Boston’s Growing Startup Landscape

Entrepreneurs often flock to Silicon Valley to start a company because of the number of venture capital firms and angel investors and the community’s appetite for new companies. But other cities across the world, including Stockholm, Portland, and Boston, are gaining a stronger startup reputation and increasing the number of startups and amount of VC funding.

Boston, in particular, has startup legs, and its growth has huge implications for investors, entrepreneurs, and salespeople.

Here's what it means for investors, entrepreneurs, and salespeople.

From Startup Investors

Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz digs into why if you want to build a successful company, your distribution strategy must be a function of your product and your target market in “Distribution”

Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures visualizes current SaaS funding trends and asserts that SaaS companies seeking venture capital will find plenty of it if they can convince investors of their story in “SaaS Fundraising In 2017”

Aaron Harris of Y Combinator believes what “founder friendly” does and doesn’t mean is important for all of us to understand and lists examples of both in “What Founder Friendly Actually Means”

Brad Feld of Foundry Group looks to break the notion of hiring people like everyone else in the company as a default to supporting the idea of culture in “Go For Culture Add, Not Culture Fit”

Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital encourages investors to find out how to support founders and give them the help and support they deserve vs. preaching about hard work in “Work Life Balance, Continued”

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From Startup Operators

Darius Contractor of Dropbox presents his framework for how user psychology has driven growth at companies like Bebo, Tickle, PhotoSugar and of course, Dropbox in “Psych’d: A New User Psychology Framework for Increasing Funnel Conversion”

Alan Doan of Mercato shares a chart that displays HR, management, and growth milestones and his own story of feeling worried about not knowing if he was on the right path in “You’re Right Where You’re Supposed To Be — Stages of a Company”

Joseph Walla of HelloSign announces closing a $16M Series B round and where they will invest the new funds in “HelloSign Raises $16 Million to Fuel Enterprise Growth”

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