It's another great week in the startup scene with exciting events featuring DartBoston with their Family Dinner which includes a night of Bowling at Lucky Strike and Boston University hosting an awesome event for the students and the greater community. There are over 30 different Boston startup entrepreneur networking events and office hours this week. Check out the show and notes below to find out all about them and all the other great happenings in the community this week. And don't forget to check out the Greenhorn Connect Calendar for all your Boston startup entrepreneur networking events and office hours needs.

It's another great week in the startup scene with exciting events featuring Paul English of Kayak talking about Hiring to Cirque de Soleil performers at a street party. There are over 30 different Boston startup entrepreneur networking events and office hours this week. Check out the show and notes below to find out all about them and all the other great happenings in the community this week. And don't forget to check out the Greenhorn Connect Calendar for all your Boston startup entrepreneur networking events and office hours needs.

Yesterday, I covered Part I of the results of a survey I put out last week to ask students and young entrepreneurs the tough questions:  "What are the challenges to engaging more young people?" and "What are your ideas for improving the ecosytem?" and a lot more. (You can see the survey here).  In total, 21 students from 9 different universities responded to the survey.  I am blown away with the amount of detail and thoughtfulness they put into their answers. I'd like to now share the 2nd half of the results with all of you here:

 Last week, I put out a call for students and young entrepreneurs to take a survey to help answer the questions of "What are the challenges to engaging more young people?" and "What are your ideas for improving the ecosytem?" and a lot more. (You can see the survey here).  In total, 21 students from 9 different universities responded to the survey.  I am blown away with the amount of detail and thoughtfulness they put into their answers. I'd like to now share the results with all of you here:

 The weather is hot outside, but there's plenty of cool events in the entrepreneur scene this week. There are over 35 different Boston startup entrepreneur networking events and office hours this week. Check out the show and notes below to find out all about them and all the other great happenings in the community this week. And don't forget to check out the Greenhorn Connect Calendar for all your Boston startup entrepreneur networking events and office hours needs.

Innovation Month may be over, but the entrepreneur scene continues to have tons of great events. There are over 25 different Boston startup entrepreneur networking events and office hours this week. Check out the show and notes below to find out all about them and all the other great happenings in the community this week. And don't forget to check out the Greenhorn Connect Calendar for all your Boston startup entrepreneur networking events and office hours needs.

 Yesterday's Momentum Summit was one of the best events I've been to in quite some time. The interview format of the main part of the event seemed to work quite well as great lessons and takeaways emerged from the entrepreneur asks entrepreneur format.  (We liveblogged notes you can find here).  However, as great as that was, the most important part in my opinion were the lunches.
 
During the lunch portion, groups of 8-12 startupers huddled around tables to talk to successful founders about topics of the founder's choosing. Some of those topics included David Cancel of Performable discussing the importance of A/B testing, Antonio Rodriguez of Matrix Partners discussing VC funding and at the table I sat at, Matt Douglas of myPunchbowl discussing "Startup-Deals That Build Momentum". (for a complete list of lunch topics see here).  

Week 3 of Innovation Month was another great week with awesome events like Web Innovators 26 and DartBoston's own Capitalize.  Week 4 has even more great events as there are over 35 different Boston startup entrepreneur networking events and office hours this week. Check out the show and notes below to find out all about them and all the other great happenings in the community this week. And don't forget to check out the Greenhorn Connect Calendar for all your Boston startup entrepreneur networking events and office hours needs.

Innovation Month is in full swing.  There are hundreds of events and great crowds coming to the many events.  Thanks to Scott Kirsner's challenge, there's a healthy discussion on ways we can improve the innovation economy here and make our ecosystem stronger.  Amongst all this discussion of change, I'd like to recognize something that is working and is a pivotal part of our emerging "Startup Renassaince":  Microsoft NERD.  
 
Without the efforts of some of their employees and the many things they do as an organization, I don't think this month would be as big and our ecosystem would not be what it is now. For that reason, I'd like to remind us all what we might be taking for granted right now: