Greenhorn Weekly Countdown August 19-26

Team Up or Shut Up

High powered startups don't rest on the shoulders of one person. It takes a group of diverse, driven and relentless people to form an investment worthy team. Boston has 26 startup networking events and office hours to help you uncover the minds that will compliment your skills and get your great idea off the ground.

/ / / Tuesday, Aug 21

Funded Founders

Description: We'll open the doors at 8:00 am for networking and breakfast, and kick off the panel promptly at 9:00 am.  We must have your name on the list so we can check you in (and so we know how much coffee to order!) Accounting Management Solutions will be providing coffee and a light breakfast to get your day started right!
Time: Tuesday, Aug 21, 8:00am - 10:30am
Place: MassChallenge Offices One Marina Park Drive Boston, MA 02210
Cost: Free

Boston New Technology Meetup August 2012 #bnt20

Description: Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A. Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT20 hashtag in social media posts: details here.
Time: Tuesday, Aug 21, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Place: Brightcove Office, 4th Floor 290 Congress St Boston, MA 02110
Cost: FREE!

/ / / Wednesday, Aug 22

Five minute lightning talks!

Description: As is the jQuery Boston Meetup Tradition (TM), instead of one speaker getting up and talking for an hour, we want you, jQuery Boston Meetup members, to each get up and talk for five minutes. If you've been working on a really cool project, have a new jQuery plugin, figured our how to do something nobody else knows how to do, or just want to talk about JavaScript syntax for five minutes, tell us all about it!
Time: Wednesday, Aug 22, 6:45pm - 8:45pm
Place: Bocoup Loft (new location) 355 Congress Street 2nd Floor Boston, MA

/ / / Thursday, Aug 23

Web Start Women - CSS: Styles & Layouts

Description: In this four class series you'll learn CSS, HTML's other half and the way to style web sites. We'll start with the basics of declaration-value pairs, move on to position-specific properties, and then focus on layout techniques. With CSS, practice is key, so along the way, we'll work through lots of exercises and examples that demonstrate the different techniques.
Time: Thursday, Aug 23, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Place: Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
Cost: $95 (covers all 4 classes in the series)

Event of the Week Sponsored by Microsoft NERD

Boston New Technology Meetup August 2012 #bnt20

Why? Meet and see the new technologies from 7 new local companies!