Friends,
Hub Boston pops up at Venture Café this week with a lineup of entrepreneurs dedicated to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, such as poverty, access to clean water and sanitation, and sustainability. Also this week, join this month’s TCN UpStart Roundtable with Raj Aggarwal, CEO of Localytics. And, like every other Thursday, chat with visiting experts to get advice on growing your startup.
Hope to see you on Thursday!
Thursday, July 25, 2013 | Venture Café in Session | 3:00 – 8:00 P.M.
3:00 – 5:00 P.M. | Massachusetts Small Business Development Center – Office Hours
Mark Allio will be back at the Café for office hours. Mark is Regional Director of the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center (MSBDC) Network’s Boston Regional Office & Minority Business Center at UMass Boston. MSBDC provides free one-on-one business advisory services, entrepreneurial training workshops, and special assistance in gaining access to capital. MSBDC Advisors are all former entrepreneurs. Mark previously co-founded two business ventures: TracRac, a Fall River-based manufacturer of automotive accessories, and Virtuous.com, an e-ticketing service provider serving the arts and entertainment industry. Sign up here for office hours.
4:00 – 6:00 P.M. | TCN UpStart Roundtable
Seasoned entrepreneurs and early-stage startups come together in this monthly gathering brought to you by The Capital Network (TCN), Venture Café and Silicon Valley Bank. You will have opportunities to meet fellow entrepreneurs and ask questions about starting a company. This month’s featured entrepreneur is Raj Aggarwal, CEO at Localytics. Join his conversation with Jerry King, former COO at Where, Inc.
4:00 – 6:00 P.M. | George Mabry – Office Hours
Ask consultant, mentor, and angel investor George Mabry for feedback on your business concept. He is active in Harvard’s, MIT’s, and Greater Boston’s entrepreneurship communities and holds degrees in computer science and business. George co-founded a biotech market research company that was acquired by a global biopharmaceutical service provider in 2008. To speak with him, please sign up at the Café bar for a 20-minute appointment. Come prepared with concise, high-level materials to explain your idea, including the market, the team, and how you are addressing the opportunity or problem.
6:00 – 7:00 P.M. | Startup Leadership Program – Info Session
Find out about the Startup Leadership Program (SLP), a training program for outstanding founders and innovators. SLP Fellows have founded 700 companies that have raised a total of $370 million. Past fellows include the founders of award-winning startups like Savored, TomNod, Ixigo, NatureBox, SideTour, Micello, Momelan, Novira, Runkeeper, Sensobi, Shareaholic, Solar Junction, Voicetap and Ubersense.
6:00 – 7:30 P.M. | Lean Startup Challenge – Info Table
Find out how to participate in the Lean Startup Challenge 2013, a six-week competition based on the lean startup principles. Learn how Lean Startup 101 can help your startup become profitable and sustainable faster and more efficiently.
>> Special Event: Pop-up HUB Boston @ Venture Café <<
5:00 – 7:30 P.M. | Pop-up HUB Boston – Info Table
Hub Boston, a new community of entrepreneurs who want to change the world, has organized an evening of group discussions on important social problems. Come to the info table to find out how to participate, to learn and to contribute! See the lineup below.
5:30 – 6:30 P.M. | Is the Market the Solution for Clean Water at the Bottom of the Pyramid?
Chat with Faith Wallace, a molecular microbiologist who has seen the effects of cholera in Haiti and Bangladesh. She is now dedicated to stopping the spread of waterborne disease by finding solutions that combine appropriate technology and market knowledge to provide clean water and sanitation to those who need it. This fall she is convening a group of dreamers, thinkers, makers and doers in the Archimedes Project to start a social enterprise to help stop the spread of cholera in Haiti.
5:30 – 6:30 P.M. | For Profit And For Principle: How To Have It All
Chat with Nathan Rothstein, co-founder and President of Repat. Project Repat makes it easy and fun for people to upcycle their clothes. People send their memory-filled t-shirts; Project Repat sends back a blanket or tote bag. Production is done in Massachusetts by someone making a living wage. Since launching last year, Repat customers have prevented over 200,000 t-shirts from getting dumped in landfills and created 25 manufacturing jobs in the state. Previously, Nathan worked on several Katrina-related recovery projects in New Orleans, where he was named the city’s “40 under 40”. Repat has been featured in the Boston Globe, The Huffington Post, and the Today Show. Fast Company named Repat one of the top shopify stores of 2012.
5:30 – 6:30 P.M. | Imagining A Sustainable City
Join a conversation led by Jim Newman, Founder and Director of Metrics at Linnean Solutions, which provides environmental performance benchmarking and tracking for corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. Linnean’s work includes ecosystem services assessment, life cycle assessment, embodied carbon studies, and site benchmarking for pre-development studies. Jim will be leading a discussion about sustainable cities and galvanizing community input to design metrics based Eco-Districts
6:30 – 7:30 P.M. | Educating Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs
The Possible Project (TPP) is a Cambridge-based nonprofit that runs a program for at-risk teens in the Greater Boston area. TPP staff will be at Venture Café to discuss how you can get involved in a range of one-time and ongoing volunteer roles. Find out how to share your entrepreneurial know-how with teenagers wanting to to start and run their own business.
6:30 – 7:30 P.M. | How to Change Consumer Behavior Through Better Information
Learn how Ambient is reducing energy consumption by alerting consumers to upcoming power events.
6:30 – 7:30 P.M. | Imagining A New Economy
Chat with Filippo Ravalico, who joined the New Economics Institute (NEI) in the Fall of 2012. NEI’s mission is to build a New Economy that prioritizes the well-being of people and the planet. Filippo has directed his energy to the sustainable agriculture space since 2010. He worked with nonprofit organizations like The Carrot Project and the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association as well as with community leaders and entrepreneurs to expand access to capital for small-scale farms and food businesses across New England, New York, and Ohio.