Coverity announced today that it has acquired Boulder based Solidware Technologies. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Solidware was actually the first company that my angel fund (Colorado Startups) invested in back in 2006. I met Sue Kunz after the famous “firecracker remark” (that one really stuck with Sue) and quickly wrote a …
Alex King talks with Yahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny and shows off a screencast of the very cool Shortcuts plugin for WordPress (shot during Defrag), which Crowd Favorite helped build for Yahoo. The plug in is here, in beta. [Note: Originally, I said Greg Cohn instead of Jeremy Zawodny. Apologies to both, and thanks to Alex for …
When I first heard about this idea, I was psyched. I have blogged about the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado extensively before. Suffice it to say that it’s an easy way to get your company involved in philanthropy from day one. I was glad to see that while I was sitting on a beach in Mexico, …
Earlier this semester, Frank Moyes invited me to speak to his CU business plan class students about Techstars. After that class, Ginnie Meyers came up to me and told me about BizChicks, which is a CU based organization “designed to promote the success of women in the business world and beyond”. She invited me to …
VCIR had 33 presenting companies in three tracks this year. 22 were IT related, and 11 were life sciences. Unfortunately, I only got to see about a third of them. Envysion – Broadband video surveillance. This targets food service, hotel and retail businesses who want to use the Internet to manage surveillance. They’ve landed customers …
I spent some time recently with Sue Kunz of Solidware Technologies. Sue and her co-founder Char Devich were both high-level managers with Sun, and left in order to start Solidware in October of 2004. Ive heard Sue described as a firecracker and someone you dont want to bet against, so I was curious to meet …