THIS WEEK
Monday November 10
- SEO for Beginners 12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Town Hall: Opportunities for Your Early Childhood Program (Bilingual) 1:00 – 2:30 pm
- QuickBooks Online Express 1:00 – 3:00 pm
- Foodie Demo Day 2025 5:30 – 8:00 pm
Tuesday November 11
- WiM | Stanley, Black & Decker Plant Tour 8:30 – 11:30 am
- Small Business Opportunities for Veterans 11:30 am
- Market Your Small Business Using Podcasts 2:00 pm
- No-Cost / Low-Cost Access to Money 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Wednesday November 12
- Rebooting Your Career with Confidence 9:00 – 10:00 am
- Trials & Triumph: Success of a Serial Entrepreneur 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Fall 2025: Maximizing Productivity with Generative AI 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Small Business Funding: Meet the Lenders 12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Networking and Relationship Building: Your Professional Toolbox 12:00 – 1:30 pm
- CSAIL Alliances and Dell Present: Fireside Chat: The Ups and Downs of Entrepreneurship 12:00 – 4:00 pm
- Coworking Day for Boston’s B2B Tech Founders 12:00 – 5:00 pm
- WBDC Orientation 1:00 – 2:00 pm
- IBM & NIX Happy Hour: Cost Strategy Pillars 2026 4:00 – 6:00 pm
- Quickbooks Intro, Set Up and Problem Solving 5:30 pm
- Online Reputation Management 6:00 pm
Thursday November 13
- Professional Women’s Meeting 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
- HELP YOUR CLIENTS SCORE, A 504-Training Session for lenders 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
- $80K Pitch-To-Portfolio Competition 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Exploring the Government Marketplace 12:00 – 1:30 pm
- The BizGrow Conference Springfield 2025 12:00 – 3:00 pm
- Simple Steps for Exiting Your Business: The Three Pillars for Financial Freedom 1:00 pm
- Creating Your Contract Strategy: What You Need to Know About FAR and Non-FAR Contract Pathways 1:00 – 2:30 pm
- Cybersecurity Imperatives for Small Business 2:00 – 3:00 pm
- CSAIL Alliances: Pitch to Match! 3:00 – 5:00 pm
- Center for Innovation and Applied Technology Open House 4:00 – 6:00 pm
- Venture Cafe Connection Collider 4:30 – 8:00 pm
- Work Smarter, Grow Faster – Run Your Business Without It Running You! 5:00 – 6:00 pm
- AI, Education and Entrepreneurship 5:00 – 6:00 pm
- Founder’s Feud: Startup Edition 6:00 – 7:00 pm
- Founders and Funders Meetup (MIT, Harvard, Boston et Large) at Venture Cafe 6:00 – 7:00 pm
- NEVYs 2025 Nominee Reveal Party 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Friday November 14
- MTLC CEO Peer Group 8:30 – 10:00 am
- Tech Hot Topic Series: The AI-Adapted Workforce: Recruiting, Retaining and Upskilling 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
- MONTHLY MARKETING MEETUPS: Ask The Experts, Mktg Collective, Coworking Day 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Digital Success by Mastering Marketing Tools 11:00 am
- Developing a Compelling Capability Statement (2025 Update) 1:00 pm
Saturday November 15
NEXT WEEK AND BEYOND
Monday November 17
- November Lioness Networking: Sane Productivity Systems 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Introduction to CT Boost Fund (Bilingual) 12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Inspiring Inventions and Ideas: How University Innovation & Entrepreneurship Centers Spark Student Creativity and New Ecosystems 1:00 – 2:00 pm
- Financial Foundations: Business Loan Drop In 5:30 – 6:30 pm
- Collective CT – Creative Entrepreneurs Financial Empowerment Program “The Power is In Your Hands” 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Tuesday November 18
- Conversations That Matter: Last- Minute Holiday Marketing Tips from the Experts at Talon Media 10:00 – 11:00 pm
- Public Speaking 101: Your Next Step to Success 12:00 pm
- From Intention to Action: Building Strategies for Sustained Local Food Procurement 12:00 pm
- I’m WBENC Certified. Now What? 12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Beyond Equity: Strategic Financing for the Life Sciences 12:00 – 2:00 pm
- Show Up Where It Counts: Local SEO Essentials 1:00 – 2:00 pm
- Needs Assessment 1:00 – 2:00 pm
- Child Care Business Essentials: Creating Effective Payment Policies 1:00 – 2:00 pm
- How to Modify Your GSA Schedule Contract 1:00 – 2:30 pm
- Pioneer Valley Advanced Manufacturing Summit 2:00 – 4:30 pm
- Startup Mastermind 4:30 – 5:30 pm
- How to Evaluate Your Patents for Investor Interest [Hybrid Event] 5:00 pm
- Your Website’s on Fire (and Not in a Good Way): 10 Easy Fixes for Big ROI 5:00 – 5:45 pm
- WBDC Meet Up (Stamford) 5:00 – 7:00 pm
- FounderConnect: Startup Resources & Networking Expo 5:30 – 7:30 pm
- Meng Fund Pitch Night 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Wednesday November 19
- Financial Statements with AI 9:00 – 10:30 am
- M3 What’s Happening at the Massachusetts Border 9:00 – 11:00 am
- How to Batch Social Media Content Using Canva 12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Cybersecurity Basics: Protecting Yourself and Your Business 12:00 – 1:00 pm
- The Inside Track to Fundraising: Lessons from 200+ Pitches & Company Evaluations 12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Women Owned Small Business Certification (WOSB) 1:00 – 2:00 pm
- GovCon’s AI Wake-Up Call: What Smart Contractors Are Doing Now 1:00 – 2:00 pm
- 2025 Evening of Innovation & Awards Ceremony 5:30 – 8:00 pm
- Babson FinTech Start Up Pitch Competition 2025 5:30 – 8:00 pm
