http://innovationbreakfast.com Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:10:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As you may know, toward the end of last year, we started thinking about what Innovation Breakfast was and could become. A little history -- Innovation Breakfast is the little cousin of Mass Innovation Nights.  Innovation Nights are a network of free monthly product launch parties and networking events that leverage ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/new-voices For the second year we held our Innovation Potluck event at the Venture Cafe in the Cambridge Innovation Center with the help of the Venture Cafe team and sponsored by McCarter & English LLP who sprang for the main dish -- giant 6 foot subs.  (We brought the meatballs in ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/the-second-annual-innovation-potluck As we all know, December is a tough month for events -- lots going on!  (Check out our Innovation Potluck and this month's Mass Innovation Nights event.)  So, not that we can stop you from swinging by Cafe on the Common and hanging with the other Java-heads but we'll be ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/december-innovation-breakfasts Every week, Bobbie Carlton, one of the founders of Mass Innovation Nights, hosts Innovation Breakfast.  On October 14, 2011 she'll be hosting a special Innovation Breakfast at Studio Crossings where she'll talk about what you can do to make your Mass Innovation Nights product launch more ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/special-innovation-breakfast-october-14 Earlier this week I attended the inaugural “Building a Better Commonwealth” event at the beautifully refurbished Paramount theater downtown – search for items tagged #BetterMA for more details.  The event focused on getting Gen Y to stick around and contribute to the state’s economic momentum.  However, as Chuck Tanowitz from ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/building-a-better-commonwealth This is the second year of the MassChallenge competition and the second year the Innovation Nights team has been an official endorser.  (Full disclosure:  we're also entered into the competition for the same reasons we suggested other startups check it out -- no strings attached money, free office space for ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/masschallenge-endorsements Last week's Innovation Breakfast was a great opportunity to observe the breadth of the local innovation community.  We had a student and an experienced entrepreneur sitting side-by-side, talking startups.  The experienced entrepreneur had a great story about adversity and the approach his team had taken.  In November 2008, his current ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/entrepreneurship/its-the-people I always say that if no one else shows up for Innovation Breakfast, I'll at least be able to get some work done.  Hasn't happened yet.  Meanwhile, on most blogs, when you see no blogging, you know that nothing's happening, so you "move along."  The opposite is true of Innovation ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/no-one-here-but-us-chickens Every week, the Innovation Nights newsletter comes out with our 3-5 picks for the top events (not always the biggest) of the coming week or  events coming up that you may need to register for in advance.  This listing is one of our contributions to the area's innovation economy.  Two ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/the-best-networking-in-boston Even though we had a nice little convivial group at Innovation Breakfast this morning, I think we spent more time talking about the previous evening's Innovation Potluck, held at the Venture Cafe in Cambridge's Kendall Square.  Our latest Innovation event was designed as a purely social event for entrepreneurs and ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/innovation-potluck