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Our Member companies Include:

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Avni the Earth

Avni is the Sanskrit word for Earth, and our philosophy is to preserve and present Earth’s heritage by bringing forth various textile arts that have been practiced in villages and through folklore for centuries. Our goal is to create clothing and accessories that are a unique blend of ethnic art forms and western fashion. The mission of Avni is to promote arts and artisans across the globe by showcasing their talent through its collections.

Our vision is to tap into the conscious minds of our consumers and create the need to own more than just clothing or accessories.  We want our customers to know, understand, and feel a connection to the history, art, and most importantly, to the people who are striving to bring forth their creativity all over the world.

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Ben Brunt

Freelance Web Designer & Photographer

Ben is a Freelance Web Designer who offers a wide variety of services.  With expertise in Web Design, Front-End Production, implementing Content Management Systems and even Photography, I can help you tackle your business’ trickiest web-based needs.

If you would like to learn more about me and my work, feel free to check out my site (http://www.benbrunt.com).

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CSOFT International Ltd

CSOFT International is an award-winning provider of multilingual localization, application testing, terminology management, and software development services for the international market. Relying on our expert in-country linguistic resources, excellent localization engineering capabilities and professional project management, CSOFT provides a broad range of language and technological solutions in over 90 languages for a variety of industries, including IT, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Automotive, and Financial Services.

Leveraging our extensive experience in internationalization and application development, CSOFT provides targeted solutions to help companies develop and deploy products in the global market quickly and competitively. Headquartered in the heart of Beijing’s Central Business District (CBD), CSOFT maintains additional operations in Boston, San Francisco, New York, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Canada and Australia, as well as dedicated language teams in all major European and Asian markets.

CSOFT has one of the largest technical infrastructures in China, a fact that recently won the company recognition as one of the world’s Top 30 language service providers (LSPs) by Common Sense Advisory, a well-respected market research group. This unique background of technical expertise enables CSOFT to provide highly affordable localization solutions that are both scalable and flexible. Backed by our ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 certifications, CSOFT provides professional end-to-end project execution to meet the demands of our worldwide clients.

Website: www.csoftintl.com

Blog: T for Translation (Life, the Times, and Localization at CSOFT)

Twitter: @localisation

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Danish Management Group

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Discobeta Ventures | Blog | LinkedIn | Twitter

Adam Stewart is a freelance marketing consultant specializing in digital and social marketing.  He is currently a freelance Account Director at Circ.us, where he is managing the strategy and production of interactive media projects, including augmented reality games, website re-designs, blogger outreach programs and social media strategies.  In addition to his work as Circ.us, he is also working with Boston-based clients on general marketing initiatives and a community site.

He is always on the lookout for opportunities to enhance a brand presence through interactive media.

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Digital Aid

DigitalAid specializes in building web applications. We work with nonprofit organizations and with people who work on their own projects and endeavors to contribute to building a healthy, sustainable, and socially just world. Most of our clients are in the Pacific Northwest and the United States, although we have worked internationally as well. We work primarily with the Drupal content management system and application development framework, and have been building Drupal sites since 2003.

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DMZ Interactive LLC

At DMZ Interactive we focus on inbound marketing programs that generate results. We take a 360 degree view of your customer that helps you more effectively compete in today’s always connected socially aware marketplace.

We’re also not your average interactive agency that thinks that having a cute flash animation and a cool logo with the right tag line is the key to differentiation for your online brand. We all know it’s a lot harder than that.

To create successful inbound marketing programs, all aspects of the program must be integrated tightly – from the landing page to the email drip program.

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At DMZ Interactive our experts can help you:

• Generate more business from the web using inbound marketing best practices
• Create more inquiries/leads from search engine marketing and increase the ROI of your website
• Better qualify leads/inquiries so you can maximize your sales and marketing productivity
• Be more effective and consistent in following up on qualified leads/inquiries with marketing automation lead nurturing programs
• Better understand your customer life cycle and identify opportunities for cross selling and upselling
• Help you truly understand your target market, your customers, what motivates them to buy and the messages that will resonate with them
• Target the right customers though effective customer segmentation programs
• Identify your most and least profitable customer segments and develop programs to manage each segment appropriately
• Create fully integrated sales and marketing programs that tie SEO/PPC to web analytics to marketing automation to CRM/SFA systems.
• Leverage social media to generate word of mouth buzz around your product and brand

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E.Factor

E.Factor stands for “The Entrepreneur Factor” and represents a vibrant online community and virtual marketplace designed for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurs love E.Factor.com because it’s a place where they can focus exclusively on making business connections, negotiating deals, exchanging information, and advertising their products and services.

