For the first time in years, say since undergrad, I sat down and consumed an entire book, cover-to-cover in a single sitting. It was Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins that sucked me in on a snowy Sunday. Tom Perkins helped to pioneer the innovation center that is Silicon Valley, first at Hewlett Packard [...]

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All along the Front Range I can hear the sound of patents and articles-of-incorporation being filed, and new life science entities opening their doors. Larimer County is a concentrated region certainly a-buzz with such entrepreneurial activity. If you have not done so yet be certain to take a look at the Larimer Bioscience Cluster web [...]

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Our community is feverishly watching the progress of House Bill 1001. CLSDF began a series (here). A by-product of this process has been really learning the nuts and bolts of the legislative process and the lengthy and twisting journey a bill must endure to become law. HB1001’s most recent stop following its 9 January Introduction [...]

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Come join us at the Adam’s County Economic Development Investors Forum next Thursday 28 February 11:00am to 1:00pm for lunch and to listen to Jim Chrisman of Forest City Fitzsimons talk about the master development plan for the Colorado Science + Technology Park @ Fitzsimons. It promises to be a fascinating 2 hours. If you [...]

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There is nothing quite like waking up and laughing. This morning a quick 5:30am scan of my RSS reader landed me on my friend and founder of StartUp Weekend Andrew Hyde’s blog where I read about his latest endeavor, Venture Capital Wear: Clothing for the Top 2/20% of the Population, the tag line had me [...]

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Be certain to take a look at the most recent communication from CU Tech Transfer Office; the 2006-2007 Biomedical Venture and Commercialization Summary, only 4-pages long yet chock full ‘o rather impressive data and correlated information. It is just a fantastic accumulating track record of successful University biomedical spin-out start-up fund raising and commercialization efforts [...]

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Those of you who know me recognize I am a bit of a web 2.0 junkie and can often find me at the Boulder/Denver New Tech Meet-up. This interest stems from a number of close friends who are ‘in the biz’. There is not a new site going live that I’ll turn down a beta [...]

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The winner of the CLSDF Reader’s Choice Company of the Year, 2007 goes to… GlobeImmune, Inc., who took home a commanding 43% of the vote. ARCA Discovery and ValveXchange came in tied for second place. Congratulations to President and CEO Tim Rodell, MD and the other 60+ folks in Louisville who are doing outstanding work. [...]

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With an invitation from the Colorado Bioscience Association I packed my things and headed over to the State Capital to listen in on the Colorado House Finance Committee deliberate over House Bill 08-1001. It is an incredible journey a that bill must follow in order to become law; happily HB1001 shall continue on its voyage, [...]

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Invention to Venture the workshop in technology entrepreneurship national tour pulls into Denver on 13 March. The day long seminar (8:00am – 4:00pm) is tailored for students, post-docs and researchers. Sounds like the business schools in CO may want to bring this to the aspiring MBA’s as well. Invention to Venture provides an overview of [...]

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Don’t miss what promises to be a most informative Colorado Bioscience Association BioBreakfast (7:30 – 9:00am tomorrow 23 January) with CU’s new Vice Chancellor for Research, Dr. Richard Traystman. Dr. Traystman will be joined by Ronald J. Sokol, MD Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics and together they will provide an overview of how companies [...]

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It was a who’s who on the red carpet for last nights 6th Annual University of Colorado Technology Transfer Awards dinner. The evening kicked off with a talk by Governor Bill Ritter who unambiguously understands and supports the value that the process of technology transfer plays in intellectual capital commercialization effort yielding state wide economic [...]

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And the fun times at CLSDF just do not stop…Congratulations go out to Julie Gelderloos, Ph.D. of Gelderloos Medical Writing, LLC for winning the CLSDF Comment T-shirt Giveaway Contest. CLSDF not only brings you the latest in life science news from Colorado and beyond but now add haute couture to the list. In fact, while [...]

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