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A Special Innovation Breakfast

Tweet 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....

De-Innovating

Tweet 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...

The TEDx Somerville Bloggers Lounge

Tweet 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. ...

New Voices

Tweet 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...

The Second Annual Innovation Potluck

Tweet 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...

December Innovation Breakfasts

Tweet 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...

Special Innovation Breakfast – October 14

Tweet 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...

Building a Better Commonwealth

Tweet 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. ...

MassChallenge Endorsements

Tweet 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,...

No one here but us chickens

Tweet 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.