Venture capitalists -- Boston's lure for start-ups
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Boston isn't the cheapest place to do business. Living and housing costs are steep. And you can't play golf year round.
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THE POWER of Massachusetts as an incubator of new ideas is what is propelling us toward future prosperity. Whenever Massachusetts brings together human talent, innovation, and capital, it creates economic value that is world class. This is the aim of Governor Deval Patrick's $1.25 billion initiative for the biotech industry with its 500 companies and institutions already at work here.
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Initial public offerings of stock are starting to look like an attractive exit strategy for startups, after a lull of three years. In an echo of the dot-com bubble, some companies are even going public before becoming profitable.
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Massachusetts public officials should reach out to out-of-state companies that take over Massachusetts firms and encourage them to grow here, state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill said yesterday as he launched a business task force to look for ways to bring more jobs to Massachusetts.
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Technology giants are increasingly deciding that venture investing is not for them and not just because of the financial risk involved.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area, the world's technology hub, is starting to buzz again for the first time since the dot-com bust. The Valley's infamous start-up community is coming back, thanks to start-ups like digital media firm Dabble and its contemporaries.
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Boston University is touting a new business and technology incubator that offers free space to entrepreneurs -- as long as they agree to offer lectures about their innovations to students at the school.
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A growing number of Google millionaires are hoping to parlay their newfound wealth into even greater riches by bankrolling technology start-ups.
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Entrepreneurs visiting a venture capitalist to ask for money sometimes feel like kids asking Dad for an allowance. Ordinarily, they're not in the power position.
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Green tech financiers share tips for spotting sustainable startups.
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It's a benefit to the investors (and, by the way, to the companies seeking venture capital) to have VC Fund performance out in the open (''State discloses venture results,&quot; Aug. 25).
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Business & money: Bonanza for founders as hedge fund GLG Partners unveils plans to float on New York stock market.
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Massachusetts remains a magnet for research funds and venture capital, but it's become an underperformer in job creation.
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A joint biotechnology research venture by two Dutch companies is further underscoring the appeal of the Boston life-science cluster to out-of-state firms, and creating an even tighter real estate market in Cambridge's Kendall Square.
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Green tech financiers share tips for spotting sustainable start-ups.
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Want funding? Want to help decide which startups should get funding? An online game gives you a shot at both, with startups competing for popular votes in an elimination-style tournament that's worth $15,000 plus some office space in Boston.
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Venture capitalists have a pressing new question for high-tech entrepreneurs who come looking for money: What's your India plan?