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18				1 Boston Startup Walkabout The Boston Startup Walkabout is a 4-day long city-wide event for job seekers and members of the tech community. Over the course of the week, some of Boston's best startups will be opening their doors to network, share a couple coffees, and show why you should join their team. Check out the... Boston Sports Tech Meetup Our first meetup will be Wednesday May 1 at Game On! Boston near Fenway Park. The meetup will start at 7pm and we will have 1-2 presenters and demos from local startups. If you have any questions or are interested in presenting please let me know pedicini.alex@gmail.com Big Data Healthcare 2013 Big data is gaining lot of buzz in healthcare as it has the potential to empower providers and payers. According to McKinsey Global Institute, the potential value of big data, if used creatively and effectively by the U.S. healthcare industry, is worth more than $300 billion every year.... Building Your Team Putting together the right team at the right time is critical to the success of your start-up. In this program, Brad Harkavy(http://www.linkedin.com/in/bradharkavy), COO of Sagewell Inc., will share his thoughts on building a winning team and some lessons learned forming teams for several start-ups... KPMG Executive Compensation Primer: Demystifying Tax and Valuation Common Stock Option Issues In today’s VC business environment, private companies must meet substantial legally mandated standards in the valuation of their shares for both financial reporting and tax purposes under ASC Topic 718 and IRC Section 409A. Both require companies to estimate the fair (market) value of their common... Launch Smart Clinic with two Water Startups – HYDRORECOVERY and NBD Nanotechnologies, Inc. The Launch Smart Clinic is designed for pre-funded companies to identify and fine-tune their business plans, presentations, and pitches before talking to potential investors. The format includes 2 companies doing a dress rehearsal of their pitch, comments from a panel of experts, and... NEVCA - NEVY Awards 2013 Join us for the New England Venture Capital Association's first ever awards party, The NEVY Awards. Meet VC's from New England's best firms and rub shoulders with the hottest entrepreneurs who have come up for air for a night to party hard with us.No squirming in your seat or polite clapping... Boston Javascript - May Project Night * all skill levels welcome * work on your project or help others with theirs * bring a laptop	2 Boston Startup Walkabout The Boston Startup Walkabout is a 4-day long city-wide event for job seekers and members of the tech community. Over the course of the week, some of Boston's best startups will be opening their doors to network, share a couple coffees, and show why you should join their team. Check out the... MITX - The Great Mobile Migration: Demystifying Mobile Marketing Mobile marketing is growing up - fast. It's no longer a question of "do you have a mobile strategy?" It's "how are you optimizing your mobile strategy?"Responsive design, campaign integration, privacy, big data, ad measurement, precision targeting, analytics, and ROI are all key issues that come... MassTLC Big Data & Energy Seminar: How Big Data Can Drive Big-Time Energy Efficiency Data is an integral component to understanding and managing energy consumption for many stakeholders, including homeowners, businesses and institutions of all sizes, government entities, utilities, and grid operators. Hear real use cases from the teams on the front lines, from the tools they... OpenCoffee Cambridge (Disclaimer: Because of SEC regulations, we can only allow expert investors to be in the meeting. Entrepreneurs are not allowed to solicit investments of any kind. Also, just to set the expectation right, we rarely see any VC. You can drop by anytime, and leave anytime without offending us... TiECON East 2013 - Empowering Entrepreneurs TiECON East is the only conference on the east coast that brings together established and startup entrepreneurs in Technology, Life Sciences, Education, and Cleantech.Entrepreneurs attend the two-day conference to learn about the latest trends in innovation, get advice from battle tested... Venture Cafe in Session Come mix and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs! Find serendipitous connections, meet VCs for office hours and attend E&I-focused events. www.vencaf.com Venture Cafe alpha is an invitational prototype, with invitations extended to the entrepreneurial, innovative and creative communities... Office Hours at The Venture Cafe - Joe Caruso For the last 20 years Joe Caruso has served has been an “Advocate for entrepreneurs” as a mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has served an investor, advisor and active director with dozens of companies, public and private. He also maintains an... Betaspring Spring 2013 Launch Day Please join us on May 2 for Spring 2013 Launch Day! Launch Day ain't for lightweights: come watch 4-minunte pitches from the 15 companies exiting Betaspring and get a glimpse into the ground they've covered since joining us in February.... InSITE Pitch Night & Drinks @ John Harvard's Hello friends of InSITE! Please join us for our semi-annual event, InSITE Pitch Day 6:00-6:30 pm -- Introduction & Meet and Greet6:30-7:30 pm -- Company pitches with panelist feedback (10 min pitch, 2 minutes feedback)7:30 - 8:00 pm --... Boston Quantified Self & IDEO: Health & Wellness Innovation Night Boston Quantified Self & IDEO: Health & Wellness Innovation Night will feature researchers, entrepreneurs and companies who are leading the way to more personalized health and wellness using self-tracking systems. The evening will start with live product demonstrations showcasing... The Cambridge Search Engine Optimization Meetup Group - SEO Meetup Boston / Cambridge SEO Internet Marketing Networking Group We invite local Boston SEO, affiliate marketing and search engine marketing professionals in New England area to join us. Location: Microsoft New England, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA Agenda: 6:30pm to 7pm: Open Networking Business Card...	3 Boston Startup Walkabout The Boston Startup Walkabout is a 4-day long city-wide event for job seekers and members of the tech community. Over the course of the week, some of Boston's best startups will be opening their doors to network, share a couple coffees, and show why you should join their team. Check out the... Hacks/Hackers Boston - athenahealth and Hacking Medicine team up for May hack-a-thon! We are proud to announce a joint hack-a-thon between athenahealth and Hacking Medicine! The goal of this event is to bring together inventive, forward-thinking minds to change the status quo and create disruptive solutions in healthcare today....	4 ProductCamp Boston 2013 PRODUCTCAMP BOSTON is the only full-day unconference for productmanagers and product marketers in the Boston area. It’s the premierevent for product professionals to find out the latest developments,discover new ideas, and network with other professionals. Becauseit's an unconference,... hack/reduce - VoltDB Hackathon Saturday, May 4th: Training WorkshopSunday, May 5th: HackathonFull-day sessions (10 a.m. – 6 p.m.) Ok, so you’ll be all trained up. Then what? Well, then you’ll show us what you’ve got – Join us on Saturday, May 4th for more training plus some time to get a headstart on your project at hack/...
19	5 hack/reduce - VoltDB Hackathon Saturday, May 4th: Training WorkshopSunday, May 5th: HackathonFull-day sessions (10 a.m. – 6 p.m.) Ok, so you’ll be all trained up. Then what? Well, then you’ll show us what you’ve got – Join us on Saturday, May 4th for more training plus some time to get a headstart on your project at hack/... M2M Hackathon Axeda M2M Hackathon Sponsored by AT&T Join us for an exciting 24-hour M2M Hackathon competition sponsored by AT&T. This hackathon is designed for both technical and non-technical attendees to build apps, connect products, and compete for $10k in prizes. Bring your team...	6 CJP Innovation Exchange: Visionary Minds Shaping a Better World and Invite you to Innovation Exchange 2013: Visionary Minds Shaping a Better WorldLike Massachusetts, Israel has few natural resources but abundant brainpower and creativity. And both have “cracked the code” on how to innovate successfully. Meet two of Israel’s brightest... Axeda M2M Hackathon Sponsored by AT&T Axeda M2M Hackathon Sponsored by AT&T Join us for an exciting 24-hour Hackathon competition sponsored by AT&T. This hackathon is designed for both technical and non-technical attendees to build apps, connect products,... NEVCA - Cinco de Mayo Party Grab your sombrero and join us for the Cinco de Mayo party of the year. Best of all, you can celebrate on the 5th and then do it all again--but better--the next night.Join the NEVCA and Flybridge Capital Partners for a Cinco de Mayo celebration. Margaritas, beer and cheese dip will be... Boston Android - Building Your First Android Application Are you a java developer eager to learn new techniques to make your app look and feel like a modern, awesome Android app that runs on multiple form factors? If you want to up your... Intelligent.ly - Keep It Simple: Mobile Design for Product Owners You’re finally ready to build your mobile app. You’ve discussed possible features, picked the brains of stakeholders, developers, colleagues, and friends; ideas are not in short supply. How do you distill those ideas down into a coherent mobile app experience? In this class, you'll learn how... GA Boston - Getting Started with WordPress Ross Beyeler, Founder and CEO of Growth Spark Monday, May 6th from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm WordPress is the premier content management system for those seeking an easy, user-friendly way to set up and maintain a website. In this class, we'll walk through the basics of getting your site live...	7 Harvard iLab - The President's Challenge Demo Day 2013 The President's Challenge Demo Day 2013 We are pleased to invite you to the President’s Challenge Demo Day here at the i-lab. This past term, the innovation lab has been proud to host the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship, which is now in its 2nd year. Students have been... MassTLC Mobile & Healthcare Seminar: Connected Health - The Future of Managing Health and Wellness? Total U.S. health care expenditures were estimated to be $2.8 trillion in 2012, and is expected to grow steadily unless significant reforms take place. Connected health, or remote care delivery, is viewed as a critical component to the changes that are eminent in our healthcare system to... Mass Innovation Nights - MIN500 Special Event Our 50th event will be a very special event! On Tuesday, May 7th, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm, we'll be celebrating the 500 products YOU have helped to launch over the past four years. We'll bring back many of our favorites, getting an... Boston Azure - PowerShell on Azure: Turbocharging Azure Automation Come join PowerShell MVP Aleksandar Nikolić (@alexandair) to understand what this PowerShell thing is all about - and how to use it to turbocharge your Windows Azure toolbox. This goes well beyond simple deployment. Of particular interest to the IT Pro, WazOps (Windows Azure DevOps), and... GA Boston - Crafting the Perfect Pitch Crafting the Perfect Pitch Linda Plano, Principal at Plano & Simple Tuesday, May 7th from 6:00 to 7:30 pm You've got a great idea and a big vision for your startup - now all you need are the resources to enable you to make your success a reality! But actually making your case to... Intelligent.ly - Market Research for Startups Market Research for Startup Leaders Instructor: Natalie Nathanson While market research sounds like a lofty and expensive undertaking for most startups, it doesn’t have to be. Even the most basic qualitative market research program will help you better understand engage your... Co-Founders Wanted Boston The purpose of this in-person Meetup is to help you find a co-founder for your business or help you find a business to join as a co-founder. In the mean time, you should get started networking with potential co-founders by creating a free profile on CoFoundersLab.com. To make the most of... Boston Web Performance Group - Tim Locke - The need for write speed...What if your database could be elastic? Web applications often face scalability challenges because of their underlying database tier. This is largely because conventional relational databases are inflexible when it comes to scaling. Caching is a great way to keep traffic from hitting the database. Yet what can we do about... GDG - DevFestW - Fernanda Viégas - Google's "Big Picture" data viz group This event is part of a series of women-focused DevFestW events being organized by GDG's around the world. We will have a slate of all woman speakers kicked off by: 1. Fernanda Viégas, co-leader of Google's "Big Picture" data visualization group, on:... Boston ENET - Raising Money from Venture Capitalist As an entrepreneur, you may have a good business idea addressing a real need in a large and growing market, one that possesses the disruptive technologies, consumer attributes or societal impact that investors are looking for...but will your business be funded? What are those key considerations...	