Equity as Startup Comp & PR Best Practices | WaySavvy & Mobinett pitches

Our next Boston BizSpark Meetup will be held on Thursday, March 3rd at Dogpatch Labs (http://dogpatchlabs.com) located at One Cambridge Center 6th Floor in Cambridge. This is the large brick building next to the Kendall Square Red Line T stop.

Dogpatch Labs is also having an Open House beforehand from 2 - 5 PM giving you a chance to check out their new digs and meet the resident startups before our meeting.

At 6:30 Rick Lucash (http://www.mccarter.com/new/homenew.aspx?searchlink=showbionew&show=3965) will present on how to use equity to compensate team members for their work before they can afford to pay them salaries. This is great for Lean Startups and bootstrapped startups.. Rick Lucash is Special Counsel at McCarter & English (http://mccarter.com), one of Boston's top law firms. He focuses on high tech companies and their investors. He has worked with companies involved in a wide range of technologies, and the corporate, financing, technology transfer and intellectual property issues required for their growth. Rick is also founder of the Launchpad Venture Group (http://www.launchpadventuregroup.com). He is definitely someone startup founders should meet.

At 7 PM Sherry Alpert (http://www.alpert-publicrelations.com)will present on Public Relations best practices for startups. Sherry is a well-known and highly-connected PR consultant in the Boston startup community. Her clients are both regional and national in a wide range of industries including high tech, start-ups, branding, health, food, retail, business consulting, trade organizations, and books

At 7:30 PM Michael Raybman of WaySavvy Travel (http://waysavvy.com)will pitch his startup to Gus Weber (http://gusweber.wordpress.com/), Entrepreneur In Residence of Polaris Ventures (http://polarisventures.com) and Dogpatch Labs. Chris Requena of Mobinett (http://mobinett.com) will pitch to Gus at 8 PM.

Please RSVP and bring guests. We're always open to suggestions for topics for experts to speak on as well.

-Marsh Sutherland
Boston BizSpark Meetup Organizer