Thursday marked the conclusion of the 2009 Sustainable Opportunities Summit presented by CORE, the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at CU Boulder, and the City of Denver. A theme running through many of the day’s presentations was a belief that sustainability does not have to come at the expense of economic development. In fact, [...]
For virtually every hospital acquired infection (HAI), even multi-drug resistant super bugs, there is a drug that could effectively treat the infection. In the United States, however, almost 100,000 deaths per year are attributable to HAI. The coexistence of these two facts is caused by the time it takes to correctly identify [...]
On the day the Denver Convention Center saw the dedication of the solar array on its roof, it also played host to the first full day of the 2009 Sustainable Opportunities Summit presented by CORE, the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at CU Boulder, and the City of Denver. The day included presentations and panels [...]
March 18, 2009 – 10:22 pm
On Wednesday Entrepreneurs Unplugged hosted Buzzwire Chairman and Chief Product Officer Andrew MacFarlane. The session, moderated by CU Associate Clinical Law Professor Brad Bernthal and 3rd year law student Paul Shoning, spanned MacFarlane’s fifteen years spent as an entrepreneur. MacFarlane’s career began in 1992 when he and his brother started Software.com, a firm hatched with [...]
It was Ferris Bueller, in the seminal 1986 movie bearing his name, who noted, “when the meek get pinched, the bold survive.” This same spirit pervades entrepreneurs during an economic downturn, who shrug off the relative safety of salaried positions to throw themselves into the brier patch of bleak projections. Despite the enhanced risk, history [...]
March 17, 2009 – 10:24 pm
GreenWorld Apps has launched a beta version of their ShopGreen product, a service aimed at shoppers concerned with how their personal consumption impacts the environment. ShopGreen is designed to be included on merchants’ websites and allows consumers to add 1% to the price of a purchase, an amount put towards buying carbon offsets. [...]
Rally Software announced the opening of its United Kingdom office today, which marks the first step in the company’s global expansion. The office, located in West London, will make Rally’s solutions and training services more accessible to its customers across Europe. Specifically, the London office will provide localized account management services and sales [...]
March 17, 2009 – 11:41 am
NetDevil, a Louisville, Colorado based game development studio, announced today that it has joined Gazillion in a partnership with Marvel to bring super heroes to massively multiplayer online (MMO) games. NetDevil and three other development studios will work as wholly-owned but individually operated companies to support Gazillion’s in-house publishing and operations centers in San [...]
AspenBio Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: APPY) announced its intentions to file a 510(k) application with the FDA for its AppyScore ELISA product, used to aid in the diagnosis of appendicitis in conjunction with other physical and laboratory tests. AppyScore, which measures for human myeloid-related protein complex (MRP8/14), represents the first blood-based test for this purpose. [...]
Thursday’s Innovation After Hours celebrated the 5th anniversary of the Larimer Bioscience Cluster. Kathy Kregel was on hand to provide the group’s history from its beginnings in 2004 to the end of her leadership in 2009. Notable points in the group’s history include June 2005 when the first strategic plan was completed. At [...]