8 Harvard iLab - Startup Secrets: Intrapreneurship & Cloud Hatching Your Business Get ready for a deep dive in "intrapreneurship" and how to start your business in the cloud with Senior Vice President, Amazon Web Services and Amazon Infrastructure Andrew Jassy and veteran entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Michael Skok. Have you ever wondered exactly how to take advantage of... SBANE - 2013 New England Innovation Awards Gala Dinner 2013 New England Innovation Awards Keynote Speaker: To Be Announced 5:30 - 6:30 PM - Cocktail Reception 6:45 - 9:00 PM - Award Program and Keynote All entrepreneurs know, great ideas are not easily translated into successful companies. Innovation is not only the ability to conceive a new way of... Boston Java Meetup Group - Java and History: An evening at Harvard with Jim Waldo Java is one of the most widely used programming languages, and everyone hates something about it. But if you know why the language is the way it is, perhaps you will at least understand the thinking that led to a particular wart. In this session, you can talk with one of the original "gang of 6... VentureFizz / Dissero - Scaling to 1M+ Users - Customer Acquisition Strategies Event Details Customer acquisition is obviously key to the success of any company. Whether you are a Consumer or B2B oriented product... without users, you have nothing. It's hard enough to come up with a great idea, build...	9 Virality: Beyond Cute Cats When Harvard Business School professor Jeffrey Rayport named the term “viral marketing” in 1996, little did he know he was establishing a revolutionary new paradigm, and with it, a “holy grail” for the emerging world of internet-based commerce. In this context, the biologically based phenomenon... Mass High Tech - 2013 Women to Watch Join Mass High Tech for the 10th annual Women to Watch event, which recognizes women in tech and life sciences who are go-getters, hardworking, inspirational and motivational to their peers. These up-and-comers are continuing to grow and will shape the future of their industries. ... 128 ICG - I Raised the Money ... Let me Tell You How I Did It! Jacqueline Thong of Ubiqi Health and Peter van der Meulen of 7AC Technologies will share their stories. Register for this meeting These entrepreneurs have successfully raised investment capital. They will share... OpenCoffee Cambridge (Disclaimer: Because of SEC regulations, we can only allow expert investors to be in the meeting. Entrepreneurs are not allowed to solicit investments of any kind. Also, just to set the expectation right, we rarely see any VC. You can drop by anytime, and leave anytime without offending us... Venture Cafe in Session Come mix and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs! Find serendipitous connections, meet VCs for office hours and attend E&I-focused events. www.vencaf.com Venture Cafe alpha is an invitational prototype, with invitations extended to the entrepreneurial, innovative and creative communities... Web Start Women - CSS: Positioning & Layouts (4-class series) Description This course picks up where our CSS Basics class left off - we'll explain positioning and layouts, probably the most challenging part of CSS. Practice is key to understanding layouts, so we'll work through exercises and examples that... General Assembly Boston - Usability Testing Fundamentals Usability Testing Fundamentals Eva Kaniasty, Founder of Red Pill UX Thursday, May 9th from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm (Part 1)Thursday, May 16th from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm (Part 2) Usability testing is a key technique for evaluating a product's capacity to meet the needs of its target audience. This two-...	10	11 hack/reduce - Data Analytics hackathon w/ dunnhumby & hack/reduce: A Product Launch Challenge! The importance of early feedback on new product launches Grocery stores are always looking to introduce new products, such as a new flavor of drink, a new type of yogurt, or the latest DVD. In the highly competitive world of retailing, the success or failure of these new product...
20	12	13 Acceleprise Boston Showcase Day Acceleprise is excited to showcase our second class of companies during our Demo Day in Boston.These companies include MetaLayer, Talentwire, LearnShark, TrackMaven, Awesome API, Edi.io, and Aquicore. Acceleprise is an accelerator focused on enterprise technology founded and anchored by... Innovation Series Event: It takes more than just Big Data – Evolving Solutions for Pharma and Healthcare Big Data and associated measurement technologies promise to revolutionize pharma and healthcare. These new innovations have the potential to greatly improve patient care. Large scale measurements of biological state, smart phone/miniature sensor based measurements and remote monitoring of... Spring Start Smart Class, May 13 – July 15, 2013 An 8-week hands on class for startups The class is designed for start-up and early stage technology entrepreneurs looking to delve into each phase of getting their new venture going – from building their business model and properly positioning their company / products to raising capital, the... DrinksOnTap - Demos, drinks and discussions about mobile development DrinksOnTap is a social meetup for Boston area mobile developers (iPhone, Android and more). We are always looking for amazing demos from companies in the Boston mobile community. Got a great app you'd love to show off? Sign up to demo at bit.ly/... Refresh Boston - Gamification 2013: Hype, Hustlers, and Hope About This Presentation Since its rapid rise to the top of the buzzword list, "Gamification" has been over-hyped and over-sold as a turn-key solution for creating desirable, engaging and ultimately profitable digital products and services. The game guru’s mantra of "adding... The Boston MySQL Meetup Group - John Hugg, VoltDB NOTE - we are back at E51! (but on the first floor) Speaker: John Hugg, Software Engineer at VoltDB. Supporting a high-throughput distributed database like VoltDB in long-term, real-world deployments quickly demonstrates that many assumptions about... Boston Amazon Web Services Meetup Group - May Event Please note our special meeting location for this event, hosted by Nokia. Link for directions: http://here.com/cambridge%2C-ma-02142-usa/map=42.36225,-71.0803,17/title=1%20Main%20St Thank you to Meetup member Keith Baker for helping to make this... Hacking Predictive Analytics - Hackathon: Develop/MapReduce Your Dream Predictive Analytics/BigData App. Our goal is to implement a few apps, using publicly available APIs. You can propose apps, code them, or just be an observer. PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, C++, FORTRAN, or COBOL (just kidding!) are all welcome! If you want to code, please go through the APIs below. Agenda: Step 1: Get to know ...	14 MassTLC - CXO Forum: "Crossing the Chasm" - What has Changed in the Past Two Decades? "Crossing the Chasm" - What Has Changed in the Past Two Decades?Featuring Author, Geoffrey Moore This event is a CXO level event (CEO, CTO, CFO, etc.) if you have any questions please email Jennifer@masstlc.org.Agenda:8:00am - 8:30am: Breakfast, Networking8:30am - 9:45am: Welcome8:45am - 9:... RFID Gets Fashion Forward but It’s Time to Move It Further Back — to the Source! Billions of RFID tags now deployed for item-level apparel annually.Register With passive UHF RFID being implemented by growing numbers of retailers and brands, RFID technology at the item level in fashion apparel and footwear is a hot-right-now application market. But what’s next? How do we... WEST - Leadership Strategies for Advancing Your Career in Science Sandra Glucksmann, WEST Board Chair and SVP of Research and Development at Cerulean Pharma, will share stories of her career challenges and success. She will discuss how to best apply your scientific and analytical abilities to develop influence and negotiation skills. Sandra will share her... The 17th Annual Rosoff Awards The 17th Annual Rosoff Awards The Rosoff Awards were created to honor corporations in the Boston business community that are devoted to building an inclusive workplace environment, or are committed to supporting diversity, mentoring and inclusion programs in Greater Boston. The spirit of the... The Venture Forum - Go To Market: Market, Sell or Perish -The Most Critical Part of a Nascent Business You have a great product or service, but how do you get others to see its greatness and pay you for it? A top-notch marketing and sales team is a critical element in every startup's success. Yet many entrepreneurs, especially those embarking on their first ventures, find it challenging to... Cambridge Semantic Web Monthly Meetup ******************************** Agenda: ******************************** Dr. Paolo Ciccarese, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Open Annotation Core Data Model... MITX 100 Beers Networking Party Register Now! This event is members-only so please log-in to your account to register.Our 100 Beers parties bring together the MITX community for quarterly networking, drinks and a celebration of our community's achievements. This month's event is no different. We'll be celebrating some of the... Tech in Motion - Tech Mixer: Mobile Edition Join us at Scholars on School Street for a night of networking with the Boston tech community! Come grab after work drinks and light snacks and chat with local tech enthusiasts about the latest trends. Whether you are new to meetup or not, this is a great way to stay connected with the Boston...	