Xconomy

Calling all aspiring life sciences entrepreneurs. Get an inside perspective from someone who has started and taken public three healthcare companies. Stan Lapidus, founder of Cytyc, Exact Sciences, and Helicos Biosciences, will speak to attendees on start-to-finish topics such as validating technologies, obtaining funding at various stages, building a top management team, and exiting strategy. … Continue reading “Inside the Corner Office: An Intimate Conversation with Stan Lapidus”

Providence Geeks, a Rhode Island innovation group, is using this month’s Geek Dinner as a book launch party. Why? Because at May’s Geek Dinner, web and mobile app strategist Jonathan Stark met Providence Geeks co-founder Brian Jepson, who also happens to be a senior editor at O’Reilly Media, a publisher and source on innovation and technology … Continue reading “Providence Geek Dinner”

When it comes to early stage company valuations, entrepreneurs and investors have trouble agreeing. In this once-a-year roundtable sponsored by The Capital Network, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel funders and industry experts will come together to discuss ways the different parties can reach common ground on this subject. Guests will participate in a case study to … Continue reading “TCN Roundtable: Negotiation & Valuation”

There’s a “new consumer” out there and it’s called the college student. At this event sponsored by GoingClear and Off Campus Media, marketing professionals will profile this type of customer and how to use social media, SEO and mobile strategies to reach him or her. Registration and ticket information is here.

Neither online shopping nor social networking are novel concepts, but the relationship the two can share might be. MITX, a New England Internet business and marketing association, hosts this panel to discuss how social media channels and community sharing are continuing to shape the e-commerce world. Register on MITX‘s website.

This event showcases how technology has gone “personal,” featuring companies that have incorporated the social aspect into medicine and publishing. One guest from AuthorsGlobe will explain how the site connects authors, professional organizations and audiences with virtual webcasting, social networking, and e-commerce tools. Another featured company is iSpecimen, which is building a biobank for speedier … Continue reading “MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Start-up Clinic”

Cloud computing isn’t a one-size-fits-all world. This breakfast seminar, put on by the Mass. Technology Leadership Council, will showcase how several companies selected their Cloud strategies. Experts will discuss and debate the merits of private cloud, public cloud and a hybrid of the two different approaches. Event details and registration are here.

And the healthcare discussion continues. Luckily, in a slightly less partisan and perhaps more constructive manner. Dr. George Brenckle, CIO of UMass Memorial Health Care, will discuss the hospital’s forays into IT and potential challenges to look out for in the coming year. UMass Memorial Health Care started revamping its information technology systems in 2008 … Continue reading “Member Roundtable: A Local Hospital’s New IT Initiatives and Challenges in 2010”