New look for ColoradoStartups.com

ColoradoStartups is getting a bit of an overhaul. We’re souping up the underlying WordPress system and have a new visual look and feel that will continue to evolve. If you’re using a feed reader, your feed should be unaffected. However, it’s possible that your reader may get a tiny bit confused and mark all of …

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Microsoft tech evangelist meetup, June 5, 930a in Boulder

Anand Iyer just spent the day with us at Techstars giving a great talk on .NET, Silverlight, and other technologies in the Microsoft Stack. Anand is the Microsoft Technology Evangelist for Northern California. He presented some pretty awesome stuff. Don Dodge and Dave Drach also joined us and met with our companies. If you’re interested …

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Amazon Web Services – Meetup Tuesday am with Mike Culver

Mike Culver is a technology evangelist for Amazon Web Services. This includes S3, EC2, SimpleDB, and more. These services have been so important for so many startups – they’re great because they scale along with your business, and are very affordable for startups. Mike will be in town visiting Techstars on Tuesday, June 3rd. While …

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ID345: Denver’s New Coworking Space

ID345 is located next door to Danny Newman’s Pocketfuzz offices. It’s got a very industrial feel to it and according to Christy Kruzick, has the potential to go the direction of the Pixar “cubicles.” That is, arty self-expressions of the inhabitants. David covered ID345’s launch last month. Here’s a quick video tour of ID345. I …

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Brad Feld on vator.tv – how to raise funding

Here’s a good video with Brad Feld of The Foundry Group talking about raising early-stage funding. While generally interesting, it’s also of specific interest to those who would like to understand how the Foundry Group thinks about their “thematic” investment approach. Brad describes how their defined themes are the primary filter, and the team is …

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Things to do in Denver when you’re #2

I’m sitting on a couch in Italy, and Brad Feld is lying on an adjacent and perpendicular couch. We just had a thrilling conversation about what you should do to beat your closest competitor when you’re number one in a market. This (d)evolved into what I thought was a much more interesting conversation about what …

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