Boulder – Our Small City of Innovation
Recently, we were fortunate to have the kind folks from MSNBC come visit us to see why Boulder is such a special place for entrepreneurship and innovation.
Category Archives: Colorado
Fox Business Reports on California Companies Headed to Boulder
Today, Fox Business reporter Adam Shapiro spent some time in Boulder talking to folks about what is special about creating a company here. He began the day at the Boulder Open Coffee Club, an informal twice-monthly gathering for those to talk tech, startups, geek and anything else of interest. Stay tuned for our personal blogs [...]
Foundry Group Invests in SendGrid
Today SendGrid announced that it has raised a $5m financing led by Foundry Group. Seed round investors Highway 12 Ventures, Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC, David McClure (via FF Angel) and David Cohen’s Bullet Time Ventures also participated in the round. Postini founder Scott Petry and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg also participated in the financing. SendGrid [...]
Calling All Techies: Boulder Wants You!
If you’ve been following our blog, you already know that we think Boulder, Colorado, is an amazing place for tech startups. Boulder doesn’t get the same press as high-profile tech meccas like Silicon Valley, Seattle and NYC, but we do have a real culture of entrepreneurship and proximity to a major research university (and all [...]
The University of Colorado and Entrepreneurship
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 [...]
