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New England Innovation Month is in full swing.  Big week last week.  The major events planned for the week ahead are as follows:

JUNE 16: Boston, MA
MITX Technology Awards
JUNE 17: Waltham, MA
MassNetComms Innovator’s Summit
JUNE 17: Providence, RI
Providence Geeks Dinner
* FREE
JUNE 17: Cambridge, MA
Behind the Scenes Tour of Microsoft R&D
JUNE 18: Cambridge, MA
Transatlantic Pitching at Swissnex
* FREE

Looks [...]

I recently joined the Tech Stars Boston Mentors program.  The goal is to provide assistance to the nine companies that are going through the summer long entrepreneur boot camp under the tutelage of Shawn Broderick.  There is so much to master if you are a first time entrepreneur and providing a sounding board and some [...]

New England Innovation Month is in full swing.  The major events planned for the week ahead are as follows:

JUNE 9: Cambridge, MA
Tech Tuesday: Gadgets & Gathering
* FREE
JUNE 9: Worcester, MA
WPI Venture Forum: Five-Minute Pitch Contest
JUNE 10: Cambridge, MA
IT Collaborative Dialogue, with Secretary Greg Bialecki
* FREE
JUNE 10: Cambridge, MA
MIT Enterprise Forum: Securing Seed Funding in Today’s Economy
JUNE [...]

We have alot of innovation happening in New England.  It is great to celebrate all of this and bring awareness with “New England Innovation Month” in June.  You can check out the line up of events across the region at the  New England Innovation web site.
I was honored to participate in the MITX Awards as [...]

I am happy to join forces with Tech Stars in Boston and join their distinguished list of Mentors.
Tech Stars was founded out in Boulder, Colorado, a few years back to seed a number of ventures in the summer months.  Tech Stars is mentor-driven and attracted season entrepreneurs, investors and technologists to help these start up [...]

Top posts on JeffBennett.Org for April 2009:
1.  NHL Scores With Twitter
2.  Patriots Day Big For Boston
3.  Verrill Farm In Full Swing For Spring
4.  Celtics Pride
5.  Ice Out For Winnipesaukee
6. Baseball Star Mark Fidrych Found Dead
7.  Apple Approaches 1 Billion Downloads
8. Time To End Non-Competes In Massachusetts
9. Pandora Internet Radio Is Cool
10. Social [...]

Massachusetts is blessed as the home of some of the worlds best universities.  Thousands flock to our region to be educated.  Thousands more utilize this ecosystem to conduct breakthrough research.  We also are home to what has been a vibrant venture capital community.  These should be the ingredients for robust innovation.  There are many drivers [...]

Last month I  announced Larry Weber had published a Second Edition to his popoular “Marketing To The Social Web.”  I have just completed the book and was delighted about his views on the importance of brands to tap into online communities.  Larry addresses that this can be accmoplished with existing communities, as well as, through [...]

It sure feels like spring and that means it is time to get ready for the MITX Technology Awards.   All we have heard for the last nine months through the traditional media is how bad the economy is.  As an entrepreneur myself leading a very talented team that is doing great things…I am sick and [...]

More on this in the days ahead…but an interesting picture from inside the MIT Media Lab.