Boulder Open Coffee Club: Come Warm Up With Us

Every other Tuesday morning from 8-9:15 a group of 35-50 entrepreneurs, VCs and tech types meet up at The Cup for Open Coffee. We talk about the latest tech events, local startup victories and then network in a casual environment. (The sound quality on this vid is a little low, but we hope you get …

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Overheard

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 …

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Marc Silverman launches Colorado Capital Group

Good news for startup entrepreneurs looking for funding, a seed stage funding group, the Colorado Capital Group, has been launched in Boulder, Colorado. Marc Silverman (pictured right), the former Executive Director of CTEK Boulder, is one of the partners at CCG. Some of you may have heard at the time that Marc left CTEK Boulder …

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ShipGreen – It’s actually pretty easy being green

The founders of ShipGreen, Tim Buchanan and Jason Sperling, have no problem thinking big. They are out to change the world, but not just to get rich doing it. ShipGreen gives e-commerce merchants a tool which easily integrates with their shopping cart in order to offer buyers a way to purchase credits to offset the …

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Tip #4: Accept that your ideas are likely to be wrong

This is the fourth post in a series of my top twelve startup tips from Techstars last summer. Almost every startup begins with a theory. Many entrepreneurs believe that their theory is correct, and view their startup as a way to prove it. I think that this mental framework is completely wrong. In fact, I …

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Need an IP crash course?

My friend Jason Haislmeyer of HRO is putting on an Intellectual Property Crash Course for Entrepreneurs at the Wolf Law Building on the CU campus on January 23 from 4-6pm. The talk will answer questions such as: “What are the benefits and limitations of each of the primary forms of IP protection?” “How can I …

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