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• The venture game: What investors want now

“The entrepreneur is the Pied Piper of a company,” says Chip Hazard, general partner at Boston-based Flybridge Capital Partners. “We want an articulate, passionate CEO who can excite others – employees, customers, business partners.”Flybridge joined the syndicate that backed Goby Technologies, a Boston-based search startup that provides comprehensive leisure and travel information in a single site – first with a seed round to build a prototype, then with a multimillion-dollar Series A round to fund longer-term operations.