- Pop Up and Pitch: A Floor–Plan Retail Incubator Event 5:30 – 8:00 pm
- Tech Made Easy: Gmail Tips 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Thursday November 20
- Springfield Small Business Resource Forum 7:30 – 9:00 am
- Traveling Resource Tour – Quincy, MA 8:00 – 9:00 am
- Coffee & Conversation (New London) 8:00 – 9:30 am
- Intro to QuickBooks – Set up and Problem Solving 9:30 am
- Are You Bankable? 10:00 – 11:30 am
- Certification Huddles 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
- Lunch & Learn: AI-Powered Entrepreneurship 12:00 – 1:30 pm
- An Introduction to Government Small Business Certifications (2025 Update) 1:00 – 2:30 pm
- Business Updates from an Employment Law Expert 2:00 – 3:00 pm
- Innovation and Libations – Northeast, MA 3:00 – 6:00 pm
- Venture Cafe Connection Collider 4:30 – 8:00 pm
- MAHI Pitch Night (Round 3!) 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Friday November 21
- Early Stage Founder Breakfast 8:30 – 10:00 am
- E-commerce Growth Secrets That Boost Sales and Success 11:00 am
- SBIR Funding Friday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Saturday November 22
Monday November 24
- Startup Pitch & Networking Boston 7:00 – 10:00 pm
Tuesday November 25
- Tech & Business Networking Boston 7:00 – 9:30 pm
- How to Create Your Brand: And Shape Your Vision For The Future 6:00 pm
Wednesday November 26
- RIHub Open Coffee 8:30 – 10:00 am
Tuesday December 2
- Why & How to Certify Your Business as Woman Owned through WBENC 12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Coffee & Conversation (Waterbury) 12:30 – 2:00 pm
- Understanding the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Impacts & Insights for Your Business 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Wednesday December 3
- From Chaos to Cadence: Building a Founder Schedule That Actually Works 9:00 – 10:00 am
- Tech Talks with Rob 10:00 – 11:00 am
- Small Business Mastermind: Hartford 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
- When to Hire and How to Work with a Marketing Agency 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Steps to Grow Your Business 12:00 – 1:30 pm
- Needs Assessment 5:00 – 6:00 pm
Thursday December 4
- Branchfood’s December Community Table 12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Venture Cafe Connection Collider 4:30 – 8:00 pm
- CIC Social Impact Program Demos 5:00 – 7:00 pm
- Carbon to Value Initiative Year 5 Kickoff 5:30 pm
- Tech Runs Boston: Help Wanted! 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Saturday December 6
Monday December 8
- Info Session #1 – Global Eddies 2026 9:00 – 10:00 pm
- Financial Foundations: Business Loan Drop In 12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Building an Online Course: Profit Stream or Time Suck? 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Tuesday December 9
- Analyze This! – A Primer in Website and Social Media Reporting 10:00 am
- Legal Considerations when Growing a Business 12:00 – 1:30 pm
- Slicing Pie: Splitting Equity Fairly amongst your Startup Team 5:00 – 7:00 pm
- Simple Steps for Starting Your Business – Basics 6:00 pm
Wednesday December 10
- Nonprofit Executives National Networking 9:30 am
- Coffee & Conversation (Hartford) 10:00 – 11:30 pm
- POWERChat: Fashion Sustainability & Success: Side Hustle to Multimillion $ Biz 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Government Contractors and Tariff Challenges: Strategies for Success 12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Finding Government Contracting Opportunities 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Thursday December 11
- Needs Assessment 9:00 – 10:30 am
- WBDC Orientation 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Contracting Huddle 12:00 pm
- Launching Your Business: A Step-By-Step Guide 1:00 – 2:30 pm
- Nonprofit Executives National Networking 1:30 pm
- Mass Innovation Network Annual Meeting 2025 4:30 – 7:30 pm
- Venture Cafe Connection Collider 4:30 – 8:00 pm
- The 13th Annual NEVY Awards: NEVYs the 13th 6:00 – 10:00 pm
Saturday December 13
- Certification Huddle 9:00 – 11:00 am
Tuesday December 16
- Introduction to State Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses 8:30 – 10:30 am
- I’m WBENC Certified. Now What? 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Wednesday December 17
- Small Business Mastermind: Stamford 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Info Session #2 – Global Eddies 2026 12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Realistic Goal Setting for Business Growth 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Thursday December 18
- Golden Seeds December Boston Office Hours 9:00 am
- Are You Bankable? 10:00 – 11:30 am
- Venture Cafe Connection Collider 4:30 – 8:00 pm
Friday December 19
- Series A & B CEO Meeting: Peer Insights and Challenges 8:30 – 10:00 am
Tuesday January 6
Tuesday January 13
- Simple Steps – Concepts 6:00 pm
Wednesday January 14
- Financial Statements with AI 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Tuesday January 20
- Simple Steps – Marketing 6:00 pm
Thursday January 22
- Small Business Tax Workshop Session 1 9:00 – 10:30 am
Tuesday January 27
- 2026 Local Food Trade Show 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
- Simple Steps – Financials 6:00 pm
Wednesday January 28
Tuesday February 3
- Simple Steps for Starting Your Business 6:00 pm
- Cost, Pricing and Breakeven 6:00 pm
Tuesday February 10
Tuesday March 3
Wednesday March 18
- Developing an Effective Government Focused Capability Statement 12:00 – 1:30 pm