GreenhornTV Ep. 10: January Close Out

Believe it or not, we're almost through the first month of 2010. This week is another healthy week of networking and office hours. Check out the show and notes below to find out all about them and all the other great happenings in the community this week. And don't forget to check out the Greenhorn Connect Calendar for all your Boston event and office hours needs.

GreenhornTV: Episode 10: Jan. 24th - Jan. 30th
January Close Out

** All Events are FREE unless otherwise noted **

Monday: Jan.25th

Developers Meetup Jan 25th - Mobile Monday, MassMobile, and DrinksOnTap
Description: Join Mobile Monday, MassMobile, and Drinks On Tap for a Developer’s Meetup on Jan 25th. We'll meet at Jillian's near Fenway. If you have a mobile app you'd like to demo, bring it along. Cash bar.
Where: Tequila Rain by Fenway Park
When: 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Where You’ll see Greenhorn: Checking out the developer's meetup.

Tuesday: Jan 26th

Customer Development Lunch with Dan Martell
Description: If you’re a startuper or marketer in Boston join us this week at Performable’s 3rd Customer Development Lunch. We’ll be welcoming serial entrepreneur and fellow marketing metrics geek Dan Martell, the co-founder of FlowTown a social email discovery platform.
Location: Techstars Boston, 727 Massachusetts Avenue, "The Penthouse" aka Top Floor, Cambridge MA
When: 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Boston World Partnerships Open Mixer
Description: Bostonians enthusiastic to exchange insights, resources, and ideas – all in the name of strengthening Boston’s business community and economy. The space will be filled with great energy, and generating high-quality leads.
Location: FELT Boston 533 Washington Street Boston, MA 02111
When: 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Where You’ll see Greenhorn: Missing out on the BWP mixer due to a prior commitment...

Wednesday, Jan 27th

Weekly Open Coffee
Description: Fellow web entrepreneurs and VCs gather once a week in Boston to grab some coffee, free WiFi, and chat about what's new. Great Networking opportunity!
Location: Cafe Andala 286 Franklin St, Cambridge, MA 02139
When: 8:30am to 9:30am

TCN Evening Roundtable: Negotiation & Valuation
Description: This annual roundtable will discuss valuation methodologies, metrics, tactics and tips with successful Boston-area entrepreneurs, angels, venture capitalists and industry experts.
Featuring panelists: Bettina Hein - Founder and CEO, Pixability, Inc. Bard Salmon - Chairman of the Board, Perillon Software Ryan Moore - Founder & GP, Grand Banks Capital Moderator: Michael Conza – Partner, Bingham McCutchen
Location: The Exchange Center, Boston MA
When: 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Cost: $65 for registration, $20 students

MIT Enterprise Forum: Winning & Managing First Customers
Description: Managing expectations can be a real challenge. How do you whet the customer's appetite to get a commitment for funding (or, even better, an upfront payment), without committing your first-born? How about a guaranteed upgrade path: it that a way to to insure payments and loyalty from your first customer, while you add a second, a third, and more? Is there a better way, perhaps? Joining forces with your for product development, while keeping future IP rights to yourself?
Panelists: Tom Ebling, Former CEO at Lattice Engines, Torrent Systems and ProfitLogic, Hooman Hodjat, Founder of PickupZone, Todd Webber, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Magnemotion
Location: MIT Campus - Stata Center, Rm. 141 (32-141)
When: 6:30pm to 9:00pm
Cost: $20 for non-members, $10 for students

Where You’ll see Greenhorn: Rising early for Open Coffee and checking out the First Customers event at MIT.

Thursday, Jan 28th

MassTLC Breakfast Seminar: New Ways to Deliver Business Solutions - How does an organization evaluate Cloud-based options?
Description: This session will discuss how different organizations evaluated their business needs and on-premise and Cloud solutions for addressing those needs, leading them to a more coherent Cloud strategy for delivering business solutions.–Moderator: Frank Gillett, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester –Panelists: Greg Arnette, Founder & CTO, Sonian, Bill Brown, CIO, Iron Mountain, Jeff Flowers, CTO, Carbonite, Philip Jacob, Founder & CTO, StyleFeeder, Peter Ross,VP of Information Technology, Sentinel Benefits and Financial Group
Location: IBM, 404 Wyman Street, North Entrance, Waltham, MA 02451
When: 8:00am to 10:00am
Cost: $40 for members, $80 for non-members

Lean Startup Circle Boston January Meetup
Description: The Agenda so far Aaron White: Analytics + A/B testing, - measuring just enough, not too much, - developing a plan for what % time spent optimizing, - optimization around the sales process •Customer Development (the early stages), - Avoiding the "survey" problem Blank wrote about today, - What's testable, and what's a leap of faith, and how can you tell?
John Prendergast: The Orthoganal Pivot - From finance to blogging and how our business got here
Location: Cambridge Innovation Center, Charles River Conference Room 14th Flr
When: 6:00pm to 8:00pm

DartBoston’s Pokin Holes #Pokinholes
Description: Podcast/live stream show for young people starting companies to get feedback from the most talented young professionals students and entrepreneurs in Boston. This week:
Location:
When: 6:45pm - 11:00pm

Ultra Light Boston: Legal Series
Description: Join us for an informative and interesting roundtable discussion of the most common and important legal issues for startups. On hand will be legal experts on intellectual property, corporate, and employment law to answer your questions and offer advice on avoiding legal disputes and protecting your business. Joining us will be attorneys from the intellectual property firm Danielson Legal LLC, the corporate law firm VC Ready Law Group LLC, and the employment and labor law firm of Sanzone & McCarthy, LLP.
Location: Workbar Boston
When: 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Where You’ll see Greenhorn: Learning about Lean Startups

EVENT OF THE WEEK: If you go to only one event this week...this is it:
Developers Meetup Jan 25th - Mobile Monday,
Why? With so many entrepreneurs looking for developers and so many great mobile startups, this should be an awesome event.

Office Hours Round Up: