, and reading this, you're probably just the type that should be attending. 1. How To…

Students and Startups: Notes From Talk at MIT Underground 2008

Speaking May 4, 2008

I did the opening presentation at MIT's Underground 2008 event yesterday for student entrepreneurs. My hat's off to Albert Park and his colleagues for organizing a great event. We…

How To Make It Hard For People To Find Your Startup Online

Ok, it's late (2:07 a.m. here in Boston), so please forgive my snarkiness. I'm going to presume that most startups would like to be found online by people (you know, like potential…

Student Entrepreneurs: Unite!

Speaking April 30, 2008

I'm going to be giving the keynote presentation at an upcoming event organized by and focused on student entrepreneurs being held on the MIT campus this Saturday (May 3, 2008) from…

Fred Wilson Is Cleaning Up His Blog And You Should Too

I'm a regular reader of Fred Wilson's blog. Fred posted an article today that he is planning to clean house on his blog. He will remove many (if not most) of the widgets that adorn…

Web 4.0 Is For Wankers: Stop The Madness!

Apologies in advance for using the term wanker. It's probably the most pejorative word I've ever used in an article title. I'm likely going to regret this someday, but it's been a…

Startup School: David Heinemeier Hansson vs. Everybody Else

ycombinator April 25, 2008

The following is a guest article by Philip Crissman. OnStartups partially sponsored Philip's trip to Startup School 2008 in exchange for sharing some of key lessions for those of us…

Startup School 2008: Key Takeaways

ycombinator April 22, 2008

The following is a guest article by Philip Crissman. OnStartups partially sponsored Philip's trip to Startup School (hosted by Y Combinator) in exchange for capturing some key…