Metzger Associates: Voice of the 8th Continent

“It’s a natural fit.” This according to both Burke Fort, director of 8C, and John Metzger, founder and CEO of Metzger Associates, about their 4-years-and-counting partnership. Both are pioneers in their fields. Both believe in supporting leading-edge organizations and initiatives. Both have built national reputations for results, creativity, aggressive execution and out-of-the-box thinking in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]