http://innovationbreakfast.com Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:56:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our February Innovation Breakfast speaker was Shawn Broderick from TechStars.  Based in Boulder, TechStars came to Boston last year and Shawn has been a fixture in the Boston Innovation Economy scene ever since.  TechStars provides seed capital and mentors for a class of startups every summer. The TechStars decision makers ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/techstars While Mass Innovation Nights is unabashedly pro-all-things-MA, we took a more global approach, at least this month with Innovation Breakfast.  Our "conversation leader" was Lucian Wagner, general partner from Eurous Ventures, and one of the go-to folks involved with Launch in US, an organization devoted to helping European companies launch ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/global-innovation-from-the-start It's a conspiracy.  At least it seems like it.  Another speaker change for our January event. Ah, well.  But you roll with it and everything turns out great in the end. Our Innovation Breakfast series is still pretty new but we've already had two great conversations and networking get-togethers.  And, ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/january-innovation-breakfast-really Unfortunately, Shawn Broderick from TechStars has a conflict so Stephan Dietrich, President, Neolane, has kindly stepped in for our January event.  Shawn will be making it up to us at a future event -- just building up the excitement a bit, right, Shawn? Meanwhile, we're so excited to have Stephan ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/january-innovation-breakfast When we asked Branko Gerovac to share some of his research into the data behind the Massachusetts Innovation Economy, we knew what we were getting into.  Discussions with Branko and a look at Empirical Reality, his innovation blog that takes a hard look at the numbers can sometimes come off ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovation/december-breakfast-discussion The Future of MA High Tech Conference (download video here or check out the #MATechHub tweet stream), or MA Tech Hub for short, was held December 7th at the offices of Communispace in Watertown.  (For those of you who have never been there, their conference space/lunchroom is decorated like Fenway ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/the-future-of-ma-high-tech There has been a lot of discussion about the state of innovation in Boston and Massachusetts.  The expressed concern is that Boston is losing its innovative edge compared to other innovation centers, such as Silicon Valley, Seattle, and others. Branko Gerovac will lead our next Innovation Breakfast,Friday, December 18.Some people ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/what-do-the-numbers-say-about-innovation What a great group we had!  A big thanks to everyone who helped to promote it beforehand here, (and here), and those who attended and contributed to a great conversation on "Entrepreneurship and Innovation in 2009 and Beyond: Massachusetts vs. Silicon Valley", lead by Ron Croen.  Thanks so much, Ron.  ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/east-v-west-innovation-our-kick-off-event Eric Ries of  The Lean Startup fame spoke at MIT last night.  (Kudos to Tom Summit from Genotrope, and others, who  brought him to town.) Ries' talk went heavy into developer-land (playing to the house) but was attainable by everyone in the room, even the marketers and MBAs, his favorite targets ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovation/we-can-do-better-ries-at-the-stata-center We're kicking off the Innovation Breakfast series with a terrific presentation from Ronald Croen, entrepreneur, leader and business adviser based in Silicon Valley who has been named the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Tufts University for the 2009-2010 academic year. Ron was founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Nuance Communications in Menlo ... http://innovationbreakfast.com/innovative-events/november-speaker-ronald-croen