Comprised of businesspeople and investors across an array of industries around the globe, the E.Factor community is ideal for entrepreneurs looking to increase their brand exposure, establish a network of high quality contacts, and acquire the funding needed to take their enterprise to the next level.

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iCreate to Educate

iCreate to Educate supports innovative, hands-on technologies in the K-12 classroom to enhance learning in science, math, and engineering.  Using research-informed educational tools developed at Tufts University, iCreate works with teachers to develop and implement activities that engage students through project-based learning. The first educational tool in the spotlight is SAM Animation, a stop-motion animation software developed specifically for education as a unique way for students to express their ideas and develop understandings in science. Through the combination of a computer and webcam, students use SAM Animation to create personally meaningful digital media by physically manipulating standard classroom supplies on a tabletop.  The melding of the physical and digital worlds offers a rich learning experience for students of all ages.  While the K-12 classroom is iCreate’s primary focus, the company also runs after-school and home-based programs.  Create your own stop-motion animation by downloading a free demo version of SAM Animation at www.samanimation.com, or check out and register for upcoming hands-on workshops for teachers and students at www.icreatetoeducate.com.

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Invested Development

Web: www.investeddevelopment.com

Twitter: InvestedD

Invested Development (ID) is a social capital intermediary that finds and creates sustainable solutions to global poverty and mobilizes capital towards them.  Our mission is to expand the amount of angel/seed capital supporting socially-motivated start-ups. We currently do this through investment intermediation for philanthropic-minded angel/seed investors. Specifically, we offer:

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• Investment Matching: Investors give us their criteria and we find angel, seed and early stage equity investments that match.
• Investment Assessment: Keeping social impact in-mind, we perform a unique version of due-diligence that fits socially responsible investing.
• Investment Design: We work with investors and partners to shape deals that meet the unique needs of social entrepreneurs.
• Monitoring & Follow-up: Investment milestones and social impact require long-term attention, we do that part as well.

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ID was founded by Miguel Granier who previously served as Investment Manager for First Light Ventures, founder of MicroCapital Consulting, and loan officer for ACCION New York. Before beginning his career in social enterprise, Miguel, worked for the insurance giant Fidelity National Financial in New York and the Delter Business Institute in Beijing, China.

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JRS Recovery Service

JRS Recovery Service is one of North America’s premier Commercial Asset Recovery and Re-Marketing companies, serving both the United States and Canada. With a successful track record of over 20 years, JRS Recovery Service can track and secure, store and sell your non-performing commercial assets across the country.

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Lisa Rigby Photography

Lisa Rigby Photography started in 2009, and is a boutique wedding photography business. Each year, Lisa works closely with a limited number clients to document their wedding story. Based in Boston, Lisa photographs weddings throughout New England, the US, and abroad.

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Lost Yeti Design

Lost Yeti Design is Richie Sun, who is a Boston-based graphic designer who practices on the web.

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Malgeri Law

Providing patent counseling, prosecution, and litigation services with an emphasis on building value for smaller and mid-sized companies

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Munevar & Associates, Inc.

Multidisciplinary Teams are Valuable Tools for the Further Development and Commercialization of Emerging Life Science Technologies

Munevar & Associates, Inc. is a life science technology development and commercialization solutions company. The company is comprised of an integrated, multidisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and business professionals focused on supporting the advancement, development, and commercialization of life science centered innovations.

Product/Service offerings:

Information Is a Key Project Resource For Strategic Decision Making, Particularly In Complex Areas, Such As The Life Sciences

Our multidisciplinary team can offer valuable perspectives, experience, and insights into:

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• Life science related technical research and due diligence
• Commercialization research and due diligence
• Analysis and presentation of research results
• Technology translation and/or commercialization strategy development and implementation

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Meet our team and ask how we can support your project needs by calling or visiting our website and requesting a complimentary project assessment today.  In the interim, please see our brochure at: www.munevarassociates.com/Resources/2009/Brochure.pdf

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MuseTrek

MuseTrek is an innovative mobile and Web application enriching the dialogue between cultural sites and their visitors.  MuseTrek uses crowd-sourcing and geo-tagging technology to turn users’ own phones into a cultural recommendation tool linking them with items (artworks, exhibits, conferences, workshops…) and places they will enjoy based on their actions, interests and social connections.

