August 21, 2009 – 9:37 am
MicroPhage announced the launch of its clinical trial to support its FDA premarket notification, or 510(k), for its MicroPhage test platform. This platform allows for rapid identification of bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance. The company’s first product seeks to identify Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria and determine methicillin (MRSA) resistance or susceptibility. MicroPhage harnesses [...]
August 21, 2009 – 8:09 am
Wednesday’s CBSA BioBreakfast offered insight into programs both inside and outside the University system designed to support the commercialization of bioscience technologies. Northern Colorado was showcased first with Todd Headly of the Colorado State University Technology Transfer Office speaking first. CSU has a unique approach to commercialization with Superclusters established in three specific [...]
August 20, 2009 – 3:32 pm
The University of Colorado has selected eleven recipients for proof of concept grants, designed to help bridge the funding gap between basic research and commercialization. This grant program was established as part of House Bill 1001 whereby the state provides matching funds to a total of $1.5M to monies put forward by the University. [...]
August 19, 2009 – 4:14 pm
Today Boulder based OneRiot launched RiotFeeds, a Twitter-based service where users receive realtime links and tweets from a directory of over twenty topics hand-chosen by the company. For example, signing up for the “Laughs and Memes” feed will return link-enabled tweets from FunnyOrDie, FailBlog, Cracked, and CollegeHumor. Subscribing to “Sports” will return link-enabled tweets [...]
August 19, 2009 – 12:40 pm
WebRoot announced that Dick Williams has been name President and Chief Executive Officer. Williams brings executive and board experience from a variety of venture-backed technology startups including Hyperic, a provider of open source systems management software, and Wiley Technology, which focused on web application management and was acquired by Computer Associates in 2006. [...]
August 19, 2009 – 12:06 pm
August’s Denver Edition of the New Tech Meetup saw a large crowd welcomed to an Auroria Campus enlivened with the return of students. The crowd was warmed up by a DJ and CU Law Professor Brad Bernthal’s offer of free legal advice for startups through the entrepreneurial law clinic at CU, which is now [...]
August 18, 2009 – 3:05 pm
Former Sportscaster and current contributor to KUSA-TV’s “Colorado and Company” Mark McIntosh delighted the DaVinci Institute audience at August’s Startup Junkie Underground with an enthusiastic and energetic presentation of his three strategies to success in the face of adversity. According McIntosh life is “not about adversity” but rather “it’s the outcome.” A star [...]
August 18, 2009 – 8:59 am
VarVee announced that The Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA) has selected its platform as the system of record for all Colorado high school athletics. VarVee’s Software-as-a-Service offering provides for online statistics collection and reporting across 20 different sports. Player statistics are entered by coaches into the system after games and this data [...]
August 17, 2009 – 1:43 pm
There are a myriad of statistics available in football, some relatively simple – passing attempts, yards per carry – and some more complex, such as quarterback rating. But despite all this data, it is difficult to glean insight from the voluminous sets of numbers beyond simple comparisons (e.g. Peyton Manning has a higher QB [...]
August 17, 2009 – 8:56 am
For the IT crowd, the third week of August sees the Denver edition of the New Tech Meetup on Tuesday and a variety of user groups on Thursday. Eric Ries comes to town to host two Lean Startup events Boulder, a dinner on Wednesday evening and a half day workshop on Thursday morning. [...]
