ONSTARTUPS.COM

Onstartups.com is a personal blog by Dharmesh Shah that provides insightful information about software startup acquisition. The author is a software entrepreneur and currently the co-founder and CTO of HubSpot, a software company building a revolutionary software platform for Internet Marketing Prior to founding HubSpot, Shah founded Pyramid Digital Solutions, an enterprise software company in the financial services sector. Bootstrapped with less than $10,000 in capital, Pyramid went on t... o demonstrate exceptional growth and was a three-time recipient of the Inc. 500 award. After acting as CEO and chief software architect for the company from 1994-2005, Shah also helped the company get acquired in August 2005 by SunGard Business Systems, a large $11 billion technology company. Since the sale of Pyramid, Shah has been an active member of the entrepreneurial community in the Boston area and has made several angel investments in early-stage technology companies. He is also a current member of CommonAngels, a well-known angel investment group in the greater Boston area. Shah recently graduated from MIT with an M.S. degree as part of the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership. As part of his graduate work, Shah wrote a thesis focused on software startups. Shah also has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB).More