When managed properly interns can be a great asset to an organization during the summer or school year. They can be hard working, diligent and come with enough aptitude or basic skills to learn on the job.  But they also have relatively no experience and if you rely on them too much you’ll miss them in your business when their term ends.

Considering the pros and cons of hiring interns there is also the question of resources. Do you have enough to pay them, and if so would you?

1. Hear Bill Warner’s "Startup from the Heart"- Bill Warner, affectionately known by some as ‘The Godfather of Boston Startups’ gives an amazing talk about how you should build a business with true intentions that everyone should hear.

There are 3 ingredients to a successful startup environment: venture capital, entrepreneurial density and coffee shops. Imagine how many businesses were started, partnerships forged and spontaneous connections made at local coffee shops in our innovation hubs? Now that startups several startups are moving out of Kendall Square and by areas like Terrible Row we can only ask - where them coffee shops at?

Ok, so you just arrived in Boston and are eager to jump into the startup community but don’t know where to start. Here are four events that you just can’t miss, especially as a newcomer to the startup community:

With The Boston Startup School Expose today and friends that are recent graduates asking about employment any advice on how best to navigate the Boston tech job market would be really appreciated by them. So I outlined a process that worked for me after being suggested to it by local entrepreneurs and hiring managers.

There are a lot of incredible initiatives around Boston attempting to cultivate an entrepreneurial community. Greenhorn Connect has and always will strive to connect those interested in entrepreneurship to the local community. Walter Somol, our Tier 1 Microsoft NERD sponsor and good friend, suggested we lay out our plan for the year so everyone knows how we plan to contribute our part to the community. The goal is to make everyone aware so they know what’s to come and how they can get involved. So Boston startup-ers, here it is…

As you're well aware Greenhorn Connect has been going through a transition these last few months building out a new team of incredible young Boston talents. We are happy to announce Pardees' replacement for the Director of Social Media and Public Relations Tiange (Angela) Lei. I met Angela through a mutual connection at Angelhack Boston a few weeks ago where she expressed interest in the role. Without being asked she helped with a variety of tasks during the event and followed up with a comprehensive description of how she would contribute to the team. She's a young student that we can all expect great things from in the future. Please read the following to get to know her better before reaching out about promotion and Greenhorn Connect resource requests:     

I’ve recently been asked by a couple different incoming college students on the best ways to get involved with the tech scene. They both had short and long term goals combined with a passion for tech startups. If they keep it up they’ll be prime targets for internship and full time positions with Boston area startups soon. But when they asked me about joining a startup now or in the Fall I told them what some people would hate me for saying...

“Don’t do it.”

Culture is a common buzz word among new and established organizations. It’s increasingly important in a startup to motivate employees to work the extra hours without the added benefits. It’s also the factor many companies rely on to attract and retain strong talent. But strangely enough some of the most successful companies don’t even consider culture, but rather stumble into it.

To help those legalese challenged, we took the 10 most common terms found in a typical Venture Capital (VC) term sheet and tried to explain them very simply.  Many of these terms can take on many different meanings, though, so we tried to use the most typical definitions.