Funding Fridays

A little bit of background for our non-Twitter audience.  One of the regular trending topics on Twitter is “Follow Friday” (#ff) a weekly opportunity to point out your friends and make suggestions for good people to follow on Twitter.  Meanwhile, one of the biggest issues in the Boston region entrepreneurial community is the inability to connect companies with capital.  

Mass Innovation Nights and Innovation Breakfast would like to “hijack” Follow Friday (#ff) in the Boston area and turn every Friday into a Funding Friday – a day when the entrepreneurial and innovation economy players focus their efforts on:

• Connecting companies and capital
• Pointing out companies that have received funding and giving a big “woo-hoo”
• Creating and highlighting blog posts and articles and resources on how to get funded and success factors for funding

Innovation Breakfast, which recently switched over from a monthly speaker program to a weekly Open Coffee style event, will be blogging about “Funding Fridays” and leading the charge.  Every Friday, we’ll be live blogging on the Innovation Breakfast website about funding, companies that need funding, and strategies and resources for funding.  We’ll also be leading the live discussion at Café on the Common on Main Street in Waltham from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. in our weekly networking meeting, and asking our friends there for their ideas.

What you can do to help:

• Turn your Follow Friday tweeting into Funding Friday tweeting – look for resources, funding news and resources, and highlight companies that need funding.  Go right ahead – use that #ff but add a dollar sign to it! Use #ff$
• Help spread the word.  Remember, the next company to get funded could be your own.