We’ve been witnessing an institutionalizing of angel investing in recent years.  For the most part, it’s good. There continues to be a gap in the market for stage appropriate seed investors, especially in the East Coast.  But it’s interesting to […]

I was at a dinner last night with folks from local angel groups and other seed stage investors in Boston. There were a few jokes about how “this isn’t Angelgate”.  But honestly, no one would ever mistake it for that […]

What do Admob, CafePress, Aardvark, Polyvore, and Xoopit have in common?  If you said that they were all backed by great VC’s like Sequoia, August, Benchmark, and Accel, you would be correct.  But did you know that they are also […]

I’ve often heard that there is a shortage of seed-stage investment capital in the Boston area, especially in the consumer realm.  Nabeel Hyatt, founder of Conduit Labs put it pretty succinctly: “This is in IMHO *the* biggest impediment to a […]