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 #164: Happy Colorado Tech Week!

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Happy Colorado Tech Week, everyone! Granted every week is Colorado Tech Week for me, but this week it’s Colorado Tech Week for everyone! It’s true, the governor said so.

Since it is Colorado Tech Week, you should pay special attention to this week’s headlines and events because they accurately portray the awesomeness of the Colorado Tech community. There’s space, hackathons, startups, big data, developers, game development, online shopping. It’s all there!

I’m excited for a few of the events this week. Today starts the Colorado Technology Association’s 2nd annual Tech Tour to coincide with Colorado Tech Week. This week is also the 5th annual Develop Denver conference. And this weekend is the first ever Serenity Forge Game Jam. Unfortunately I won’t be participating in any of these events, but that just leaves more room for you. Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Broomfield database outsourcer Datavail acquires Oracle business-intelligence consultant [DenverPost]
Colorado Tech directory published [BizWest]
Sierra Nevada’s Louisville-based Dream Chaser to begin Phase 2 flight testing in California at Edwards AFB [InnovatioNews]
The keys to a killer hackathon, according to 4 Colorado startups [BuiltinColorado]
Broomfield’s Level 3 reports $149M profit for second quarter [BizWest]
4 students share what it’s really like to intern at a Colorado startup [BuiltinColorado]
Rocky Mountain DataCon 2016 launches [AgileData]
Denver-based MuscleSound names Andy Jackson President and Chief Executive Officer [MuscleSound]
Here’s what you need to know about Develop Denver, returning this week [BuiltinColorado]
How companies with Colorado ties are competing with Amazon [DenverPost]

Top Upcoming Events

8/3 – Analyze Boulder – FICO, Uber, and Outer Space
8/3 – GirlDevelopIt – Debugging the Developer Crisis: Bringing Together Job Seekers and Dev Teams
8/4 – Analyze Boulder – Omer Trajman, CEO of Rocana
8/4 – DaVinci Coders – Unity Game Dev Demo Day
8/4-8/5 – Develop Denver
8/5 – Turing School – Demo Competition Finals
8/5-8/7 – Serenity Forge – Serenity Forge Game Jam
8/6 – HTML5 Denver – WORKSHOP: “Observables: On the Road to Angular 2”
8/9 – BDNT – New Tech Fort Collins
8/9-8/11 – Data Science & Business Analytics – RMACC High Performance Computing Symposium 2016

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Colorado Tech Weekly #137: A good week for companies with ‘Z’ in their name

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Zillow is going to grow. Dizzion is expanding. Galvanize gets funding. And Sierra Nevadza will need to hire to fulfill their awesome cool NASA contract. OK, there’s no ‘Z’ in Sierra Nevada but that’s still pretty exciting news for them. It’s great seeing front range companies grow!

I’m going to start figuring out how to turn this weekly post into a podcast and I’m going to start looking for tweets with the hashtag #coloradotech to build my lists. I’m looking forward to interacting with you in new, fun ways!

Top Colorado Technology News

Silicon Slopes: 5 innovative tech companies that call ski towns home [BuiltinColorado]
No love for Loveland: Madwire Media is moving to Ft. Collins [BuiltinColorado]
Hiring likely soon at Louisville-based Sierra Nevada Space Systems thanks to NASA contract [Boulderopolis]
Denver’s Dizzion expands offices, staff to accommodate record growth [Dizzion]
4 companies leading the charge for a more diverse Colorado tech [BuiltinColorado]
Broncos use technology to deepen fan support [DenverPost]
Denver-based Galvanize raises $3 million in venture from Colorado fund [Tech+]
Lunch & Learn Recap: Kendra Prospero, CEO of Turning the Corner, on tips from a technical recruiter & job placement professional [CodeCraft]
The Colorado Office of Information Technology FY15 Annual Report is hot off the press [ColoradoOIT]
Zillow says it will add 150 Denver-area jobs [DBJ]

