Greenhorn Weekly Countdown September 9 - September 16

Boston is breathing deep again, envigorated by the 100,000 students who have ventured back from summers at home.  With them comes an energy that feeds the city's innovation.  Boston has 39 startup networking events and office hours this week to help jumpstart your business into the fall.

Greenhorn Weekly Countdown
September 9 - September 16

/ / / Monday, Sep 10

Future Energy Boston

Description:Future Energy is a series of events that connects entrepreneurs, researchers, and private investors in the energy and clean-tech industries to develop and commercialize radical solutions to the world’s energy challenges.
Time: Monday, Sep 10, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Place: Microsoft New England Research & Development Center 1 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA
Cost: $20.00 (Discount Code: greenhornconnect for 50% off)

/ / / Tuesday, Sep 11

Fundraising for Early Stage Social Impact Startups

Description: Social enterprises, both for profits or nonprofits, face many challenges in raising money to support themselves. This is a terrific panel of startups that will share how they went about raising that early money from grants, competitions, kickstarter and bootstrapping. Panelists include Miguel Granier, Invested Development http://investeddevelopment.com/, Tyler Wakstein, Life is Good http://www.lifeisgood.com/playmakers/, Anu Chitrapu, Vision Aid http://www.visionaid.org/ and Nathan Rothstein, Project Repat www.projectrepat.org/
Time: Tuesday, Sep 11, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Place: MassChallenge HQ 55 Northern Avenue (One Marina Drive, 14th Floor, Boston, MA

/ / / Wednesday, Sep 12

Mass Innovation Nights

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, Sep 12, 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Place: varies - see website for details
Cost: FREE

IdeaMensch Boston

Description: Ideas by themselves are of little value. Whether your idea is an app, a nonprofit, a book, a website or an invention – what matters is how you bring it to life. And really it doesn’t matter whether the idea you’re bringing to life is a business, a project or a cause – the one thing that connects all people with ideas are our passions, struggles and ways we go about bringing our ideas to life.
Time: Wednesday, Sep 12, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Place: Cambridge Innovation Center One Broadway, 5th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142
Cost: 20.00

French American Business Panal : European vs US Markets

Description: Organized by the French Consulate in partnership with Masschallenge, this great panel discussion will focus on “European vs American markets: opportunities and challenges for high tech companies”, as the highlight of the New Technology Venture Accelerator, France’s startup accelerator program. The panel will be moderated by a special guest Robin Gaster, Lead Researcher at the National Academy of Sciences and CEO of Innovation Technologies, and our panel experts are: 

• Barbara Fox, CEO of Avaxia Technologies
• John Piret, Managing Director of Newbury Piret & Co.
• Jean-Marie Vallet, President of Cyrma Ventures LLC

You will also meet with 5 very promising French High tech companies, laureates of the NETVA program ! We hope to see you there !
Time: Wednesday, Sep 12, 6:15pm - 8:30pm
Place: Masschallenge, One Marina Park Drive, Boston MA 02110
Cost: FREE

/ / / Thursday, Sep 13

The Capital Network - Funding Options Deep Dive - Consumer Product

Description: As a follow up to our Funding Options Evening Roundtable, this deep dive discussion explores what types of funding options are available for your consumer product company: topics include non-equity options such as crowdfunding, customer finance, debt as well as a discussion of convertible debt. Discussion will be built around audience interest and questions, so come ready with your questions!
Speakers:

Jeremy Halpern – Launchpad, Nutter McClennen and Fish, MassVentures and The Capital Network

Dan Allred – Sillicon Valley Bank

Mike Norman – WeFunder

Time: Thursday, Sep 13, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Place: MassChallenge One Marina Park Drive, 14th Floor
Cost: Free to $30

Event of the Week Sponsored by Microsoft NERD

French American Business Panal : European vs US Markets

Why? Globalization is real. Learn about the challenges and opportunities facing businesses in the USA and Europe.

Student Event of the Week

The Capital Network - Funding Options Deep Dive - Consumer Product

Why? A limited supply of free tickets available for students means you'll be one of the few learning how to get funding for your consumer product idea.