You've heard of the Shark Tank ... Welcome to the Piranha Pond! At the Piranha Pond, Entrepreneurs seeking funding have a 5-minute opportunity to convince a panel of Investors to give them the money. Thursday, December 13, 2012 7:30 - 10:00 AM IBM ...

Big Data in MotionThe open source framework Apache Hadoop has traditionally been used for batch oriented processing of very large data sets in a distributed environment, primarily in the context of analytics. As brands begin to focus more on how to reign in and leverage the vast data assets...

Fellow web entrepreneurs and VCs gather once a week in Cambridge, MA to grab some coffee, free WiFi, and chat about what's new. Around the world, tech entrepreneurs and investors are meeting regularly to drink coffee, network and hopefully do deals. No more of the old-school "please send us your...

RSVP at http://www.efactor.com/topcrowd2#Join us for this FREE Webinar and get exclusive insights into crowdfuning from industry's top experts. In this webinar you will learn the unique strengths, weaknesses, challenges and opportunities of crowdfunding movement. Register early to secure your...

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...

Dr. Jill Wittels will be holding a roundtable discussion which will cover how major corporations, venture capital funds, private equity, and private wealth funds view acquisition prospects and the differences between them. Dr. Wittels has over 30 years of management, engineering and leadership...

When you have a great business idea, you’ll need money to get it off and running. Funding will help you with product development, personnel, and office space—but how do you get your hands on that money? Nick Ducoff, VP of Content at Boundless, will walk you through the processes of securing funding...

December 13th featuring Phil Beauregard, CEO of Objective Logistics, who will give his perspective on entrepreneurship on the South Coast and advice for entrepreneurs The event begins at 5:30 p.m., at the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center (ATMC), 151 Martine Street, Fall...

Ideastorm is a high energy, lightly structured brainstorming event that connects entrepreneurs. This week’s challenge question is called Holidays 2.0. Holiday shopping is tedious, expensive, and stressful. What products or services can we create to make it easier to get gifts for friends and...

 In this class, we'll look at the exciting and brand new web technologies Mozilla, Opera, and Google are working on right now which will literally transform the web in 2013. From face recognition, to image and audio processing, to webAPIs we'll show you demos and capabilities of the latest...

When your application runs in the Windows Azure cloud, how do you understand what you have in the cloud - and when something goes wrong, how do you diagnose it? In this talk, Todd Mancini of Microsoft will help you understand how to answer these challenging questions, which fall into the...

Free entry!  Find Boomer is hosting a Networking session for Tech / SaaS / Cloud focused Start-Ups at Julep Bar on Thursday 13th of December from 6.30pm - 9pm.This networking session is for Start-Ups in these industries:- Cloud, App Development, Big Data, Internet, Web Development, Software,...

  

  Are you at a large company that wants to get involved with Data Science? Are you at a startup this is looking to build or sell analytic offerings? Are you a researcher who is interested in working with tech companies as a Data Scientist? This session is for you! Student Takeaways:...