15 Management Basics for Emerging Company CEOs Management Basics for Emerging Company CEOsFor first timers and serial entrepreneurs, the challenges of managing a growing business can be overwhelming – but rewarding. In this program, CEO-for-hire Desmond Pieri will discuss some of the key issues that face every startup CEO.Topics will... TechSandBox Launch Party It's our big launch party. Get on the list by contacting us and telling us why you love MetroWest and want to support Sci-tech Entrepreneurship. LearnLaunch - Marketing on a Shoestring Budget Level: BeginnerTrack: Marketing Marketing can be challenging when you have an early stage startup with a limited budget. Come learn from marketing expert Sheryl Schultz who has 30+ years of experience in marketing and has worked with many startups to help them develop a... Intelligent.ly - Back to Basics: Financial Fundamentals Back to Basics: Financial Fundamentals When it comes to startups, SVB has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Here's the deal - it's all about the numbers. Many entrepreneurs bite of more than they can chew with sophisticated business models. Others drown in vanity metrics. In this... MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition - Launch Finale Welcome to the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. Over $350K in prizes are given to aspiring entrepreneurs each year through participation in a series of three contests: the Pitch Contest, the Accelerate Contest, and the Launch Contest. The winner of the LAUNCH...	16 OpenCoffee Cambridge (Disclaimer: Because of SEC regulations, we can only allow expert investors to be in the meeting. Entrepreneurs are not allowed to solicit investments of any kind. Also, just to set the expectation right, we rarely see any VC. You can drop by anytime, and leave anytime without offending us... Lean Startup Circle - Continuous Deployment: Better software, faster Want to learn how big companies like Amazon, Facebook and LinkedIn are developing their software?Continuous deployment drives innovation in software developmentwhile reducing operational risk. Faster feedback cycles and quick iterations enable you to build a better product in less time. ... Venture Cafe in Session Come mix and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs! Find serendipitous connections, meet VCs for office hours and attend E&I-focused events. www.vencaf.com Venture Cafe alpha is an invitational prototype, with invitations extended to the entrepreneurial, innovative and creative communities... Office Hours at The Venture Cafe - Stephen Davis, CXO Advisory Group Stephen Davis is a business growth strategist – as well as the Founder of the Meet with Stephen Davis, a business growth strategist who has been a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs for over 20 years. He is the Founder of CXO Advisory Group, a company that works with businesses, entrepreneurs... 5th Annual Kendall Square Clean Up What is the Kendall Square Clean Up? Gather your team and join the Kendall Square Association and the Cambridge Marriott for the 5th Annual Kendall Square Clean Up. It's a great opportunity clean the neighborhood and network with your neighbors. After you complete your... Office Hours at The Venture Cafe- Jennifer Jordan, MassVentures Stop by and chat with Jennifer Jordan, Vice President of MassVentures.. You can reserve a 15 minute segment by signing up at her table in the Café. MassVentures is an early-stage venture capital fund dedicated to investing in Massachusetts high growth technology companies. MassVentures is... Princeton EN Boston Meeting - 2013 Business Plan Contest Refreshments and networking: 6:00pm Presentations begin at 6:30 pm and we will be done by 8:30 pm This is an excellent opportunity for enterprising Princetonians and non-Princetonians who wish to bring their ideas to market to connect with and get feedback from seasoned entrepreneurs... B2B Product Messaging: In 60 seconds or less- What does your product do, and why should I care? B2B Product Messaging:In 60 seconds or less - What does your product do, and why should I care?Thursday, May 16, 20136:15 pmWhether communicating with prospective customers, investors, management, the media, or analysts, your ability to answer these questions clearly and concisely can make or break... Boston Hardware Startup Meetup #2 Hello Hardwarians! After a brief hiatus, it's time for Boston's second hardware startup meetup. Don't worry, they'll be every month from now on. It's all about the teams, so each month we'll have 3 hardware startups present. They'll have time to pitch, ask questions, and hopefully... Samsung Ventures - Info Session and Pitch Event Come learn about Samsung Ventures and what it is like to work with Samsung from a startup’s perspective. Samsung Ventures will hold a Speed Round Pitch Event on this day from 7 P.M. to 8 P.M. Fill out the application here by 5pm May 10th if you are interested in participating. Innovation and Investing on Other Continents - Roundtable Cambridge isn’t the only happening spot for innovation and investing, there’s more activity than you might think in regions across the world. Representatives from Spain, Greece, and Korea, in town for the MIT Enterprise Forum Chapter Leadership Conference, will lead a discussion on the... Ultra Light Startups - Investor Feedback Forum Ultra Light Startups Investor Feedback Forum Investor Panelists Brett Garrett (@brettgarrett) - Principal at Bain Capital VenturesZaid Ashai (@zaidashai) - General Partner at Point Judith CapitalTBC! Startup Pitches TBC! We are currently accepting pitch applications!... GA Boston - Usability Testing Fundamentals Usability Testing Fundamentals Eva Kaniasty, Founder of Red Pill UX Thursday, May 9th from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm (Part 1)Thursday, May 16th from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm (Part 2) Usability testing is a key technique for evaluating a product's capacity to meet the needs of its target audience. This two-...	17 ONEin3 - Downtown Waterfront Planning Initiative Workshop StubHub Hackathon StubHub Hackathon: Discover Starts Friday, May 17th, 2013 at 6:00PM Ends Sunday, May 19th, 2013 at 11:00AM Prizes and Recognition First place: $5,000 Second Place: $3,000 Third place: $2,000 Additionally, individuals nominated by fellow participants in the following categories will receive an... Music 2.0: Tools + Tech for Musicians, Marketers + Managers: The 2013 Edition Boston + New England has an impressive number of companies creating tools and technologies to help promote, create, and share music. We also have a vibrant and diverse music community. Let's keep connecting the two for the benefit of both. In 2010, 2011, and 2012 we...	18 StubHub Hackathon StubHub Hackathon: Discover Starts Friday, May 17th, 2013 at 6:00PM Ends Sunday, May 19th, 2013 at 11:00AM Prizes and Recognition First place: $5,000 Second Place: $3,000 Third place: $2,000 Additionally, individuals nominated by fellow participants in the following categories will receive an... MIT StartLabs - Demo Day 2013 MIT students, administrators, and members of the Boston entrepreneurship ecosystem are all invited to learn about 10 awesome projects/companies from MIT!StartLabs will be using the hack/reduce space in Cambridge to allow for beautiful 8 minute demos from each of our 10...
21	19 StubHub Hackathon StubHub Hackathon: Discover Starts Friday, May 17th, 2013 at 6:00PM Ends Sunday, May 19th, 2013 at 11:00AM Prizes and Recognition First place: $5,000 Second Place: $3,000 Third place: $2,000 Additionally, individuals nominated by fellow participants in the following categories will receive an... Apache BarCamp Boston The Apache Software Foundation hosts an Apache BarCamp in Boston, MA on May 19th, 2013. Being a BarCamp event, the agenda is ultimately determined by you, the attendees but we already anticipate great discussions on... The Apache WayThe Apache IncubatorLearn how to get started contributing...	20 Gaming Mobile UX SIG Cluster: App Overload and Best Practices in Marketing There are over 1.5 million mobile apps among iOS, Android and Windows Phone OS. What are some strategies for marketing your mobile solution so yours gets user adoption? Join us for a lively discussion with mobile entrepreneurs.Speaker’s Name: Eric Sullivan, Co-Founder, TripchiSpeaker’s Name:... IT SIG Cluster: Big data, intense analytics, big opportunities It's our first IT SIG meeting and the topic is a big one that crosses industry boundaries: big data. Whether developing new storage technologies to handle the data or implementing analytics in medical, life sciences, financial services or telecommunications, the topic has broad impact. Big... NFC Circle Event: How NFC Will Keep Us Fit Are you worried about how your body may change as you get older? Turns out you’re not alone. Market size numbers in preventive care range from USD 8.5 billion to over USD 14 billion worldwide.Register And those numbers are likely to swell — thanks to NFC-enabled smartphones. With an NFC chip in... Intelligent.ly - Game Design Fundamentals Game Design Fundamentals Instructor: Seth Sivak Games are played on every device across the world. Game mechanics are being intregated into our favorite services and making their way into our everyday lives. In this class, Seth will discuss topics surrounding indirect control,... GA Boston - Conducting Brand Research Through Social Media Conducting Brand Research Through Social Media Kaitlin Maud, Manager of Marketing Strategy at SapientNitro Monday, May 20th from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Social media is an untapped resource for marketers. Listening to what people say about your brand is vital for identifying trends and can provide... Boston Indies - May Meetup Our May 2013 Boston Indies meetup will be on Monday, May 20th @ 7pm. It’s our Spring 2013 Demo Night! Bring your in-development and recently-released games and show them off to your peers for fun and feedback. If you’re not developing a game (why?) or can’t make a playable version of...	21 The Capital Network - How to plan for an M&A exit before and after early-stage equity financing May 21, 20138:00 am - 10:30 amAutodesk, Inc.1560 Trapelo RoadWaltham, MA 02451Join us for a panel discussion with the area’s biggest and most active M&A corporations. Listen to what they look for in a structure, early financing deals, whether they want customers/revenue, and what... Coffee with Zeppelin We're really proud of what we have to show off. So proud in fact, that we have decided to host this event, and buy everyone who helps us out a bit, a cup of coffee. We believe managing your business should be as easy as catching up on the news next to your morning coffee, so we want to show... LunchSpotting 1.4 - PayPal LunchSpotting was created to connect Boston’s Innovation Economy including entrepreneurs, executives, VCs, media, and prospective employees in a casual, fun, “no expectations” kind of way. Come feed your mind and your belly! LunchSpotting was created by Matter Communications and... LearnLaunch: Entrepreneurs & Ed Tech Ecosystems Webinar Level: BeginnerTrack: Research Join Richard Culatta, Acting Director of the Office of Educational Technology for the US Department of Education, in a discussion about the Department of Education's research on national ed tech ecosystems and the implications of these findings for... WITI - Women for Hire: Perfect Pitch, Perfect Resumes, Perfect Job The economy is picking up here in Boston and companies are looking for engineers, developers, programmers, tech sales, marketers, web designers, project managers, system administrators and the like. Our career fair will bring together interested professionals and recruiters looking to meet,... Web Start Women - Stand Out: How to Create Noteworthy Online Portfolios (1 class) Description In this class we'll explore winning strategies for online portfolios and résumés. On the job market? Seeking more clients for your freelance business? Artist, entrepreneur, academic, and/or business owner, no matter what... Intelligent.ly - Legal Land Mines: What to Know When Starting Your Startup Legal Landmines: What to Know When Starting Your Startup Instructors: Mick Bain & Janene Asgeirsson, WilmerHale Starting a new company is hard, but putting in place the right legal framework for your business doesn’t have to be. In this class, you’ll learn ... EntreTech - The Internet of Things (aka Machine to Machine or M2M) - A new Frontier for Entrepreneurs We live in an age where many items can be individually identified. Cars pass through toll booths with chips in transponders; passports have microchips; pets have microchip implants; appliances can be monitored; and the list goes on. All of these items can communicate with people, machines, or... Boston Python - May Presentation Night: Kenneth Reitz, Python for Humans For our May speaker, we have a real treat! Kenneth Reitz is a luminary in the Python world, and a prized speaker at any Python conference. Thanks to Heroku and Rue La La and Heroku for sponsoring. Python for Humans, Kenneth Reitz Python’s ecosystem is held up to a high standard, but... Boston MongoDB - MongoDB and Meteor at Gander We'll have David Wihl from Raparian Data will discuss using MongoDB and Meteor at Gander, the email app that lets you fly through your email Meteor is the first open-source full stack platform for developing and deploying end-to-end JavaScript...	