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Spring & Boulder's Trails post-COVID Lockdown

This is an open letter of mine to Boulder's Parks and Rec department. Dear Boulder Parks and Recreation Department, As COVID subsides, hopefully for good, our trail systems are going to be innundated with people getting out and enjoying themselves. As this coincides with our erratic Spring-time weather,

"Startup Communities" by Brad Feld

A "publisher's draft" of Brad's latest book (release date in coming weeks) called "Startup Communities" [http://amzn.to/S1A9AZ] appeared on my desk the other day. I just finished reading it. What an awesome book! Brad [http://www.feld.com/] put to

Daily Camera Building Re-development

If you are responsible for leasing/buying commercial office space for your Boulder-based company, read on. My company, Gnip (a social media company) [http://gnip.com/], recently signed a new lease downtown, so the process is still fresh in my mind. This coming Thursday, July 26th, evening, the Boulder Planning

Lijit Acquisition

Wow. What an illustration of how sticking with a company/team through thick and thin can yield big dividends. With a little time, amazing things can happen. I'm overjoyed with what the Lijit [http://www.lijit.com/] team pulled off. After four years (at least) of various strategies,

Running Straight Into The Abyss

Time flies. While telecommuting for AOL from Boulder back in 2006 as a Technical Advisor, I realized something had to change. But for a four year stint in Silicon Valley, returning to Boulder in 1999, I'd spent my life in Boulder, yet I'd never really made

City of Boulder, DBI & Tech Firms

Trada [http://www.trada.com/] hosted a meetup today that included downtown Boulder tech firms, and representatives from Downtown Boulder, Inc [http://www.boulderdowntown.com/], and the City of Boulder's Economic Vitality [http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13707&

Feelin' It In Boulder

In the "counting my blessings" category, I've been trying to build a blog post about things I'm super excited about these days. That's resulted in delay, so instead I'm just going to do a random splattering of bullets. * Mountains -

Luncheon with Jared Polis

Luncheon with Jared Polis

Photo by Todd Vernon [http://yfrog.com/g0g2rqxj]I was lucky enough, and honored, to be a part of a luncheon in Boulder today with Congressman Jared Polis, and a great sample of Boulder's startup community. There were roughly 30 of us around a table at the staple

Boulder & California

Boulder & California

While playing with my daughter this morning she pulled out the key-chain pictured here. I noticed that the "Boulder" sticker was sitting on top of another. I peeled it back and found "California" underneath. Growing up in Boulder, spending four years in Silicon Valley, then moving

State of Boulder Dinning

State of Boulder Dinning

Boulder's at an interesting juncture when it comes to it's restaurant offerings. If you adhere to the notion that opening a restaurant takes at least 12 months of planning, our new crop of joints are the brainchildren of plans concocted prior to the economic disaster that

Daily Camera's Goss Metro is no-more.

Back in 1973, the year I was born, the Boulder Daily Camera installed a Goss Metro printing press as a major upgrade to its printing services. Over the past couple of days I've been watching the preparation for its disassembly as I walk to, and from, meetings in

Bank in Boulder!

Last week we announced $15 million in financing from Commonwealth Ventures [http://mashable.com/2007/06/11/medium-funded/]. We are happy campers right now. From a selfish perspective, I couldn't be more excited that the bet I placed on Me.dium [http://me.dium.com] several months ago