The regular weekly Innovation Breakfast events are usually open networking events — no RSVPs, buy your own coffee and breakfast, sit down, introduce yourself and start networking. Over the past several months, they have evolved into weekly office hours for Bobbie Carlton, one of the creators of Mass Innovation Nights. Companies she is advising drop in with updates. People considering Mass Innovation Nights come to ask questions. Or, new to the area people stop by for guidance. Like Innovation Nights, Innovation Breakfast was designed to support local innovation, connecting local innovators, entrepreneurs, business people and investors, etc. But…
The regular weekly Innovation Breakfast events are usually open networking events — no RSVPs, buy your own coffee and breakfast, sit down, introduce yourself and start networking. Over the past several months, they have evolved (or should we say devolved) into weekly office hours for Bobbie. (Who committed to coming as long as people keep showing up — and has yet to have a week where she gets work done…)
But every once in a while, we try to do something a little different. So, join us for a special hosted Innovation Breakfast at Studio Crossing. (Just down the street and around the corner from our usual location.) We’ll be treated to coffee and breakfast treats by the team at Studio Crossing. (Special thanks to Tamar!) We’ll be talking about where Innovation Breakfast is heading — RSVP please so we know how much coffee to procure! Come if you:
One of the presenters at today’s TEDxSomerville event was Lenni Armstrong. Her presentation: “Depaving the Way” detailed the damage done by an over-abundance of pavement in our urban areas. Run-off can cause flooding. Paved areas don’t allow soil to do its job as a filter to clean the water, removing impurities.
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Today I’m hanging out in the Assembly Row Bloggers Lounge at TEDx Somerville — and in keeping with the TEDx theme of “Ideas Worth Spreading” I’m planning to spread my blogging and tweeting (@BobbieC and @MassInno) around the different channels I have access to. I’ll try to make them appropriate to the channels.
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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 social media to help promote new products. Mass Innovation Nights, the Boston region Innovation Nights event series, attracts several hundred attendees every month and generate hundreds of tweets, blog posts, Likes, LinkedIn posts, online pictures and videos.
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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 our signature crock pot — every Potluck needs a crock pot.)
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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 at the Social Good 2.0 and the Minute to Win it events.
We’re retooling Innovation Breakfast for 2012 — so far suggestions range from:
What do you think? Ideas?
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 effective.
Making the Most of Mass Innovation Nights
Thinking about launching with Mass Innovation Nights? In the queue for a future event? Come learn what works and what doesn’t. Not planning on a Mass Innovation Nights launch? Come anyway and hear how you can use a combination of social media marketing, traditional marketing and public relations to make your product launch even better.
Studio Crossings, 14 Spring Street, Waltham, MA, is right around the corner from our usual hangout at Cafe on the Common.
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.
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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 several months if you get to be a finalist, and wonderful access to mentors and resources. Since Bobbie held office hours last year and worked with several of the finalists on their marketing programs, it seemed fitting we should give it a try. Hey, it would be nice to have a designated desk.)
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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.
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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.
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