By Rodney Brown
The local Twitterverse is all abuzz about a blog post on the website Popsignal, a discussion platform for Boston-area tech startups. The blog contains some very specific advice, opinions and – most importantly – names on the local startup financing scene.
The discussion started on Popsignal’s LinkedIn.com profile and includes posts from people such as Dharmesh Shah of Hubspot Inc., Rob Go of Spark Capital and Adam Marchick of Bain Capital Ventures, who got it all started with a post he titled, “Is Boston Short Angels, Or Good Companies?”
The startup funding experts posting on the thread come to some general conclusions after many handfuls of posts, some of which are: The total volume of tech startups is just too low; there are two funding gaps here, $25,000 to $50,000 and $250,000 to $750,000; there are many more factors than just tightly held angel money; and the problem is cyclical.
Marchick himself provides a very hefty list of people he would talk to at various stages of a startup’s growth path. Go of Spark weighs in with his own list and suggestions, and the whole thing should be required reading for any Boston-area tech startup or budding entrepreneur.
Posted by mlang
Tags: angel investors, Startups
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