As you may have read in a prior post on Boulder’s Culture of Entrepreneurship, we feel that one ingredient necessary to create and sustain this culture is engaged university activity. We are lucky to have the University of Colorado in our backyard and fortunate that it has consistently engaged in activities that foster and create entrepreneurship initiatives. While none of us attended CU, we’ve all adopted it as our “other school” and have become very...

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If you saw our prior post about what Jason and Ryan learned by moving to Boulder, you read about the vibrancy of Boulder's entrepreneurial spirit. We decided to follow that post up with some specifics regarding the startup culture of Boulder and some of our related activities within it. TechStars: If you are a frequent reader of Brad's blog, you've probably seen some of his posts on TechStars. Brad's not the only Foundry Group partner,...

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In a follow up to our Who We Are post, Ryan and I thought we would compare VC life in Boulder, CO to that of the Silicon Valley. In some ways it's remarkably similar and in some ways wonderfully different. For those of you who don't know, Ryan and I met in 2000 while at the California offices of Mobius Venture Capital, became quick friends and even started a band or two. (Shameless Plug Alert:...

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