Can you feel it? There's a real buzz in the air coming together around some of the amazing things happening in the Boston startup scene these days. We've had a lot of cool things happening over the last year or so, but now there's just an incredible amount that seems to be all happening in a short amount of time.  To put it in perspective, here's 6 Reasons to Be Excited About Boston this Spring.

No man is an island, and neither is a startup. If you've taken up the task of starting up a company, then you should absolutely be seeking out others to solicit help and feedback from.  Often this leads to the recruitment of advisors and thus the formation of an advisory board and the building of that infamous page on every website with famous or important people from your industry listed as company advisors. 

When you're first starting out, thinking about how you're going to get advisors can be intimidating and overwhelming.  It's always better when you Keep It Simple, so I'd like to show you why this isn't as hard as you think and you should think broader than a few advisors.

Much has been said and written on the topic that you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with (there's over 20 million results on that Google search!?!).  When thinking about startups, that lesson must not be forgotten and may explain why some startups stall and fail.  Sometimes, getting caught up in all the startup noise you may forget this, so I'd like to explore this concept. 

 Yesterday's Momentum Summit was one of the best events I've been to in quite some time. The interview format of the main part of the event seemed to work quite well as great lessons and takeaways emerged from the entrepreneur asks entrepreneur format.  (We liveblogged notes you can find here).  However, as great as that was, the most important part in my opinion were the lunches.

During the lunch portion, groups of 8-12 startupers huddled around tables to talk to successful founders about topics of the founder's choosing. Some of those topics included David Cancel of Performable discussing the importance of A/B testing, Antonio Rodriguez of Matrix Partners discussing VC funding and at the table I sat at, Matt Douglas of myPunchbowl discussing "Startup-Deals That Build Momentum". (for a complete list of lunch topics see here).