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Dave McClure on growth hacking your way through the Series A crunch 11 Jul 2013 | 08:32 pm
Dave McClure's new talk at Startup Festival in Montreal (#startupfest) slaps entrepreneurs across the face with the dire need for doing more marketing early to survive the funding drought ... a.k.a. g...
There are no shortcuts to intelligent Founder – CEO transitions 27 Jun 2013 | 08:54 pm
Founder transition is one of those tense topics that holds limited upside for the writer, especially when said individual is a venture capitalist. However it's also very often one of the defining mom...
Backing CustomMade, the marketplace for one-of-a-kind goods 11 Jun 2013 | 05:50 pm
The first investment out of our new fund IX will bring me back to some well trodden stomping ground, and specifically the world of marketplaces, as Atlas Venture leads the new round of financing for ...
Shame on France : the Yahoo – DailyMotion debacle 7 May 2013 | 04:30 pm
I was on the board of DailyMotion for many years, starting with the first round of financing in 2006 and ending with my resignation off the board in January 2013. We made many mistakes along the way...
Men on Mars : The Reinvention of Atlas Venture 1 May 2013 | 07:31 pm
I joined Atlas Venture 9 years ago. At the time we had 5 offices, 22 partners, 7 board rooms, a team of over 60, over two billion in assets managed. And boy, were we making life difficult for oursel...
Zombie VCs Take II – How to Spot an Active Firm 7 Apr 2013 | 05:29 pm
An entrepreneur called Danielle Morrill just kicked up a bit of a shitstorm with a nicely titled "Zombie VC" post. It's a nice pendant to her recent Zombie Startups post in which she deals with her ...
Boston VC community breaks with killjoy roots, will actually party 8 Mar 2013 | 04:28 am
In a striking development from a long legacy of discretion and backhanded compliments, the New England VC community has decided to award itself a bunch of awards and actually, possibly, have some fun....
LunchBeat Boston #1 6 Mar 2013 | 11:43 pm
We're all heads down building our startups and sometimes we forget to have fun. No more. Edition 1 of LunchBeat Boston got 150 odd people dancing at the HackReduce space, and with that massive endo...
Timbre App: how an odd investment process yields a promising partnership 9 Feb 2013 | 12:48 am
I had the funny / dubious distinction of being a headline item today as Techcrunch announced the funding of concert discovery app Timbre. Timbre is a simple and beautiful app to help you discover gr...
Ecommerce is a slog — what’s your angle ? 3 Feb 2013 | 06:30 pm
There a bold piece by Marc Andreessen in PandoDaily announcing the "death of retail". As an extension to the theme of "software will eat the world" it's smart statement of intent for a firm that want...