22 Life Sciences Circle Event: Early-Stage Fundraising: Survival stories from the “valley-of-death” Raising capital for early-stage life science companies has always been difficult. Amid economic uncertainty and venture capital consolidation it seems that every investor wants to wait until you have a working prototype, clinical data, customer traction or positive cash flow. Despite the... Energy and Environment: Links to sustainability and economic growth Richard K. Sullivan Jr., Secretary of the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA) which holds the shared mission of bringing clean energy technology to market, curbing greenhouse gas emissions, cutting energy costs and preserving our natural resources, will speak... MIT Sloan CIO Symposium The enterprise of the future will be very different from the one we know. It will be complex, develop hitherto unforeseen forms, and will have to respond to unexpected challenges. All while the windows of opportunity and response will continue to shrink. What can the CIO do to lead the... TCN - Utilizing IP to Access Funding IP can be more than just a protection of your ideas. It can be used to leverage unique non-equity funding alternatives. This lunch will explore whether your IP portfolio could be licensed to add cash to your business. The discussion will also touch on the advantages and pitfalls of licensing as... Intelligent.ly - Fundamentals of Pay Per Click (PPC) Marketing Fundamentals of Pay Per Click (PPC) Marketing Instructor: Larry Kim Paid search generates approximately 240 Million clicks and 13 million conversions every day – It’s a highly effective and leveraged form of direct response marketing and should be employed in some form by any company with... Boston Predictive Analytics - Interactive Web Visualizations - Study Group, Project & Networking Night Due to the strong interest in Interactive Web Visualizations, the plan for this unstructured event will be to dive deeper on this topic. Whereas the February project night was very broad in nature, I think having a more specific focus should... Boston Front End Developers - Data Visualization in the Browser Rob Larsen Presents Data Visualization in the Browser We're awash in data. Making sense of that flood of information is impossible without the aid of visualizations to simplify the information, amplify the important points and educate at a...	23 128 Venture North - Looking Good! How to Impress Investors Looking Good! How to Impress Investors Register for this meeting How do you catch the attention of investors? Getting your foot in the door is just the beginning. You need a presentation that speaks to them and leaves them... OpenCoffee Cambridge (Disclaimer: Because of SEC regulations, we can only allow expert investors to be in the meeting. Entrepreneurs are not allowed to solicit investments of any kind. Also, just to set the expectation right, we rarely see any VC. You can drop by anytime, and leave anytime without offending us... Venture Cafe in Session Come mix and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs! Find serendipitous connections, meet VCs for office hours and attend E&I-focused events. www.vencaf.com Venture Cafe alpha is an invitational prototype, with invitations extended to the entrepreneurial, innovative and creative communities... WEST - Advanced Communication Skills and Presentation Coaching You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Strong communication skills will help you create good and lasting impressions on others. Some individuals are naturally good at interpersonal communication while others develop their skills overtime through practice. Come and learn how... Morse Barnes-Brown Pendleton - Charting a Course from Series A to Successful Exit The journey from company formation and a Series A round to exit is fraught with uncertainty and success depends upon many factors and a lot of luck. Attend this panel discussion to learn how four entrepreneurs are achieving their goal. Jere Doyle (Founder and CEO, Prospectiv Direct), Steven J... Prompt Communications Office Hours Pitch it perfectly with Prompt: How to spark press interest in your technology product, app or service. Is your high-tech product or service gaining the media visibility it deserves and your company needs? If not, book a 20-minute tech PR consulting session with Prompt CEO Hazel Butters to talk... MassChallenge - Technology Directions: Keeping it Real and present Technology Directions: Keeping it Real Open Source Software- What's the Buzz All About? In late April 2013, OpenStack Summit in Portland, Oregon was the place to be in technology. The idea of creating a baseline open source platform for... Consultative Selling & Why It Makes Better Customers with Mark Roberge (HubSpot) Why is your prospect talking with you? What are your prospect's compelling reasons to change? Why would a prospect buy? What are the consequences of doing nothing? Learning how to have consultative conversations allows for more omni-directional communication and understanding and positions you... Boston New Tech Meetup - May 2013 #bnt29 Free event! Boston New Technology's April product showcase - 29th edition! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A.... GA Boston - Search Marketing Project Night Search Marketing Project Night (May 2013) Thursday, May 23rd from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm Join us for the first Search Marketing Project Night (co-sponsored by Venture Café and General Assembly, two of Boston’s largest entrepreneurial and learning communities). This is an informal event with lots... TechStars Boston - Demo Day After-Party TechStars Boston Demo Day After-Party Sponsored by Soft Layer May 23rd from 7:30 pm - Onwards Please join us for the official after-party for TechStars Boston Demo Day. There will be DJs, snacks, and lots of great folks from the Boston startup community. Please reserve your...	24 WorkBar - Lunch and Learn: Increase Your Web Site Traffic and Conversions Increase Your Web Site Traffic and Conversions: SEO Strategies and Tools for Small Business Owners Intermediate Level: This class is for small business owners who have an active web site (or will have one soon) and who want to learn how to drive more targeted traffic to their site and convert...	25 Boston Python - Intermediate Python Workshop What: Intermediate Python Workshop: level up your Python through self-paced practice on short, fun, practical projects. When: Saturday, May 25th, 10:30am - 4:00pm Where: MIT, room 56-154 Things to bring: a wifi-capable laptop and power cord Questions: e-mail us! Level up your Python...
22	26	27	28 AnDevCon - The Android Developer Conference AnDevCon is the technical conference for software developers building Android apps. Offering mobile app development training and Android app development tutorials, AnDevCon is the biggest, most info-packed,most practical Android conference in the world. Choose from more than 75 app development... Android Developer Conference AnDevCon, May 28-31, is the leading technical conference dedicated to developing and deploying applications for Android smartphones, tablets and other devices. AnDevCon expands to Boston after four successful Bay area events. More than 1,200 software developers and IT managers from 30...	29 UXPA Boston 12th Annual User Experience Conference Conference Program is Live! Join us on Wednesday May 29th, 2013 for the twelfth UXPA Boston Annual Conference at the Sheraton Boston, Boston, MA. Hear and discuss critical topics in usability and user-centered design with... Let’s Go! Putting Life in Life Sciences Startups in MetroWest This program features tips and insights from key MetroWest startup life science CEO leaders and a brief panel discussion, starting 6:45. Also, “Start-Up Stand-Up!”, a one-minute pitch by 5 aspiring MetroWest life science startups seeking awareness, talent and wisdom from the audience. Come... Startup Institute - Important People, Honest Conversation with Rob May, Backupify Please join us on Wednesday, May 29th, for a night of honest conversation with Rob May.Rob May is the CEO & Co-Founder of Backupify. Backupify is the leading provider of backup and recovery solutions for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Rob graduated from the University of...	30 OpenCoffee Cambridge (Disclaimer: Because of SEC regulations, we can only allow expert investors to be in the meeting. Entrepreneurs are not allowed to solicit investments of any kind. Also, just to set the expectation right, we rarely see any VC. You can drop by anytime, and leave anytime without offending us... Venture Cafe in Session Come mix and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs! Find serendipitous connections, meet VCs for office hours and attend E&I-focused events. www.vencaf.com Venture Cafe alpha is an invitational prototype, with invitations extended to the entrepreneurial, innovative and creative communities... Boston Azure - Matthew Grace Has An Azure Framework Join Matthew Grace, CTO of Objective Logistics, for a look at Nimbus - the open source framework built by Matt and his company to support their development of MUSE, their Azure service that makes working at restaurant more game-like. This was originally scheduled for Feb 28, 2013. AGENDA 6:... Creating Successful Crowd Funding Campaigns: What You Need to Know When an entrepreneur hears the words 'Kickstarter' or 'IndieGoGo', they think ‘wow, this is a great way to raise funds with no angels or VCs, presell my game, and spread the word about my goals and ambitions.” But, could it be a whole lot more, or less? Come hear from game developers who...	31 NEVCA - Coffee Connect - Startup Myths: You Can't Build a Consumer Startup in Boston Want to learn how to network with VCs? Want to learn how to network and find talent? Want to learn how to network with other entrepreneurs? Come hear Rudina Seseri from Fairhaven Capital and Brent Grinna from Evertrue talk about getting plugged in to the Boston... General Assembly Boston - Web Development : Let's Break It Down Web Development : Let's Break It Down Matt Brendzel, Educational Programs Producer at General Assemb.ly Wednesday, May 15th from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm Thinking of learning to code, but getting lost in the alphabet soup (AJAX, PHP, CSS, etc) ? Interested in building your own web sites and web...

