Robert Reich has done an amazing job building the new tech meetup here in Boulder and now in Denver. I was at the earliest of those meetups, when there were just 10-15 people there. Now there are 300+ and standing room only at every event, it seems. It’s now a fixture here in Boulder, and …
I’m a guest lecturer for an executive MBA class at Denver University later today. I was asked to talk about Internet business models (among other things), so I thought I’d take a look at the 39 companies that have been through Techstars to give them a sense of the relative popularity of various business models. …
A few people have asked, so here’s a link to a video of Brad Feld interviewing me at the Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged event last week down at the University of Colorado. In the interview, Brad asks about: How I became an entrepreneur My first company – Pinpoint Technologies / ZOLL Data Systems (acquired) My …
UPDATE: Funding Universe posted a response to this post and has now waived pitch fees nationally as a result. Funding Universe is expanding their presence in Colorado and they are presenting a CrowdPitch event on September 30th in Denver. It costs $125 to present your company there, and it’s free to attend otherwise. Some of …
Andrew Hyde (Techstars Community Manager, Startup Weekend, VCWear, and main instigator of Ignite Boulder) is putting together a 1-day conference on October 2nd called BoCo. It’s got music, tech, and food. As the web site puts it, “The main goal we have is to create amazing and unique experiences. We are not hosting the conference …
I remember reading Freakonomics and learning about how in the real estate business “charming” just means small. It’s code used in real estate advertisements so that realtors know that other realtors mean “small.” There are dozens of such codes, and it pays to know them when reading the listing your realtor creates for your house …