Cliff Shaw on lessons learned and moving forward

Cliff Shaw is a Boulder-based entrepreneur that I first met a little over a year ago when he was launching ProtectMyPhotos. Here’s my coverage of that startup in November, 2006. He and his team had a nice earlier success called Family Tree Legends, which exited a few years back. Cliff and his gang also recently …

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DocSyncer – Google Synchronicity

I had to wait for TechCrunch to cover this one. Ah, it must be nice to be the big fish. DocSyncer is a Boulder-based site that synchronizes your Google Docs with your desktop, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It’s built by the same guys behind ProtectMyPhotos.com (covered last year). Sound interesting?

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ProtectMyPhotos – the lean, mean, photo backup machine

If you were an angel investor who had lost your entire photo collection not once but twice, and a bunch of bright, successful guys come along with a prototype of a dead-simple web-based photo backup solution, what would you do? Yeah, he funded it along with the founders. It’s called ProtectMyPhotos.com and it does just …

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TechCrunch does Boulder

Neat. TechCrunch has covered two technologies out of Boulder in the last few days. The blog with 127,000 geeky readers (including me) first featured ProtectMyPhotos.com on Friday, and then covered earFeeder (a project of mine) on Monday. Yes, there is some cool stuff going on here in Boulder too – thanks for noticing. Looks like …

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