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title: "Boulder Denver New Technology"
date: 2009-12-02
url: https://learningischange.com/2009/12/02/boulder-denver-new-technology/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# Boulder Denver New Technology

I finally decided to see what kind of community there was out there for startups and entrepreneurs within the local area. I guess there is something to be said for a local network as well as a twitter network (or for even having those two things having more overlap).

Some Links:

- [Silicon Flatirons](http://www.silicon-flatirons.org/index.php)
- [The twitter list I am creating for this event](http://twitter.com/#/list/bhwilkoff/bdnt)
- [Gnip](http://twitter.com/#/list/bhwilkoff/bdnt)
- [Foundary Group – A way to fund startups from entrepreneurs.](http://www.foundrygroup.com/)
- [Simple Geo](http://simplegeo.com/)
- [Ever Later](http://www.everlater.com/)
- [Let’s Swap – Beta of a way to swap products offline but organize online](http://letswap.com/)
- [Next Big Sound – Interesting way to track what is going on in the musicsphere.](http://nextbigsound.com/)
- [The Blog Frog](http://theblogfrog.com/) – Mommy bloggers and many other types of blogs that are being turned into communities. My question – How is this different than [Friend Connect](http://www.google.com/friendconnect/) that google does? Really interesting lessons learned. “Get a board of directors for your life.”
- [Unreasonable institute](http://www.unreasonableinstitute.org/) – Very interesting way to fund social entrepreneurs. Good presentation style. Trying to create a mecca for social change in Boulder. Such a cool idea for the Unreasonable village fund.
- Equity Compensation for the Start-Up: [Letitia Pleis](http://www.mscd.edu/searchchannel/jsp/directoryprofile/profile.jsp?uName=lpleis) – Some good advice for sharing capital. If you give someone a share of your company, they will have to pay tax on that value as soon as they get that percentage. Look into Sec 83b or Phantom options: Access to future profits without actually giving them shares… However, if your company has no value, it isn’t as much of an issue.
- [HasselBlad](http://www.hasselbladusa.com/products/h-system/h3dii-50.aspx) – 50-150 megapixel camera
- [Buckyball Magnets](http://www.getbuckyballs.com/) – Very cool adult toy
- [Nikon s1000pj](http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product/Digital-Camera/26186/COOLPIX-S1000pj.html) – Picture and projector
- [Sonos S5](http://www.sonos.com/demo/s5/default.aspx?rdr=true&LangType=1033) – Home Theatre stuff
- [Public Earth](http://publicearth.com/) – “Maps filled with hidded treasures.” Connecting people to places that they love. I like the idea of putting a map on top of a wiki. Not a great sales pitch, however. People are going in and “cleaning up their communities”. Very interesting.
- [CU New Venture Challenge](http://cunvc.org/) –  Interesting challenge and incubator for CU people.
- [Real Ski](http://www.rtp.com/info/realski.asp) – Doesn’t have a whole bunch of info online, but the video is ridiculously awesome. It is an “augmented reality” app. It doesn’t have to use 3g or any connectivity potentially. Just Wow!

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