Colorado Tech Weekly #266: Leadership Matters and Fintech Grows in Denver

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The 2 subjects of this week’s headline directly affect me on a daily basis. As an employee of a startup with less than 10 people, our company is not only affected by the decisions made by our leadership but also the moods and attitudes that are shown by our founders, our managers and each of us. Leadership is not dependent on job title in a small organization, however the people with the big job titles have the most direct affect on the mood and culture of an organization. I’m excited to see what’s in store for OpenWorldLearning and Colorado Technology Association after their leadership changes.

My startup is also involved in fintech and seeing The Funding Circle opening an office here and seeing OnDeck grow their presence here makes me excited about the industry I get to work in.

I hope there’s something to get you excited this week! Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Denver’s OpenWorldLearning announced the appointment of Annie Grenier Wright as its Chair [OpenWorldLearning]
Louisville-based Global Healthcare acquiring firm in Germany [BizWest]
Denver-based Intermap Technologies’ 3D Earth mapping tech used to rescue Thai soccer team [DenverPost]
British fintech firm, The Funding Circle, leases 19,000 square feet in downtown Denver [BusinessDen]
Frannie Matthews named Colorado Technology Association’s new president & CEO [InnovatioNews]
New Colorado Technology Association chief looks to help connect companies and skilled workers [DBJ]
Fintech company, OnDeck, to grow Denver office by 15 percent within next five months [DBJ]
CA Technologies, with an office in Bouder, sold To Broadcom for $19B [PYMNTS]
Denver cybersecurity company OverWatchID expands, moves downtown from Tech Center [DBJ]
How Boulder tech company, FreeWave Technologies, and CU hackathon may have unlocked the key to detecting wildfires [BuiltinColorado]

Top Upcoming Events

7/18 – CoDIV – Beyond Fitting In
7/18 – Denver WomenWhoGo – Creating a RESTful JSON API in Go
7/18 – Tech Confluence – IoT Security, Homomorphic Encryption, Past-Present-and-Future of Passwords
7/19 – BuiltinColorado – Built In Brews at Healthgrades
7/19 – Denver Code Club – Smooth Sailing: Standardizing Microservice Management w/ Istio
7/19 – New Tech Colorado – NewTech Denver
7/19 – Node.js Denver/Boulder/Ft. Collins – Be Better Than (The) REST
7/19-7/20 – 360|AnDev 2018
7/21 – CiDGA – IGDA Summer Social
7/23 – Fort Collins Coders – Agile Scrum and Staying Happy

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Colorado Tech Weekly #167: Sometimes things make sense

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FullContact acquiring Conspire makes complete sense. These 2 Denver companies work to help us make sense of our contacts as opposed to just dumping every contact we’ve used in a big list (Google) or making contact information secondary to their real purpose (just about any social media site). I’m excited to see what comes from this.

Other things that made sense this week include Galvanize growing their education programs, growth in health-tech and AI as a service. Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Denver’s Galvanize closes $45M Series B to grow their education programs [BuiltinColorado]
Boulder-based SparkFun taps Glenn Samala as new CEO [InnovatioNews]
Google targeting Boulder, 23 other cities to test new wireless network [BizWest]
Denver’s FullContact acquires Denver-based Conspire [InnovatioNews]
Greenwood Village-based zvelo signs multi-million dollar contract with first AI as a Service customer [zvelo]
Inc. 5000: Which Colorado companies are on the list? [DBJ]
What’s new in tech: 4 Colorado startups share their views on the latest trends [BuiltinColorado]
Colorado Springs-based defense contractor adding 85 jobs [Gazette]
CTOs to Know: Meet Gusto’s Edward Kim [BuiltinColorado]
Denver’s NextHealth Technologies closes $8.5M Series A, looks to add 50 employees [BuiltinColorado]

Top Upcoming Events

8/25 – Colorado Data Science – TensorFlow Meetup
8/25 – Denver Creative Tech – Insights across decades of creative technology & interactive dance at the DAM
8/25 – Minerva – Anniversary Celebration
8/25 – Women Who Code Boulder/Denver – Wine And Networking w/ Denver’s Best
8/26 – CodeCraft School – Graduate Demo Day + Web Development Mixer
8/26 – SIM Colorado – 2nd Annual SIM Women Summer Conference
8/27 – CiGDA – Casual Downtown Denver Meetup
8/27-8/28 – Turing School – Try Turing Weekend (Fort Collins)
8/30 – Boulder iOS – Controlling LED Lights with an iOS Mobile App
8/30 – ThoughtWorks – Infrastructure As Code Book Launch Denver

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Colorado Tech Weekly #166: Space, Startups and 2 New Names

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This is week number one-hundred sixty-six in a row, although you probably figured that out by looking at the title of the post. Over three years of weekly posts and it’s still fun that I can find out about new companies and organizations that add to the Colorado technology community.

