At Startup Boston Week, one panel challenged a piece of startup folklore that refuses to die: that the best startups are simple ones. Moderated by Suvojit Ghosh , Founder and CEO of FYELABS, Inventing the Future: Building Startups with Technically Complex Products  brought together founders who are building far beyond apps, dashboards, and lightweight software tools. Instead, they’re tackling problems rooted in healthcare, human dignity, animal health, and behavioral science

If you’re building a Seed or Series A SaaS company, your board doesn’t want a wall of numbers. They want five crisp signals that show your growth engine, your path to profitability, and your runway to keep going. The trick is not to collect more data points. It’s to ruthlessly pick the right few, define them once, and manage them every single week (at least every month). And in periods when you fall short of any of your key target thresholds, gather the data to understand why

January in Boston doesn’t ease you into the year - it hits the ground running. From deep tech and AI to founder support, community building, and capital connection, the first month of the year is packed with events worth putting on your radar if you’re building, backing, or supporting startups in Greater Boston. Startup Boston is anchoring the month with four community-powered experiences: Mentor Matching for Early-Stage Founders (Jan 12)  - An intimate, mentor-driven session

When a startup survives nearly two decades, you pay attention to how.  That was the energy in the room during Startup Boston Week’s session Market-Proof Your Startup: Thriving Through Shifts and Trends .  The conversation paired David Chang , founding member of TBD Angels , with Chris Savage , co-founder and CEO of Wistia , a Boston-born company known for raising venture capital, and then purchasing the startup back from investors to scale independently. Savage and Chang unpa

“If only I had time to pause and reflect”  responded a collaborator to the idea of a reflection & goal-setting activity around the upcoming New Year. And honestly, that reaction is common. When we’re moving fast, reflection is often the first thing to slip off the calendar. But what happens when we don’t take the time to reflect on what’s working and what isn’t? We stick with unhelpful habits. We allow interpersonal friction to build and fester. And we miss out on opportuniti

If you had asked me two years ago whether I’d be building an AI startup focused on IRB and research compliance, I would’ve probably laughed. Like many founders, I didn’t intentionally walk into this space. I simply kept running into the exact same pain point over and over again - and eventually, the problem became too loud to ignore. I spent years in academic and medical research across Harvard Medical School, MGH, Mount Sinai, and Northwell Health. No matter the institution

Securing pre-seed funding as a first-time founder is about far more than having a great idea, it’s about telling a story investors believe in, selling a vision for what’s possible, and proving you’re the one to build it. Before traction, before revenue, and often before a finished product, founders must learn how to communicate clarity, confidence, and potential in a way that cuts through the noise. Recorded live at Startup Boston Week 2025, this session breaks down how to cr

Launching a startup means making dozens of decisions with limited time, money, and knowledge. Few decisions feel as high-stakes as the legal ones. How should you form the business? Who should own what? What if you’re still working a full-time job while building your idea on nights and weekends? At Startup Boston Week 2025, Touchstone Strategic Law’s managing partners Michael Perez and Elizabeth Norman  pulled back the curtain on the legal choices that define a company’s found

A founder’s calendar can quickly become a graveyard of “great intentions.” You start the year energized by ambitious goals, but the day-to-day reality of investor meetings, customer fires, and operational demands can pull you in every direction except forward. During our recent panel on designing a founder schedule  for the year ahead, six practical frameworks surfaced as the tools founders actually rely on to stay focused, accountable and resilient. If you’re ready to trade