Lijit continues to rock as it is now reporting that is has raised an additional $7.1M in venture funding from The Foundry Group, Boulder Ventures, and High Country Venture. This brings Lijit’s total funding to around $11M (it raised angel money and 3.3M previously) . Lijit will use the money to to launch their search …
Larry Nelson of W3W3 sent me some great photos of the New Tech Meetup this past Tuesday. The meetup is now two years old. How time flies. I remember going to the first meetup and presenting EarFeeder at the second one ever. Me.dium hosted these early meetups in their office and somewhere between 15 and …
Last year, I invested in a company that I discovered through the CTEK angel network called RouteSmith. The company makes software for route optimization – think furniture and appliance delivery routes. I covered the company here in April, 2007. From the CTEK presentations, there were three of us (investors) who thought this was an interesting …
Frank Gruber (Somewhat Frank) and Eric Olson are bringing Tech Cocktail back to Boulder. It’s on August 20th at the Boulder Theater. Tech Cocktail’s mission is to “help amplify the technology signal in under served markets and have fun doing it.” The format is great – everyone gets to have a couple drinks, talk about …
Crispin Porter + Bogusky asked me to post this information here on the blog. You’re invited to a happy hour, informal lecture and discussion about “Getting Real,” featuring Jason Fried, Co-founder and President of 37 Signals. Jason will be speaking about some of the things he’s learned on collaboration, entrepreneurship, hiring people, stumbling into things, …
Robert Reich of Me.dium, who does a fantastic job of running the Boulder New Tech Meetup, just tagged me in this video on Facebook in which I present earFeeder at one of the first New Tech Meetups in Boulder (there were about 25 people there, now there are usually 300+). I just watched it, and …