Sorbet in Space!

Thanks to all who came out for the 8th Continent Project’s second anniversary party to celebrate launching several successful programs, including the 8C Chamber of Commerce, our incubator at the Boulder Innovation Center, and the redesigned 8CProject.com.
We put rocket fuel (liquid nitrogen) to some interesting new uses at the party, as Chef Ian Kleinman of [...]

Flaik Appears in Denver Business Journal

Sharon Gillen’s “Bright Ideas” column in the March 20 Denver Business Journal featured Flaik, the first tenant in our 8th Continent Aerospace Business Incubator.
The story details how CEO Steve Kenny and his team came up with the idea and perfected both the technology and the marketing approach. Two Colorado resorts, Steamboat and Copper Mountain, launched [...]

8th Continent and Space 2.0 in The Denver Post

“In medicine, optics, materials, energy and packaging, space technology touches ordinary people every day. Thousands more ideas wait to be commercialized.”
8th Continent Director Burke Fort makes the argument, on the front page of the Sunday Denver Post Perspective section, that Colorado’s economy benefits from 8C’s efforts on behalf of space technology businesses in metro Denver.
At [...]

Want Angel Capital? Think Like an Angel Investor

Entrepreneurs chasing after capital need to understand how early-stage investors think. For a big clue, read this excellent post by Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, which helps baby companies with seed capital and mentoring.
Graham gave this talk to prospective investors last week at AngelConf, but with a little reverse engineering, start-up founders can figure [...]

Will Supercold Atoms Change the World? New 8C Incubator Tenant Bets Yes

The News: Nobel prize-winning research on ultracold atoms will take quantum leaps toward commercialization thanks to the 8th Continent Project’s incubator support of a Boulder venture, ColdQuanta, whose technology allows faster and less expensive production of an entirely new form of frictionless matter.
The Space 2.0 connection: Bose-Einstein condensate — atoms that when cooled [...]

Should Stimulus $ Go to Startup Funding?

The News: In Sunday’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman sets off a flurry of commentary by suggesting that the U.S. Treasury should direct $20 billion to top VCs to invest in start-ups, a much more reliable job creation engine than General Motors or Bank of America. Other bloggers suggest that existing programs already do that [...]

8th Continent Incubator Enlists First Aerospace Business Tenant

Australian startup joins Colorado’s entrepreneurial ecosystem

flaik, an Australian startup company whose satellite-based social location technology helps skiers track their vertical performance and resorts track ski school students, is the first tenant to join the 8th Continent Aerospace Business Incubator.
“The 8th Continent Incubator’s mission is to support ‘Space 2.0’ startups as actual operating companies that [...]

8th Continent Project Forms Colorado Aerospace Business Incubator

News of the 8th Continent Project’s aerospace business incubator hit The Denver Post’s Business Section, giving us prominent billing as the premier source for space-related business venture incubation and counsel. Full text of the article is available at http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_8595905.
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Incubator a giant leap for startups
New School of Mines incubator will help companies with liftoff
By Kelly Yamanouchi [...]