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10+ Years @ Recorded Future

After 10+ years on the BOD @ Recorded Future I’m thrilled to be handing off my BOD seat to Niloofar Howe. Niloofar is truly an amazing leader in cyber security and a fantastic addition to the Recorded Future BOD. Link here to a great Q&A between Christopher, Niloofar & Theresa Shea.

I am grateful to everyone on the team @ Recorded Future for including me on their amazing journey building the…

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BOD Compensation @ Startups

I get lots of questions about compensation for BOD members @ startups. I can’t say it much better than Brad Feld in this post. A few additional thoughts:

Your BOD works for the company.First time entrepreneurs are sometimes at risk of thinking of the BOD as their boss – imho the best early stage BODs do not function that way. The best BOD members are responsible for holding the CEO/Founders…

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Team Palmer

I was truly moved by this article in Wired last week. As anyone who knows me well will tell you – I think of start-ups as a team sport and my most important teammate is, and will always be, my wife Amy.

From day one Amy encouraged my irrational entrepreneurial interests. When I graduated from Tuck, we had a 1 year old daughter, a pile of debt and a pullout couch that we’d been sleeping on.…

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Carta is a "no brainer" for equity & fund management.

Carta is a “no brainer” for equity & fund management.

If you are running an early stage company or if you are an employee at an early stage company or a seed fund – I strongly recommend that you have your CFO/Admin folks adopt Carta for equity and/or fund management.

I wrote a blog post about why Carta is so important a few years ago – link is here. Carta was previously called eShares.

I use Carta myself @ Tamr, more than half of the companies @ Koa

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#proud

Last week I received this email from my friend Rana El Kaliouby – the Co-Founder/CEO at Affectiva :

“Dear Andy,

I just hosted a dinner for female founders, CEOs and investors, which was awesome!

Half way through our conversation, we noticed that many of us had at least one thing in common: YOU!

You have supported, championed, invested in, advised, and connected many of us.

The world needs many…

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Christopher Ahlberg : Old Man Over the past 30 years, I've had a chance to work with some amazing entrepreneurs - many of whom have become great friends.

Taming Procurement Data Chaos: A Case Study From Societe Generale

Spend visibility is a foundational need for procurement organizations, but many enterprises struggle to gain this visibility and keep it up-to-date. The notoriously messy nature of spend data and inability of legacy, rules-based technologies to keep up with the pace of business has made solving this problem a thorn in the side of many Chief Procurement Officers.

Societe Generale, a leading…

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Most entrepreneurs (including myself) are not in their '20s....

Most entrepreneurs (including myself) are not in their ’20s….

A post by Meredith Somers @ MIT last week here caused me to think about my own entrepreneurial journey. I had entrepreneurial tendencies early in my career – always trying to emulate my grandfather (reference here) – however I didn’t “co-found” a significant company myself until I was in my 30’s.

I love to back smart young high risk/return folks straight out of college (or even younger). Over…

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Patent Troll Reform Vetoed by Governor Baker - onto next legislative session...

Patent Troll Reform Vetoed by Governor Baker – onto next legislative session…

As many of you know by now, Governor Baker vetoed the legislation – bill S.2622 – that would have ensured state protection in MA against patent trolls. The bill had passed both the House and the Senate.

While I am very disappointed by the Governor’s decision, and believe it was unfairly influenced by the lobbying of large companies that found the legislation to be mildly inconvenient, we are not…

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Another step closer to patent troll reform

Thanks to all who have supported S.2622. Late last night the Mass Legislature passed the anti-troll legislation as part of the Economic Development Bill! Thanks to Senator Eric Lesser for his amazing work shepherding this bill through the legislative process. This is a very significant milestone. If Governor Baker doesn’t veto – this could happen.

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Patent Troll Reform - next steps after Senate victory this past week

Patent Troll Reform – next steps after Senate victory this past week

Thanks to everyone who provided their support last week regarding the Patent Troll reform legislation that is working its way through Beacon Hill. We have good news to report! The bill S.2622passed in the Senate, and now the focus is on the House of Representatives. emails and phone calls will be effective in helping to reinforce the importance of this bill for the long term economic health of…

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Call to action : time to fix the patent troll problem

This 2016 open letter was a call to action to fight patent trolls in Massachusetts and protect our innovative companies. The best people in the startup ecosystem in Boston are supportive. Senator Eric Lesser has provided leadership to get a new bill passed. The bill S.2622 is being debated on Beacon Hill this morning and has a strong chance of passing with the right support. A refresher on the…

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Congrats to the team @ PillPack

I’m thrilled for my friends TJ and Elliot at PillPack on their announcement today with Amazon.

From the moment I met TJ and Elliot back in 2013 – I believed that if anyone was going to reinvent pharmacy it was going to be these two amazing entrepreneurs. As one of the very first PillPack customers – I’ve believed from day one that PillPack is the future of pharmacy.

It was an honor to have the…

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Maxwell Health acquired by Sun Life Financial

Congrats to Veer, Vinay and the entire team at Maxwell Health on their acquisition by Sun Life.

https://www.xconomy.com/boston/2018/06/04/sun-life-financial-buys-maxwell-health-to-ease-insuring-buying/

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More stuff from the spring cleaning…great memories from early days of XML and RESTful services.

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Bowstreet…More stuff from the archive More stuff from the spring cleaning...great memories from early days of XML and RESTful services.

Going through my old files/spring cleaning and turned up a bunch of old Trilogy/pcOrder.com stuff. Thought that Trilogy/pcOrder alums would get a kick out of these.

pcOrder goes public

Forbes Article – 1

Forbes Article – 2

Forbes Article – 3

Forbes Article 4 – Christy and Carl

Forbes Article 5

SalesBuilder Brochure

ComputerWorld

HP

The other Forbes article

from the files : Trilogy/pcOder Going through my old files/spring cleaning and turned up a bunch of old Trilogy/pcOrder.com stuff. Thought that Trilogy/pcOrder alums would get a kick out of these.

#Austin #Forbes #HP #IBM #pcOrder #Trilogy

Great post on Software IPOs

Fantastic post here from Alex Oppenheimer on software IPO’s over the past decade. Amazing how quickly our industry changes and how companies that looked dominant 10 years ago have had to change dramatically or risk being left in the dust.

View story at Medium.com

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