February 22, 2009 – 9:14 pm
February concludes with WordCamp at the Denver Art Museum on Saturday. This week also features a Silicon Flatirons Crash Course on Raising Venture Capital, a CBSA Seminar on Investor Relations and a CORE CleanTech Initiative.
February 20, 2009 – 4:39 pm
Wednesday morning’s BioBreakfast focused on providing CBSA member companies with the “How to’s of public relations” with perspectives from Maggie Holben, owner of Denver’s Absolutely Public Relations, as well as experienced writer and journalist Rachel Brand. Holben began with a comparison of PR to advertising, noting that “advertising is what you say about yourself” [...]
February 20, 2009 – 4:02 pm
While not all iPhone apps will make it into the App Store (sorry South Park – apparently it contains “potentially offensive” content), a recent guest post on TechCrunch from a first time app developer suggests the process isn’t that hard. Where the challenge really begins is figuring out pricing, marketing and updates to try [...]
February 20, 2009 – 9:06 am
It was announced yesterday that Boulder-based Kerpoof Studio was acquired by Disney back in July. The financial terms were not disclosed. Kerpoof provides a kid-friendly website that enables children to create pictures and short movies online, primarily through a drag and drop interface. The technology includes features like resizing objects as users [...]
February 19, 2009 – 3:38 pm
ColdQuanta, Inc recently announced that it has shipped the world’s first commercial device to produce Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC). The first unit of the device, called the RuBECi™, was shipped in December to a Federal Research Laboratory. BEC is a type of ultracold matter where a large percentage of atoms are in the lowest [...]
February 19, 2009 – 3:28 pm
The February CORE Sustainability Lunch provided three perspectives on expectations for investment in clean technology. Andrew Fowler offered thoughts specific to wind power and his company RES Americas, while Dave Gold of Access Venture Partners and Peter Edwards of Fairfield and Woods (formerly of Altira) offered more general views.
Fowler, the Senior Vice President of [...]
February 18, 2009 – 4:34 pm
The debut meeting of BDNT (Denver) was held Tuesday evening in the Davis Auditorium at Denver University, a beautiful campus apparently designed before the invention of the automobile. With about three hundred fifty technologists in attendance, Robert Reich opened the meeting with the traditional call for announcements, eliciting a MapQuest representative to inform the collected [...]
February 18, 2009 – 12:38 am
Monday’s Startup Junkie Underground featured serial entrepreneur and Google AdSense expert Joel Comm. Comm walked the audience through his career over a decade of involvement in the Internet, from video game enthusiast to producer and star of “The Next Internet Millionaire.” A common theme across much of Comm’s success has been his repeated [...]
February 17, 2009 – 3:19 pm
BioAMPs International, LLC has secured an exclusive license for a family of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) created by two researchers at the University of Colorado Denver in collaboration with researchers at the University of British Columbia. The company also received a $100,000 Proof of Concept Investment from the CU Technology Transfer Office to help move [...]
February 17, 2009 – 12:34 pm
Robert Reich opens the door to the OneRiot office space dressed in a T-shirt and jeans, projecting a vibe that is relaxed yet industrious. He gives a quick tour of the space – an open floor plan that’s a mashup of a Tribeca loft and caffeinated computer workstations – before he sits down to discuss [...]
