Category Archives: Development

Big Changes at the Venture Café: The Beer is No Longer Free (well, it is, but read on…)

Dear Venture Café Participants and Supporters, We founded the Venture Café two years ago with the goal of providing our innovation community a regular venue to meet, make new connections, and help each other realize our dreams. During this time, … Continue reading

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This Week: December 25-December 31, 2011

Hi everyone! I hope that you are having a lovely holiday season. After taking a break for the holidays, the Café is open this week for mingling and making connections. We’ve been hard at work reflecting on our past efforts and challenging … Continue reading

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This week: December 18-24, 2011

Though we always say that the Venture Café is open every Thursday, we are taking a break this Thursday, December 22, so please take this time to enjoy your families and friends (or continue to work on your startup), as the … Continue reading

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News from Venture Café

Our hope with Venture Café is that you join us each week to meet new people, make meaningful connections, learn and develop through the great programming, have a refreshment, and leave feeling inspired to take on new business challenges. We … Continue reading

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Enkel Duppel Tripel Quad

A fellow participant at the American Craft Beer Fest asked me about the difference between styles of Trappist beers, particularly dubbels, tripels and quads.  I did know that what these beers have in common is that they are all ales, … Continue reading

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Carrie’s Farewell

Dear Venture Cafe regulars and newcomers alike, First, I want to share with you how difficult a decision leaving the cafe was for me. I have been engaged in this project, like some of our volunteer team, since the first … Continue reading

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Thank you and Goodbye to Carrie Stalder

Carrie has been a force to reckon with, working with us at Cambridge Innovation Center over the past two years to make Venture Cafe Alpha into what it is today, and further to work to advance the street-level cafe plans. … Continue reading

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Venture Cafe Beer Ordering Trade Secrets

Many Venture Cafe guests have inquired at the bar as to how we choose the beers on tap and how we procure them.  It’s not always a straight-forward process, so I thought I’d enlighten guests on the byzantine world of … Continue reading

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“Clowns are questionable but the shoes make me laugh”

-Gregg Berman, Founder of Clown Shoes The founders of Clown Shoes originally submitted the name to a Beer Advocate contest to name a new brew in celebration of the 2010 Extreme Beer Fest.  After the submission didn’t crack the top … Continue reading

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What’s so crafty about craft beer?

At Venture Cafe, we take pride in serving local craft beers.  After repeating the phrase “local craft beers” many, many times, I realized that a lot of people had no idea what the phrase meant.  In our case, local may … Continue reading

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