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From Trada to Tendril the list of Boulder-based companies spans a wide range of industries. Check out a list of local companies on CrunchBase, which can be easily updated simply by clicking the edit button on any company’s page, and view featured companies here in software, energy and health.
The Future of Entrepreneurial Finance, a Silicon Flatirons Conference
Posted by admin on Apr 25, 2013 in Boulder | 0 comments
On March 21, 2013, the Silicon Flatirons Center’s fifth annual Entrepreneurship Conference focused upon The Future of Entrepreneurial Finance. The Conference convened three panels of experts from business, government, and academia. After the conference, the Silicon Flatirons Center produced a report summarizing the discussions at the conference. The full report and a video of the conference is available here. Below are some of the highlights. The Entrepreneurship Conference traced trends in the dynamics of outside investment into...
read moreStartup Colorado’s Startup Summer by Fletcher Richman and Ben Abell
Posted by admin on Jan 8, 2013 in Boulder | 2 comments
Startup Summer, a summer internship program that combines a ten-week internship at a Denver/Boulder startup with a series of weekly evening events, focused on teaching the student-participants the fundamentals of entrepreneurism, is now accepting applications for its second year. Fletcher Richman, an electrical and computer engineering major at the University of Colorado participated in the inaugural year of Startup Summer this past year and has kindly offered to share his thoughts on the program: Last summer was the best one of my...
read moreGet on the Startup Map (by Ian Kuliasha)
Posted by admin on Nov 29, 2012 in Boulder | 0 comments
Success depends on finding and connecting with the right people. Whether you are a startup entrepreneur or an investor, however, finding the right investor or the right company is hard. In fact, it is too hard. We wanted to do something to help the Colorado startup community make these connections. Something social, visual, and powered by the community. As part of the lead-up to the release of Brad Feld’s new book Startup Communities, and inspired by Represent LA’s mapping project, Brad partnered with the Silicon Flatirons...
read moreLaw 2.0: The New Continuum of Legal Education by Therese Kerfoot
Posted by admin on Nov 20, 2012 in Boulder | 0 comments
Bearish views about the value proposition of legal education proliferate. Journalists and commentators argue that graduates today don’t receive the right training for the few existing legal job opportunities. With an average debt load close to $100,000, so the analysis goes, students can be worse off for completing a juris doctrate. As a recent law school graduate – and one with a slightly above average debt load – I sympathize. Yet while criticisms ring true for graduates from many law schools, I value my educational experience...
read moreThe CU New Venture Challenge: Just Pull the Trigger! (by Kevin Davis)
Posted by admin on Oct 27, 2012 in Boulder | 0 comments
“This sounds like too much, too soon.” This was my thought as I sat across from Trent Yang and Steve Herschleb in the Deming Center conference room listening to their pitch on why REbound Technology should join the New Venture Challenge. It was a month after Russell and I founded the company, one month before the application was due and well before any thought was put into an actual application for our thermal energy storage technology. Nine months later we just attended the NREL Industry Growth Forum, socializing with a corporate and...
read moreThe CU New Venture Challenge – A Participant’s Perspective (by Corrina Gibson)
Posted by admin on Oct 24, 2012 in Boulder | 0 comments
Cyclizor, LLC began when my colleague and I (both aerospace engineering grad students at CU) decided we were done with uncontrolled, swinging bicycle handlebars causing nuisances everyday when we parked our bicycles or lifted our bicycles onto car racks. Our solution design evolved during mountain bike escapades in CA and commuting in Boulder, eventually developing into a product that we knew would be a great solution to the problem of uncontrolled handlebars faced by bicyclists everyday. However, we had no idea where to start and no...
read moreThe Friday Indefensible Position: Fine Wines from Difficult Soil: Real Estate Constraints in Boulder are Good for Entrepreneurship (by Matt Burns)
Posted by admin on Oct 19, 2012 in Boulder | 3 comments
During the Q&A session at Silicon Flatirons’ Crash Course on Brad Feld’s Startup Communities book, one attendee asked the packed house: “How does Boulder screw this up?” It is an excellent question. After all, as goes the saying, nothing breeds failure like success. For every innovation center that successfully adapts over time (see: Silicon Valley), another fails to do so (see: Detroit). What challenges are staring down Boulder? One challenge cited in Boulder is real estate constraints. As in, space is...
read moreThe Friday Indefensible Position: A “C” is better than an “A” (by Ben Deda)
Posted by admin on Oct 12, 2012 in Boulder | 11 comments
From the first day we are in school, we are taught that our goal on anything should be a grade of 100%. One hundred percent is better than 90%, 90% is better than 80%, and 80% is better than 70%. So you always want to strive for the 100% solution, right? Absolutely wrong. In a lot of cases, the 70% solution is exactly what you want. But how can the 70% solution be better than the 100% solution? It has to do with dynamic environments, some weird thing called the OODA loop, and the idea of tempo. You’ll find that...
read moreOf Indefensible Positions and Town Gown Crashes (by Matt Burns, SFC Fellow)
Posted by admin on Oct 3, 2012 in Boulder | 0 comments
Boulderstartups.org gained traction during 2011-2012 as a useful resource for entrepreneurs concerning the CU and Front Range startup scene. In particular, the startup calendar (at right on the site), resource listings, and several blog posts received favorable community response. We’re not as viral as, say, Carl Rae Jepsen playing with the Roots . But the blog is useful. And less likely to be an ear worm. A challenge of a blog with several guest writers is, well, coherence. In a blog, as with dinner parties, individuals talking...
read moreHey Boulder: Be Awesome!
Posted by admin on Oct 2, 2012 in Boulder | 0 comments
Awesome: adj, causing feelings of great admiration, respect, or fear We toss that word around about things like a cup of coffee or a dinner with friends, but how often does something really fill you with feelings of great admiration or respect? The Awesome Boulder foundation’s goal is to make Boulder a more awesome, happy, super cool place to live. They do this by choosing one project a month and giving the creator $1,000 to make it happen. The Active Entrepreneurs Club was immediately inspired to apply for a grant (and you should be...
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