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Come find out whether angel investing is for you and how to begin pursuing it. More than a dozen angel investors will share their insights on evaluating potential investments, navigating the legal issues surrounding startup funding, and determining the right amount of money to invest. This event is invite only, but you can e-mail to … Continue reading “Angel Boot Camp”

Consider it spring cleaning for your Internet home. Web design experts will reveal the best techniques to help you reshape your website, at this event sponsored by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge and Fresh Tilled Soil. Registration is online.

This ten-week series of weekly workshops covers the nuts and bolts of the entrepreneurial process. Weekly sessions explore startup milestones from bootstrapping to building business models to partnering and pitching. Attendees will also be able to network and get hands-on feedback for the work they produce. Register online for the program.

Barry Briggs, chief architect and CTO of Microsoft’s IT organization, will deliver the keynote at this MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge event, giving a look at the new challenges and trends in cloud computing. A panel, featuring members from Cloudswitch and Matrix, will explore how businesses can grow in this new era of enterprise computing. … Continue reading “MITEF Innovation Series: The Next Generation of Enterprise Computing”

This one-day conference brings together CIOs and other top business executives to explore the use of technology in enhancing an organization’s performance. Sessions and speakers will explore topics such as security and mobility, IT as an innovation engine, cloud computing, and the role of the CIO in Health IT companies. Registration is here.

Here’s an informal networking event for women working in technology. This month features recruiters and HR managers to spotlight the positions available in the area’s tech sector. Registration is free.

This MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge event features software-as-a-service startup Engaged Minds, and thebuyersNET.com, a crowdsourcing site for group discounts. They’ll share what makes their companies work, and ask for audience feedback on their marketing and fundraising strategies. Registration is online.

Here’s an event targeted directly at CIOs.  If you’re in charge of information technology and security at your company, come learn about the changing nature of your role and the impact of new technologies, from those who hold the position at companies from Microsoft to Blue Cross Blue Shield MA. You can register at this … Continue reading “MassTLC Growth Summit: A New Paradigm for CIO’s”

More than a dozen keynote speakers—from authors to executives to consultants—will dish on innovation in collaboration, service, economics, and the environment, at this event. Attendees can dive further into the topics at what are called “REED” sessions—named for research, explore, experiment, and discuss. Registration is here.

Calling early-stage cleantech companies: come learn how to distinguish the different funding opportunities—such as VC, angel funding, government grants, and utility partnerships—that you could be using to get off the ground. A cleantech company founder and a state official will explain how your startup can attract funding, at this event sponsored by The Capital Network. … Continue reading “The Capital Network: Raising Capital for CleanTech”

Come mingle with area entrepreneurs, whose technologies facilitate kids’ used clothing swaps, make online shopping a bit more personal, aid you in searches on your mobile phone, and create social networks, virtual worlds, and online gaming. Cambridge’s MIT Enterprise Forum will be hosting this open house, with drinks, networking,and demos. Event-goers will vote on what … Continue reading “MITEF of Cambridge: In-NOW-vation Technology Showcase and Celebration”

Life sciences venture capitalists will discuss opportunities they’re finding in early-stage biotech and medical devices companies, despite what seems to be a dropoff in funding, at this MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge-hosted discussion.  They’ll also be sharing which life sciences and healthcare technologies they find most promising. You can register for this one here.

Entrepreneurs who have managed to market their products at minimal cost will dish at this MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge event. Come hear about their strategies for getting buzz out through blogs and viral video, and share your experiences in the space, too. Register here.

Pharmaceutical companies will dish on how their technologies make it from development to drugs, at this session of the Cambridge Science Festival. They’ll cover topics from stem cell technology to protein engineering to metabolomics, and even the importance of collaboration.  E-mail to register.

It’s open door night for area tech companies. Neighborhood institutions—from Microsoft to the Cambridge Innovation Center—will give you a peek inside their operations, as part of Cambridge’s Science Festival.

Here’s an event that cuts to the chase. Area thinkers in science and technology will each give five-minute presentations on an array of ideas, at this Cambridge Science Festival session.

WilmerHale lawyers and Jeffrey McCarthy, of North Bridge Venture Partners, will discuss legal to-dos for new businesses, from start to finish. Get their take on startup law issues, including licensing technology, hiring employees, getting government funding, and preparing for an initial public offering or a merger. RSVP here.

When it comes to energy efficiency, there’s plenty of green available beyond environmental gain. Learn how make a business opportunity out of the growing buzz surrounding energy efficiency, and check out companies that are innovating in various aspects of the energy supply chain, at this event put on by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge. … Continue reading “MITEF Energy SIG: Seizing the Energy Efficiency Opportunity”

It seems there’s nothing mobile platforms can’t accomplish, even paying for transactions. Come learn how Japan’s mobile, e-payment system might be bound for use across the globe, at this event put on by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge,