Happy belated Mother’s Day! Here’s to more collaboration in our thriving ecosystem!
UPCOMING EVENTS
May 13: INNOVATE100 Celebration | State Theatre
May 14: Mission Meets Machine: AI Workshop for Nonprofit Leaders | Trenton
SAS Quantum @ NJ AI Hub | Princeton
BFL: AI Demo Night #11 | Hoboken
May 15: Jersey Shore Open Coffee Club (#20) | Asbury Park
Cake Party and Board Games at 1435 Capital I Skillman
NJEDA Ribbon Cutting for Jersey City NJ BASE | RSVP to [email protected]
May 18: SG: AI x Skill Development @ the NJ AI Hub | Princeton
May 19: Reverse Pitch: Meet the Investors | biolabs - Princeton
May 20: ILSE Entrepreneur Training Program Info Session I online
May 21: Cranium AI Summit + Headbangers Ball | Jersey City
TechWalk | Newark
May 28: NJ FAST Expo 2026 I Hoboken
P2P: Patent Litigation Survival Guide: Protect Startup Before It’s Too Late
June 4: Jersey City Summit for RE, Economic Development & Innovation
June 7: Statewide Student AI Prompt-athon | Somerset
June 9: Rutgers NJ FoodTech Conference I New Brunswick
June 13: TiEcon New Jersey 2026 | Woodbridge
June 20: NJx Hackathon Summer 2026 | Skillman
June 1-5: NY TECH WEEK
A few hosted by JTI friends:
June 2: J.P. Morgan Innovation Economy Quantum & Photonics
DefinedTalent: Ready to Scale
If Your GTM doesn't scale, let's build an agentic GTM system
June 3: HardTech Forum: The Internet of Building Things
Here’s a reminder that the JTI website offers many resources for entrepreneurs and innovators; there is also now a LinkedIn page, so please follow.
Entrepreneurial Support
Government/EDA/SIC Hubs
Capital Resources
University Innovation
Hope to see you soon!
Good documentary from Reshma Saujani, timely as Mother’s Day just passed.
One mom related piece + another on simplifying life with AI, both courtesy of AXIOS:
Motherhood's costly rewards
Returning to work after having a baby has never been easy — and a lot of the pressure on American moms comes from fear of other people's opinions, or "FOPO," Axios' Natalie Daher writes.
Why it matters: Executive coach and bestselling author Randi Braun says new moms can be "so scared of being viewed as imperfect" that they lose their ability to be seen as a leader.
🐝 They get stuck in worker bee mode rather than rising to "queen bee" and focusing on strategic, impactful tasks.
🤰 Sociologists have documented the "motherhood penalty," the reality that mothers receive fewer advancement opportunities or earnings boosts.
Fathers might get kudos at work for taking their kid to a dentist appointment. Many moms, on the other hand, conceal their caregiving roles out of concern for appearing less focused or committed.
💪 Braun said in a perfect world, the thinking should be: "Can you believe that I had a kid and I'm coming here and I'm kicking butt and taking names — and doing it all while going home and changing diapers?"
She looks to working moms mentoring younger colleagues to make parenting more visible in the workplace.
Simplify YOU
The simplest AI playbook we know doesn't involve a single large language model. It's three questions, asked by YOU to YOU. They work for any size company, any seniority level, Jim and Mike write:
What are the three things, in order of importance, you must do to meet or exceed expectations in your gig?
What are three things you think you're supposed to be doing that make no sense, could be done better or not at all?
What are three things AI could do better than you to 10x your output?
⚡ That's it. Nine answers per person.
Worst case: You force clarity and alignment with your boss. Everyone walks out knowing what actually matters.
Best case: You kill the dumb stuff and fill your days with truly vital work — with AI handling what shouldn't have been on a human's plate to begin with.
🎯 We provide a new template for this in our book with Roy Schwartz, "Simplify: Do 50% More with 50% Less," out Sept. 15.
It's called Confront-Delete-Amplify: Confront what matters. Delete what doesn't. Amplify with AI. You'll hear a lot more on this from us this summer.
💡 Try it this week. The answers will tell you more about your job, time management and company than any quarterly check-in with the boss.
