Monthly Archives: October 2009

Biodesix: A New Way to Inform Cancer Treatment Selection

“One data point doesn’t tell you very much in most cases,” comments David Brunel, CEO of Biodesix, a medical diagnostics company based in Broomfield, Colorado. This principle guides Biodesix’s approach to developing diagnostics which aim to indentify a patient’s expected response to a particular therapeutic. Biodesix’s technology evaluates multiple biomarkers – [...]

Red Door Interactive Panel Discusses Mobile Marketing

Red Door Interactive convened a panel Tuesday morning to discuss mobile marketing. The panel, moderated by Red Door’s Morgan Witt, discussed many of the considerations necessary when launching a mobile campaign. The panelists were:

Dan Flanegan, CEO of Brand Anywhere
Greg Hallinan, CMO of Verve Wireless
David Gould, CEO of mShopper
Sue Chandler, Senior Production Manager at [...]

Potential Partner Moves Forward in Efforts to License Ceragenix Technology

Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc announced that MAST BioSurgery has decided to invoke its right to a 60 day period of exclusivity to negotiate rights to use Ceragenix’s CeraShield™ antimicrobial technology in one or more medical devices in an unspecified field of use. In May, Ceragenix and MAST entered into a cooperative research and development agreement [...]

The Week Ahead: Oct 26-Nov 3

The last week of October offers some some high quality events, beginning Tuesday morning with Red Door Interactive’s panel on Mobile Marketing. Two Clean Tech events are featured this week: A morning event from CCIA focusing on Smart grid on Wednesday, followed by an all day conference on renewable electricity on Thursday. Silicon Flatirons is [...]

Rebit Names Paul Guerin CEO

Rebit Inc, a maker of backup solutions for PCs, announced that Paul Guerin has been named the company’s Chief Excutive Offer. Most recently, Guerin served as CEO Jabber, Inc, which provided messaging and presence software and was sold to Cisco in 2008. Guerin also brings experience from many other startup and established technology [...]

Mile High Tech Meetup 2009

The first edition of Mile High Tech brought out a primarily IT crowd to the Tivoli Turnhalle. Eschewing the traditional company presentation format of some the larger meetups, Mile High Tech saw the larger group break out into discussion groups for two activities: an introduction to different Colorado meetups by organizers in attendance and [...]

Ascent Achieves 14% Efficiency in Commercial Production

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc (NASDAQ:ASTI) announced that it has achieved 14% cell efficiency for its Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenide (CIGS) on flexible plastic substrate produced at its commercial plant in Littleton, Colorado. The efficiency was measured at 14.01% by the National Renewable Energy Labs (NREL), which performed the testing. Ascent also announced its [...]

StickerGiant: Consolidating an Industry Through Customer Service

“If we’re not happy how can we expect to make our customers happy?” asks John Fischer, founder of StickerGiant. This simple principle is a driving force behind the 10-year-old online sticker business based in Hygiene (a section of Longmont), Colorado. Fischer began the business selling political stickers in the wake of the Bush-Gore [...]

The Week Ahead: October 19 – 26

This week features a meetup of meetups in Mile High Tech ‘09, designed to celebrate all aspects of technology going on in Colorado on Tuesday. Monday sees Brad Feld interviewing TechStars Executive Director David Cohen in the next edition of Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged Series. The week also offers a Bioscience event in [...]

RVC Meeting Discusses Alternative Funding Sources

October’s meeting of the Rockies Venture Club saw high attendance to discuss sources of funding outside of traditional venture capital. Before the panel discussion, three companies had the chance to make their pitches to the audience. Dynamic Solutions and Systems provides a variety of training, educational products, and software tools to support real [...]