Greenhorn Weekly Countdown June 10 - June 17
Whether you're trying to get more lean or muscle up with new talent, every company's startup beach body could use a little work. Fear not though Boston has 44 startup networking events and office hours that can help get your business in shape.
/ / / Monday, Jun 11
An Insider's Guide to the Seed Stage Market
Description: Learn about the seed stage market in Boston from an active early stage angel and VC investor. This class will provide:
- Review an overview of the market.
- Distinguish between different sources of capital from friends & family, angel investors, micro cap VCs, and traditional VCs.
Chris is a pro, and you'll leave this session with all the answers to your questions about raising a seed round!
Time: Monday, Jun 11, 6:00pm - 6:00pm
Place: Intelligent.ly Campus 500 Harrison Ave Boston, MA 02118
Cost: $30
/ / / Tuesday, Jun 12
WPI Venture Forum Five-Minute Pitch Contest
Description: Each company will be given five minutes to pitch their business to a panel of expert judges and the Forum’s audience who will evaluate the entrepreneur’s presentation skills and overall performance. Each presentation will be followed by a two minute open discussion between the judges and the entrepreneur. The judges will then rate each business and the audience will do the same. Once all the pitches are complete, the judges will select the winner of the top prize in a brief and closed deliberation. An audience prize will be awarded based on the voting results.
Time: Tuesday, Jun 12, 12:00am - 12:00am
Place: 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
A Tour of the Go Programming Language with Russ Cox
Description: Most of us only read about building a development language, some participate in open source language development, and a few spend every day on the core contributor team building a language like Russ. Go is an open source programming language developed at Google that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. More importantly, programming in Go is fast and fun. This talk will give a tour of the language, with live coding. Go 1, the first official stable version of the language, was released at the end of March. For more information http://golang.org/
Time: Tuesday, Jun 12, 6:45pm - 9:00pm
Place: Google Cambridge - 3rd Floor North End Cafe 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA
Cost: Free, But you must Register
/ / / Wednesday, Jun 13
Description: Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly launch party and networking event powered by social media. From gourmet dog food to iPhone apps, to enterprise software and medical devices, we showcase local innovation in the form of new products and encourage the local social media community -- that's you -- to blog, tweet, post pictures and video -- or, just tell someone. Great cross-industry networking like nowhere else. Always free and always fun!
Time: Wednesday, Jun 13, 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Place: varies - see website for details
Cost: FREE
Don't Get Zucked When Starting Your Company!—How to Start Right.
Description: It's a beginner's class on what you need to know when starting your venture. The material is practical in nature, i.e. I'm not teaching it as an attorney trying to sell you my legal services (I'm not), but as a founder who has been through the legal issues of forming a company, protecting both the individual founders and the company's intellectual property. This isn't meant to be free legal advice. If you need to hire an attorney there are some excellent ones that I can put you in touch with. I will give you some free tools you need to educate yourself and empower you while you are starting your company. LegalZoom will cause you nothing but headahes in the long run. You need to know more when starting your company.
Time: Wednesday, Jun 13, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Place: Harvard iLab - 125 Western Ave. 02163
Cost: $10.00
/ / / Thursday, Jun 14
TiE Boston - Legal and IP Issues for Start Ups - TLP Workshop
Description: Whether you're planning to start a new company or are already involved in an early-stage venture, there are a myriad of legal and intellectual property considerations critical to startup success. At this seminar, emerging company and IP lawyers from WilmerHale will address topics including:
Time: Thursday, Jun 14, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Place: WilmerHale Venture Group 850 Winter Street Waltham
Cost: Member - US$ 10, Non Member - $ US 20
/ / / Weekend Special
Description: Lean Startup Machine is an intensive workshop where entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to build what their customers want. Over the course of the weekend you will do the following...
- Ideate a startup or work on the one you have now
- Practice Customer Discovery
- Research your Target Market
- Practice Customer Development
- Test your Assumptions in Iterations
- Understand your Business Model
- Iterate and Pivot (when necessary)
- Build something you can Launch
- Present your Validated Learnings
Time: Friday, Jun 15, 6:00pm - 6:00pm
Place: Boston - TBD
Cost: $199, but use discount code "LeanGreenhorn" for 10% off
Event of the Week Sponsored by Microsoft NERD
WPI Venture Forum Five-Minute Pitch Contest
Why? Go on a short trip out of Boston for the day to see some early stage startups pitching their ideas for a chance at prizes and mentorship!
Student Event of the Week
Why? See some of Boston's coolest startup side dishes and hear some great presentations from new technologies.
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