Born at Harvard University, the MuseTrek concept aimed to make cultural places more meaningful to the student founders.  MuseTrek has developed partnerships at leading French cultural institutions such as the Louvre, Cite des Science and the Arts Decorative museums.  Based off of experimentations and iPhone trials at these locations, MuseTrek will soon be beta releasing its mobile participatory guide with with a key cultural places around the world.

Contact us at info@musetrek.com if you would like to find out about running MuseTrek at your location.

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New Leaf Digital

New Leaf Digital is a web development shop specializing in the open-source Drupal CMS, founded by Ben Buckman. Ben is an open internet enthusiast with over a decade of software and web development experience, a deep knowledge of Drupal, and experience working with non-profits, artists, and large corporations. New Leaf Digital now partners with other designers and developers to offer a full range of services with ad-hoc teams in which each member can focus on their unique skillsets. New Leaf Digital also specializes in auditing and repairing Drupal sites for best practices.

Visit New Leaf Digital at http://NewLeafDigital.com or contact Ben at ben at newleafdigital.com.

Ben is also on Twitter @thebuckst0p and blogs at BenBuckman.net and Tech.BenBuckman.net.

New Leaf Legal

Stand up. Go. Go pursue the dream you have always yearned to undertake. At New Leaf, we empower our family of emerging business and entertainment clients with Business Affairs and Legal knowhow. We focus on creatively developing Corporate, Entertainment, and IP infrastructures for our clients as well as helping established companies embark on new and entrepreneurial paths.  With clients operating in a variety of cutting edge brand-focused industries, including new media, eCommerce and LOHAS, you will be in good company.

So go forth. Stand up. We will stand beside you.

Mass High Tech: ”New Startups Undeterred by Tough Economy”

A Selection of What We Do:

1.) Business Entity Structuring and Maintenance

• Internal corporate documents
• Employment and Contractor matters
• Mergers and Acquisitions

2.) Agreement Negotiation and Drafting

3.) Intellectual Property: Trademark/Branding and Copyright services

• Filing
• Licensing & Leveraging
• Enforcement

4.) Entertainment, Publishing and Arts Law

• Performance/Venue Agreements
• Royalty Arrangements
• Band Agreements
• Recording & Publishing Agreements

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Pickup Zone

PickupZone is a Boston based startup launched in 2008.  PickupZone operates a network of local neighborhood Pickup Points that let’s urban consumers get their packages at their convenience.  The service eliminates delivery issues by turning neighborhood retail stores – Walgreens, True Value, Ace Hardware – into secure personal package pickup centers that helps consumers avoid:

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• Missed deliveries and “Yellow Slips” that delay package reception
• Stolen and missing packages
• Security issues where unattended packages signal that no one is home
• Inability or inconvenience around signature reception
• Wasted time and expense traveling to package depots
• Trouble keeping gifts and packages a surprise

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Users can sign up for the service at pickupzone.com, select a convenient Pickup Point and then use their new address instead of their home address when shopping online.  PickupZone works at any online retailer and for personal packages.

By allowing carriers to aggregate packages and reduce wasted trips, idling time and urban traffic, PickupZone users enable a green solution for parcel delivery and help the environment.

PickupZone is continually expanding. Visit for pickupzone.com/find for locations

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Ratingworld.com, LLC

Ratingworld’s mission is to provide a forum in which anything can be rated and discussed. We enable individuals to channel the voice of their communities to inform their decision making. We facilitate communities congregating and sharing their thoughts. We let people help and inform one another.

Throughout history and across cultures, public opinion has been one of the most powerful and valuable commodities. Ratingworld taps into this potent resource using the communications breakthrough of the Internet. We draw together thoughts, opinions, and sentiments on a diverse and wide array of products, services, and ideas. The most direct manifestation of public opinion is the Rating, a numerical score for each entity ranging from one to one hundred and reflecting the collective valuation of the Internet.

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Tech Point Ventures

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Upward Mobility

Upward Mobility creates high end professional educational content for management development and test preparation, and makes it available through mobile apps. Our goal is to keep learners engaged with a mix of wit, humor and actionable takeaways while meeting our customer’s specific educational needs.

We currently offer nearly a hundred academic and professional exam prep apps for each of the iPhone, Palm,Blackberry and Android.
We are a double bottom line company that is committed to education in the developing world. Some of the profits will be used to deploy education via mobile phone in emerging countries to improve their total factor productivity growth.

