The NJ Tech Meetup is a monthly meeting of 100+ entrepreneurs and innovators. Monthly meetings are held at the Stevens Institute of Technology campus in Hoboken, NJ to hear from smart feature speakers and interesting startups. The goal is an atmosphere of sharing best practices and learning from both failure and success. See what happened at the November event here – as told by yours truly!

Past speakers include David Kidder (Clickable), Ben Sun (Community Connect), Tad Martin (COO to take Overstock public), Seth Besmertnik (Conductor), Peter Kestenbaum (Agency.com, 1099 Partners), Gabe Zichermann (Gamification Summit), Steve Messer (Linkshare), Jeff Stewart (Mimeo, Urgent Career), David S. Rose (NY Angels), Craig Kanarick (Razorfish), Fabrice Grinda (OLX) and more.

See my first NJ.com feature here.

As usual, three demos were presented. There is no underlying theme that ties them together, except perhaps for the audience’s overwhelming hunger to hear business models — viewing projects is no longer enough. Is it not OK just to do projects for the sake of experimentation and the distant possibility of some future innovation — or if the startup realm is starting to show some desire to “grow up”? And if so, is any of this good, bad … or life?

Read the full article here.