What’s the best age to launch a startup? Founders young and old tell us

What's it like to start a company as a teen, a twentysomething, or much later in life? We spoke to founders of all ages at tech companies like Box, Poshmark, and Hubspot. Here's what they had to say.

Infusionsoft gets $54M to help small businesses compete with heavyweights

Infusionsoft raises a whopping $54 million for its custom, all-in-one sales and marketing automation software.

IPO-bound marketing biz HubSpot grabs $35M for aggressive growth

Inbound marketing software business HubSpot has raised $35 million in fresh funding to help it grow quickly, a sign that the six-year-old company could be readying to go public.

Lean Startup guru Eric Ries joins HubSpot’s advisory board

Ries, who cofounded IMVU, and served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins, pioneered the "lean startup" philosophy, which is based on originally Japanese concepts of waste-free processes.

The hot new CxO: Chief Marketing Technology Officer? [infographic]

Maybe software *is* eating the world.

Or at least the world of marketing, where marketing automation tools such as Hubspot and Marketo are being added to traditional database marketing, customer relationship management systems, and emerging social media marketing tools.

HootSuite and HubSpot chase Guinness world record for largest webinar, ever

In seven days, HootSuite and HubSpot are teaming up to make history, and it’s not about how many interCaps the two partNers can jam into their names.

Rather, the social media management company and the inbound marketing firm are holding …

New Nimble helps brands control their social presence

Customer relationship management company Nimble rolled out its 2.0 version today to help companies better make use of social media.

The Santa Monica-based company, which launched at the DEMO Spring 2011 conference, told us last month that it was adding …

Twitter app store Oneforty acquired by HubSpot

Oneforty, entrepreneur and marketer Laura Fitton’s Twitter-for-businesses startup, was snapped up by marketing company HubSpot today.

HubSpot does inbound marketing, using attraction versus promotion to help customers find the stuff they want. It’s an alternative to traditional marketing which helping …