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The Zen Kitchen

We’re The Zen Kitchen. We do award winning, eco-friendly design that packs a serious punch for our clients. Our diverse clientele shares one common trait: they want to do what they love, and to do right by the world while doing it. We invite you to visit http://tzk-design.com and take a look at some of our client success stories. Need us to cook something up for you? Give us a call at 617.412.0585 and let’s chat about it.

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• Brand strategy and design, including logos and packaging
• Web Design, including Wordpress and Drupal development
• Eco-Friendly print design, from marketing materials and postcards to annual reports
• Promotional design for special events

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We’re willing to bet that you have a great business, you love your clients, and you have a passion to make the world better.

Why will we bet on that? Because so do we. We get what it’s like to feel passionately about what we do and how it helps improve the lives of our clients, and we’re just as passionate about the causes we support, which make a difference to the world. But how do you communicate that passion in a way that engages your audience, gets them behind your brand, but doesn’t come across as another marketing ploy?

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We’ll tell you a secret: it all comes down to your image.

A good brand should do two things: it should speak directly to the people you need to target and get them to act, and it should be consistently represented across the board. Logo, postcards, letters, websites, annual reports, direct mail – every communication your prospect has with your business is clear, consistent, and unmistakeably you.

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WherePhone, Inc.

WherePhone provides automatic vehicle, personnel, and asset location and tracking services.  As well as providing real time tracking products from select manufacturers WherePhone manufactures the inMotion monitor – a small, low cost, motion activated GPS tracking
device.

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Xzito

Founded in 2004, Xzito, web and print marketing, began with a vision of creating a cutting-edge creative agency focused on progressive digital capabilities. Since then, we have won numerous awards, including a Gold Award for Excellence in Web Design from the American Association of Web Masters. We have worked with over 300 organizations, from startups to Fortune 500 companies to produce engaging, unique and intelligent online & offline marketing strategies.

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Companies that have worked with us in the past:

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Antler

Antler is a full service marketing agency. We build integrated, cross-channel strategies and implement programs nationwide. We specialize in non-traditional marketing, socially-focused digital marketing and interactive design and development.

Since 2001, our team has successfully implemented and executed hundreds of promotional, digital and event-based marketing programs. Our team has won numerous awards for our work in experiential marketing and social media, including an Ad Age 50 award with Miller Brewing Co. and a HALO award for best use of Social Media..

• Word-of-Mouth Marketing and Influencer Programs
• Digital PR, Social Media
• Alternative and Media
• Brand Ambassador Teams
• Event Marketing and Sponsorships
• Publicity Stunts/Campaigns
• Interactive Design and Development

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Baydin

Baydin makes email more fulfilling by making email clients smarter.  Our Outlook plugins and Gmail add-ons make it easier to organize your inbox, follow up on messages, work with contact and event information, and find useful documents in your corporate network.

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iTourNow

iTourNow helps travelers plan, experience, and share their travel in an organized and cost-effective manner. By teaming with travel business affiliates, iTourNow provides online traveler services such as booking, vacation packages, and group travel planning. Through social media, iTourNow is building a community of travelers and friends where you can share your adventures with us, and we’ll share them with the world! iTourNow is dedicated to providing high quality destination experiences using our cutting edge, patent-pending technology.

iTourNow: your space to plan, travel and share  www.itournow.com

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eXtendMobility

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fusion IT

fusion IT serves a three-fold purpose; to inspire, connect, and equip the Massachusetts Creative Economy.

We inspire hundreds of creative businesses through our blog, Creative Reaction. We actively connect people through our affiliations with the  Massachusetts Production Coalition, Ad Club, and MITX.

Our consultancy focuses on ka-POW-er and leverages technology to enable Mac-based Advertising, Production, Post-Production and affiliated businesses to be World-Class. We specialize in companies with video production and post-production workflows. We are the entire IT department for smaller creatives businesses. We are Mac OS X Server and Pro Video specialists for IT departments not possessing these skill sets. We design, integrate, and optimize rock-solid Final Cut Pro editing systems for companies which do not have a Video Engineer on staff. We are workflow specialists, keeping projects moving from conception to implementation, from you, to your client, to your client’s client.

Having worked within the Boston Advertising, Production and Post-Production community for over 20 years, fusion IT is uniquely qualified to help your creatives ROCK!

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