Keiretsu Forum Focuses on Marketplace Opportunities

If Steve Murchie, co-founder of the Keiretsu Forum, had just one salient bit of counsel to give to entrepreneurs it would be this: “Opportunities should be presented to angels and to VCs as marketplace opportunities, not as inventions or in a way that focuses on their ‘coolness.’

“The success of a new business is being able [...]

CU’s Technology Transfer Office brings research to businesses

“Publish or perish” has long been the motivating force driving those working in the rarified air of academia. But for technology transfer offices, the people responsible for commercializing the discoveries that result from academic research, the driving force is “PATENT or perish.”
Taking research and entrepreneurial ventures developed at a university beyond the ivy-covered walls into [...]

Space 2.0 Speaker Series launches Aug. 12

Please join us – online or in person – at the inaugural event of the 8th Continent Project’s educational series for tech entrepreneurs
What: “Patent Reform: Are We Headed in the Right Direction? A View From the Trenches.”
When: Weds., Aug. 12, 7-9 a.m. MDT
Where: Law offices of Townsend and Townsend and Crew, 1400 Wewatta St., Suite [...]

Townsend’s rocket scientists know their IP law

With a slight wink, and a hint of seriousness, Brian Colucci describes the law firm of Townsend and Townsend and Crew as “a bunch of rocket scientists who also happen to be very good lawyers.”
For 150 years Townsend has taken pride in its well-earned reputation as one of the world’s leading Intellectual Property law firms. [...]

Earth and lunar orbit just like home for Broad Reach

8th Continent Project Founding Sponsor Profiles
Though “Broad Reach” is a nautical term, 8th Continent Project founding sponsor Broad Reach Engineering prides itself on its wide range of talents, agility and ability to develop new products specifically for unique spaceflight missions.
What this means, Christian Lenz said, is that “Broad Reach looks at available technology and sees [...]

PowerBeam moves electricity without wires

According to Chris Surdi, marketing specialist for PowerBeam, a member of the 8th Continent Chamber of Commerce, wireless electricity really is as simple as it sounds.
PowerBeam is revolutionizing power transmission by integrating optical technology to produce safe, reliable and abundant wireless power. Through its patented technology, PowerBeam can “beam” power over great distances to devices [...]

8C Chamber Profile: Emergent Space Technologies

There is something deeply inspiring and deeply American about the notion of starting a business from the ground up, literally in a garage, supported only by vision, brains and drive. That’s how amazon.com – now a global brand – got its start. And, it could also quite literally be the way Space 2.0 evolves.
Emergent Space [...]

8C Chamber Profile: Planehook Aviation Services

Posted on June 11, 2009 by the 8C Project
When most people think of space, they don’t often think of corporate espionage. But since 2004, Dave Hook, founder and President of Planehook Aviation Services, has not only been thinking about it but has built his business around doing something about it.
“People working in the commercial space [...]

DigitalGlobe IPO shows where Space 2.0 can go

The News: Congratulations to founding sponsor DigitalGlobe, whose IPO debuted yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange. Trading under the ticker symbol DGI, the remote sensing company, which had been expected to price at $16 to $18,  hit the market at $19 and rose as much as 31 percent before settling at $21.50 at the [...]

Angel investor: We want to invest in Space 2.0 companies

Funding will flow toward Space 2.0 companies  if they have a decent product with customers and a plan, investor and Keiretsu Forum director Steve Murchie said  at the DaVinci Institute’s “Night With a Futurist” presentation about Space 2.0 Monday evening.
“Most investors, institutional investors, venture capital investors or angels are looking for business opportunities that have [...]