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Hereâs whatâs happening across #Boston + #NewEngland
May 18 - 22 đ
đĽ Tuesday | 12:00 PM
đ Berkshire Innovation Center
Stage 2 Accelerator Entrepreneurial Showcase
with @berkshireinnovation
đĽ Tuesday | 6:00 PM
đ@cicnow
AI: Overhyped or Underhyped? A Strategic Lens on What Comes Next
with Boston Product Management Association
đĽWednesday | 12:00 PM
đVirtual
Building Ethical AI Into Your Hiring Process
with @inclusiongeeks
đĽWednesday | 2:00 PM
đCambridge, MA
The Blueprint Showcase
with @enginexyz
đĽThursday | 9:30 AM
đKendall Square
Startup Boston's Dealflow Mixer, Featuring CIC's Social Impact Cohort
with Startup Boston and @cicnow
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đ Full event list + registration links: startupbos.org/events
(Submit your events there tooâwe love sharing them!)
#events #networking
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Everything compounds from how clearly you answer one question:â
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Get that right â and everything downstream gets easier.
Boston startup discourse is so funny sometimes đâ
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People build billion-dollar companies hereâŚand then still act like Boston is just:â
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đ§Ş hospitalsâ
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Meanwhile the city is quietly producing incredible SaaS, biotech, AI, and deep tech companies with founders who care more about building real businesses than becoming LinkedIn influencers.â
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So weâre hosting a conversation about it đâ
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UGLY TALK: Building and Scaling Tech Companies in Boston is bringing together founders, operators, investors, and ecosystem leaders to talk honestly about:â
đĽ where Boston actually winsâ
đ§ą where the ecosystem still feels fragmentedâ
đď¸ why some founders intentionally choose Bostonâ
đ¤ and who should (and should not) build hereâ
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No startup city chest-thumping. No âBoston vs SFâ nonsense. Just a real conversation about what this ecosystem is actually good at.â
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đ May 27â
đ Idea Spaceâ
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Trying to figure out which accelerator, incubator, or venture studio is actually right for you? đâ
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Weâve got something better than endless Googling.â
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On June 8, weâre hosting a Startup Boston x City of Boston event designed to make that decision a whole lot easier.â
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Weâre bringing together accelerators, incubators, and venture studios from across Greater Boston into one room â so you can explore, compare, and connect directly with the people behind them.â
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Whether youâre:â
⨠An early-stage founder looking for structure + supportâ
⨠Exploring programs to accelerate your growthâ
⨠Or just trying to understand whatâs out thereâ
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This is your chance to get clarity⌠fast.â
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đď¸ Register - use link in bio!
You know whatâs actually fun?â
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Getting to play with products before theyâre fully âdone.ââ
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Not the polished launch version. The weird-in-a-good-way version. The âweâre still figuring this outâ version. The version where founders actually want your feedback because it might shape what gets built next.â
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Thatâs exactly what this Startup Boston event during Boston Tech Week is.â
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A room full of early-stage startups showcasing MVPs, prototypes, and beta products â and looking for real humans to test them, react to them, ask questions, and potentially join their beta lists.â
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Think startup vendor hall meets live user testing.â
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If you like discovering cool products early, meeting founders before everything feels overly polished, and seeing whatâs actually getting built across the Boston startup ecosystem right now, come hang with us.â
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Thank you to @workbar and @accountalent for partnering!
Most startup mixers:â
âWhat are you building?ââ
âWhatâs your traction?ââ
âWould love to connect sometime.ââ
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âŚand somehow everyone leaves mentally exhausted and still stuck in small talk đâ
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UGLY TALK is doing the opposite.â
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During Boston Tech Week, founders are getting on stage to share:â
đĽ the deal that fell apartâ
đ the pivot that hurtâ
đŤ the moment they realized the product was wrongâ
đ˘ the messy middle nobody puts on LinkedInâ
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No polished founder mythology. No âhow I scaled to Xâ energy. Just honest stories from people actively building.â
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And honestly? That is exactly why the mixer part ends up better.â
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Because once somebody tells the truth on stage, the networking performance dies pretty quickly and people start having actual conversations.â
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If you are tired of startup events feeling like one giant auditionâŚyou should probably be in this room.â
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đ May 26 at 6PMâ
đ¤ Venture Laneâ
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Donât just invest where it sounds exciting. Invest where you actually know whatâs going on.â
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Your edge isnât the checkâitâs your perspective, your experience, and how you can help.â
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If you canât add value beyond capitalâŚyouâre just along for the ride.
573 Boston Tech Week events.â
One calendar. Zero chance your brain was organizing that manually.â
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So Startup Boston teamed up with Fluent to build a free AI-powered Tech Week planner đ¤â
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Tell it:â
⨠your goalsâ
⨠your scheduleâ
⨠the kinds of people you want to meetâ
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And it builds your personalized agenda for the week â even grouping events by neighborhood so youâre not ping-ponging across Boston all day.â
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Already used by 50+ people and honestlyâŚeveryoneâs Tech Week strategy is wildly different đâ
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If youâre trying to:â
đ meet foundersâ
đ¸ raise moneyâ
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âŚthis tool is for you.â
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Grab it at the link in bio đ
Donât chase ideas, chase problems youâve actually lived.â
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When youâve felt the pain yourself, you build differentlyâwith clarity, urgency, and empathy.â
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The best products donât start in brainstorms.â
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Still thinking about this weekâs event with OrangeLoops âĄâ
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âFrom Vibe-Coding to Viable Productsâ ended up being one of those events where the conversations kept going long after the official session wrapped.â
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We got real about:â
đ where vibe-coding actually breaks downâ
⥠how AI is changing product developmentâ
đ ď¸ and what it takes to turn AI-generated features into products people can actually rely onâ
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The energy in the room was SO good. Builders, founders, product folks, engineers â all swapping notes in real time about whatâs working (and what definitely is not đ).â
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Huge thank you to the OrangeLoops team for partnering with us on this one. More conversations like this please đ
Looking to plug into the #startup scene this week? Weâve got you covered đ
Hereâs whatâs happening across #Boston + #NewEngland
May 11 - 15 đ
đĽ Tuesday - Thursday
đ Virtual
2026 America's Seed Fund Week
with @sbagov
đĽ Tuesday| 5:00 PM
đ@MIT
Fireside Chat with Paul English (Cofounder & CTO, Kayak)
with TNT and @englishpaulm
đĽTuesday | 6:00 PM
đ@MIT
$100K Entrepreneurship Competition 2026: Launch
with @mitsloan
đĽWednesday | 12:00 PM
đVirtual
Meet your Startup Support System: MassCEC
with Mass Innovation Network and @masscec
đĽThursday | 9:00 AM
đGreentown Labs
Climate AI Hackathon
with @greentownlabs@tedxharvardsquare
đĽThursday | 12:00 PM
đVirtual
Precision Pitch Practice
with @bostonnewtech
Tag someone who should come with you đ¤
đ Full event list + registration links: startupbos.org/events
(Submit your events there tooâwe love sharing them!)
#events #networking startupevents