Space 2.0 the focus at Rockies Venture Club June 9

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 [...]

Next Round of Tech Transfer Ventures Announced by NASA Ames

The News: NASA  announced the Phase 2 recipients of Small Business Technology Transfer grants. The Space 2.0 Connection: The STTR is an important way for Space 2.0 technology to move into terrestrial applications alongside their development for NASA projects. Sixteen high-tech firms partnered with research universities will receive more than $9 million in NASA funding [...]

Do Investors Care What Your Business Plan Looks Like?

No less an authority than The Wall Street Journal says this: Venture capitalists don’t read business plans. The same point was made by a quartet of entrepreneurs at Tuesday’s Rockies Venture Club meeting in Denver. “Nobody will read your business plan,” said Jeffrey Saffer, co-founder of Quertle, a Web portal for biomedical research that must [...]