Happy President's Day! Whether you're working today like Jason or enjoying the long weekend like Pardees, we bet you're gearing up for another great week in Boston! This week boasts of over 31 awesome startup networking events and office hours. We know you can't attend them all so we've counted down the best! Read on to find out the can't miss events of the week!

Who are the faces behind a company? How did the company get started? These are common question you may have about startups you see and hear about. If you don't get a chance to personally meet the founders, you're unlikely to ever know their story. That's what Founder Fridays is all about.

This week we have Melissa Pickering from iCreate to Educate, a company innovating the K-12 Classroom.

In the public relations field, everything is about who you know. When I first started I literally had zero connections. Luckily after a few months, I realized how to use web to not only strengthen my connections established through networking events, but to also bring the networking game to the web. Here's my tips on using the internet to help you network! 

Who are the faces behind a company? How did the company get started? These are common question you may have about startups you see and hear about. If you don't get a chance to personally meet the founders, you're unlikely to ever know their story. That's what Founder Fridays is all about.

This week we have Sidi Gomes from ParallelCities, a mobile app that will change the way you meet people at events.

We design art, software, personal schedules, business plans, essays, blog posts, and, hopefully to an increasing degree, our own lives.  This concept of "design" is important, and I think it's absolutely necessary to understand the different design processes we employ, or, more often, the design processes that play themselves out whether we're conscious of it or not.
 

Here are the major types of design that can be observed in most development processes:

Who are the faces behind a company? How did the company get started? These are common question you may have about startups you see and hear about. If you don't get a chance to personally meet the founders, you're unlikely to ever know their story. That's what Founder Fridays is all about.

This week we have Shaun Jayachandran, Founder and President of Crossover Basketball and Scholars Academy, a nonprofit aimed to change the way kids in India have access to education.

Have you ever wished you could leverage thousands of the smartest people on earth to make your projects more impressive, faster to develop, and easier to maintain? Free and open source software (F/OSS) allows programmers to do this every day. Here are the basics of how you can take advantage of this extraordinary movement and get involved yourself.