UPDATE: The email address originally provided was wrong. Use Richard dot Barone at Colorado dot edu. Each year, a really neat event called the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) is held. Schools all over the world hold a localized competition with winners coming out of each bracket. The mountain region competition is February 8, and …
I’ve been listening to Startup Story Radio on my iPhone for a few months now. The host, Rob McNealy, asked me to come on the show yesterday and talk a little bit about about Techstars. Just in case you weren’t listening to AM talk radio on Saturday, I’ve embedded the discussion below. If you have …
LgDB shuts down while a lawsuit with the investors gets underway. I predict we’ll hear more about this one. A nice post Josh Fraser of EventVue on real vs. perceived risks. Venture Hacks continues to rock. Should you give your lawyer equity? Should you send investors your “presentation” deck? Great stuff. Newsgator is giving stuff …
Startup Junkie Underground is a regular event hosted by the DaVinci Institute. They always have a speaker and lots of Q&A bookended by some pretty good networking. On the evening of January 21, I’ll be the speaker and the topic will be “Reinventing the startup process.” I’ll be talking about Techstars, but also about some …
I haven’t been to a New Tech meetup in about 3 months, and my has it grown. I’d say there were about 250 people there tonight. The event started with a nice buzz and “hiring announcements.” About ten companies including Photobucket, Symplified, SocialThing, Mocapay, Rally, Slice of Lime, and many more announced job openings. It …
Entrepreneur Magazine says Boulder is the #1 small city for venture capital activity. Duh. What’s more interesting is that it’s probably also a top ten market among all U.S. cities.