The effort to replace the current designation for Colorado’s technology scene – Colorado ICT Sector – with a name sourced from the community took a major step forward over the last three weeks as over one hundred suggestions were submitted. Ranging from the humorous (Blue Mustang) to references of terrain and other map markers, the [...]
On Thursday afternoon a dense collection of Colorado luminaries gathered at the Governor’s mansion to celebrate the launch of the Colorado Cleantech Industry Association (CCIA) under the leadership of Executive Director Christine Shapard. The mission of the association is to provide representation and advocacy, a unified voice, relevant programming and capacity development to the clean [...]
The final week in July sees two clean tech events of note: The Colorado Cleantech Initiative on Tuesday and a program on Sustainability Strategies on Wednesday. For the bioscience crownd, Wednesday morning offers a BioBreakfast discussing finance. The week also provides a variety of user groups and meetups.
Yesterday, Solix Biofuels announced that its Coyote Gulch Demonstration facility had commenced large-scale production of algal oil. The company reported that production began a week earlier on July, 16 after micro-algal inoculation of the facility. Full-scale commercial operation of the facility is expected by late summer. The demonstration facility uses Solix’AGSTM Technology [...]
Selling Consultants and Buying Quality: EBay has been struggling for a while now and, although the company’s stock experienced a boost after it beat some analyst expectations, this quarters results were still less than stellar (profit down 29%, revenue down 4%). This article from Aliaba.com delves deeply into EBay’s problems (a major one cited [...]
Punch in the terms ‘Twitter’ and ‘survive’ into Google and in under a second there are close to eighteen million returns on sources that share both words. Will Twitter survive financially? Will it survive the hype? Will the microblogging service survive the SXSW convention? Assuming Twitter does reach profitability it will likely be due in [...]
miRagen Therapeutics, Inc of Boulder, Colorado andArchemix Corp of Cambridge, Massachusetts announced a collaboration effort today. The research and development pursuit will seek to combine miRagen’s microRNA expertise with Archemix’s experience with aptamers, synthetically-derived short sequences of nucleic acids, to create conjugated aptamer-microRNA therapies. Both microRNAs and apatmers afford the possibility for powerful [...]
“Web 1.0 sites just presented information, there was no emotion – and an emotional connection is what generates loyalty,” notes Patrick Bultema, CEO of Colorado Springs based CodeBaby. And this lack of loyalty, according to Bultema, was the downfall of many of the initial e-tailers. Web 2.0, on the other hand, was more successful [...]
July’s Startup Junkie Underground saw Jim Mooney, founder and CEO of References-Online, telling the story of his business and the influence his customers have had on its development. According to Mooney, he has been able to turn “one good idea” into a successful business employing over 20 people without ever taking on outside financing. [...]
The acquisition of Scottsdale, Arizona based Zila, Inc. by Tolmar, Inc of Fort Collins, Colorado is being challenged by Intelident Solutions, Inc. which filed a complaint against Zila in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Tolmar, a pharmaceutical company focused on dental products and topicals, and Zila, a diagnostic company dedicated to the prevention, detection [...]
