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BREW Boston Joins LevelUp Causes

clbsierra — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:18:00 +0000

Boston Region Entrepreneurship Week (BREW) Rolls Out Fundraising Efforts to Benefit Local Non-Profits

BREW Partners With LevelUp to Make Donating Simple

BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire – Oct 1, 2012) – Boston Region Entrepreneurship Week (BREW) announced today that it will host the BREW Spotlight Fundraiser on October 15 at Cummings Properties TradeCenter 128 in Woburn. This event will be the official start of the 2012 celebration which is taking place during the weeks of October 15 – October 26. Constant Contact, a leader in engagement marketing, is sponsoring the BREW Spotlight Fundraiser event and will be presenting a session on engagement marketing, followed by a panel of local experts

answering audience questions about growing and building a business.

"We are also thrilled to announce a partnership with LevelUp to support the BREW Spotlight initiative. LevelUp users can elect to donate directly to BREW using the free LevelUp app that enables users to pay with their phone at 3,500 local businesses," said Christine Sierra, Executive Director of BREW.

The BREW Spotlight is a program aimed at educating the community on the valuable resources available to entrepreneurs through three non-profit organizations in Massachusetts. This year's highlighted non-profits include Interise.org, Merrimack Valley Sandbox Initiative and NFTE.org. These organizations are helping to launch, support and educate current and future entrepreneurs on starting and running a business.

"We are launching the BREW Spotlight to give back to the organizations that are helping Massachusetts to support its entrepreneur community," continued Sierra. "During two weeks in October, people can attend and participate in events such as educational workshops, expert panel discussions and networking events. We accept submissions right through the BREW celebration and encourage the community to get involved."

BREW CEO Lunch Program Returns Due to popular demand, BREW is also hosting the BREW CEO Lunch Program once again. Some of Greater Boston's most successful entrepreneurs (now CEOs) have agreed to have lunch with an aspiring entrepreneur and share their stories of how they got to

where they are today. For more information on submission rules, please visit: http://www.brewboston.org/supporters/brewlunch-experts/

To purchase tickets and learn more at the BREW Spotlight program, please visit www.brewboston.org/brew-spotlight. To obtain the free $5 LevelUp credit, please visit https://www.thelevelup.com/c/1L642B.

Premier Sponsors of 2012 BREW include Constant Contact and Microsoft New England Research & Development Center (NERD). Serve by American Express is a Supporting Sponsor.

About BREW

Boston Region Entrepreneurship Week (BREW) is a series of events hosted by the actual community that provides resources and infrastructure to entrepreneurs of Greater Boston and the surrounding communities. The BREW mission is to celebrate and highlight the reasons why entrepreneurs should start and grow their businesses in and around the Boston area. For additional details about BREW or to register for this year's event, please visit www.BREWBoston.org. Follow us on Twitter at @BREWBoston and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BrewBos.

BREW Spotlight Fundraiser and Kick Off Celebration Oct 15

clbsierra — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:49:38 +0000

This year at BREW we are teaming up with our friends at Constant Contact to kick off BREW in a unique way – we're looking to give back to the community that supports entreprenuerism in Massachusetts!

Constant Contact and Boston R

egion Entrepreneurship Week (BREW) are coming together to kick-off BREW 2012 with an event that you don't want to miss!

Corissa St. Laurent of Constant Contact will kick off the event with a lively presentation on Engagement Marketing. During her session you will learn how to inspire, inform, and create long-term meaningful connections with engagement marketing. She will discuss three key elements to building lasting engagement and help you succeed at marketing your business in today’s high-tech, online world. Following this session will be a panel discussion focused on growing a young company – everything from pitching investors, to acheiving your financial goals to cialis marketing and launching your company!

At 6:00, we

will join the 3 BREW Spotlight organizations for a cocktail reception where you will get to learn more about these local non-profits, and help us raise funds to support them and the great work that they do in Massachusetts!

Cick here to donate to the first ever BREW fundraiser!