This week is full of my 3 of my favorite things about the Colorado technology community: Space, Startups and new names. Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Boulder-based Serenity Forge “Healing” Game Jam recap [PewPewCat]
One year in, lessons from CA Technologies’ acquisition of Boulder’s Rally Software [BuiltinColorado]
Tech CEOs: Talent tough to come by despite NoCo being ‘on the map’ [BizWest]
Denver start-up FullContact nabs $25 million in venture backing [DenverPost]
My Experience as a Zenman Intern [Zenman]
Why these big companies want to act like startups [BuiltinColorado]
Denver messaging startup, Kwippit, pulls in $2.5 million as it launches app [DBJ]
Boulder software firm JumpCloud raises $4.25M in new funding [BizWest]
NASA picks Colorado companies Lockheed Martin and Sierra Nevada for deep-space habitats [DBJ]
Following Denver expansion, Seattle online insurance company, QuoteWizard, lays off HQ employees [DBJ]

Top Upcoming Events

8/17 – Denver Droids – Catching Kotlin
8/17 – Front Range PHP User Group – ReactJS, Symfony and Doctrine
8/18 – CTA – Sip & Connect
8/18 – Node.js Denver/Boulder/Ft. Collins – Node Under the Hood: V8
8/18 – ReactJS Denver – React & Rails, Redux Middleware
8/18 – TechrIoT – IoT in Style with Spruce and Inworks!
8/21-8/24 – 360|iDev 2016
8/22 – HTML5 Denver – “Testing Angular 2 Applications” and “ES6 vs. TypeScript: Battle Royale”
8/23 – DenverScript – Becoming a maker: Microcontrollers and JavaScript using Johnny-Five

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Colorado Tech Weekly #103: It’s fun watching the people you admire succeed

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Congratulations to Rally Software for being acquired. When I first started reading about Colorado software development Rally Software was one of the first companies I heard about as a “Place you want to be.”

Congratulations to J.B. Holston for his appointment as a Dean at DU. I consider J.B. Holston to be one of the leaders of the Colorado tech startup community. I’ve only had brief encounters with him online, but he is always welcoming and willing to listen.

I love watching the people I admire succeed. It gives me hope and motivates me to continue working.

Top Colorado Technology News

University of Denver appoints JB Holston as Dean of School of Engineering & Computer Science [CTA]
Malone-backed Charter agrees to buy Time Warner Cable (Video) [DBJ]
Longmont’s DigitalGlobe and Saab AB partner to form 3-D imagery company Vricon [BizWest]
Comcast begins rollout of residential 2-gig service in Colorado [CTA]
Ft. Collins employer Avago Technologies announces deal to buy Broadcom for $37 billion [BizWest]
CA Technologies acquiring Boulder-based Rally Software for $480M [BizWest]
Cybergy Labs names Terry DiVittorio as Vice President, Cyber Operations [CybergyPartners]
Five Colorado Springs companies honored for technology work [ColoradoSpringsGazette]
Englewood-based NewCloud Networks names Steve Foster chair of its Executive Cloud Board [InnovatioNews]
Zayo Group Holdings appoints two from within to be new company COOs [InnovatioNews]

Upcoming Events

6/3 – CTA – Industry Briefing: Broadband Infrastructure in Colorado (Denver)
6/4 – WomenWhoCode – CartoDB with Bill Jeffrey (Boulder)
6/5 – Denver Visual Studio User Group – Denver Dev Day
6/5 – WomenWhoCode – .Net Study Group (Denver)
6/5-6/6 – AT&T – Mobile App Hackathon (Boulder)
6/6 – Boulder/Denver BigData Meetup – Global Data Competition Kickoff: “Analyzing Climate Change” (Boulder)
6/6 – CIGDA – 2015 Chillfest Colorado Video Games BBQ (Aurora)
6/6 – Girl Develop It – DENVER: Introduction to Programming with Javascript
6/8 – Galvanize – Data Science Open House (Denver)
6/9 – Denver WordPress – WordPress Happiness Hour at the Denver Library

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Colorado Tech Weekly #85: New. Better. More. Bigger. Faster.

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Every week, things in Colorado are new, better, more, bigger and faster. It can be intimidating when you’re looking to get into the software development world. However instead of it being intimidating, I choose to think of it as a good sign. As long as the industry continues to grow and change, there’s room for new developers.

I may be saying these things more for myself than anyone else. Make this week better than last week! I may also be saying that more for myself than anyone else.

Top Colorado Technology News

Golden-based Wowza flies under radar as it become the content streaming provider of video management industry [InnovatioNews]
Greystone acquisition of Fort Collins’ Pixel Rebel follows expansion into Boulder [BizWest]
Boulder-based LogRhythm releases new tools to speed detection of cyber attack threats [InnovatioNews]
7 hot Colorado tech companies hiring this month [BuiltinColorado]
Xcel would raise Colorado electric rates slightly under settlement [DBJ]
Boulder’s Agribotix launches first on-demand data processing platform for agricultural drones [BuiltinColorado]
Louisville-based DaVinci Coders seek to ‘level-up’ careers with game development [CTA]
Dan Lynn named new CEO of Broomfield’s CodeFutures to advance agile big data strategies [CodeFutures]
Boulder links with Code for America to improve community engagement [BizWest]
Boulder-based FreeWave Technologies picks up M2M Evolution IoT Excellence Award [InnovatioNews]

Upcoming Events

1/28 – GDI – [BOULDER] Career Support: Résumé Review
1/28 – QuickLeft – Where Are Your Wearables Hackfest?
1/29 – Startup Grind Denver – Nancy Phillips (ViaWest)
1/29 – Turing Community Events – Demo Night: Mastery Projects, Self-Directed Projects, and Dinner Dash
1/29 – Twitter – Twitter Flock 2015 Boulder
1/31 – GDI Boulder/Denver – Coder Day of Service
1/31-2/1 – Boulder Mini Maker Faire 2015
2/3 – BDNT – New Tech Boulder
2/3 – DOSUG – The Art of AngularJS
2/3 – Winter Energy + Tech Mashup

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