This is my first post from the wordpress iPhone app. I’m at sxsw and thought I’d try it. Startup2student happened at CU engineering on Thursday night. We had a great turnout of about 50 students, several professors, and about 15 local startups. Our goal was twofold – to create awareness among CS students about the …
Danny Newman sent me this note today: The Colorado Interactive Party at SXSW, the premier event for Colorado tech companies attending the SXSW festival, announced today that they are currently seeking sponsors for the 3rd Annual event on March 15, 2009 at the Pure Volume House in Austin, TX. Last year’s event attracted more than …
On March 12, a few of us have organized Startup2Student, an informal networking event for CU students with programming skills who are looking for summer internships, part time, or full time jobs. The students designed this event. They asked for no HR people to be present, and for it to include only founders and senior …
I’m still sitting in Track 1 up in Beaver Creek at VCIR, where I’ve been all day. The presentations at the VCIR Winter conference are wrapping up with two final companies. Market Force Information is consolidating and transforming the “mystery shopping” market, also known as the customer experience information industry. The company has built a …
I’m still sitting in Track 1 which consists of innovative web companies, this time for the afternoon sessions. I have no idea what’s happening over in Track 2, but I hear lots of applause coming from the next room at a regular interval. There is also occasional laughter, which could be either good or bad, …
I caught up with Seth Levine who is chairing the VCIR conference this winter and asked him how he thought the morning sessions went. Here’s a quick one minute video with his thoughts just after the morning session ended.