Event Details:

3:30 Registration and Networking

4:00 Engagement Marketing Presentation by Corissa St. Laurent

5:00 Industry Expert Panel Q&A

6:00 BREW Spotlight Cocktail Reception

7:30 Wrap up

BREW 2012 kicks off!

clbsierra — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:28:40 +0000

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3rd ANNUAL BOSTON REGIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEKS (BREW) KICKS OFF EVENT REGISTRATION AND EXPANSION OF PROGRAMS

–BREW 2012 is scheduled for October 15 through October 26 –

July 10, 2012 – BOSTON, MA – Boston Region Entrepreneurship Week (BREW) announced today the official start of the 2012 celebration of events that will provide programs and activities around entrepreneurship in Greater Boston and the surrounding communities. With the BREW celebration taking place during the weeks of October 15 – October 26, the BREW committee is currently asking for organizers of entrepreneurial events to register their event details online at http://www.brewboston.org. Events can include such things as educational workshops, networking opportunities, competitions, roundtable discussions and expert panels. The committee is also seeking sponsors and partners to help promote and support this regional initiative.

New in 2012, is the addition of BREW Spotlight, a program aimed at educating the community about the valuable resources available through three non-profit organizations doing amazing work in Massachusetts. “The goal of the BREW Spotlight is to introduce our community to local organizations helping to launch, support or educate current and future entrepreneurs on starting and running a business,” said Christine Sierra, Managing Director of BREW. “This year we have elected to shine a spotlight on Interise.org, Merrimack Valley Sandbox Initiative and NFTE.org and will be building programs which highlight the good work that they do.” Learn more at www.brewboston.org/brew-spotlight.

In addition, BREW is pleased to announce the return of the CEO Lunch program as part of the 2012 celebration. The BREW CEO Lunch series offers entrepreneurs, students and anyone exploring doing business in Massachusetts the opportunity to have lunch, one-on-one, with some of the areas most successful CEO’s and founders. In 2011, BREW enlisted over a dozen lunch hosts and in 2012, BREW wants to know who you’d like to have lunch with! Submit your recommendation at http://www.brewboston.org/brew-ceo-lunch-suggestion/ and BREW will announce their lunch hosts August 1st!

Premier Sponsors of 2012 BREW include Microsoft New England Research & Development Center (NERD) and Constant Contact.

About BREW

Boston Region Entrepreneurship Week (BREW) is a series of events hosted by the actual community that provides resources and infrastructure to entrepreneurs of Greater Boston and the surrounding communities. The BREW mission is to celebrate and highlight the reasons why entrepreneurs should start and grow their businesses in and around the Boston area. Additional details about BREW or to register for this year’s event, please visit

www.BREWBoston.org. Follow us on Twitter at @BREWBoston and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BrewBos.

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BREW: The start of a Boston Area NXNE?

Christine — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:31:06 +0000

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For the first time, BREW traveled to south to the infamous South By Southwest, affectionately known as SXSW. Our mission? To observe and connect with people who could help us explore the idea of BREW transformin

g into a Boston Area North by Northeast!

You have to give us credit, we were thinking big.

The adventure began with one obvious snafu with this year's SXSW: weather

The start of the festival was marred by cool (ok, cold) temps and rain. With a good portion of the activities outside in parks and parking lots, this threw a wrench into the plans of many. Not unlike the

Given it's unpredictability, weather is one very fickle partner when it comes to celebrations of this nature. The sun did emerge by Sunday, and the warmth arrived Monday, which helped to turn the spirits of the attendees around.

Next observation: approachability

Austin, Texas is a very friendly city. On every street corner was a business owner, SXSW volunteer or SXSW veteran ready to lend a hand, answer a question or point you in the right direction. The key to a successful visit was to approach people and to be approachable. If you overheard an interesting conversation and wanted to join in, it was okay to do so! Lean over and introduce yourself. Sit down next to strangers and ask, "First time here?"

Even with a large percentage of the people with their heads down following GPS maps on their phones or tweeting their latest experience, the overall atmosphere was welcoming and congenial. As one "local" put it, "Try putting tens of thousands of people in any other large city and fights would be breaking out everywhere. Here, if someone bumps into you they tend to stop, ask if you are okay and genuinely apologize for the mishap." He may be onto something about southern hospitality.

