Do you stress over getting a seat at the RIGHT table? Are you suffering from FOMO? This post was inspired by dinner on an overnight train to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We were seated with strangers just north of Baltimore but found ourselves celebrating dessert with these randomly created new friends in Washington DC, without […]
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Inspiration – reflections on Inspirefest Dublin Ireland
I had the pleasure of traveling to Ireland and participating in Inspirefest. Held in Dublin, Inspirefest is a unique international festival of technology, science, design and the arts. Founder Ann O’Dea puts diversity and inclusion at the festival’s heart, and the ratio of women to men is a refreshing change from the still massively male […]
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Validation
The Boston and Maine Connection – Validation Validation, the independent corroboration of your mission by one or more individuals who make you feel like you’re not out there all by your lonely self as you drive toward your business goals. It takes a lot to put yourself out there in the public eye to expose […]
The Lessons of Challenger -30 years later
The Boston & Maine Connection – PR Disaster Planning The lessons of Challenger – Fast Forwarded Thirty Years January 28th a sad but also long ago memory brought back painfully fresh. It is the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. At the time, Outer Space, was the new frontier and frontiers are fraught […]
Veterans Day: Symbiotic Relationship to the Community The B&M connection
I was raised in the era of the Vietnam conflict. Love it (the USA) or leave it vs. lots of protests against an unjust war far away from our shores. As a society, we weren’t particularly kind to or respectful of the returning soldiers, the community of combat veterans that risked their lives to protect […]
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Entrepreneurial Road Show – The B&M Connection
Entrepreneurial Road Show To some, new tech and entrepreneurship can only be found –or at least financed – in the big startup hotbeds of Silicon Valley – or maybe New York, if you’re a New Yorker – or Kendall Square if you’re from MIT or Harvard. But that didn’t stop a music festival called South […]
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The Boston & Maine Connection – Running Away from a Cure
This is a transcription of the original article published in The CRYER on June 1, 2015. You can see the original published article here. The Boston & Maine Connection – Running Away from a Cure? Shocking news to many of us, but not to the scientific community, is the future outcome of the growing gap […]
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