At the Angel Bootcamp last week, Boston investors, aspiring investors, and entrepreneurs had a great opportunity to discuss how to improve the ecosystem for early-stage companies in Boston. One of the most powerful suggestions came from Jean Hammond, who said that we need to do a better job of mixing together investors and entrepreneurs.
 
We saw last week that there is no shortage of angel investors in Boston, and there definitely are plenty of entrepreneurs looking to connect with them. How can we make it so that more of these connections get made in Boston? Essentially, as Jean said, we need more startup parties. 
 
She’s right, but even more important, we need to make sure that the startup parties that we already have are helping the ecosystem. To do that, we need to work together to overcome the culture of secrecy that divides us, keeps us from meeting each other, and makes our startup culture weaker.