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 [...]

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 Denver [...]

Using the mystique of space to sell Vuitton luggage

The News: The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Louis Vuitton will launch the newest ad in its series of “Journeys” campaigns, featuring celebrity portraits by Annie Leibovitz. Perched on an ancient pickup parked in the desert, windswept, dressed for the road, astronauts Sally Ride, Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell gaze at 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 [...]

SpaceHack lets real people connect with space exploration

The News: SpaceHack.org was on Wired’s list of top 100 geeks to follow on Twitter. We checked it out and like it a lot.
SpaceHack is a project of Ariel Waldman, a “digital anthropologist” in San Francisco who worked briefly as program coordinator for the NASA CoLab collaboration project at Ames. According to the site, “Spacehack [...]

What’s so Space 2.0 about the Hubble telescope?

The News: As we write this May 13, the team from Space Shuttle Atlantis has snagged the Hubble Space Telescope and stowed it in Atlantis’ payload bay. Next a robot will go over Hubble’s surface, looking for divots in its thermal protection system and other problems. Five spacewalks are scheduled to repair or add components [...]

PharmaSat tests meds in space, small-sat concept

The News: Launching this evening, a 10-pound NASA satellite will test how well antifungal drugs perform in a weightless environment.

The Space 2.0 Connection: PharmaSat and other nanosatellites are proving the small-sat concept. Small enough to piggyback on other launches, these small orbiters allow scientists and businesses to test ideas in space at a fraction [...]

Invented for cosmonauts, vibration training is all the buzz

The News: Whole-body vibration training is making headlines as a way for athletes to intensify their workouts while lowering their risk of injury. Standing on a platform that’s set to vibrate at a certain frequency, the athlete uses major muscle groups to stabilize himself or herself against the vibration.

The Space 2.0 Connection: The Russians started [...]

Google Earth Outreach tells renewable energy developers where to go

Earth imaging using the Digital Globe satellite network, via Google Earth, shows developers of renewable energy projects where to build, according to a story in Consumer Energy Report.
Google Earth Outreach is a program of the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Audubon Society to produce a visual record of sensitive wildlife habitats and other [...]

NASA touts “greatest hits for the home planet”

The News: NASA is inviting everyone to vote for the agency’s “Greatest Hits for the Home Planet” at www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/earthday/greatest_hits.html . As part of its observation of Earth Day, the agency wants to remind Americans that its mission includes not only looking outward toward the cosmos, but inward to help us better understand our own planet.
The [...]