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 [...]

Doing the Hard Work of Entrepreneurism

As with a great many things, the passage of time and the gaining of perspective and wisdom can change the way we look at the world.
Such is the case with Paul Jerde, executive director of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship, at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. For years Jerde worked as [...]

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 [...]

Oenoview improves French wine with satellite imagery

While many people enjoy gazing at the galaxies while sipping a glass of Cabernet on their back porch, very few know that in fact space technology is being used to help make better wine. Vintners in France are using satellite imagery to improve their grape harvests, adding space-age technology to the quintessentially French art of [...]

AIAA To Explore ‘New Opportunities’ at Pasadena Conference

“Space: New Opportunities for a New Era” will be the focus of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Space 2009 Conference & Exposition, Sept. 14-17 at the Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, Calif.
Topics include the rule that space technologies and space exploration will play in filling the need for better STEM education (science, technology, engineering [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]