Today, I’m thrilled to announce the launch of a new seed fund designed to invest in early stage web/software startups nationwide. This new $2.5M fund was finalized last week and will begin investing immediately. As many of you know, I have personally invested in about a dozen startups over the past four years and have …
Occipital, a Techstars 2008 company based in Boulder, has released the first accurate UPC/EAN scanning application for the iPhone, called RedLaser. Users can snap a picture of a barcode and search for online product prices. They can also email a list of scanned products to review later or share with others. It’s available on the …
I recently joined the University of Colorado Computer Science Department advisory board. I attended a day long meeting with the department and consciously went in “listen and learn” mode, as it was my first meeting. I learned quite a bit that day that I hope to keep acting upon. Let me tell you how I …
I just opened NetNewsWire (my feed reader) for the first time in about three weeks. I think that’s the longest I’ve gone without looking at it in many years. Even when I did open it, it was more out of habit than out of necessity. Why isn’t it calling me any more? These days individual …
Here is the recent data representing total venture capital investment in Colorado. It’s easy to panic looking at this chart. However, let’s look at this same data with the benefit of more historical data. Looking at this chart, it’s easy to see that while we’re down, in the grand scheme of things the bottom we’re …
Congrats to Brad for his “lifetime achievement award” that was presented to him earlier this week. Here’s a video made by a few of us that wanted to let him know how much he means to our community and to entrepreneurs in general. Apologies to my mom and to Brad’s mom for calling him some …