May 2011 Event Round up

After each Mass Innovation Nights event, we try to connect to some of the great comments and posts generated during the night.  (If you missed it, you can always come here to see what you missed!)

Once again, we were part of another great event that occurred before the opening of Mass Innovation Nights — the third in the Connecting Companies with Capital series created by Accounting Management Solutions, IBM and MassEcon.  This quarterly event was created with the express intent of helping more companies get the funding they need in order to grow and create more local jobs.  More than 200 registered attendees attended an array of panel discussions, networked like crazy and dozens of entrepreneurs had five minute “mini-pitches” with VCs, angels and other sources of capital during the speed dating — more than 150 meetings were held in one hour.

As C3 was wrapping up, we started setting up Mass Innovation Nights 26, #MIN26.  Very quickly 6:00 pm rolled around and we were welcoming our guests, including several real troupers who hadn’t yet had enough of the networking and innovation fun.  As always, a shout out to the companies and people who help publicize each and every Mass Innovation Nights event!  Exhibitors like 77SPARX, experts like Larry Staub, and our calendar friends at GreenhornConnect, VentureFizz and others.

A spread from Peppercorns of Stoughton

We also welcomed a special guest for #MIN26 — the catering team (Lisa and Gary and friends) from Peppercorns decided that they wanted to meet the Innovators and they brought food!  A wonderful sampling of fabulous and beautiful hors d’oeuvres and drinks to set the tone for the evening.  (We love friends who love to cook, and share!  Don’t forget, we’re looking for foodie-related innovations for our August Innovation Nights!)  This isn’t the first time we’ve had the donation of goodies for Mass Innovation Nights — it’s a wonderful way to introduce your products to a big group of “chatty” people — but I can’t say we’ve ever had a display as elegant as this one.  Wow!  Big thanks to Peppercorns!

On the product side:  let’s start things off with a quick recap of the presentations from CustomBuds, RippleFunction, ViaCLIX and GaggleAMP from our new friend Farrah.  CustomBuds also shared a nice special offer for our FOM (Friends of MassInno.)  Top tweeters Eric, Fiona and Cummingsdotcom (and many others) tweeted up a storm all evening.  Our most prolific and regular blogger, The Darn Good Tech Writer, Janet, again offered a wonderful overview, and pictures!  And, can you find yourself in the pictures Dan loaded on Flickr?  And we’ll be adding links to other write ups and our video as they come in.

Here are videos of the event:

Experts Corner:

Joe Perry of IBM Innovation Center:

Peppercorns:

RippleFunction:

GaggleAMP:

ViaCLIX: