With the Colorado Capital Conference right around the corner, we had Ethan put together an outlook on Colorado alone. The Give First ecosystem is rapidly advancing on the global scale for startups, with Colorado coming in 6th for startups nationwide. The report contains information ranging from the impact of our strong collegiate ecosystem and Colorado’s […]
Inspiring both controversy and the imagination, like many innovation before them, drones were built first by the military, for the military. Interestingly, the technology that enables drones, and drives their proliferation, also comes from the military. The internet and social media have pushed drones into the mainstream consumer’s life, with vast numbers of people being reached by […]
According to the U.N. and the World Bank, the world population is set to reach just shy of 10 billion people by 2050. While a lot of focus has been put on the urban housing crunch that will create, as well as questions about employment in the face of growing populations and the rise of […]
What does sequencing the wheat genome have in common with corn that makes its own nitrogen, geodesic spheres for fish, and figuring out just what in meat makes meat taste meaty? They’re all agricultural and food technologies, or AgTech, the wave of innovative concepts with the goal of feeding the world for the years to come. From precision agriculture and […]
Last weekend to register!! RVC’s Summer Pitchfest Tuesday Aug. 14th | 5-8:00 PM | Denver SBDC 1445 Market St. Denver, CO 80202 Meet the companies! Register Now Available Via Livestream Ascent360 provides cloud-based software that enables highly targeted, multi-channel communications direct to prospects and customers. Our secure, scalable software aggregates all inbound data including promotional, transactional (PoS/eCommerce), […]
What’s it like to run a company that can raise $17M in a flash? We recently asked P2Binvestor’s Krista Morgan just that after they closed a huge round in a combination of equity and debt. “It’s just another day,” she said. However, you might find her in a different state on a day she lands […]
We all know a handful of busts in the venture capital world. Whether the lesson to be learned is for the entrepreneur or the investor, every failure is a learning opportunity. Bigfoot wrote an article in May about some of these lessons. Closing a venture round is the dream, right? As Founders, it’s how we […]
The holodecks of the Star Trek universe once captivated millions of people’s imaginations. For the unfamiliar, holodecks were rooms that became any setting you wanted, from a dojo to a sprawling valley in Austria. While today’s reality bending technologies don’t quite reach the same level on integration, advances in the industry are shaking things up. […]
The finance world lives on the mantra of “cash is king”. Why, you ask? Well, it’s because it’s a company’s cold, hard cash, not its reported profit, that determines the value of a business. Profit is merely an accounting mechanism. Future cash flows actually pay the bills. And the investors. And, most importantly, the investors’ investors. But, […]
If you ask an engineer what stands between them and their dream, they’ll probably make a joke about debt. If you throw a pile of cash at an engineer and ask them again, the problem may be solved, or they may tell you, “It’s just not possible yet”. New materials have been at the forefront […]