Monthly Archives: July 2009

CleanLaunch Incubator Officially Opens its Doors

The CleanLaunch Technology Incubator designed to support start-ups developing new clean technologies officially launched on Friday. The project is a public-private partnership among Burt Technologies, Clifton Gunderson, Fairfield and Woods, P.C, and the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce. CleanLaunch will provide a variety of services to early stage companies in the clean [...]

The Week Ahead: July 20-27

The fourth week of July sees a marked slowdown in events as more and more of Colorado’s technology inclined seek the narrow bandwidth of a white sandy beach or a breezy mountain retreat. Of note is tonight’s Startup Junkie Underground, featuring Jim Mooney discussing your customer as product manager. In addition there is a bevy [...]

HRO Hosts “Smart Grid Technology and Colorado’s Energy Future”

Holme Roberts & Owen brought together diverse perspectives for a program entitled “Smart Grid Technology and Colorado’s Energy Future” as part the law firm’s Energy Evolution Speakers Series. The panel discussed the challenges inherent in turning the electrical grid – which to date has essentially been a one way street from utility to consumer [...]

What We’re Reading

If It Walks Like a Blog and Talks Like a Blog: The New York Times wrote an article on Sunday based on a study of the news cycle conducted by researchers at Cornell. The major conclusion of the study was that “news outlets lead and the blogs follow, typically by 2.5 hours.” Several [...]

VanDyne SuperTurbo Charger Promises Most Cost Efficient Energy Saving Vehicle Device

Ed VanDyne can talk with equal passion about the two loves of his professional life: “cars and building businesses.” VanDyne has found a way to combine these two interests across his professional life from his first business – rebuilding cars as a teen for profit – to his latest venture VanDyne SuperTurboChargers. The [...]

High Order Bit Releases TwitBit, the First iPhone Twitter App with Push

High Order Bit announced today the release of its TwitBit application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The most significant difference between TwitBit and the myriad Twitter applications currently on the market is push notification, where users are alerted when they receive a direct message or are mentioned in a Twitter stream. These [...]

July New Tech Meetup – Denver

Tuesday evening saw an abbreviated version of New Tech Denver with an agenda shortened by two late cancellations. Robert Reich began the night discussing the evolution Local Bunny underwent as the first company under the microscope at New Tech Boulder and the lessons other companies could learn from these rapid changes. Reich’s first [...]

Three Companies Selected for Boulder eSpace Incubator

eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, has selected three companies as the first class for its space incubator program from a pool of 30 applicants. Members of the inaugural round are: Zybek Advanced Products, a maker of lunar stimulant (synthetic moon rocks) which allows testing of landers and rovers, Net-Centric Design Professionals (NDP), a [...]

Red Door Social Media Panel: Same Goals, New Tactics

Red Door Interactive brought together a panel of experts to discuss the use of social media for business. The panel, moderated by Red Door’s Morgan Witt, brought insights from a variety of perspectives: consultants supporting social media campaigns (Jamie Dicken of Brickfish.com and Crosby Noricks of Red Door), people responsible for social media efforts [...]

Gold Systems Launches Cost Saving Conference Call System

Gold Systems announced today the release of the Gold Systems Conference Server designed to save companies money compared to traditional conference call services. The new product, which uses Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, provides on-demand conference calls and can be run on a company’s standard servers. Costs per minute on the system [...]