VCIR kicks off with media panel

Venture Capital in the Rockies kicked off with a media panel this morning, moderated by Brad Feld. The panelists were Spencer Ante of Business Week, Rebecca Buckman of Forbes, Dan Primack of peHUB Wire, and Mark Veverka of Barron’s. We all know that the media industry is changing, but it was interesting to hear directly …

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Kerpoof! You’re acquired!

I’ve been sworn to secrecy so long about this that I was bummed when I didn’t get the chance to blog about it last week when the news finally broke about Disney acquiring Boulder-based Kerpoof. Brad Feld has a nice write-up that’s pretty similar to my experience with Krista and her team. I spent some …

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A rededication

When I first started this blog on March 7, 2006, I had one thing in mind. I wanted to become visible as an angel investor in Colorado. So in 2006, I figured I’d start covering companies. I started off doing so very diligently, spending real time covering interesting new companies like Rally and OpenLogic and …

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Look beyond the valuation

I received this question today via email: … I am a young entrepreneur… I am currently involved in a… start up… We are currently in the process of raising a friends and family round of funding, and right now we are struggling with the valuation. I am looking at the Techstars framework (a $300,000 post-money, …

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Venture Capital in the Rockies presenting companies announced

I was on the selection committee for this years Venture Capital in the Rockies conference. We had some really interesting companies to choose from this year, and it took a few more conference calls than normal to get down to the final group this year. Here’s the list of companies that will present. Alliance Health …

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What’s the job market like in Boulder?

During the Boulder.me Startup Job fair that we did in October, Jobing.com came out and shot some video during the event. They wanted to capture what the tech scene was like in Boulder, what jobs were hot, etc. Here’s the video they came up with starring me, Andrew Hyde, and Ari Newman of Filtrbox. [field …

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