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The Boston Startup Walkabout is a 4-day long city-wide event for job seekers and members of the tech community. Over the course of the week, some of Boston's best startups will be opening their doors to network, share a couple coffees, and show why you should join their team. Check out the...

Boston Sports Tech Meetup

Our first meetup will be Wednesday May 1 at Game On! Boston near Fenway Park. The meetup will start at 7pm and we will have 1-2 presenters and demos from local startups. If you have any questions or are interested in presenting please let me know pedicini.alex@gmail.com

Big Data Healthcare 2013

Big data is gaining lot of buzz in healthcare as it has the potential to empower providers and payers. According to McKinsey Global Institute, the potential value of big data, if used creatively and effectively by the U.S. healthcare industry, is worth more than $300 billion every year....

Building Your Team

Putting together the right team at the right time is critical to the success of your start-up. In this program, Brad Harkavy(http://www.linkedin.com/in/bradharkavy), COO of Sagewell Inc., will share his thoughts on building a winning team and some lessons learned forming teams for several start-ups...

KPMG Executive Compensation Primer: Demystifying Tax and Valuation Common Stock Option Issues

In today’s VC business environment, private companies must meet substantial legally mandated standards in the valuation of their shares for both financial reporting and tax purposes under ASC Topic 718 and IRC Section 409A. Both require companies to estimate the fair (market) value of their common...

Launch Smart Clinic with two Water Startups – HYDRORECOVERY and NBD Nanotechnologies, Inc.

The Launch Smart Clinic is designed for pre-funded companies to identify and fine-tune their business plans, presentations, and pitches before talking to potential investors. The format includes 2 companies doing a dress rehearsal of their pitch, comments from a panel of experts, and...

NEVCA - NEVY Awards 2013

Join us for the New England Venture Capital Association's first ever awards party, The NEVY Awards. Meet VC's from New England's best firms and rub shoulders with the hottest entrepreneurs who have come up for air for a night to party hard with us.No squirming in your seat or polite clapping...

Boston Javascript - May Project Night

* all skill levels welcome * work on your project or help others with theirs * bring a laptop

Boston Startup Walkabout

MITX - The Great Mobile Migration: Demystifying Mobile Marketing

Mobile marketing is growing up - fast. It's no longer a question of "do you have a mobile strategy?" It's "how are you optimizing your mobile strategy?"Responsive design, campaign integration, privacy, big data, ad measurement, precision targeting, analytics, and ROI are all key issues that come...

MassTLC Big Data & Energy Seminar: How Big Data Can Drive Big-Time Energy Efficiency

Data is an integral component to understanding and managing energy consumption for many stakeholders, including homeowners, businesses and institutions of all sizes, government entities, utilities, and grid operators. Hear real use cases from the teams on the front lines, from the tools they...

OpenCoffee Cambridge

(Disclaimer: Because of SEC regulations, we can only allow expert investors to be in the meeting. Entrepreneurs are not allowed to solicit investments of any kind. Also, just to set the expectation right, we rarely see any VC. You can drop by anytime, and leave anytime without offending us...

TiECON East 2013 - Empowering Entrepreneurs

TiECON East is the only conference on the east coast that brings together established and startup entrepreneurs in Technology, Life Sciences, Education, and Cleantech.Entrepreneurs attend the two-day conference to learn about the latest trends in innovation, get advice from battle tested...

Venture Cafe in Session

Come mix and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs! Find serendipitous connections, meet VCs for office hours and attend E&I-focused events. www.vencaf.com Venture Cafe alpha is an invitational prototype, with invitations extended to the entrepreneurial, innovative and creative communities...

Office Hours at The Venture Cafe - Joe Caruso

For the last 20 years Joe Caruso has served has been an “Advocate for entrepreneurs” as a mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has served an investor, advisor and active director with dozens of companies, public and private. He also maintains an...

Betaspring Spring 2013 Launch Day

Please join us on May 2 for Spring 2013 Launch Day! Launch Day ain't for lightweights: come watch 4-minunte pitches from the 15 companies exiting Betaspring and get a glimpse into the ground they've covered since joining us in February....

InSITE Pitch Night & Drinks @ John Harvard's

Hello friends of InSITE! Please join us for our semi-annual event, InSITE Pitch Day 6:00-6:30 pm -- Introduction & Meet and Greet6:30-7:30 pm -- Company pitches with panelist feedback (10 min pitch, 2 minutes feedback)7:30 - 8:00 pm --...

Boston Quantified Self & IDEO: Health & Wellness Innovation Night

Boston Quantified Self & IDEO: Health & Wellness Innovation Night will feature researchers, entrepreneurs and companies who are leading the way to more personalized health and wellness using self-tracking systems. The evening will start with live product demonstrations showcasing...

The Cambridge Search Engine Optimization Meetup Group - SEO Meetup

Boston / Cambridge SEO Internet Marketing Networking Group We invite local Boston SEO, affiliate marketing and search engine marketing professionals in New England area to join us. Location: Microsoft New England, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA Agenda: 6:30pm to 7pm: Open Networking Business Card...

Boston Startup Walkabout

Hacks/Hackers Boston - athenahealth and Hacking Medicine team up for May hack-a-thon!

We are proud to announce a joint hack-a-thon between athenahealth and Hacking Medicine! The goal of this event is to bring together inventive, forward-thinking minds to change the status quo and create disruptive solutions in healthcare today....

ProductCamp Boston 2013

PRODUCTCAMP BOSTON is the only full-day unconference for productmanagers and product marketers in the Boston area. It’s the premierevent for product professionals to find out the latest developments,discover new ideas, and network with other professionals. Becauseit's an unconference,...

hack/reduce - VoltDB Hackathon

Saturday, May 4th: Training WorkshopSunday, May 5th: HackathonFull-day sessions (10 a.m. – 6 p.m.) Ok, so you’ll be all trained up. Then what? Well, then you’ll show us what you’ve got – Join us on Saturday, May 4th for more training plus some time to get a headstart on your project at hack/...

hack/reduce - VoltDB Hackathon

M2M Hackathon

Axeda M2M Hackathon Sponsored by AT&T Join us for an exciting 24-hour M2M Hackathon competition sponsored by AT&T. This hackathon is designed for both technical and non-technical attendees to build apps, connect products, and compete for $10k in prizes. Bring your team...

CJP Innovation Exchange: Visionary Minds Shaping a Better World

and Invite you to Innovation Exchange 2013: Visionary Minds Shaping a Better WorldLike Massachusetts, Israel has few natural resources but abundant brainpower and creativity. And both have “cracked the code” on how to innovate successfully. Meet two of Israel’s brightest...

Axeda M2M Hackathon Sponsored by AT&T

Axeda M2M Hackathon Sponsored by AT&T Join us for an exciting 24-hour Hackathon competition sponsored by AT&T. This hackathon is designed for both technical and non-technical attendees to build apps, connect products,...

NEVCA - Cinco de Mayo Party

Grab your sombrero and join us for the Cinco de Mayo party of the year. Best of all, you can celebrate on the 5th and then do it all again--but better--the next night.Join the NEVCA and Flybridge Capital Partners for a Cinco de Mayo celebration. Margaritas, beer and cheese dip will be...

Boston Android - Building Your First Android Application

Are you a java developer eager to learn new techniques to make your app look and feel like a modern, awesome Android app that runs on multiple form factors? If you want to up your...

Intelligent.ly - Keep It Simple: Mobile Design for Product Owners

You’re finally ready to build your mobile app. You’ve discussed possible features, picked the brains of stakeholders, developers, colleagues, and friends; ideas are not in short supply. How do you distill those ideas down into a coherent mobile app experience? In this class, you'll learn how...

GA Boston - Getting Started with WordPress

Ross Beyeler, Founder and CEO of Growth Spark Monday, May 6th from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm WordPress is the premier content management system for those seeking an easy, user-friendly way to set up and maintain a website. In this class, we'll walk through the basics of getting your site live...

