Streat Chefs took home the top prize of $6,000 at the second annual CU New Venture Challenge. Streat Chefs seeks to bring gourmet dining to the streets catering to the growing “fast casual” market in the restaurant segment. The business is modeled after the successful food trucks that are common in LA. [...]
December 10, 2009 – 7:45 pm
The final edition of Entrepreneurs Unplugged in 2009 saw Tin Enwall, founder, President and COO of Tendril, interviewed by Brad Feld. Enwall described Boulder-based Tendril, which raised a $30 million round of financing in June, as “the residential side of the smart grid.” Before founding Tendril, Enwall’s career had taken him from Apple [...]
November 16, 2009 – 2:28 pm
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 [...]
November 13, 2009 – 10:23 am
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 [...]
October 20, 2009 – 1:54 pm
“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 [...]
October 14, 2009 – 9:38 am
Silicon Flatirons hosted a lecture by Fred Von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation entitled “Digital Copyright and Innovation Online: A Little Dose of Optimism.” Von Lohmann framed the challenge of digital copyright as “encouraging innovation and market entry while protecting copyright.” Specifically, the key issue is whether internet intermediaries can be held [...]
Ryan Broshar acknowledges “some of our clients are a little hesitant about working with consultants.” This fact is not surprising given that Entrepreneurial Solutions (ES) is a far from the typical consulting firm and attracts a non-typical clientele. ES is run by a team of graduate students at CU’s Leeds School of Business [...]
On Tuesday, the Silicon Flatirons Center and the University of Colorado Law School hosted an event to honor the service of Professor Phil Weiser, who will depart the school in July to join the Obama Justice Department as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division. The event kicked off with a well-received monologue [...]
The third and final edition of Feld-Weiser One on One focused on work-life balance. In the series cut short by Phil Weiser’s imminent departure to Washington to join the Department of Justice, Weiser noted that Brad Feld selected work-life balance out of a list of several remaining topics for their final discussion.
Feld professed a [...]
Colorado State University scientists have received a $2.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support both research and K-12 science education. The research component of the grant will be led by CSU engineering professor Tom Chen and biomedical sciences professor Stuart Tobet. The funds will allow graduate students to test new [...]
