HubSpot For Startups

Boston is a builder city. Last night we got together with Andreessen Horowitz in Cambridge to talk about why. HubSpot Co-Founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah sat down with Jonathan Lai of Andreessen Horowitz for a fireside on building in Boston in the AI era. What stuck with us: San Francisco is a great place to start. Boston is a great place to scale. Talent here stays. Engineers don't churn out at year two for the next hot thing. They vest. They compound. They hold the system in their head. That shows up in years three through ten, and you can't shortcut it. The universe just hit the reset button on opportunity. Every business on the planet is going through an AI transition. Frontier models will chase the Fortune 1000. The middle is wide open. There hasn't been a more exciting time to build since the late 90s. Then a panel of founders building in Boston right now picked up the thread: Ashwin Gopinath, Sentra Philipp Wehn, Nexxa.ai Tejas Kulkarni, Common Sense Machines They talked about what it actually looks like to build here today. The advantages, the tradeoffs, how geography shapes a company in the post-AI era. Different stages, different markets, same conviction about where they're building. The room was full of founders, future founders, and the people building alongside them. Thanks to a16z and everyone who showed up. #BosTechWeek

When was the last time you left an event with a workflow you could actually deploy the next morning? That's the bar we set for this one. lemlist is joining forces with HubSpot For Startups, Clay and ElevenLabs for a hands-on GTM session in London. No slide decks, no theory. Just live builds and real workflows you can take back to your team. If you're in RevOps, growth, or running founder-led GTM, this is the room you want to be in. The kind of room where the person next to you is probably building something you'll wish you'd thought of first. Spots are limited - just DM me to grab one. Looking forward to building alongside our partners 💙 Conor Moynagh, Anna Gordon, Ferran Puig Gary Corcoran Ken Donald Laura Brady Valerio Bertino Natalie Sportelli

Heading to TECH WEEK by a16z (6/2–6/5)? HubSpot For Startups are excited to be hosting a Connection Hike around Central Park on Wednesday 6/3 with BusinessOutside We’ll be getting outside in nature and outside of the usual small talk, panels, and conference room energy. Founders, operators, investors, and builders connecting while moving through one of the best cities in the world. We did this a few months ago in Colorado during @Foundercon, and let’s just say… there were a lot of unexpected “ah-ha” moments along the way. Something shifts when you take people out of transactional environments and into movement, nature, and real conversation. So come prepared to be tested mentally, physically, and spiritually. 🏔️🚶♀️⚡ Big thanks to Micah Mador & Jason Woolf and everyone helping bring this together. If you’re around during the week, come join us Wednesday 6/3 at 9am. More info + RSVP: https://lnkd.in/g_8ERZF8 Feel free to share or tag anyone in NYC for Tech Week who’d enjoy a different kind of startup gathering. #NYCTechWeek #TechWeek #Startups #Founders #VC #NYCStartups #StartupCommunity #HubSpotForStartups #Networking #FounderCommunity #AIStartups #Builders #FutureOfWork

if you're building something cooOooOoooOool, i want to talk to you 🧡 i get to use HubSpot For Startups' platform to sing the songs of founders, revenue leaders, and impactful ICs who are doing cool shit my wish list: - founders building in secondary cities - folks who graduated from a state school or liberal arts college (or didn't do the college thing at all) - marketers and GTM leaders working with tiny budgets - anyone raising seed extension or series A - you 🧡 if you're at a startup and have a story you think is worth showcasing, send me a DM. if you know a startup and think their story is worth showcasing, tag 'em so i can make the first move. can't wait to talk!

The things startup teams will defend with their lives.

👉 Headed to Boston or New York TECH WEEK by a16z? Join HubSpot For Startups at both for a live game show where three seed-stage founders will answer real investor questions from an Andreessen Horowitz partner and make the case for their Series A backing. Expect: ✅ Unfiltered investor questions ✅ Live audience reactions ✅ Real-time insight into what actually stands out (and what doesn’t) ✅ Cocktails, bites, & networking with fellow founders and investors If you’re building at seed - or planning to raise - this will be one of the highest-signal rooms of the week. Links for both in the comments; hope to see you there! #TechWeek #Startups #Fundraising #VentureCapital #Founders #BosTechWeek #NYTechWeek

2 weeks, 2 cities, and roughly 2M opportunities to answer "sooo what are you working on?" We're showing up in Boston (5/26–31) and New York (6/1–7). Six events across the two cities. A few we're hosting, a few we're co-conspiring on. Search "HubSpot" on the official TECH WEEK by a16z calendar to RSVP. Or just come track us down.

Week 1 at a startup vs. the week before the board meeting