Harvard iLab - The President's Challenge Demo Day 2013

The President's Challenge Demo Day 2013 We are pleased to invite you to the President’s Challenge Demo Day here at the i-lab. This past term, the innovation lab has been proud to host the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship, which is now in its 2nd year. Students have been...

MassTLC Mobile & Healthcare Seminar: Connected Health - The Future of Managing Health and Wellness?

Total U.S. health care expenditures were estimated to be $2.8 trillion in 2012, and is expected to grow steadily unless significant reforms take place. Connected health, or remote care delivery, is viewed as a critical component to the changes that are eminent in our healthcare system to...

Mass Innovation Nights - MIN500 Special Event

Our 50th event will be a very special event! On Tuesday, May 7th, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm, we'll be celebrating the 500 products YOU have helped to launch over the past four years. We'll bring back many of our favorites, getting an...

Boston Azure - PowerShell on Azure: Turbocharging Azure Automation

Come join PowerShell MVP Aleksandar Nikolić (@alexandair) to understand what this PowerShell thing is all about - and how to use it to turbocharge your Windows Azure toolbox. This goes well beyond simple deployment. Of particular interest to the IT Pro, WazOps (Windows Azure DevOps), and...

GA Boston - Crafting the Perfect Pitch

Crafting the Perfect Pitch Linda Plano, Principal at Plano & Simple Tuesday, May 7th from 6:00 to 7:30 pm You've got a great idea and a big vision for your startup - now all you need are the resources to enable you to make your success a reality! But actually making your case to...

Intelligent.ly - Market Research for Startups

Market Research for Startup Leaders Instructor: Natalie Nathanson While market research sounds like a lofty and expensive undertaking for most startups, it doesn’t have to be. Even the most basic qualitative market research program will help you better understand engage your...

Co-Founders Wanted Boston

The purpose of this in-person Meetup is to help you find a co-founder for your business or help you find a business to join as a co-founder. In the mean time, you should get started networking with potential co-founders by creating a free profile on CoFoundersLab.com. To make the most of...

Boston Web Performance Group - Tim Locke - The need for write speed...What if your database could be elastic?

Web applications often face scalability challenges because of their underlying database tier. This is largely because conventional relational databases are inflexible when it comes to scaling. Caching is a great way to keep traffic from hitting the database. Yet what can we do about...

GDG - DevFestW - Fernanda Viégas - Google's "Big Picture" data viz group

This event is part of a series of women-focused DevFestW events being organized by GDG's around the world. We will have a slate of all woman speakers kicked off by: 1. Fernanda Viégas, co-leader of Google's "Big Picture" data visualization group, on:...

Boston ENET - Raising Money from Venture Capitalist

As an entrepreneur, you may have a good business idea addressing a real need in a large and growing market, one that possesses the disruptive technologies, consumer attributes or societal impact that investors are looking for...but will your business be funded? What are those key considerations...

Harvard iLab - Startup Secrets: Intrapreneurship & Cloud Hatching Your Business

Get ready for a deep dive in "intrapreneurship" and how to start your business in the cloud with Senior Vice President, Amazon Web Services and Amazon Infrastructure Andrew Jassy and veteran entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Michael Skok. Have you ever wondered exactly how to take advantage of...

SBANE - 2013 New England Innovation Awards Gala Dinner

2013 New England Innovation Awards Keynote Speaker: To Be Announced 5:30 - 6:30 PM - Cocktail Reception 6:45 - 9:00 PM - Award Program and Keynote All entrepreneurs know, great ideas are not easily translated into successful companies. Innovation is not only the ability to conceive a new way of...

Boston Java Meetup Group - Java and History: An evening at Harvard with Jim Waldo

Java is one of the most widely used programming languages, and everyone hates something about it. But if you know why the language is the way it is, perhaps you will at least understand the thinking that led to a particular wart. In this session, you can talk with one of the original "gang of 6...

VentureFizz / Dissero - Scaling to 1M+ Users - Customer Acquisition Strategies

Event Details Customer acquisition is obviously key to the success of any company. Whether you are a Consumer or B2B oriented product... without users, you have nothing. It's hard enough to come up with a great idea, build...

Virality: Beyond Cute Cats

When Harvard Business School professor Jeffrey Rayport named the term “viral marketing” in 1996, little did he know he was establishing a revolutionary new paradigm, and with it, a “holy grail” for the emerging world of internet-based commerce. In this context, the biologically based phenomenon...

Mass High Tech - 2013 Women to Watch

Join Mass High Tech for the 10th annual Women to Watch event, which recognizes women in tech and life sciences who are go-getters, hardworking, inspirational and motivational to their peers. These up-and-comers are continuing to grow and will shape the future of their industries. ...

128 ICG - I Raised the Money ... Let me Tell You How I Did It!

Jacqueline Thong of Ubiqi Health and Peter van der Meulen of 7AC Technologies will share their stories. Register for this meeting These entrepreneurs have successfully raised investment capital. They will share...

OpenCoffee Cambridge

Venture Cafe in Session

Web Start Women - CSS: Positioning & Layouts (4-class series)

Description This course picks up where our CSS Basics class left off - we'll explain positioning and layouts, probably the most challenging part of CSS. Practice is key to understanding layouts, so we'll work through exercises and examples that...

General Assembly Boston - Usability Testing Fundamentals

Usability Testing Fundamentals Eva Kaniasty, Founder of Red Pill UX Thursday, May 9th from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm (Part 1)Thursday, May 16th from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm (Part 2) Usability testing is a key technique for evaluating a product's capacity to meet the needs of its target audience. This two-...

hack/reduce - Data Analytics hackathon w/ dunnhumby & hack/reduce: A Product Launch Challenge!

The importance of early feedback on new product launches Grocery stores are always looking to introduce new products, such as a new flavor of drink, a new type of yogurt, or the latest DVD. In the highly competitive world of retailing, the success or failure of these new product...

Acceleprise Boston Showcase Day

Acceleprise is excited to showcase our second class of companies during our Demo Day in Boston.These companies include MetaLayer, Talentwire, LearnShark, TrackMaven, Awesome API, Edi.io, and Aquicore. Acceleprise is an accelerator focused on enterprise technology founded and anchored by...

Innovation Series Event: It takes more than just Big Data – Evolving Solutions for Pharma and Healthcare

Big Data and associated measurement technologies promise to revolutionize pharma and healthcare. These new innovations have the potential to greatly improve patient care. Large scale measurements of biological state, smart phone/miniature sensor based measurements and remote monitoring of...

Spring Start Smart Class, May 13 – July 15, 2013

An 8-week hands on class for startups The class is designed for start-up and early stage technology entrepreneurs looking to delve into each phase of getting their new venture going – from building their business model and properly positioning their company / products to raising capital, the...

DrinksOnTap - Demos, drinks and discussions about mobile development

DrinksOnTap is a social meetup for Boston area mobile developers (iPhone, Android and more). We are always looking for amazing demos from companies in the Boston mobile community. Got a great app you'd love to show off? Sign up to demo at bit.ly/...

Refresh Boston - Gamification 2013: Hype, Hustlers, and Hope

About This Presentation Since its rapid rise to the top of the buzzword list, "Gamification" has been over-hyped and over-sold as a turn-key solution for creating desirable, engaging and ultimately profitable digital products and services. The game guru’s mantra of "adding...

The Boston MySQL Meetup Group - John Hugg, VoltDB

NOTE - we are back at E51! (but on the first floor) Speaker: John Hugg, Software Engineer at VoltDB. Supporting a high-throughput distributed database like VoltDB in long-term, real-world deployments quickly demonstrates that many assumptions about...

Boston Amazon Web Services Meetup Group - May Event

Please note our special meeting location for this event, hosted by Nokia. Link for directions: http://here.com/cambridge%2C-ma-02142-usa/map=42.36225,-71.0803,17/title=1%20Main%20St Thank you to Meetup member Keith Baker for helping to make this...

Hacking Predictive Analytics - Hackathon: Develop/MapReduce Your Dream Predictive Analytics/BigData App.

Our goal is to implement a few apps, using publicly available APIs. You can propose apps, code them, or just be an observer. PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, C++, FORTRAN, or COBOL (just kidding!) are all welcome! If you want to code, please go through the APIs below. Agenda: Step 1: Get to know ...

MassTLC - CXO Forum: "Crossing the Chasm" - What has Changed in the Past Two Decades?

"Crossing the Chasm" - What Has Changed in the Past Two Decades?Featuring Author, Geoffrey Moore This event is a CXO level event (CEO, CTO, CFO, etc.) if you have any questions please email Jennifer@masstlc.org.Agenda:8:00am - 8:30am: Breakfast, Networking8:30am - 9:45am: Welcome8:45am - 9:...

RFID Gets Fashion Forward but It’s Time to Move It Further Back — to the Source!

Billions of RFID tags now deployed for item-level apparel annually.Register With passive UHF RFID being implemented by growing numbers of retailers and brands, RFID technology at the item level in fashion apparel and footwear is a hot-right-now application market. But what’s next? How do we...

WEST - Leadership Strategies for Advancing Your Career in Science

Sandra Glucksmann, WEST Board Chair and SVP of Research and Development at Cerulean Pharma, will share stories of her career challenges and success. She will discuss how to best apply your scientific and analytical abilities to develop influence and negotiation skills. Sandra will share her...

The 17th Annual Rosoff Awards

The 17th Annual Rosoff Awards The Rosoff Awards were created to honor corporations in the Boston business community that are devoted to building an inclusive workplace environment, or are committed to supporting diversity, mentoring and inclusion programs in Greater Boston. The spirit of the...

