Active Network acquires Boulder’s RegOnline

NOTE: If you’ve seen this post appearing, disappearing, and now reappearing, please chalk it up to me trying to respect RegOnline’s wishes for distributing this information and a bit of miscommunication. Since I’ve now read this news on multiple other sites and know that thousands of customers know about it, I feel safe posting it …

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Interview with Andrew Hyde of Startup Weekend

This post is by Tom Chikoore, a new contributor on Colorado Startups. One phenomenon that has been quietly taking place in the tech startup world is Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend is the brainchild of Andrew Hyde, a Boulder, Colorado entrepreneur. Startup Weekend’s goal is to bring together a community of people to start a company …

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Expanding Colorado Startups

In the last year and a half, I’ve written about 150 local startups, and have done hundreds of other posts on random startup topics. I’ve done a few surveys, and generally people say “do more of both things.” I hope that you’ve come to view Colorado Startups as a central source for following the web/software …

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Overheard

An outside perspective on the Boulder tech scene. Why do startups waste so much time? A nice post from the uber-stealthy 5280 Angel on Liquidation Preferences.

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Move over plugoo

About a month ago, I stuck a plugoo widget on my blog. It’s cool – it allows people to chat with me while reading my blog, and delivers the messages right to my regular IM client on my Mac, Adium. Not bad. But plugoo it doesn’t know when I’m there and when I’m not there. …

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Tip #3: Listen more than you talk

I’ll now continue the slow roll with #3 of my top twelve startup tips from this summer at Techstars. You’ve probably heard the expression that it’s hard to listen while your lips are moving. While technically this is not universally true (it’s more the talking that matters – moving ones lips while listening is certainly …

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