A New Game Not Just For Rich Guys
Thanks for this blog post referral from Jim Callahan of Janiczek & Company in Denver. Lots of new trends in angel investing including younger angels getting involved, more engagement by Registered...
View ArticleRaising Capital for a Startup? Apply to Pitch at Angel Capital Summit 2014
There is one place where the most angel and VC investors gather in Colorado to see pitches every year and that’s the Angel Capital Summit. Companies who are raising capital for a startup and Investors...
View ArticleA great VC pitch is like being in the Olympics
Like many of you I have been watching the Olympics this week and while watching the Ice Dancing events I had an observation – pitching your company to Venture Capital investors is like competing in the...
View ArticleHow do Investors Assess Value in a Company?
You may think that investors assess value in the companies they back in a strictly financial way – analyzing the proformas, return on investment, key ratios and so on. These things are important,...
View ArticleAngel Capital Summit – THIS WEEK – Check out the schedule!
Yes, Angel Capital Summit 2014 is coming up Tuesday and Wednesday this week, followed by an investor-only forum on Thursday morning, all at the DU Campus. We have so much to offer everyone at this...
View Article3 Ways To Fund Your Start-up
By Catherine Compitello. Catherine is an alternative investment marketing specialist turned entrepreneur. She founded The Farm Above, a sustainable rooftop farming business. New to Boulder from Wall...
View ArticleColorado Venture Summit Invitation
If you are a Founder or CEO of a technology company that hopes to raise capital, the Rockies Venture Club would like to invite you to attend the Evening Party of the Colorado Venture Summit on June 19....
View ArticleMake Internet Access Free of Taxes Permanently
By Michael Price, Executive Director of the Coalition for a Connected West., Aurora, CO It goes without saying that the Internet plays a vital role in our lives. The Internet enables us to shop,...
View ArticleTransparent consumer markets have never existed in our current healthcare...
Transparent consumer markets have never existed in our current healthcare system. This means that consumers don’t have access to information that is needed for making informed decisions about...
View ArticleDue Diligence Beta Program Launched
Rockies Venture Club recently launched a beta program for due diligence analytics, assembling a team of highly capable industry and academic individuals in order to streamline the time consuming...
View ArticleThe Periodic Table of Tech
Here’s a great article from CB Insights (https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/tech-periodic-table/) We expect that this list of 118 will change over time as new entrants emerge and gain prominence and...
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CB Insights Venture Capital Report for 2014
Venture capital funding hit its highest annual mark since 2001 as venture investors participated in $47.3 billion across 3,617 deals. Even versus 2013, the past year was huge as venture capital...
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The Periodic Table of Healthcare
Here’s a great InfoGraphic from CBInsights with the healthcare venture capital landscape marked out by type. This is how to find the funding source for life science, healthcare and device startups.
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Twitter and Google Unleash a Social-Search Tsunami – Top-10 Recommended Actions
By Thomas B. Cross @techtionary Twitter and Google have reached a deal to make tweets searchable in real time using the search engine. Google The tweets will now appear as people search for content...
View Article50 Shades of Green – Seeking Startup Lessons Learned
RVC seeks short articles for the RVC blog exploring the “50 shades of green” ways companies are started, get funding, grow, exist and exit. We are seeking your “real life” experiences at any stage of...
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Gamification and Artificial Intelligence – Monetization of Business...
By Thomas B. Cross* Gamification is all the rage these days. In order to distill this down to something simple was the task at hand. Here are the briefly highlights after reviewing more than 100...
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“Pitch Perfect”– Ideas for Better Presentations
This updated presentation was inspired by Peter Adams when I mentioned a quote from a colleague who said “if you are boring face-to-face, you will still be boring via video conference. Peter added,...
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to be an angel investor?
Have you ever wondered what it takes to be an angel investor? If I could have any job in the world, it would be to be a full time angel investor. Angels get to meet super-smart people with cutting...
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“Thought Leadership” – 10 Ideas on Being a Thought Leader
By Thomas B. Cross @techtionary Abstract: This paper was inspired by a blog post by Brad Feld of the Foundry Group, a venture-capital firm in Boulder. I don’t know Brad but the idea of...
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