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5 Tips for a Silicon Valley Fundraising Trip
I took my first trip to San Francisco as an entrepreneur in July, and I wish I’d gone to visit the west coast a lot sooner. If you are a Boston area first-time entrepreneur
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The $100k Taxi Ride
Landing your first “professional” investor usually doesn’t start with Twitter and a #pitchvctaxi hashtag. Of course, most investors aren’t quite as accessible, or as crazy, as Dave McClure. At 9:15 AM on September 1st,
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The Boomerang for Gmail Launch: 0-70,000 Downloads in 30 Days
We launched Boomerang for Gmail on Wednesday, August 11 at 10:30 PM. After 30 days, we went from a total of 55 downloads to over 70,000. Here’s what happened and some of the lessons
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Thoughts from Enterprise 2.0 Boston 2010
Baydin participated in the Enterprise 2.0 LaunchPad this year, announcing availability of our email-based automatic knowledge discovery tool, Unsearch. I felt like we were preaching to the choir, because the keynote speakers who talked
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The search for a high-quality Windows to do list
We’re looking to find a suitable to do list application from Windows. It would be great to have something as elegant looking as Things for the Mac that syncs with the cloud, runs on
Read More »Procrastination is like Cholesterol
Image via Wikipedia It’s already 11 AM, and you’re staring into the monitor with your eyes glazed over. There are still 21 messages in your inbox, and none of them are compelling. So instead,
Read More »Improve productivity with a Stickk commitment contract
Image via CrunchBase We previously talked about a great way to measure how productively we’re working using a utility called RescueTime. But even when we know how effectively we’re working and have formulated a
Read More »A few thoughts on serendipity
Sunday’s New York Times included a column under their Ping business technology section that made a pretty convincing argument that the web and mobile technology are stamping out serendipity. Instead, they argued, the opportunity
Read More »Knowledge is Half the Battle
Shaving is not something I usually think about. Every so often, I would end up clogging the razor and eventually cutting my face. After running into my friend Holly who is a brand manager
Read More »3 Things I Learned at Enterprise 2.0
Selling into the Enterprise is still a big business. I attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston this week. Besides the excellent booze and hors devours (I consider all free booze excellent) I came
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