Thrilled to be Back in Boulder

Hi all, this is Gwen Bell, back in Boulder again after 6 months of travel following my house burning down. That experience kind of sucked but at least one of the photos from the incident became an internet mini-meme! My 6 months on the road didn’t bother me at all. I grew up in a …

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2007 in Review

OK so yes, I’m going to subject you to another 2007 review post. I know you’re sick of them by now, but it’s for posterity. So there. Last year when I asked, you said to keep covering Colorado companies. I’ve done that and my companies index is now a pretty nice list of a bunch …

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Cliff Shaw on lessons learned and moving forward

Cliff Shaw is a Boulder-based entrepreneur that I first met a little over a year ago when he was launching ProtectMyPhotos. Here’s my coverage of that startup in November, 2006. He and his team had a nice earlier success called Family Tree Legends, which exited a few years back. Cliff and his gang also recently …

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Overheard (from far, far, far away)

This “overheard” comes to you from Fox Glacier on the south island of New Zealand. We have a day of blogging and reading since it’s raining like crazy here (videos etc on my personal blog, if you care). Our helihike was delayed a day, and so, I have caught up on some RSS reading thanks …

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Social music network Iggli nearing private beta

Before taking off for some world traveling earlier this month (hence the light posting frequency), I had a quick chat with Tom Higley of the stealthy Boulder startup called Iggli.com. Iggli has been busily building their “social music network” for about a year, and now has ten employees. Originally the company started as Vault Alliance, …

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Ken Morse at MIT Enterprise Forum Dec 18

Here’s a new entry on the Colorado Startups events calendar. It’s December 18 in Boulder, and it’s called “Critical Success Factors for Startups: An Evening with MIT’s Ken Morse.” Ken Morse is the Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center at Sloan School and the co-founder of 3COM and Aspen Technology. As a serial entrepreneur, Ken …

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