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Top 5 VC Mentors and Early-Stage Investors in Boston [Study] | BostInno

http://bostinno.com/channels/top-5-vc-mentors-and-early-stage-investors-in-boston-study/ Over the last 3 months, numerous entrepreneurs building early-stage startups or applying for the TechStars Boston 2012 program, and a few who are new to Boston have reached out to me to get my feedback on the Boston VC community. More often than not, when an entrepreneur asks me about the “best” this or that, I get the sense that she is asking me about who is likely to invest in her early stage startup. I try really hard to give an unbiased opinion on the VC ecosystem in Boston, derived from a combination of my personal experience and anecdotes from other early-stage entrepreneurs. Furthermore, apart from talking about how different Boston VCs invest in early-stage companies, I also try to impress on the entrepreneur that some of the VCs are truly generous with their time, advice and introductions through their network; i.e. – they make an amazing effort to be great mentors!
http://www.growvc.com/blog/2011/02/future-of-angel-investing-%e2%80%93-trend-predictions-the-inevitable/

Future Of Angel Investing – Trends Predictions & The Inevitable | Grow VC > Blog

The entire landscape of early stage startups, funding and investments is in a state of change right now, affected by many different factors and events that have kick-started this evolution. Innovative startup ideas and talented entrepreneurs pop up from different parts of the globe and no longer flock to just one single location. Technology has evolved bringing down the initial costs of starting up a new venture. The amount of seed funding needed by entrepreneurs to launch an idea and get it rolling is in the range more investors can consider and more. Needless to say, the future of angel investing is changing and quickly!
http://cdixon.org/2011/06/09/notes-on-raising-seed-financing/

chris dixon's blog / Notes on raising seed financing

Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how to raise a seed round. After a long day I wasn’t particularly looking forward to it, but it turned out to be a lot of fun and I stayed well past the scheduled end time. I think it worked well because the audience was full of people actually starting companies, and they came well prepared (they were all avid readers of tech blogs and had seemed to have done a lot of research). I sketched some notes for the class which I’m posting below.
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http://www.scoop.it/t/vc-and-it/p/303313/introducing-the-2010-venture-capital-100-alwayson

Introducing the 2010 Venture Capital 100 | AlwaysOn | VC and IT | Scoop.it

Life inside successful Web startups—especially the really successful ones—can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders. Venture capitalist Peter Fenton calls this phenomenon “the violence of a startup.” And nowhere has the violence been fiercer, or more public, than at a company Fenton invested in and has helped to guide: Twitter.