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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. Continue reading Boulder – Our Small City of Innovation
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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 to see what we individually had to say on the subject. Continue reading Fox Business Reports on California Companies Headed to Boulder
Posted by: Jason Mendelson
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 offers a powerful and flexible cloud-based transactional email platform that enables companies and application developers to easily send and receive emails ...
Continue reading Foundry Group Invests in SendGrid
Posted by: Ryan McIntyre
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 energy and culture that come with a college town). Equally important, the gorgeous surroundings of the Rocky Mountains mean ...
Continue reading Calling All Techies: Boulder Wants You!
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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 involved ...
Continue reading The University of Colorado and Entrepreneurship
Posted by: Jason Mendelson
