Amy Goggins
Educate & Inspire Entrepreneurs, Connect, Advise & Assist, Strengthen and Grow

Ongoing

An 8-week hands on workshop for startups

The workshop is designed for start-up and early stage technology entrepreneurs looking to delve into each phase of getting their new venture going – from building their business model and properly positioning their company / products to raising capital, the Start Smart Series provides the opportunity for...
Spring Start Smart Workshop

MIT Tang Center, E51-372 70 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139 · April 30 - June 25, 2012
- 1

Next Month

Come and hear from two pre-funded companies identify and fine-tune the business plans, presentations, and pitches before talking to potential investors. The format includes 2 companies doing a dress rehearsal of their pitch, comments from a panel of experts, and small group discussions and feedback from the audience. Networking before, during,...
Startup Clinic with ItsMyURLs and SidewalkAd

Royal East Restaurant, 792 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 · Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 6-9:00pm
- 1
Summer is just around the corner, and when it arrives networking opportunities will evaporate in the heat. Most of your contacts will leave the state, and venture capitalists will make their annual migration to Nantucket. What’s a life sciences entrepreneur to do?

Fortunately, the Healthcare and Life Sciences SIG is looking out for you. We’ll...
Healthcare and Life Sciences SIG: Summer Doldrums Networking Event

UK Trade & Investment, One Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 · Thursday, June 7, 2012, 5:30-7:30pm
- 1
Join the Energy SIG and MTTC to to learn about past MassCEC Catalyst Awardees and what technologies have the potential to be spun out from the University to startups!
Energy SIG and MTTC Present: MassCEC Technologies, from University to Startup

Cambridge Innovation Center · Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 6-8:30pm
- 1
Education is at a cross roads. Students have access to unprecedented resources and interact with content and other students around the globe faster than they can turn to page 236 in their text books.

Games dominate interactive time with young learners and have proven their ability to engage, entertain, teach and impact. Can games really impact...
New England Games SIG Event: Can Games Save Education

Microsoft New England Research and Development Center · Thursday, June 14, 2012, 6-9:00pm
- 2

Been there, done that

Last Monday

The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge invites you to a very special Innovation Series event on Monday, May 21. Join us for a fireside chat with Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, moderated by Tim Rowe, Founder and CEO of the Cambridge Innovation Center. Joi Ito is the Media Lab’s new director, an influential angel investor and a leading...
A Special Fireside Chat with Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

Stata Center · Monday, May 21, 2012, 5:30-7:30pm
- 1

Last Week

The start-up entrepreneur has a lot to worry about: … is the business plan sound? … are their enough resources to keep the company going? … is technical development on track? While there are certainly some periods when the team needs to be in heads-down, nose-to-the-grindstone mode, from a bigger picture perspective, starting a...
Who’s on First – Sales, Marketing or Business Development

MIT Stata Center, Room 32-144, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 · Saturday, May 19, 2012, 1-3:30pm
- 2
Is starting an RFID company really a good idea? That’s the essence of a question from the audience at our recent Auto-ID & Sensing Solutions Expo:

“So a lot of good things have happened [in RFID] over the last 10 to 15 years. But I can also say that the RFID industry has at times been a real bloodbath. A lot of people are not here because...
Auto-ID & Sensing SIG Event: How To Start an RFID Company

MIT Stata Center, Room 32-155 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 · Monday, May 14, 2012
- 1

Earlier this Month

Is “Bricks and Mortar” retail really doomed? Will Best Buy and Target merely morph into showrooms for Amazon? Will Barnes and Noble suffer the same fate as Borders? Or can mobile technology help turn things around? Today, mass is past. The new era is all about personalization. At every step on each retail buyer’s journey — and down every...
Digital Media SIG Event: In-Store Shopping Goes Mobile

MIT Tang Center, Roon E51-149 70 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139 · Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 6-8:30pm
- 1

Last Month

This event is in it’s third year and growing! It is a lot of fun and if you are a cool company with a fun technology to demo - email us today and let us know if you are interested in demoing in 2012!
Register

Competition. Cool Companies. Cocktails & Community.

Come and join us for some delicious food and drink, an evening of innovative...
2012 In-NOW-vation Showcase & Celebration!

Microsoft NERD Center, First Floor One Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139 · Thursday, April 26, 2012, 6:00pm
- 2
Ad victorem spolias. To the victor go the spoils. Is the same true of founders — should they expect all of the spoils? Probably not.

Other than a sole proprietorship, the sweat and equity required to start a new business demands a lot of players, most of whom will want to be rewarded. The “idea gal” may think she deserves the lions share of...
Software SIG Event: Forming the Company – III – Startup Algebra

Stata Center · Thursday, April 19, 2012
- 1

March 2012

A “super-event” with two panels, a hackathon and 40+ tabletop technology exhibits.
Register

Panel #1: Three co-founders of MIT’s Auto-ID Center, where “The Internet of Things” was invented, look back at how far the technology has come and where it is headed.

Panel #2 looks at the synergy between RFID and NFC — contactless data...
3rd Annual Auto-ID & Sensing Solutions Expo

75 Amherst St, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 · Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 4:00pm
- 4

February 2012

Petroleum is the life blood of modern society. It is inexpensive, refueling is easy and it has a high energy density thereby enabling easy ground, rail and air transportation. Yet climate change and economic and energy security are forcing us to explore alternative methods of transportation to those we currently employ and the means by which we...
Sustainable Transportation in our Lifetime?

UK Trade & Investment, 7th Floor One Broadway Cambridge, MA 02142 · Thursday, February 16, 2012, 6:00pm
- 1
Concept Clinics investigate essential go-to-market strategies, funding and finance issues, team building, IP and other issues for companies that are working on their concept. They are about taking technology out of the lab and shaping it for the market.

