This Week: January 22-28, 2012

Hello fellow Café-goers! For those of you who joined us last week, I hope you enjoyed the Microsoft Bing event – it was a great crowd! This Thursday, we host this month’s TCN Upstart Roundtable , a BetaVanguard info table and a Russian cleantech company meet and greet.  As a reminder, registration closes Jan 25th for  MBBP’s Feb 2nd Series ‘A’ Venture Investing in 2012; Will We Turn the Corner? .

Thursday, January 26, 3:00 – 8:00 PM: Venture Café in Session

3:00-5:00 PM TCN Upstart Roundtable 

Come meet Javier Segovia Founder and CEO of Tap ‘n Tap who will share his stories with early stage entrepreneurs, answering questions and mingling about ‘the thing that is keeping them up at night’.  To sign up for this month’s Roundtable, click here.

4:00 – 6:30 PM BetaVanguard Info Table

BostonBeta will be using Venture Café to soft launch the Beta Vanguard website, making this the first event where they will interview startups and generate stories.

The aim of the Vanguard is several-fold:

• Provide more extensive coverage of startups outside the Bay area, drawing the focus away from Silicon Valley and delivering “tech news for the rest of us.”
• Share articles and perspectives from leaders and thinkers in the tech field.
• Inspire meaningful dialogue among members of the entrepreneurial community.

Come meet the team and have your startup stories told in articles launched on the website over the following week.

5:30-7:00 PM Meet and Greet 10 Russian Cleantech Companies

10 cleantech companies from the Skolkovo (Russia) Innovation Center (a partner of MIT) will be in the café for a meet and greet after their local investor panel, sponsored by Market Access International, Inc.

Coming up:

Register for MBBP’s upcoming Series ‘A’ Venture Investing in 2012; Will We Turn the Corner? Panel on February 2 from 4:00 to 5:30 PM. Moderated by: David Verrill Panelists: Braden Bohrmann, Dayna Grayson, Eric Hjerpe and Jon Auerbach followed by a reception/networking in the Café. Registration closes January 25th.

We hope you stop by, grab a drink and connect!