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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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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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Week in Photos: Dec 5 – 11, 2010

Good times again last week, December 9, with Dina Routhier of MTDC and Graham Brooks of .406 Ventures in the cafe for NEVCA Office Hours, followed by an influx of cafe-goers just there for the connections! We were also pleased … Continue reading

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Week in Review: Nov 28 – Dec 4

What great fun we had last week at what hopefully becomes an annual event – a holiday party for those without an office party of their own! (If you missed it, you are in luck – we have another holiday-esque … Continue reading

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Week in Photos: Nov 7-13

Awesome Venture Cafe Thursday! From the big early afternoon turnout for Scott Kirsner (and just because it was a holiday, apparently) to the enthusiastic group of Schwag Swappers who stayed into the evening, new visitors and regulars alike looked to … Continue reading

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Week in Photos: October 24-30, 2010

Ghoulish and spooky are not usually used to describe Venture Cafe, but with this week’s cafe taking on a Halloween theme and some showing up in costume the adjectives applied.  Carrie, Venture Cafe’s Founding Manager, was fittingly dressed as a ringmaster complete … Continue reading

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Week in Photographs: Oct 16 – 22, 2010

This week at the Venture Cafe was another exciting one as NEVCA continued to host BREW Office Hours throughout the week, allowing area entrepreneurs to pick venture capitalists’ brains with any questions they might have. We had a great turnout … Continue reading

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Week in Review and This Week in the Cafe: Sep 5 – 19

Last week we were pleased to have NEVCA return with three engaging VCs for our Cafe patrons to interact with, both in the open format Q&A session, and later in one-on-ones. Next up for NEVCA is a Life Science focused … Continue reading

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