texturemedia acquired by CP+B

Boulder interactive design firm texturemedia has been acquired by Crispin Porter + Bogusky for an undisclosed sum. Here are some details by the Daily Camera and Boulder County Business Report which were released today. Congrats to Andrew, Ivan, and the gang. CP+B made a great move. Silly me. I thought their Webby award last week …

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Vermilion, Texture Media recognized with Webby awards

Boulder’s Vermilion (a web communications and marketing company) picked up a Webby award this past week for professional services based on their work for Action Marketing Group. In his acceptance speech, which has a well-enforced 5 word limit, founder Bob Morehouse said “My second best night ever.” Webby awards are given annually to honor excellence …

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VC dollars continue to pour into Boulder

As I discussed back in April, VC dollars continue to roll in Boulder. It’s doubtful we’ll reach the $266.8M level that we reached in the first quarter of this year. But here’s some of the most recent action. Symplified recently raised $6M from Granite Ventures and Allegis Capital. Rally Software just raised $16.8M from Mohr …

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EventVue wins CSIA “Rookie of the Year” award

EventVue is a Boulder based company that makes software for conferences to help engage and organize conference attendees. In effect, EventVue helps make conferences more participatory. EventVue starts by interfacing with the conferences existing registration system (such as Eventbrite or RegOnline). Attendees are then invited to participate in a simple targeted social network that is …

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A visit to Idyllon

Idyllon is an massively multiplayer online game that is an “online, 3D, social entertainment platform”. Instead of a home page, users get a cottage in the woods. In short, Idyllon is trying to map the online social constructs of today onto the familiar patterns of real life. In concept, it will be like playing a …

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New look for ColoradoStartups.com

ColoradoStartups is getting a bit of an overhaul. We’re souping up the underlying WordPress system and have a new visual look and feel that will continue to evolve. If you’re using a feed reader, your feed should be unaffected. However, it’s possible that your reader may get a tiny bit confused and mark all of …

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