My morning Thursday started with the New England Venture Network&#039;s &quot;angel breakfast,&quot; a visit with a group of Boston area angels and up-and-coming VC investors, put together by Fairhaven Capital principal Rudina Seseri. Over muffins and coffee, the 20 or so investors deliberated, in often-animated fashion, over some of the central questions facing the venture industry.

I headed from there to Cambridge to meet Brian Halligan, CEO of HubSpot. The company&rsquo;s new breed of marketing software is getting huge traction, he told me, but is really just getting started...&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;
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