Performable Customer Development Lunch
A couple of people have recently asked me for a list of Boston startup resources. Here’s a list of my favorite local events and email lists.
Events:
- WebInno – The biggest web startup event in the area, everyone attends these at some point, you should too. David Biesel and the folks at Venrock do a great job organizing and sponsoring these.
- PopSignal – Invite only event put on by my friends Jay Meattle, Rob Go and Brian Balfour. Highest quality event in the area, small crowd, only startup founders and free drinks from great sponsors such as the crew at Spark Capital.
- OpenCoffee – Great meetup founded by Bijan Sabet and Nabeel Hyatt. No agendas, themes or pressure, just show up and share a coffee with fellow geeks.
- North Shore Web Geeks – Great event put on by my co-Founder Joshua Porter and Tom Summit in Newburyport, MA. Super geeky fun over beer and burgers. Checkout John Eckman’s great writeup of their last event.
- Customer Development Lunch – Of course I had to include our Customer Development Lunch at Performable.
The goal of this event is to cross-pollinate by introducing young local entrepreneurs to the best startupers in the world. We’ve been fortunate to feature these world class entrepreneurs so far: Sean Ellis, Jonathan Mendez, Dan Martell and Dave McClure (this week!).
Up-and-commers: Two events that I haven’t attended but I’ve heard great feedback from people I trust are the Lean Startup Circle meetup and DartBoston’s Capitalize. Check them out and let me know what you think.
Email lists:
- Startup Digest Boston – Great weekly email list of Boston startup events.
- VentureFizz Newsletter - Periodic buzz newsletter curating local jobs, blog posts and company profiles.
Any great resources that I missed? Please let me know.
Ok enough reading, today is your day, get up, get outside of the building and start building your startup!
Update: Checkout the comments on this post, I missed two great resources: MassInnovation Nights and Greenhorn Connect.
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Thanks for the mention Dave. To be clear – Spark sponsored PopSignal once, but sponsors rotate. Also, most of the credit goes to Brian and Jay – I just tag along as one of the early members of the group.
In both cases, I wish I could take as much credit as you give me, but I can't
Great post!
Great Post David. PopSignal sounds especially cool. I'd add MassInnovation Nights. Bobbie Carlton and Dan Englander have helped startups connect with potential customers and create buzz around their products. (Note: I intern for Bobbie at MassInnovation Nights). Ask anyone who's attended one of the monthly events and you'll receive positive feedback. The casual atmosphere promotes great discussion and makes it easy to connect with all kinds of people. A couple of month's ago I met the guy who invented laser tag (I am dead serious).
Hi Dave – thanks for including VentureFizz! We appreciate it!
Best, Keith
So humble…
You deserve all of it.
Jennie,
Thanks for the comment. I've been meaning to checkout the MassInnovation Nights, thanks for the tip. I'll make sure to check one out soon.
Cheers,
David
Thank you for the great resource.
;dc
Very handy post, David. I also like the “Call to action” in the last sentence
David,
If you classify this list as “resources” in the community, then I hope you'll consider Greenhorn Connect. We have the most comprehensive events calendar in the region and hundreds of resources for the community to discover all kinds of great organizations and events like the ones you listed. There's much more for entrepreneurs to discover and we try to help them more easily find them.
Thanks,
-Jason
ps: I really enjoy your customer development lunches. Thanks for putting those together.
I love “call to actions”, glad you caught that one. Keep kicking ass at OfficeDrop!
;dc
Jason,
My bad for forgetting to mention Greenhorn Connect! Love what you're doing there. I've updated my post to link to it.
Cheers,
David
Ditto what Keith said. Thanks very much for including VentureFizz! We appreciate your support.
David thanks for featuring us in the article!
Chris McCann- Co-founder [Startup Digest]