Archive for August, 2008

‘Money in the Mountains’ doesn’t sound as good

In two weeks VC’s from around the country will be making their way to Sun Valley. While this isn’t really anything new this particular event is.
Venture Capital in the Rockies is the culmination of years of various Venture efforts, serendipity and a large amount of behind the scenes work by Mark Solon.
VCIR Fall ‘08 will [...]

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From Biotech to War Simulations

We our holding our next TechBoise event this Wednesday August 27th at 5:30pm at the WaterCooler, located at 14th and Idaho. (From here on we’ll actually try and always hold the event on the last Wednesday of the month.)
We have 2 of the smartest people I’ve met lately speaking on two very diverse [...]

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Boise Online Social Networkers

Anyone who knows me personally knows that I have been a long time advocate of Social Media.  This isn’t a post trying to convince you about the power of Social Media.
Connecting the Connectors
One of the major reasons I started TechBoise was to connect people together.  Get the geeks, the business people and the [...]

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Mark your calendars: TechBoise Wed Aug 27

The next TechBoise is scheduled for Wednesday August 27th at 5:30pm at the WaterCooler.
That’s next Wednesday and the WaterCooler is located at 14th and Idaho.
I tried having a theme again but it didn’t pan out. So instead we’ll be going for an eclectic mix of tech companies. And I guarantee it will be very eclectic. [...]

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Boise Web Technologies Group meetup

Sorry for the late notice, but there is a Boise Web Technologies Group meetup on THURSDAY and you should be there if you have any interest in PHP development. If you don’t, then you really need to be there.

Topic: Zend Framework
Presenter: Rich Breton of RIA Fox, Inc.
Location: Washington Group Plaza 720 Park Blvd. Boise, ID [...]

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Calling all young Entrepreneurs

This just in from IDOC’s Julie Howard:

We would like to pitch entrepreneurs (under 30) as sources for Global Entrepreneurship Week, Nov. 17 - 23, which is sponsored in the U.S. by the Kauffman Foundation and Make your Mark in the U.K. Nearly 65 countries will participate in the Week through a series of local, open-source [...]

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IBR’s Eddie Kovsky Returns!

I love gotcha headlines! So Eddie isn’t coming back to Boise or anything, but he did e-mail me the other day with a link to the OSCON Convention which apparently no one in Boise attended. Pronetos attended last year, but when I solicited tweets or blog feeds I got crickets. SO Eddie bails us [...]

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U.S. Lags in Internet Connection Speeds

The Idaho Statesman published the article below sans any citations. The link to the press release from the Communication Workers of America is at their web site; the link to the study is at http://speedmatters.org. This does not place the U.S. or Idaho in a very flattering light.

Study shows Idaho lags behind the U.S. in [...]

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And your mom said video games would never pay off.

Here’s an interesting request from Krissa at Idaho TechConnect:
Know of any video game developers in Boise (or Idaho)?
The new SBIR solicitations from Dept of Defense are out and there is a huge demand for those skills. Rick and I were trying to think of companies in Idaho that might be interested and came up [...]

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