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Episode Transcript: ADAM MCGOWAN [00:08]: Welcome to episode four of Ventures in Tech, brought to you by Firefield. This is Adam McGowan and on today’s show we’re going to discuss an initiative I started earlier this year called the Spark Series. I’m again being joined by my colleague from Firefield, Henry Reohr, who’ll be guiding today’s chat. And with that, I’ll let Henry take it away. HENRY REOHR: [00:30]: Adam, back in February of this year, you brought together ten people for lunch at Cambridge. Why did you assemble that crew? ADAM [00:38]: Well, it goes back to the fact that in my normal course of my day job, I have to do a lot of networking, go to a lot of events, meet a lot of people. And I think what I’d found was that events seemed to be falling short in two generally broad categories for me. One was really extremely transactional stuff. Hawking business cards at each other; referral type networks; it was very “what have you done for me lately?”. And at the other end of the spectrum, it was the over