Posted on June 2, 2009 by 8cproject
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 [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by 8cproject
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 to move [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by 8cproject
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 be doing [...]
Filed under: 8th Continent Business Plan Competition, News, funding | Tagged: Business, entrepreneur, funding, Guy Kawasaki, Quertle, Rockies Venture Club, venture capital | 1 Comment »
