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CARMERA

I can finally talk about this product and company! CARMERA is building a marketplace for real-time, in-depth (3D), street-level environment information. Autonomous vehicles and smart city efforts have insatiable appetites for this kind of data, and collecting it is expensive and hard. CARMERA brings it to market in a scalable,

jud@techstars.com

I'm getting back into the mix. It's been a creative, fun, enlightening, educational, expanding, and relaxing couple of years "off," but I want to re-engage with something operational again; I've joined Techstars [http://www.techstars.com/] as its CTO. I'm

Investment Stages

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Investment Stages

With so much startup investment activity these days, I find myself in regular discussion around valuations, stages of investment (and what those stages mean), and, from the entrepreneur’s perspective, when to engage various forms of investment. I’m a visual thinker, so I pulled some charts together that help

Day In Pictures: Thursday

Day In Pictures: Thursday

Ellie at Boxcar pulled together a yummy Cortado to start things off.Rachel Ryle of Don't Stop Motion [http://dontstopmotion.com/] fame shares her creative experiences.Johnny telling me about hanging art in The Laughing Goat. He made me my first latte many many years ago.Nice girl

David & Goliath; Internet Tech Sector & U.S. Government

By way of the Silicon Flatirons "The Digital Broadband Migration: The Challenges of Internet Law and Governance" [http://www.silicon-flatirons.org/events.php?id=1003] conference last night, I somehow found myself at a reception with a few dozen brains much bigger than mine; thank you Dean Phil

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

Nice Guys Finish Last?

When it comes to reputability, honesty and intelligence, you see quite the range in the entrepreneurial & startup world. Unfortunately, a lot of what you see isn't pretty. As a relative "nice guy," I've tried to carry the "nice guy" torch through

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