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Archive for May, 2010

Building a Startup Community

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

Last night’s Beers with Brad event was a great opportunity to meet some new people in town and learn about how we can make our community more startup friendly. Brad’s key piece of advice is to understand that it takes time. Silicon Valley has been building for over 60 years. Boulder has been at it [...]

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Have you downloaded the Keyring app on your iPhone?

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Chris Fagan and Ross Bates of Mobestream Media released their Keyring app on the iPhone last week. If you haven’t already downloaded it and shredded all those useful but bulky reward cars, then get to it. I love it! I go to the grocery store way too often and never remember my card (that I [...]

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Beers with Brad (Feld) next Friday!

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Brad Feld, managing partner of Foundry Group and co-founder of  TechStars will be in town next Friday and wants to hang out with some local entrepreneurs and share with them how Boulder built their startup community. He is having one of his (in?)famous Beers with Brad happy hours and we are looking forward to introducing [...]

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We made Fox 4 News last night!

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

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“Gotta risk being that pile of meat”

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

We kicked off our speaker series last night with Jim Janicki, CEO of Ignite Technologies.  He also happens to have founded a little company called MetaSolv that went public during the telecom heyday and made it to a market cap of $4B before being sold to Oracle. The topic was “Building and Managing Your Board”.  [...]

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Announcement of Inaugural Class

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Today is the first day of what I hope will be a great relationship with five great up and coming companies. Yes, class is in session. Now for an introduction to the teams. In no particular order, they are…. Mobestream Media Mobestream Media provides consumers a way to manage their loyalty accounts from their phone [...]

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