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…

Relentless, driven, dedicated, sleepless. No matter how you define successful startups, it's time to start living those adjectives. Boston has 45 startup networking events and office hours this week to help you write your companies future.

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:     

Summer's about halfway over but you still have time to take advantage of Boston's startup life! Boston has 37 startup networking events and office hours this week to keep your summer days fun!

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.”

As a self-proclaimed business guy I believed I would much sooner run a marathon than have anything to do with a hackathon. However, as life runs on a mysterious course… I found myself Saturday sitting in front of 150 eager developers and designers, running the show for AngelHack Boston. Having barely passed the CSS Styles portion of the 1 week web-design portion of my college education, it is safe to say I felt a bit out of touch with the target market and the challenge. But, after learning from 48 hours of pure hacking, here are three tips to leading a successful hack that you can be proud of:

Have you been hacking on your startup all week (maybe weekend too)? Then shut your laptop and get out to an event to connect with other entrepeneurs facing the same problems.

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.

Just because summer started it doesn't mean your networking has to slow down. Boston has 44 startup networking events and office hours that you can show off your summer tan at this week!

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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.