Your Weekly Boston Startup Entrepreneur Events Guide: GreenhornTV Ep.40: Sept 5th - Sept 11th
After a brief slowdown at the end of August, the startup scene has come roaring back with many awesome events this week, especially Startup Bootcamp. This is the start of an awesome September as there are over 125 events this month and 30 different Boston startup entrepreneur networking events and office hours this week. 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 startup entrepreneur networking events and office hours needs.
Your Weekly Boston Startup Entrepreneur Events Guide:
GreenhornTV Episode 40: Sept 5th - Sept 11th
** All Events are FREE unless otherwise noted **
/// Tuesday, Sept 7th
TCN Evening Roundtable: Funding Options - What is the Right Path for You?
Description: This panel-led program provides an essential overview of early stage capital sources including Angels, Angel Groups, Venture Capital, Bank Debt, Venture Debt, Grants, Strategic Partners and Bootstrapping. •Topics include –investment criteria, time to closing, investment range, success rates, control features, compliance requirements and the overall costs of capital from each such source.
Location: Bingham McCutchen, LLP 1 Federal St. Boston, MA
When: 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free Beer & Wine Tasting for Entrepreneurs
Description: We've had a lot of members of the XTVentures meetup group ask us about organizing fun social events in addition to our monthly workshops. These events would break things up and give the group a chance to get together without the pressure of getting work done.
Location: Menotomy Beer & Wine @ 80 Broadway, Arlington MA 02474
When: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where will Greenhorn be? Working on other things getting ready for the rest of the awesome September!
/// Wednesday, September 8th
OpenCoffee Cambridge Meetup
Description: Fellow web entrepreneurs and VCs gather once a week in Boston to grab some coffee, free WiFi, and chat about what's new
Location: Andala Café, Central Square, Cambridge
When: 8:30am - 10:30 am
Where will Greenhorn be? Stopping by OpenCoffee on my way into work
/// Thursday, September 9th
Meetups & Tweetups - Take this opportunity to meet with your industry of choice:
- Pizza Party sponsored by Prize4Life - 5:00pm to 7:00pm at the Venture Café
- American Marketing Association Boston September Tweetup –6:00pm to 9:00pm at the Asgard
- Boston Web Design Meetup Group Monthly Meetup –7:00pm to 8:00pm at Microsoft NERD
- Boston Web Performance:Hands on Site Optimization –7:00pm to 8:00pm at Microsoft NERD
Where will Greenhorn be? Swinging by the Venture Cafe after work.
/// Weekend Special
Startup Bootcamp
Description: Startup Bootcamp is a free one-day event featuring talks by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists on how to start a company.
- Awesome Speakers include: Founders of Wufoo, WePay, Heroku and GitHub as well as Bob Metcalfe, David Cancel and Stephen Wolfram.
Location: Kresge Auditorium, MIT
When: Saturday, Sept 11th 9:00am – 5:30pm
Hackers and Founders September
Description: Hackers and Founders is a monthly meetup that brings together entrepreneurs and hackers that have a passion for technology in the Boston area. Our meetups are free and usually held at locations that enable for a relaxed atmosphere of drink, food, and conversation.
Location: Asgard 350 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139
When: After Startup Bootcamp on Saturday!
///Event of the Week presented by Microsoft NERD
If you only attend one event this week...this should be it:
Why? This was one of the best events of 2009 and an incredible lineup of speakers are here this year. DO NOT MISS THIS!
/// Office Hours Round Up:
*** This is your opportunity to meet with investors, entrepreneurs and others in the innovation community you may not otherwise have the chance to meet. Bring your questions and ideas to these events and gain valuable insight and connections.***
Wednesday, September 8th:
Javier Cortes - BWP Office Hours
- Areas of Expertise: Brand Strategy, Design and Communications
- When: 8am to 9am
Thursday, September 9th
- Who: Polaris Ventures hosts office space here. Come check out the space and meet with a member of the Polaris team to get feedback and meet a VC
- Location: 222 Third Street, 4th Floor, in Cambridge
- When: 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Venture Cafe Beta Office Hours @ CIC
- This Week: Tim Wright of Grandbanks Capital, Michael Brown of Battery Ventures & Mark Hatfield of Fairhaven Capital
- Where: Venture Cafe, 11th Floor, Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
- When: 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Friday, September 10th
- Our Friday Office Hours allow you to ask key questions, and bench test your business plan.
- Where: Venture Cafe, 11th Floor, Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
- When: 3:00pm to 5:00pm
///Upcoming Events:
*** Check out our Top September Events Countdown! Look in the News & Announcements section on the homepage ***
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Don't forget to check out the Greenhorn Connect Calendar for all your Boston startup entrepreneur networking, meetup event and office hours needs. And check out the rest of Greenhorn Connect for other interesting content like our entrepreneur resource section, great guest bloggers and other original content like the third and final post by Dan Croak on Agile Principles for development at startups.
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