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Out of the seven companies named Friday as finalists in Amazon’s latest AWS Start-Up Challenge—designed to reward the most innovative companies using the cloud-based Amazon Web Services infrastructure to deliver their products or services—three are based right here in the Boston area.
Mobile Monday Boston is hosting an event where 10 early stage mobile companies will demonstrate their new products.
When:
Nov 17, 2008, 7-9pm
Where:
Omni Parker Hotel - Rooftop Ballroom
60 School Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108
Mobile Monday Boston is hosting a reception this week.
When:
Wednesday, Oct 22 at 6:30pm
Where:
As part of Mobile Internet World 2008, which will be at the Boston Convention Center.
Registration required (this is just for the MoMo event, not for MIW).
Mobile Internet World is a three day event from Oct 21 - 23 at the Boston Convention Center. It has two components, an expo and a conference. The conference part costs money (lots), but the expo part is free. Register for the MIW conference or just the expo here.
“Social Media for Social Change is a chance to bring social media people together, like we love to do on a regular basis, but with a specific focus on helping a generous cause. One of the goals of Social Media for Social Change is to explore how social tools can put a spotlight on important causes and bring about real change.”
When
Friday, October 10, 2008, 6:30-10:30
Where
The Harvard Club
374 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
RSVP here. This event costs $25 and only has 5 tickets remaining as of this writing.
The event is titled Boston’s Most Successful Mobile Entrepreneurs. “This Mobile Monday Boston event will connect Boston’s leading mobile entrepreneurs with 15 tech and entrepreneurship-focused student groups from local colleges and universities. The event will highlight Boston as a global center in mobile and wireless and expose local students to the professional opportunities available in Boston’s mobile industry.”
There will also be a panel with an impressive list of panelists.
Where: Boston University School of Management, 595 Comm Ave, Boston
When: 6pm to 9pm
Registration on EventBrite is required.
David announced at the last Web Innovators Group that WebInno20 will be December 9, 2008.
Also, don’t forget to check out their job board.
Boston based RunKeeper, an iPhone app that tracks your runs, launched just a few weeks ago, and it has already been mentioned on TechCrunch.
Jason Jacobs is the man responsible for RunKeeper. I met him earlier this year when all he had was an idea. It’s great to see his idea finally become a reality. I think he’ll have a lot of success.
The Web Innovators Group is “an informal gathering of people interested in internet and mobile innovation, WebInno is free and open to all in the community.” The event is held from 6:30 to about 10pm tonight at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge. Registration and event details are listed here, and here is a list of the startups that will be doing demos at today’s event.
Where:
Royal Sonesta Cambridge
40 Edwin H Land Blvd
Cambridge, MA 02142
When:
Monday, September 15, 2008 at 06:30 PM (ET)
Framingham, MA based MyPunchBowl was mentioned in PC Magazine’s Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites. MyPunchBowl is an event and party planning web site.
If you notice any other local startups in the list, please leave a comment.
TechCrunch has a story about the Y Combinator Boston 2008 startups that showed demos of their products to potential investors yesterday. Check out the post for a list with brief descriptions of some of the startups.
The guys from Snipd were at the last Web Innovators Group event. I had a chance to talk to them. At the time, I didn’t know they were a Y Combinator startup.