Monthly Archives: November 2009

10 Companies from the Angel Capital Summit

The Angel Capital Summit hosted by the Rockies Venture Club featured presentations from 38 companies as well as several speakers. Below are summaries of 10 of the presenting companies. RockyRadar will offer a second summary of companies on Wednesday:
mShopper offers a mobile commerce platform including an ad platform, merchant services and its PriceCrusher application [...]

The Week Ahead: Nov 30 – Dec 7

December begins with a busy Tuesday including a New Tech Meetup in Boulder, a Colorado Cleantech Initiative Meeting in Denver, and a BioScience Networking event in Fort Collins. Wednesday sees the presentation of the final results of the Colorado Cleantech Cluster Analysis while Friday brings an afternoon event discussing Internet Privacy Law to [...]

Medical Literature Search Engine Quertle Announces Full Text Searching

Quertle LLC today announced the release of version 2.0 of its free medical literature search engine available at quertle.info. Quertle uses advanced semantics optimized for scientific literature to enable users to more easily find relevant results. The new release features full-text content from over 60,000 articles published in over 200 journals available at [...]

ReadyTalk Launches Web Event Platinum

ReadyTalk, a provider of integrated audio and web conferencing, announced it has launched a new service, Platinum Web Event. The new offering provides a complete package of services to those hosting web events including consulting services before and during the event to help with registration customization and live event monitoring. To optimize attendees audio [...]

Business Marketing Association Hosts Annual Auction Tomorrow

The Colorado chapter of the Business Marketing Association is hosting its annual auction on Thursday night, an evening that combines complimentary libations, sumptuous Italian fare from the region’s Top Chefs and an auction featuring wine, vacation packages, and personal and business services. Reports Greg Olsen, former President of the Colorado chapter, “As the only fundraiser [...]

Sharklet Scores SBIR Grant for Catheter Development

Sharklet Technologies, Inc announced that it has been awarded a $168,000 SBIR grant to develop a urinary catheter with the Sharklet micro pattern. When imprinted on surfaces, the Sharklet micro pattern, modeled after the naturally occurring patterns on shark skins, inhibits bacterial growth by creating an energetically unstable environment. The grant will go [...]

Ted Turner at Entrepreneurs Unplugged

Friday’s Entrepreneurs Unplugged with Ted Turner did not disappoint the capacity crowd at CU Law School. To begin the event, Turner was awarded the inaugural “Entrepreneurs for Good” prize by CU Law Dean David Getches. Following this award, Turner took center stage to describe both his business and philanthropic ventures in a 90 minute [...]

The Week Ahead: November 16 – 23

The last full week before Thanksgiving features the Rockies Venture Club’s Angel Capital Summit, an all day event that will feature presentations from 39 companies as well as several speakers. Tuesday also sees New Tech Denver and the Front Range Blogger Meetup. Wednesday offers daytime programs from CBSA on selling a bioscience [...]

CU New Venture Challenge Kickoff Event

Last evening CU Boulder held its kick-off event for the New Venture Challenge, the campus wide business plan competition. Brad Bernthal, Associate Law Professor and Director of Entrepreneurial Ventures at Silicon Flatirons, began the evening by citing the importance of the Challenge, which he deemed as “fundamental in creating an entrepreneurial launch pad” at the [...]

BioWest 2009

CBSA’s BioWest 2009 brought together a variety of perspectives on bioscience in Colorado and around the world, as well as focusing on innovation and leadership in general. Ginger Graham, the former president and CEO of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, began the day by offering a high level perspective on the future of the bioscience industry. [...]