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| Happy Birthday! |
Mass Innovation Nights celebrated its 6th birthday on Wednesday with a distributed event hosted at several places in Cambridge -- the hotbed of innovation in Massachusetts. Big thanks go out to
danger!awesome,
NGIN Workplace,
CIC, and
Workbar.
Your correspondent imagined flitting between venues and covering the whole shebang, but instead spent the time helping staff the
At-Hand Apps table with our founder, Robert Gray. By the way, if you have an iPhone or iPad and haven't downloaded
Massachusetts At-Hand from the app store, what the heck are you waiting for? Get out and explore Massachusetts -- there's way more to do and see than you imagine.
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| Robert Telling the At-Hand Story |
Like other MIN alumni, we were located at NGIN. It was great to see
al Freshco again. I love their model of locally sourced food delivered locally by bike. Who needs a "Dash button" when you've got al Freshco?
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| al Freshco Meal Kits Rule! |
Imagine the temptations of having a table situated between al Freshco and
Taste of Chocolate. If felt a little like MINFoodie!
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| Taste of Chocolate |
I got a chance to talk to Boston's premier snow as a service innovator, Kyle of
Ship Snow Yo, about shipping the historic Boston snow, about the North Shore's history of shipping ice around the world, and about why, alas, shipping snow is not a solution to the California drought. Too bad it costs more to clean the snow than to desalinate the ocean. And no, I did not ship Boston to snow to my brother in Dubai, in case you wondered.
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| Ship Snow Yo! |
The guest host at our venue was Dennis Keohane, staff writer for PandoDaily, ably assisted by ace wordsmith Alan Dillingham.
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| Dennis Keohane Reading the Intro to the Presentations |
All the venues were connected in a Google Hangout and each presenter got one minute to tell their story. It was a lot of fun, but the technology really needs to mature some and presenters and hosts need to pay more attention to where the camera is. We got to see lots of presentations by the tops of people's heads.
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| Top of Ted Chaloner's Head on Screen |
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| Brass Presenting and Being Visible on Screen |
The event was a lot of fun and Founder/Queen/Empress of MIN, BobbieC made it to all the venues.
There were no "experts looking expert" or costumes or props to photograph, so I'll wrap up with the founder herself looking seriously entrepreneurial.
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| 6 Years of MIN is Epic! |
