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Changes brewing at HubSpot’s ‘super-secret’ Labs group

Digital marketing company HubSpot is holding internal meetings this week to consider changes to its low-key, “super-secret R&D group,” HubSpot Labs. HubSpot Labs offers employees funding and time...

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VentureApp, with backing from Accomplice, wants to link founders with...

The founders of two local marketing and media startups, DailyBreak and Streetwise Media, have banded together on a new project called VentureApp. Their mission: helping streamline the process of...

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Is Fidelity finding the next Facebook or inflating the bubble?

A roster of today’s hottest startups would have to include Airbnb and Uber, which allow anyone to become a hotelier or chauffeur, and Pinterest, which lets you create virtual pinboards tied to topics...

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Restaurant tech startup Toast surpasses 100 employees, gets ready to move

There’s a scrum underway among startups that want to replace the clunky old cash register at restaurants, bars, and cafés. Companies like Square, Breadcrumb, and Cambridge-based Leaf have all been...

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Bar-focused software startup BevSpot knocks back $5.25 million in funding

Talk about seizing an opportunity: when Rory Crawford was a graduate student at Harvard Business School last spring, he set up a 30-minute videoconference with one of the school’s...

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French defense firm Thales plants innovation group in Cambridge

One more major multinational has set up shop in Kendall Square, seeking fruitful collaboration with the surrounding startup and academic communities. This time, it’s Paris-based Thales Group, an...

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What will be the next biotech breakthroughs?

It’s hard to imagine how things could possibly get better for the Cambridge life sciences cluster, save for an extended spell of money falling from the sky. Things are clicking for the brainiacs who...

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CarGurus consolidates in East Cambridge and looks to grow internationally

Here’s an intriguing question: If CarGurus, the Cambridge-based auto shopping site, had relied more heavily on venture capital funding, would we be talking about it as part of the small flock of...

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At new Chinese teahouse in Cambridge, oolong and venture capital will be on...

To the collection of collaborative workspaces with craft beer on tap, foosball in the games area, and conference rooms with quirky names, you can soon add InTeahouse. It will combine desks and...

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Designing the perfect app icon, a tiny square that means a whole lot

Once again, I found myself swiping left and then swiping right, searching on my phone for an app I knew I’d installed only a few weeks prior. But it was lost amid more familiar logos: The bright pink...

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TripAdvisor hopes lavish new headquarters in Needham will boost hiring

The travel site TripAdvisor made a key hire last October, and the individual wasn’t a coder, designer, or salesperson. The company brought on a veteran of the Ritz-Carlton and W Hotel chains, Matt...

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Synthetic biology startup Ginkgo Bioworks gets $45 million in new funding

Ginkgo Bioworks is announcing a major new funding round this week, led by Connecticut hedge fund Viking Global. The South Boston startup has raised $45 million, less than four months after announcing a...

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Cambridge company born in Internet’s ‘big bang’ has lasting impact

The summer of 1995 was a “big bang” moment for the Internet. Amazon.com switched on its servers two decades ago this month, and the founders of AuctionWeb — later renamed eBay — were busily preparing...

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Trevor Blackwell on the lessons of Viaweb, Cambridge e-commerce pioneer

As part of my latest column, on the ripple effects of the pioneering Cambridge startup Viaweb, I corresponded by e-mail with Viaweb co-founder Trevor Blackwell. Blackwell is now a partner at the...

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For employees of eClinicalWorks in Westborough, Indian lunch options abound

I try to fact-check each and every rumor related to Indian food that reaches me. So when someone mentioned in June that eClinicalWorks, an electronic medical records company in Westborough, had a...

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Momentum building for MassRobotics, planned robotics industry hub

Last October, I broke the news that several companies, research labs, and trade associations were working together to create a shared workspace for robotics businesses. Ten months later, things seem to...

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Big questions ahead for HubSpot after dismissal of top marketing executive

Boston’s most transparent tech company went all opaque on us yesterday. HubSpot, the publicly-traded maker of sales and marking software, tossed out a press release at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday announcing a...

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HubSpot CEO and CTO discuss firing of company’s ‘third founder’ over attempts...

Less than 24 hours after the Cambridge marketing firm HubSpot dropped a cryptic press release announcing that they had fired an executive for ethics lapses, HubSpot chief executive Brian Halligan said...

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Shaky start, but 3-D printing revolution underway

Michael Perrone was standing at a workbench next to one of the world’s most advanced 3-D printers, trying to figure out what was going wrong. The printer, not yet on the market, can produce small...

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Audio: Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs talk about funding realities in...

Sharing some audio and highlights from a panel I moderated back in June, featuring a mix of Boston founders and venture capitalists… The investor panelists were Rob Go of NextView, Jeff Bussgang of...

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