Top Upcoming Events

1/27 – All Things API – API Consumption
1/27 – Data Science & Business Analytics – Maximum Flow implementation on Spark GraphX and Raspberry Pi Spark cluster demo
1/27 – Denver Founders – Joshua Dorkin of BiggerPockets
1/28 – BuiltinColorado – Built In Brews at Signpost
1/28 – Cloud Computing Meetup – Discussion on Technology & Automated Platforms
1/28 – RefactorU – Post-Holiday Party!
2/1 – CTA – Annual Legislative Reception
2/1 – TechrIoT – Google and Notion
2/2 – DOSUG – Matt Raible Gets Hip with JHipster: Spring Boot + AngularJS + Bootstrap
2/2 – GirlDevelopIt – (BOULDER) Social Night

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Colorado Tech Weekly #83: More predictions! More jobs! Fewer CES stories!

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It’s the Monday after the big Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and I only have one CES related story! I think Wayin’s Jamey Wood might be on to something in the below BuiltinColorado article “What’s next for Colorado tech in 2015” when he says Colorado should get more involved in the physical realm. More robotics! More devices! I’m all for it!

Until then, I guess we’ll just have to deal with only having more jobs and more optimism. That works just fine for me.

Top Colorado Technology News

Security Pursuit opens Lafayette office [BuiltinColorado]
How Boulder-based Uvize combines college prep and mentorship for student veterans [BuiltinColorado]
What’s next for Colorado tech in 2015, including Governor Hickenlooper, a venture capitalist, a founder and a CTO [BuiltinColorado]
Recruitment Strategies: How Denver’s Signpost tripled its sales team in Denver this year [BuiltinColorado]
Douglas County-based Dish Network’s Sling TV wins big at CES [DBJ]
Colorado health exchange snafus trip up thousands as cost overruns mount [DBJ]
Boulder-based Simple Energy’s 2015 predictions [SimpleEnergy]
Denver luxury box broker SuiteHop hiring in 2015 with $1M in new funding [ConfluenceDenver]
Health care IT scholarships available from the Colorado Health Information Management Systems Society [CSBJ]
Four Colorado storylines to watch as 2015 gets underway [Xconomy]

Upcoming Events

1/14 – 1 Million Cups Denver – CivicData & Flowh
1/14 – CIGDA – One game a month
1/14 – CTA – 101 Luncheon
1/14 – DJUG – Holiday Party
1/14 – Full Stack Meetup – Physical computing and creative coding for the masses. #OhHeckYeah
1/14 – Reed Group – Job Fair
1/14 – Refresh Denver – Alexander Diner & Mike Cummings, Partners @ Young & Hungry
1/15 – BDNT – New Tech Denver
1/15 – NetApp User Group – Tech OnTap Live: Denver
1/15 – Girl Develop It – [DENVER] Get involved with Girl Develop It
1/17 – DaVinci Coders – Swift Developers Workshop
1/17-1/18 – Girl Develop It – BOULDER: Intermediate HTML & CSS / Intro to Responsive
1/20 – All Things API – Scott Feinberg: Developer Evangelist at WePay
1/20 – Geospatial Amateurs –The Ugly, Bad, and the Good: An Evening of Web artography
1/20 – WomenWhoCode – (Boulder) Mobile Study Group + Talk
1/20 – WomenWhoCode – (Denver) Technical Interview Skills: Behavioral Preparation

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Colorado Tech Weekly #69: Expansion in Colorado Springs, finding things in Steamboat and Colorado has the best ‘Outside’ companies

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Would it surprise you to learn that over 1/10th of the companies listed on Outside’s ‘100 Best Places to Work’ were Colorado tech companies? It didn’t surprise me either, but it’s still nice to hear. It’s like when my wife tells me I’m awesome. It’s something I already know, but it’s nice to hear it from someone else.

A note about my news sources: Lately a lot of the stories I’ve found have come from CTA’s news aggregation site Digital Colorado. Since they post a summary and a link to the original story I don’t often link directly to Digital Colorado because I don’t want you to have to click a link to click a link to read a story. That being said, If you want your tech news aggregated more often than once a week, you should definitely check them out!