Following a live 20-minutes presentation and in-depth evaluation from a panel, audience...
Concept Clinic with Mosec

Microsoft NERD Center, Sampson and Paul Room One Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139 · Thursday, February 16, 2012, 6:00pm
- 1
Session Overview:

Term Sheets form the basis of your relationship with any funder, whether it is an angel, an angel group, or a venture capital firm. They also are written in legal language, which can be difficult for the average entrepreneur to follow. This program covers the term sheets in plain English and offers pointers on what is and is not...
Get Smart About Term Sheets: How to Read / What to Negotiate

The Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag 1000 Winter St Waltham, MA 02451 · Monday, February 13, 2012, 5:30pm
- 1
Genome sequencing has rapidly moved from costing a million dollars to sequence a human genome in 2007 down to close to $1,000 today. With the practicality of costs has come enormous amounts of data available for analysis to drive the development of more personalized medicine by predicting disease risk and more effectively treating devastating...
The Future of the Personal Genome

EG&G Education Center, Room 34-101 50 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 · Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 6:00pm
- 2
Innovation Series Event: The Future of the Personal Genome

MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 · Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 5:30-9:00pm
- 2
With over 100 million NFC smartphones expected in service by 2012 and over 500 million by 2015, what will the impact be on healthcare? It will be transformational, says our panel of leading industry experts — and they’ll tell you why in this program that includes technology presentations and panel discussion.
Register

REGISTRATION, NETWORKING,...
NFC In Smartphones Transforms Healthcare

MIT EG&G Education Center, Room 34-101 50 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 · Monday, February 6, 2012
- 3

January 2012

The Startup Clinic format includes two companies doing a dress rehearsal of their pitch, comments from a panel of experts, and small group discussions and feedback from the audience. Networking before, during, and after, all over dinner, this time on the 5th Floor Havana Room of the Cambridge Innovation Center.@cicnow
Register

This evening’s...
Startup Clinic with Vuuch and SchoolCNXT

MIT EG&G Education Center, Room 34-101 50 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 · Wednesday, January 25, 2012
- 2
- An 8-week hands on workshop for startups

The workshop is designed for start-up and early stage technology entrepreneurs looking to delve into each phase of getting their new venture going – from building their business model and properly positioning their company / products to raising capital, the Start Smart Series provides the opportunity...
Winter 2012 Start Smart

MIT Tang Center, Room E51-145 70 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139 · Monday, January 23, 2012, 6-9:00pm
- 1
New Year’s Resolutions Networking Event

Didn’t you resolve to get out of the office more this year? Here’s your chance: Join us to welcome the New Year with colleagues from the life sciences industry. Meet old friends and make new ones in a fun, informal setting. Wine, soda and light snacks will be served.

Attendance is guaranteed to help...
Healthcare & Life Sciences SIG New Year’s Resolutions Networking Event

UK Trade & Investment, 7th Floor One Broadway Cambridge, MA 02142 · Thursday, January 19, 2012, 5:30-7:30pm
- 1
The first wave of green building technologies has led to efficiency gains and a veritable explosion of green design options for the owners of new and existing buildings. The second wave of innovations targeting the built environment is going a step farther: to make buildings more intelligent from initial concept through design, construction,...
Intelligent Green Buildings

MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Camrbidge, MA · Wednesday, January 18, 2012
- 3
Forum Members – as a way of thanks to you for being a vital part of the MIT Enterprise Forum community that fosters and supports the entrepreneurial spirit in Massachusetts, we invite you to come for some fun mid-Winter networking on Wednesday, February 15, 2012. Stop in after work and enjoy some snacks and a beverage and good conversation...
Forum Members After Work Networking Reception

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP: Fishman Robert A · Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 5:30pm
- 1

Last Year

Innovation Series Event: Defeating Alzheimer’s

MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 · Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 5:30-9:00pm
- 1
Startup Clinic with Vuuch and SchoolCNXT

Royal East Restaurant, 792 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 · Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 5:30-9:00pm
- 1
RFID SIG Event: RFID Protects the Food Chain

Stata Center · Monday, December 5, 2011, 6-9:00pm
- 2
Digital Media SIG Event: Cloud Computing II – The Consumer Opportunity

Mit Tang Center · Monday, December 5, 2011, 6-9:00pm
- 1
NE Games SIG Event: Building the Talent Pipeline: A Collaboration of the Game Industry and Academia

Microsoft NERD Center · Thursday, December 1, 2011
- 1
Concept Clinic with Bios2 Medical

MIT Tang Center, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 · Thursday, December 1, 2011
- 1
For MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge members - a breakfast hosted by Fresh Tilled Soil for networking and thanks for contributing to the Forum community.
Fall Forum Members Networking Breakfast

Fresh Tilled Soil 203 Crescent Street Waltham, MA 02453 · Friday, November 18, 2011
- 1

Subscribe to hear about Amy Goggins's plans on an ongoing basis.

Location Cambridge, MA
Web www.mitforumcambridge.o...
Facebook /mitforum.cambridg...
Twitter @Mitefcmb
LinkedIn /agoggins

Amy Goggins
Educate & Inspire Entrepreneurs, Connect, Advise & Assist, Strengthen and Grow

Subscriptions

Export these plans

Options

Amy GogginsEducate & Inspire Entrepreneurs, Connect, Advise & Assist, Strengthen and Grow

Subscriptions

Export these plans

Options

Amy Goggins
Educate & Inspire Entrepreneurs, Connect, Advise & Assist, Strengthen and Grow