Startup Marketing ABCs
June 9, 2010
The following is a guest post from Mike Volpe, the VP of Marketing at HubSpot, who has helped grow our marketing software company from a handful of customers to nearly 3,000 customers…
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Get Help Starting Up: Win A Free Scholarship To StartupToDo
May 19, 2010
I've run three startups, and every time it felt more like stumbling around in the dark than confidently striding along a path.  Most everyone I meet feels the same way. It's worse the…
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Startup Financing: Questions and Answers From A Recent MIT Panel
April 13, 2007
This past week, I was on a panel discussion at MIT on the topic of raising funding for an early stage startup.   Also on the panel was Michael Greeley from IDG Ventures.  Michael was…
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Why Not All Great Hackepreneurs Get Picked By Y Combinator
April 5, 2007
This week (Monday, April 2nd) was the deadline for startup founders to apply to be selected for the upcoming batch of startup companies to join Paul Graham's Y Combinator group.  If…
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4 Quick Tips on Raising Startup Funding Without A Plan Or A PowerPoint
March 14, 2007
Before we get too deep into this, let me clarify two things.  When I say without a “plan”, I mean without a formally written business plan – not that you should be clueless about what…
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5 Quick Pointers On Startup Hiring
March 9, 2007
I’ve been in the startup business for a pretty long time now.  One of the things that I’ve found hardest to do is find and recruit exceptionally talented individuals.  This is not…
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Massachusetts Ranked #1: Perhaps Entrepreneurs Can Stay East After All
March 1, 2007
A little while I ago, I wrote an article on this blog titled “Go West, Young Entrepreneur!  Is The Valley Better For Software Startups?”.    Now, I’ve come across some new information…
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VC Valuations Are On The Rise: Is Your Startup Worth More?
February 21, 2007
News was released today by VentureOne (owned by Dow Jones), which tracks venture investment data.  Venture-backed companies are now getting pre-money valuations (pre-money means the…
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Startup Founders: The Involved vs. The Committed
February 19, 2007
I’m going to refrain from starting this off with the story about the chicken and the pig (there’s something about the former being involved and the latter being committed).  I’m…
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Why "Me Too" Startups Are Not Always A Mistake
February 7, 2007
The “me too” label has been applied to a past when a company enters a crowded market of highly visible competitors.  Examples abound, such as the remote storage category, RSS readers,…
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Can Baseball Strategy Help Your Startup Hire Better?
February 6, 2007
For those of you that are regular readers, you may know that in addition to this blog, I also co-author http://www.smallbusinesshub.com with Brian Halligan. Brian has a very…
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