Thanks to Micah Baldwin for organizing the Colorado tech bloggers to band together and compete in the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge together. I just donated to one of the Colorado education causes. You can get involved and donate a few bucks too. Doing so helps education locally, and it helps us as Colorado Tech Bloggers win …
Last weeks acquisition of Boulder’s Left Hand Networks by HP was certainly one of the larger Colorado acquisitions in recent memory, weighing in at 360 million. It made me curious, so I did some (very quick and dirty) research and came up with these notable exits of Colorado companies over the last 9 years or …
I’m on the board of advisors for the Center for Innovation at Metro State College. Because we think mentors kinda rock and that they’re critical to helping first time entrepreneurs, we’ve established an e-mentorship program there. The program matches both high school (Denver Venture School – the only entrepreneurship-focused charter school in the country) and …
Automattic is the company behind WordPress, Akismet, Gravatar, and now Intense Debate. Much has already been written on this acquisition, but of course I wanted to throw in my two cents. Intense Debate was one of the companies that came out of the Techstars class of 2007 that I was really excited about. Jon and …
Image via CrunchBase Thanks to Jud Valeski of Gnip for his check made out to the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado as a result of winning the Google Chrome comic book that I recently auctioned off. Congratulations are also due to Filtrbox for recently joining and pledging 1% equity to the foundation. That brings the number …
This Thursday, October 2nd is the fourth annual DEMOGala in Denver. The conference features over 100 speakers on 25 different panels discussing the newest trends in technology. Twenty hand-picked companies from more than 100 nominees are also going to be present for interactive demos. There are a bunch of interesting panels featuring great speakers from …