What’s the job market like in Boulder?

During the Boulder.me Startup Job fair that we did in October, Jobing.com came out and shot some video during the event. They wanted to capture what the tech scene was like in Boulder, what jobs were hot, etc. Here’s the video they came up with starring me, Andrew Hyde, and Ari Newman of Filtrbox. [field …

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AWS Anonymous meets again February 18th

Boulder AWS Anonymous held its first meeting last week, and there were eleven attendees despite the fact that the meeting had been inadvertently scheduled at the same time as Obama’s inauguration. Attendees represented a wide variety of uses and potential uses of Amazon Web Services, ranging from hosting popular websites and application development to load …

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Boulder Startup Execs mailing list

Eric Marcoullier of Gnip has set up an email list exclusively for local startup executives. Here’s who’s eligible to join: 1. Your company must be funded (at least some angel money) 2. C-level and VP level folks only; and 3. Open to all verticals, not just IT / Internet, etc. There are already 70+ on …

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CU Student Web Development Club

Kudos to Cameron Robertson and the other organizers for kicking off an on-campus web developers club at CU. The first meeting of DIV, CU’s new student web development club, is taking place on January 28th at 6pm in the Bechtel Collaboratory (check out http://cudiv.com for full details). DIV was created to foster discussion about topics …

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Why 99% of entrepreneurs fail

I love this post by Jessica Mah (thanks for the link to Dave McClure). Jessica talks about 3 types of “amateur entrepreneurs” and says she’s “been every single one of them.” And she’s learned from those experiences and won’t make them again. Type 1 Amateur Entrepreneur: All ideas, no implementation. Type 2 Amateur Entrepreneur: Lots …

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Great Events Galore soon in Colorado

Here’s a trio of interesting events coming up soon. Web Directions North is taking place in Denver from February 2-6 and features 8 half-day workshops, a full day seminar focused on educating web professionals, a free education summit, parties, receptions, and two days skiing or boarding at Breckenridge. It’s aimed at all web professionals, and …

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