After the sun decided to shine, and the people began to mingle EVERYWHERE, came the actual celebration.

SXSW, like BREW, is a series of events spread out throughout the downtown area over several days. SXSW shuttle buses cart people around the city from location to location depending on what they want to participate in or attend. If you were adventurous, and had comfortable shoes, Austin was a pretty walk-able city, which was nice.

Unlike BREW, which is open to anyone and any topic related to entrepreneurship, events are selected by the SXSW committee and a master schedule is printed both on and offline. Panels, keynotes and sessions touch on subjects from non-profit to education, social media to mainstream media, to film and music and technology. Access is granted by wearing a SXSW badge the entire time – in fact I think I slept in mine just to be sure I had it on me! There are volunteers in red SXSW t-shirts at every hotel, convention or conference center and outside on the sidewalks. Where they were NOT was at private parties which seemed to be pretty exclusive this year – if you didn't have an invite or show up with someone who was associated with the host then you were out of luck. Except for MassChallenge at the BingLot! They let everyone in – bravo!

One of my favorite sessions included only 8 people in an intimate "meetup" discussion around location based applications. Another favorite was a panel of advisors (including Gary Vanyerchuck and Tim Ferriss) who were getting real with entrepreneurs and start ups about finding and wooing advisors for their companies. It was very entertaining.

My biggest frustration was that so many sessions I wanted to attend overlapped with each other that I often had to make the tough decision of picking one and hoping it was what all I wanted it to be. If your second choice wasn't held in the same location as your first, it was tough to get from place to place in time.

Can we do a Boston NXNE? First off, there already is a NXNE held in June in Toronto. It's a film and music festival mimicking SXSW. So the question becomes, can we get BREW to the size and popularity of SXSW? We'd certainly have to move it to a warmer month

to accommodate outside events, performances and gatherings but overall I think we are up for the task. Question really is, are you ready to join us in making it happen?

Mark your calendars – BREW 2012 will be held October 15 – 26! Look forward to seeing you at the celebrations in October.

~Christine Sierra

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International BREW: Welcoming guests from overseas

Christine — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:43:49 +0000

BREW Boston 2011 is pleased to be opening YOUR doors to the international community this year! We are inviting companies from all over the globe to visit Boston during BREW October 20 – 28, 2011. Our goal is to showcase what ou

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r city and surrounding communities have to offer global entrepreneurs and innovative thinkers! We are looking for events that our international guests can attend so please Register your event today and welcome our visitors to

Massachusetts!

Why do business in Massachusetts?

Massachusetts is leading the Innovation Revolution, as simple as that. Across the state technologists, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals are a work creating the next wave of new products and services. Governor Deval Patrick is dedicated to maintaining Massachusetts’ status as a world leader in technology and is devoted to hosting and growing the industries of tomorrow.

What is International BREW’s Focus?

This year, BREW is concentrating on creating partnerships with our foreign counterparts and creating an environment to help international entrepreneurs and business leaders put down roots in Massachusetts. BREW welcomes entrepreneurs and business people in all

fields and is hosting a VIP breakfast for our international travelers to connect them to resources here in the Commonwealth and to each other. The breakfast will be held on Friday, October 28, 2011 from 7:00 AM to 8:30 AM (ET).

BREW will offer a range of events that will be valuable to our international guests. The International BREW Breakfast will feature Secretary Bialecki, representatives from the Patrick Administration, state technology leaders, and industry leaders such as Colin Angle, Co-Founder and CEO of iRobot, and Andy Ory, President and CEO of Acme Packet. Join the Mass Technology Leadership Council for its annual “unConference” featuring four generations of Massachusetts entrepreneurs. Or, attend the Mass Technology Development Corporation for their breakfast seminar on funding for first-time entrepreneurs. We’ll continue to add events, so check the website to learn more.

Where can I learn more?

To sign up for the VIP International BREW Breakfast, please visit: http://brewboston.eventbrite.com/

Add your Events to the BREW Calendar

Christine — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:40:38 +0000

We’ve officially kicked off BREW 2011 so you can now sale viagra

w”>add your events in October to our list of celebrations, panels, conferences and networking opportunities!