The Venture Forum - Go To Market: Market, Sell or Perish -The Most Critical Part of a Nascent Business

You have a great product or service, but how do you get others to see its greatness and pay you for it? A top-notch marketing and sales team is a critical element in every startup's success. Yet many entrepreneurs, especially those embarking on their first ventures, find it challenging to...

Cambridge Semantic Web Monthly Meetup

********************************** Agenda: ********************************** Dr. Paolo Ciccarese, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Open Annotation Core Data Model...

MITX 100 Beers Networking Party

Register Now! This event is members-only so please log-in to your account to register.Our 100 Beers parties bring together the MITX community for quarterly networking, drinks and a celebration of our community's achievements. This month's event is no different. We'll be celebrating some of the...

Tech in Motion - Tech Mixer: Mobile Edition

Join us at Scholars on School Street for a night of networking with the Boston tech community! Come grab after work drinks and light snacks and chat with local tech enthusiasts about the latest trends. Whether you are new to meetup or not, this is a great way to stay connected with the Boston...

Management Basics for Emerging Company CEOs

Management Basics for Emerging Company CEOsFor first timers and serial entrepreneurs, the challenges of managing a growing business can be overwhelming – but rewarding. In this program, CEO-for-hire Desmond Pieri will discuss some of the key issues that face every startup CEO.Topics will...

TechSandBox Launch Party

It's our big launch party. Get on the list by contacting us and telling us why you love MetroWest and want to support Sci-tech Entrepreneurship.

LearnLaunch - Marketing on a Shoestring Budget

Level: BeginnerTrack: Marketing Marketing can be challenging when you have an early stage startup with a limited budget. Come learn from marketing expert Sheryl Schultz who has 30+ years of experience in marketing and has worked with many startups to help them develop a...

Intelligent.ly - Back to Basics: Financial Fundamentals

Back to Basics: Financial Fundamentals When it comes to startups, SVB has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Here's the deal - it's all about the numbers. Many entrepreneurs bite of more than they can chew with sophisticated business models. Others drown in vanity metrics. In this...

MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition - Launch Finale

Welcome to the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. Over $350K in prizes are given to aspiring entrepreneurs each year through participation in a series of three contests: the Pitch Contest, the Accelerate Contest, and the Launch Contest. The winner of the LAUNCH...

OpenCoffee Cambridge

Lean Startup Circle - Continuous Deployment: Better software, faster

Want to learn how big companies like Amazon, Facebook and LinkedIn are developing their software?Continuous deployment drives innovation in software developmentwhile reducing operational risk. Faster feedback cycles and quick iterations enable you to build a better product in less time. ...

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Office Hours at The Venture Cafe - Stephen Davis, CXO Advisory Group

Stephen Davis is a business growth strategist – as well as the Founder of the Meet with Stephen Davis, a business growth strategist who has been a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs for over 20 years. He is the Founder of CXO Advisory Group, a company that works with businesses, entrepreneurs...

5th Annual Kendall Square Clean Up

What is the Kendall Square Clean Up? Gather your team and join the Kendall Square Association and the Cambridge Marriott for the 5th Annual Kendall Square Clean Up. It's a great opportunity clean the neighborhood and network with your neighbors. After you complete your...

Office Hours at The Venture Cafe- Jennifer Jordan, MassVentures

Stop by and chat with Jennifer Jordan, Vice President of MassVentures.. You can reserve a 15 minute segment by signing up at her table in the Café. MassVentures is an early-stage venture capital fund dedicated to investing in Massachusetts high growth technology companies. MassVentures is...

Princeton EN Boston Meeting - 2013 Business Plan Contest

Refreshments and networking: 6:00pm Presentations begin at 6:30 pm and we will be done by 8:30 pm This is an excellent opportunity for enterprising Princetonians and non-Princetonians who wish to bring their ideas to market to connect with and get feedback from seasoned entrepreneurs...

B2B Product Messaging: In 60 seconds or less- What does your product do, and why should I care?

B2B Product Messaging:In 60 seconds or less - What does your product do, and why should I care?Thursday, May 16, 20136:15 pmWhether communicating with prospective customers, investors, management, the media, or analysts, your ability to answer these questions clearly and concisely can make or break...

Boston Hardware Startup Meetup #2

Hello Hardwarians! After a brief hiatus, it's time for Boston's second hardware startup meetup. Don't worry, they'll be every month from now on. It's all about the teams, so each month we'll have 3 hardware startups present. They'll have time to pitch, ask questions, and hopefully...

Samsung Ventures - Info Session and Pitch Event

Come learn about Samsung Ventures and what it is like to work with Samsung from a startup’s perspective. Samsung Ventures will hold a Speed Round Pitch Event on this day from 7 P.M. to 8 P.M. Fill out the application here by 5pm May 10th if you are interested in participating.

Innovation and Investing on Other Continents - Roundtable

Cambridge isn’t the only happening spot for innovation and investing, there’s more activity than you might think in regions across the world. Representatives from Spain, Greece, and Korea, in town for the MIT Enterprise Forum Chapter Leadership Conference, will lead a discussion on the...

Ultra Light Startups - Investor Feedback Forum

Ultra Light Startups Investor Feedback Forum Investor Panelists Brett Garrett (@brettgarrett) - Principal at Bain Capital VenturesZaid Ashai (@zaidashai) - General Partner at Point Judith CapitalTBC! Startup Pitches TBC! We are currently accepting pitch applications!...

GA Boston - Usability Testing Fundamentals

ONEin3 - Downtown Waterfront Planning Initiative Workshop

StubHub Hackathon

StubHub Hackathon: Discover Starts Friday, May 17th, 2013 at 6:00PM Ends Sunday, May 19th, 2013 at 11:00AM Prizes and Recognition First place: $5,000 Second Place: $3,000 Third place: $2,000 Additionally, individuals nominated by fellow participants in the following categories will receive an...

Music 2.0: Tools + Tech for Musicians, Marketers + Managers: The 2013 Edition

Boston + New England has an impressive number of companies creating tools and technologies to help promote, create, and share music. We also have a vibrant and diverse music community. Let's keep connecting the two for the benefit of both. In 2010, 2011, and 2012 we...

StubHub Hackathon

MIT StartLabs - Demo Day 2013

MIT students, administrators, and members of the Boston entrepreneurship ecosystem are all invited to learn about 10 awesome projects/companies from MIT!StartLabs will be using the hack/reduce space in Cambridge to allow for beautiful 8 minute demos from each of our 10...

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Apache BarCamp Boston

The Apache Software Foundation hosts an Apache BarCamp in Boston, MA on May 19th, 2013. Being a BarCamp event, the agenda is ultimately determined by you, the attendees but we already anticipate great discussions on... The Apache WayThe Apache IncubatorLearn how to get started contributing...

Gaming Mobile UX SIG Cluster: App Overload and Best Practices in Marketing

There are over 1.5 million mobile apps among iOS, Android and Windows Phone OS. What are some strategies for marketing your mobile solution so yours gets user adoption? Join us for a lively discussion with mobile entrepreneurs.Speaker’s Name: Eric Sullivan, Co-Founder, TripchiSpeaker’s Name:...

IT SIG Cluster: Big data, intense analytics, big opportunities

It's our first IT SIG meeting and the topic is a big one that crosses industry boundaries: big data. Whether developing new storage technologies to handle the data or implementing analytics in medical, life sciences, financial services or telecommunications, the topic has broad impact. Big...

NFC Circle Event: How NFC Will Keep Us Fit

Are you worried about how your body may change as you get older? Turns out you’re not alone. Market size numbers in preventive care range from USD 8.5 billion to over USD 14 billion worldwide.Register And those numbers are likely to swell — thanks to NFC-enabled smartphones. With an NFC chip in...

Intelligent.ly - Game Design Fundamentals

Game Design Fundamentals Instructor: Seth Sivak Games are played on every device across the world. Game mechanics are being intregated into our favorite services and making their way into our everyday lives. In this class, Seth will discuss topics surrounding indirect control,...

GA Boston - Conducting Brand Research Through Social Media

Conducting Brand Research Through Social Media Kaitlin Maud, Manager of Marketing Strategy at SapientNitro Monday, May 20th from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Social media is an untapped resource for marketers. Listening to what people say about your brand is vital for identifying trends and can provide...

Boston Indies - May Meetup

Our May 2013 Boston Indies meetup will be on Monday, May 20th @ 7pm. It’s our Spring 2013 Demo Night! Bring your in-development and recently-released games and show them off to your peers for fun and feedback. If you’re not developing a game (why?) or can’t make a playable version of...

The Capital Network - How to plan for an M&A exit before and after early-stage equity financing

May 21, 20138:00 am - 10:30 amAutodesk, Inc.1560 Trapelo RoadWaltham, MA 02451Join us for a panel discussion with the area’s biggest and most active M&A corporations. Listen to what they look for in a structure, early financing deals, whether they want customers/revenue, and what...

Coffee with Zeppelin

We're really proud of what we have to show off. So proud in fact, that we have decided to host this event, and buy everyone who helps us out a bit, a cup of coffee. We believe managing your business should be as easy as catching up on the news next to your morning coffee, so we want to show...

LunchSpotting 1.4 - PayPal

LunchSpotting was created to connect Boston’s Innovation Economy including entrepreneurs, executives, VCs, media, and prospective employees in a casual, fun, “no expectations” kind of way. Come feed your mind and your belly! LunchSpotting was created by Matter Communications and...

