The Rockies Venture Club will devote its June 9 dinner meeting to “Space 2.0: The Entrepreneurial Frontier.”
Appearing to discuss how space technology translates to entrepreneurial ventures will be Burke Fort, director of the 8th Continent Project; Gene Branch, partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew’s Denver office; Steve Murchie, director of the Keiretsu Forum’s Denver chapter; and Paul Jerde, executive director of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business. John Metzger, CEO of Metzger Associates and a former president of the Rockies Venture Club, will moderate the panel.
The RVC’s monthly dinner meetings have moved to the Denver Athletic Club, 1324 Glenarm Place. They begin at 5 p.m. with cocktails and networking and finish by 8 p.m.
Tickets are $39 for RVC members, $49 for nonmembers. Information and reservations: www.rockiesventureclub.org or 303-831-4174.
Here’s the summary from the Rockies Venture Club website:
The aerospace business has long kept risk capital at a distance. Venture and angel investors tend to avoid companies whose business models entail carrying out multi-billion-dollar cost-plus contracts with one customer: the government.
Space 2.0 companies commercialize the investment in space technology that already exists, paid for by taxpayers over more than a half-century of NASA innovation. From temperature-shifting fabrics to photovoltaic solar arrays and satellite communications, venture-funded startups use patents and orbiting assets to build businesses quickly.
The Rockies Venture Club’s June meeting will take a look at Colorado’s unique place in the space business. Colorado boasts two aerospace incubators and lots of Space 2.0 companies, from tiny GPS and solar energy start-ups to Digital Globe and EchoStar.
Come prepared to have your assumptions challenged.
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