Be sure to check out our Resources page if you don’t have a place to host your event – some of our partners have graciously

offered up space during BREW.

This isn’t just a celebration for Boston and Cambridge generic cialis online – we want Worcester, Woburn, Waltham, Andover, Hanover, Brookline and Beverly to get involved. Let’s show the true diversity of entrenpreneurship throughout all of Massachusetts! Reach out to colleagues in your community and organize an event that celebrates the hardwork and commitment of starting and running a business.

Get something BREWing…and share it with us!

Kicking off BREW 2011

clbsierra — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:17:33 +0000

We are excited to be hosting the 2nd annual BREW event October 12 – 28, 2011! About a year ago the idea for Boston Region Entrepreneurship Week

was born and now we are preparing for another great celebration.

The unique feature about Boston Region Entrepreneurship Weeks is that it was designed to celebrate you – the entrepreneur – and all of the hard work, commitment and resourcefulness it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Every event listed on the BREW calendar will focus on some element of entrepreneurship such as formulating your business; finding some place to call “home” for your company; raising money to further your business goals; legal advice; finding and connecting with other entrepreneurs who can share their stories and advice; and rediscovering why the Boston area is a great place to start and build a company!

From October 12 – 19 we want you to get out of town. If you are located North, South, East or West of Boston we encourage you to think about what you can share with fellow entrepreneurs and host an event of your own! Pull together a networking event or a panel discussion with your favorite “suburban” entrepreneurs. Hold a product launch and

demo and tell the story of how you finally got to that point! Host a mini-class on writing a business plan, applying for a patent, drawing up a contract or creating a web site.

Starting October 20 – 28 the goal is to get back downtown! There will be exciting events happening in Boston and Cambridge to celebrate all that the downtown area has to offer businesses. The combination of companies in high tech, clean energy, non-profit, creative, defense and life sciences contribute to the wealth of resources in Boston and Cambridge. Boston and Cambridge also offer a unique and world class talent pool with universities like MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, BU and others educating and preparing the next generation of entrepreneurs and business owners.

Join the BREW Community and we’ll keep you posted when event registration is ready, as well as inform you of great contests and giveaways for attendees. The community will allow you to interact and stay connected with others long after the last BREW event ends for 2011.

As always, we welcome your participation, partnerships and ideas! We don’t create the BREW events – you do! Be creative and we look forward to seeing you out and about in October.

How BREW was born….

jcaruso — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:21:54 +0000

While there is a deep underlying set of factors that led to BREW (my career, interests, philosophy, DNA, etc. …. The seminal moment, like that of many startups, was serendipitous and, perhaps, a trifle mundane.

Bill Warner and I had just agreed to get involved in Jason Cascanis’ Open Angel Forum, and were discussing the next event being in October, with Jason flying in from California to participate. Bill asked if Jason would be interested in being a mentor for Bill’s unConference…suggesting we could schedule the Open Angel Forum about the same time… and mentioned that Jason might also be interested in seeing the Mass Challenge event occurring several days later. I chimed in with the idea of trying to schedule a few other events that week….to fill in the gap between the unConference and MassChallenge.

…. I then begin thinking about how much we have in the way of things LIKE Mass Challenge and the unConference….with little recognition even from our own community of the richness of what we have in the area…. I latched onto the idea of “a something” that would be like a “weeklong First Night”… several days of activities, centered around a single theme.

The next day Dharmesh Shah suggested I needed an attention-getting name to promote the idea… and suggested BREW – Boston Region Entrepreneurship Week.

Sounded catchy to me…

the thought of October… BREW… Oktoberfest… why not have a beer company come up with an Entrepreneur’s Brew”…have a party…. Etc.

I started a LinkedIn Group, invited several dozen thought leaders… with a view to brainstorming and soliciting ideas. 50 people signed up. George McQuilken blogged about it… 100 people signed up. Scott Kirsner blogged about it another 100 people signed up… and it began to take on a life of its own….