Plotting a maker businesses meetup in Boston

A friend of mine suggested I find people to mentor me as I startup.

I naturally decided I should go Organize A Thing. To get a rough gauge of how many maker businesses / hardware startups there are in cambridge/boston, I skimmed through kickstarter by city (both cambridge and boston).
http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/cities/cambridge-ma/funding?ref=more#p1
(sadly, you can't sort by both "boston" and "technology"

The spreadsheet is here:
http://goo.gl/0092S

There will be edit privileges for the next few weeks or so for that link unless something terrible starts happening. Feel free to contribute notes.

The conclusion was that somewhere upwards of 30 companies, I think within the last 5 years, have been successfully funded: (see google docs for links to the kickstarter pages) (accounting for there are probably companies I missed on my skim, and for instance Twine, founded by MIT Media Lab grads, would probably be willing to be part of the network even if they are not in Boston right now).

Additionally, I was linked to this site that already does data around kickstarter when I asked whether there was a graph of OneTesla's funding:
http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/onetesla/onetesla-a-diy-singing-tesla-coil

The Companies:

1. Fuel: The world's smallest cell phone charger
2. drive with dash
3. monkeyoh
4. 3doodler
5. Carbon Fiber Jewelry Rings
6. The Orbit Turntable
7. Loud Bicycle: Car horn for your bike
8. Mini Pouch for your iPad Mini, Nexus, Kindle and more
9. Pocket Monkey: The Wallet Utility Tool
10. iStrike Shuttle- iOS controlled drone
11. Convertable Axis Bracket CAB / The Ultimate Cheese-Plate UCP
12. The Pen Project
13. The Kick - a pocket sized lighting studio for photo & video
14. Knut: Stay Connected
15. Corter Leather Bottle Hook
16. Cam Crate: DSLR Life Proof Camera Case
17. diFeltro Fold, Italian handcrafted bag for iPad
18. The Retina Project
19. The Clip by LittleBonsai
20. FXdoctor 8-Bit Fuzz Pedal's US Tour
21. CEE: The USB analog electronics multi-tool
22. WALdok :: Wall Plug-In Speaker/Charger for iPhone/iPods
23. Modkit - Electronics (Arduino) for Everyone
24. Lockpicks by Open Locksport
25. Inevitable: dystopian tabletop gaming
26. BrickItUp!
27. Twine
28. Olopede
29. onetesla

The meetup would be something like "share one lesson you learned" sort of lightning talk deal to create a supportive ecosystem of maker businesses.
As for whether an actual Meetup will happen... somewhere in my copious spare time...

[edit 3/31] some ones i missed: sprout pencil