Top Colorado Technology News

Big sale, equity rounds, surprises make headlines in 3rd quarter [Xconomy]
Denver-based Lassy Project launches updates and new features [LassyProject]
Rivet Software and staff to stay in Denver, acquisition aims for growth, CEO says [DBJ]
Colorado Springs-based Exelis completes spinoff of Colorado-based unit [DBJ]
Booming Colorado Springs software company, Cherwell Software, looks for space to grow even more [Gazette]
Technology startup U Grok It celebrates new milestones in Steamboat Springs [SteamboatToday]
Franklin Out, VMLogix and Citrix Exec in as SendGrid Replaces CEO [Xconomy]
Colorado Technology Association welcomes Suma Nallapati to board of directors [CTA]
Insurance software company, Insurance Technologies, expands in downtown Colorado Springs [Gazette]
11 Colorado tech companies make Outside’s 100 The Best Places to Work in 2014 [Outside]

Upcoming Events

10/8 – CTA – 101 Luncheon
10/8 – Refresh Denver – Speaker: Justin Gitlin, Director + Developer at Mode Set
10/9 – CTA – Technology/Entrepreneurship Showcase
10/9 – Data Science & Business Analytics – Celebrate Data Science in the Cloud
10/9 – Denver Biz Tech Expo
10/9 – DevelopIntelligence – Introduction to Node.js Workshop
10/9 – RMIMA – Agile Product Management
10/9 – SeedPaths – Hiring Day #1
10/11 – BDNT – New Tech Fort Collins
10/14 – All Things API Meetup – Speaker: Neil Mansilla
10/14 – Planet Cassandra – Cassandra Day Denver 2014
10/14 – Denver WordPress – Introduction to eCommerce + WordPress
10/14 – Joomla! Meetup – October Joomla! Meetup
10/14 – SeedPaths – Hiring Day #2

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Colorado Tech Weekly #68: Heavy on news, light on events and extra DSW content!

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!

Every week at the bottom of my post I ask for people to send me reviews on any of the events I post about. After 67 posts, it finally pays off! Chandra Jacobs with Denver-based dev/design startup Baked and Branded sent in a link to one of their reviews for Denver Startup Week which prompted me to include…

Extra Bonus Denver Startup Week Reviews

Lessons Learned at Denver Startup Week [BakedandBranded]
Denver Startup Week inspires, adds to flame of innovation burning brightly across Colorado [InnovatioNews]
Awesome Content you might’ve missed | Denver Startup Week [BuiltinColorado]

Top Colorado Technology News

Denver financial compliance firm Rivet Software acquired by California competitor [BuiltinColorado]
Sierra Nevada lays off 90 Dream Chaser workers in Louisville after Sept. 16 NASA award snub [InnovatioNews]
Boulder’s Zayo Group introduces Tranzact platform to easily buy and manage bandwidth services [InnovatioNews]
Denver-based ReadyTalk zooms in on mobile teleconferencing [BuiltinColorado]
Exciting new products from 3 local tech startups [BuiltinColorado]
Denver’s Four Winds Interactive releases new software to help manage enterprise visual networks [InnovatioNews]
Denver-based Ping Identity’s CEO Talks About $35M Round, What’s Next for Company [Xconomy]
Learn-to-code boot camps like Denver’s SeedPaths open doors for talented graduates [VentureBeat]
Denver-based Luxury Travel Startup Inspirato Closes $20M Growth Equity Round [Xconomy]
New Tech September Wrap Up and request for donation [BDNT]

Upcoming Events

10/4-10/5 – NoCo Mini Maker Faire
10/6 – BDNT – New Tech Boulder Monthly Meetup
10/6 – Integra – Integra Tech Expo 2014
10/6-10/8 – Veeam – VeeamON 2014
10/7 – Hack and Tell – Round 13

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