I once worked with a first-time CEO who needed to hire a VP of sales. He wanted to take charge of the hiring process—then I learned he was preparing b…
Company Culture & Market Trends
Insights related to fostering innovative cultures, scaling teams and organizations, and other trends affecting entrepreneurs and investors.
What’s In, What’s Out, and What Never Left? Fortune 1000 Execs Talk Tech Trends at the Battery Executive Innovation Retreat
To kick off the new year, Battery and its partner Silicon Valley Bank hosted roughly 25 top technology executives at a two-day Innovation Summit in Na…
“Anecdata” – What’s Really Driving VC Investment Decisions
If you’re a venture investor, you do a lot of diligence work to ferret out promising companies. No doubt you look at lots of data to judge these poten…
Landing The Right Hire: When It’s Time To Walk Away
The job market is hotter than ever. Unemployment is hovering at 3.9%, the lowest level in 18 years, plus the economy is enjoying its longest-ever stre…
Building Lasting Value at the Battery Ventures Leadership Summit
CEOs across the tech industry are always striving to build solid, valuable companies. But how do you build an organization with truly lasting value—ov…
Getting from Seed to Series A: Insider Tips from Tech’s Top Early-Stage Funders
What are the secrets to raising a Series A round, if you’re a seed-stage company, in today’s fast-paced but still discerning market? In this podcast—t…
“Hopping the Pond” with Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix
Derek Roos moved his software company Mendix* from the Netherlands to Boston in early 2012, hoping to kick-start the new market for “low-code” applica…
Let Immigrants Innovate—in the U.S.
Three years ago I wrote here about a landmark, but little-understood, piece of U.S. legislation: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. This new…
Innovation in the Oil Patch: Thoughts on Digital Transformation from BP
On a recent visit to Battery Ventures’ Boston office, BP’s Bob Flint sat down with me for a conversation on emerging technology. This is a space that …
Lessons in “Hopping the Pond” from Collibra’s Felix Van de Maele
Collibra*, a data-governance and catalog software company that helps organizations gain competitive advantage by maximizing the value of their data, w…