LearnLaunch: Entrepreneurs & Ed Tech Ecosystems Webinar

Level: BeginnerTrack: Research Join Richard Culatta, Acting Director of the Office of Educational Technology for the US Department of Education, in a discussion about the Department of Education's research on national ed tech ecosystems and the implications of these findings for...

WITI - Women for Hire: Perfect Pitch, Perfect Resumes, Perfect Job

The economy is picking up here in Boston and companies are looking for engineers, developers, programmers, tech sales, marketers, web designers, project managers, system administrators and the like. Our career fair will bring together interested professionals and recruiters looking to meet,...

Web Start Women - Stand Out: How to Create Noteworthy Online Portfolios (1 class)

Description In this class we'll explore winning strategies for online portfolios and résumés. On the job market? Seeking more clients for your freelance business? Artist, entrepreneur, academic, and/or business owner, no matter what...

Intelligent.ly - Legal Land Mines: What to Know When Starting Your Startup

Legal Landmines: What to Know When Starting Your Startup Instructors: Mick Bain & Janene Asgeirsson, WilmerHale Starting a new company is hard, but putting in place the right legal framework for your business doesn’t have to be. In this class, you’ll learn ...

EntreTech - The Internet of Things (aka Machine to Machine or M2M) - A new Frontier for Entrepreneurs

We live in an age where many items can be individually identified. Cars pass through toll booths with chips in transponders; passports have microchips; pets have microchip implants; appliances can be monitored; and the list goes on. All of these items can communicate with people, machines, or...

Boston Python - May Presentation Night: Kenneth Reitz, Python for Humans

For our May speaker, we have a real treat! Kenneth Reitz is a luminary in the Python world, and a prized speaker at any Python conference. Thanks to Heroku and Rue La La and Heroku for sponsoring. Python for Humans, Kenneth Reitz Python’s ecosystem is held up to a high standard, but...

Boston MongoDB - MongoDB and Meteor at Gander

We'll have David Wihl from Raparian Data will discuss using MongoDB and Meteor at Gander, the email app that lets you fly through your email Meteor is the first open-source full stack platform for developing and deploying end-to-end JavaScript...

Life Sciences Circle Event: Early-Stage Fundraising: Survival stories from the “valley-of-death”

Raising capital for early-stage life science companies has always been difficult. Amid economic uncertainty and venture capital consolidation it seems that every investor wants to wait until you have a working prototype, clinical data, customer traction or positive cash flow. Despite the...

Energy and Environment: Links to sustainability and economic growth

Richard K. Sullivan Jr., Secretary of the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA) which holds the shared mission of bringing clean energy technology to market, curbing greenhouse gas emissions, cutting energy costs and preserving our natural resources, will speak...

MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

The enterprise of the future will be very different from the one we know. It will be complex, develop hitherto unforeseen forms, and will have to respond to unexpected challenges. All while the windows of opportunity and response will continue to shrink. What can the CIO do to lead the...

TCN - Utilizing IP to Access Funding

IP can be more than just a protection of your ideas. It can be used to leverage unique non-equity funding alternatives. This lunch will explore whether your IP portfolio could be licensed to add cash to your business. The discussion will also touch on the advantages and pitfalls of licensing as...

Intelligent.ly - Fundamentals of Pay Per Click (PPC) Marketing

Fundamentals of Pay Per Click (PPC) Marketing Instructor: Larry Kim Paid search generates approximately 240 Million clicks and 13 million conversions every day – It’s a highly effective and leveraged form of direct response marketing and should be employed in some form by any company with...

Boston Predictive Analytics - Interactive Web Visualizations - Study Group, Project & Networking Night

Due to the strong interest in Interactive Web Visualizations, the plan for this unstructured event will be to dive deeper on this topic. Whereas the February project night was very broad in nature, I think having a more specific focus should...

Boston Front End Developers - Data Visualization in the Browser

Rob Larsen Presents Data Visualization in the Browser We're awash in data. Making sense of that flood of information is impossible without the aid of visualizations to simplify the information, amplify the important points and educate at a...

128 Venture North - Looking Good! How to Impress Investors

Looking Good! How to Impress Investors Register for this meeting How do you catch the attention of investors? Getting your foot in the door is just the beginning. You need a presentation that speaks to them and leaves them...

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WEST - Advanced Communication Skills and Presentation Coaching

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Strong communication skills will help you create good and lasting impressions on others. Some individuals are naturally good at interpersonal communication while others develop their skills overtime through practice. Come and learn how...

Morse Barnes-Brown Pendleton - Charting a Course from Series A to Successful Exit

The journey from company formation and a Series A round to exit is fraught with uncertainty and success depends upon many factors and a lot of luck. Attend this panel discussion to learn how four entrepreneurs are achieving their goal. Jere Doyle (Founder and CEO, Prospectiv Direct), Steven J...

Prompt Communications Office Hours

Pitch it perfectly with Prompt: How to spark press interest in your technology product, app or service. Is your high-tech product or service gaining the media visibility it deserves and your company needs? If not, book a 20-minute tech PR consulting session with Prompt CEO Hazel Butters to talk...

MassChallenge - Technology Directions: Keeping it Real

and present Technology Directions: Keeping it Real Open Source Software- What's the Buzz All About? In late April 2013, OpenStack Summit in Portland, Oregon was the place to be in technology. The idea of creating a baseline open source platform for...

Consultative Selling & Why It Makes Better Customers with Mark Roberge (HubSpot)

Why is your prospect talking with you? What are your prospect's compelling reasons to change? Why would a prospect buy? What are the consequences of doing nothing? Learning how to have consultative conversations allows for more omni-directional communication and understanding and positions you...

Boston New Tech Meetup - May 2013 #bnt29

Free event! Boston New Technology's April product showcase - 29th edition! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A....

GA Boston - Search Marketing Project Night

Search Marketing Project Night (May 2013) Thursday, May 23rd from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm Join us for the first Search Marketing Project Night (co-sponsored by Venture Café and General Assembly, two of Boston’s largest entrepreneurial and learning communities). This is an informal event with lots...

TechStars Boston - Demo Day After-Party

TechStars Boston Demo Day After-Party Sponsored by Soft Layer May 23rd from 7:30 pm - Onwards Please join us for the official after-party for TechStars Boston Demo Day. There will be DJs, snacks, and lots of great folks from the Boston startup community. Please reserve your...

WorkBar - Lunch and Learn: Increase Your Web Site Traffic and Conversions

Increase Your Web Site Traffic and Conversions: SEO Strategies and Tools for Small Business Owners Intermediate Level: This class is for small business owners who have an active web site (or will have one soon) and who want to learn how to drive more targeted traffic to their site and convert...

Boston Python - Intermediate Python Workshop

What: Intermediate Python Workshop: level up your Python through self-paced practice on short, fun, practical projects. When: Saturday, May 25th, 10:30am - 4:00pm Where: MIT, room 56-154 Things to bring: a wifi-capable laptop and power cord Questions: e-mail us! Level up your Python...

AnDevCon - The Android Developer Conference

AnDevCon is the technical conference for software developers building Android apps. Offering mobile app development training and Android app development tutorials, AnDevCon is the biggest, most info-packed,most practical Android conference in the world. Choose from more than 75 app development...

Android Developer Conference

AnDevCon, May 28-31, is the leading technical conference dedicated to developing and deploying applications for Android smartphones, tablets and other devices. AnDevCon expands to Boston after four successful Bay area events. More than 1,200 software developers and IT managers from 30...

UXPA Boston 12th Annual User Experience Conference

Conference Program is Live! Join us on Wednesday May 29th, 2013 for the twelfth UXPA Boston Annual Conference at the Sheraton Boston, Boston, MA. Hear and discuss critical topics in usability and user-centered design with...

Let’s Go! Putting Life in Life Sciences Startups in MetroWest

This program features tips and insights from key MetroWest startup life science CEO leaders and a brief panel discussion, starting 6:45. Also, “Start-Up Stand-Up!”, a one-minute pitch by 5 aspiring MetroWest life science startups seeking awareness, talent and wisdom from the audience. Come...

Startup Institute - Important People, Honest Conversation with Rob May, Backupify

Please join us on Wednesday, May 29th, for a night of honest conversation with Rob May.Rob May is the CEO & Co-Founder of Backupify. Backupify is the leading provider of backup and recovery solutions for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Rob graduated from the University of...

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Boston Azure - Matthew Grace Has An Azure Framework

Join Matthew Grace, CTO of Objective Logistics, for a look at Nimbus - the open source framework built by Matt and his company to support their development of MUSE, their Azure service that makes working at restaurant more game-like. This was originally scheduled for Feb 28, 2013. AGENDA 6:...

Creating Successful Crowd Funding Campaigns: What You Need to Know

When an entrepreneur hears the words 'Kickstarter' or 'IndieGoGo', they think ‘wow, this is a great way to raise funds with no angels or VCs, presell my game, and spread the word about my goals and ambitions.” But, could it be a whole lot more, or less? Come hear from game developers who...

NEVCA - Coffee Connect - Startup Myths: You Can't Build a Consumer Startup in Boston

Want to learn how to network with VCs? Want to learn how to network and find talent? Want to learn how to network with other entrepreneurs? Come hear Rudina Seseri from Fairhaven Capital and Brent Grinna from Evertrue talk about getting plugged in to the Boston...

General Assembly Boston - Web Development : Let's Break It Down

Web Development : Let's Break It Down Matt Brendzel, Educational Programs Producer at General Assemb.ly Wednesday, May 15th from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm Thinking of learning to code, but getting lost in the alphabet soup (AJAX, PHP, CSS, etc) ? Interested in building your own web sites and web...

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