Tweet Last week Innovation Breakfast and Mass Innovation Nights supported an event sponsored by IBM and Accounting Management Solutions, under the auspices of Boston Region Entrepreneurship Week (BREW).  More than 150 entrepreneurs and startups RSVPed for the free, all day event which featured presentations...

Tweet After skipping a week for a business trip, we’re back with the Innovation Breakfast in Waltham.  A small group discussion on local innovation, entrepreneurship and startups, we’ve had a different group almost every week.   And the conversations and connections have been fascinating. ...

Tweet Our weekly Innovation Breakfast discussions are far-flung.  But no matter what the topic du jour is , it is interesting to “take the temperature” of the group.  The U.S. Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) is designed to measure consumer confidence, defined as “the degree of optimism...

Tweet This is a continuing report from the weekly Innovation Breakfast.  Once again, conversations ended up touching on funding (among other things.)  One of the reasons we started the Funding Friday (#ff$) conversations on Twitter… This morning’s conversation at Innovation Breakfast touched...

Tweet We started off the day thinking about bootstrapping.  The early conversations at Innovation Breakfast were about bootstrapping but we were quickly sidetracked with conversations about individual entrepreneurial ventures.  (This is a great group to get feedback from if you are working on the early...

Tweet Every week we have some fascinating conversations at Innovation Breakfast.  We do introductions, and get to know you and your company but the far-ranging discussions on the industry are among the most compelling reasons to come out to Waltham for coffee on Friday mornings.  In keeping with...

Tweet For the last several weeks, we’ve been meeting with small groups at the Cafe on the Common in Waltham for Friday morning chats and to see what connections we can make for folks.  There’s been a continuing theme:  money…it makes the world go round and sometimes, just a little...

Tweet You always try to go out with a bang…and, boy, did we ever.  Bill Warner’s talk on “Startups from the Heart” was fantastic!  (Videos are below the break.)  And well received by our largest crowd so far.  (Yes, we opened up “ticket sales” quite a bit beyond...

Tweet Our May 21, 2010 Innovation Breakfast will feature TechStars mentor and serial entrepreneur, Bill Warner.  Bill will be discussing how to “Build Your Startup From the Heart.”  

Tweet Bringing in Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable was a sure thing.  Note only have I seen Rachel speak several times (and she’s always taught me something new) but the regular lunch time get-togethers hosted by Community Roundtable generally provoke some of the more interesting conversations...