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Spencer Irvine talks about startups and patents

Many engineering companies use patents as a yardstick, given the business potential of a good idea for startup and conglomerate alike. Official state approval provides a technological head-start and ideally generate license fees or revenue, but what makes a good patent in the first place? We talked with Spencer Irvine about his experiences as founder of AirVentions, Inc. Continue reading

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Week in Photos: Nov 1-6

As I write this, Venture Cafe is wrapping up Bain Capital Ventures office hours for this week.  (Every week 3-5pm on Fridays – sign up required on Bain Capital Ventures Innovation Center‘s site…) Yesterday, Thursday November 4, we started the … Continue reading

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Week in Review and This Week in the Cafe: Sept 19 – Oct 3

In this brief post, let me first say that I can’t quite believe that we’ve been open in prototype form, once a week, for the past 7 months. I want to thank our event partners and all of the cafe … Continue reading

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Addition to This Week in the Cafe

Hello all: We have one addition to the lineup for this week: Rich Miner and Luis Garcia of Google Ventures! Now that their tentative spot has been confirmed, you can plan on seeing them this Thursday from 3-6pm, along with Alex … Continue reading

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This Week at The Venture Cafe: June 7 – 13

This week we have a whole slate of opportunities to meet others and have useful conversations! First, we are hosting Boston World Partnerships’ Strategy Sessions on Wednesday June 9 from 5-8pm. Note that while the sessions themselves are closed door, … Continue reading

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New England Venture Capital Association will continue Open Office Hours at Venture Café—New Dates June 10th and June 24th

In this guest blog post by Nancy Saucier, Executive Director of the New England Venture Capital Association, NEVCA announces renewing of the partnership with Venture Cafe to host Open Office Hours as part of the prototyping happening inside Cambridge Innovation … Continue reading

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Venture Cafe’s Very Own Blog

Welcome to The Venture Cafe blog! We’re excited to have a new forum to publish information (in more than 140-character snippets) about the happenings in the Cafe, receive your feedback and suggestions, and provide updates on the progress of the … Continue reading

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Links to Past Posts on the CIC blog

Now that Venture Cafe has its own blog, we’ll be shifting content posts from the Cambridge Innovation Center blog. Here are links from past posts about Venture Cafe from the CIC blog: 30-June-2009: A new initiative in Kendall Square: the Venture … Continue reading

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