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The Best Networking In Boston

Tweet 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 of...

Innovation Potluck

Tweet 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. 

A Marketer, a Developer and an Entrepreneur Walk into a Bar

Tweet A coffee bar that is… The weekly Friday Innovation Breakfasts have been continuing at the Cafe on the Common in Waltham.  Last week we had about a dozen people, including some folks from SCVNGR, a Twitter friend from the UK and a couple of entrepreneurs and marketing folks.  The SCVNGR...

Mass High Tech All-Stars and Education

Tweet Every year local tech business newspaper, Mass High Tech, runs an award program called the MHT All-Stars, recognizing the movers and shakers who make a difference in the local tech economy.  The celebration culminates with a party to recognize the winners and give them a chance to say a few words....

Connecting Companies and Capital

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...

Where do You Find Funding Info?

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...

The Funding Friday Concept

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...

The Last Innovation Breakfast…And the First

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...

Bill Warner: Building Startups from the Heart

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.”  

April Breakfast Notes

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...