In the last two TBOCC meetings a demo day was discussed.  I’m going to pull together a few people to talk about what that event will look like and how we could put that on.  If you’re interested in this discussion, let’s get together on Wed 8/17 at 8am at Big City Coffee in the Linen District. Send me an email at mhambalek at yahoo if you’d like to join us.

Have an Idea for a Company? Startup Weekend is coming June 24-26! Join fellow entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs for three days of creativity, innovation and collaboration, and find out if your start-up idea is viable. Startup weekend has been a huge success hosting over 325 events around the world and 503 startups created. Over 27,000 entrepreneurs have participated! This years Premier sponsor is: tributemedia.com | marketing@tributemedia.com | 208.489.0123 a web consulting firm Register Here: idaho.startupweekend.org/tickets Professional: $50 Student: $35 Interested in becoming a judge? Fill out the form here: idaho.startupweekend.org/judge and tell them why you’d make… [ read more ]

We’re experiencing some login issues on the site… it appears that the server will not send confirmation emails or emails with new passwords. Hopefully we’ll have a fix for this soon! Ryan

The TechBoise Coffee Club will have its kickoff get-together on April 29th 8:30-10am at Cole Marr Coffeehouse in BoDo. This is a great opportunity for us to mingle and hear the latest news from local startups and entrepreneurs. Boise has a great startup scene, but we need to all join together to build the community and help each other out. So spread the word about TBCC! Note: TechBoise Coffee Club will be the last Friday morning of every month at Cole Marr 8:30-10am.

If you haven’t heard, Boise State’s code camp is just around the corner. Next Saturday, this Free to the community event offers a full day of technical training to improve your programming and development skills in just about whatever you’re interested in. Learn more at http://boisecodecamp.com/.

IdahoTechnology Council Launches Cohort Series for Early-Stage CEOs The Idaho Technology Council today launched a cohort leadership development series with a group of early-stage CEOs invited by the ITC Leadership Committee to participate in a mentoring series. The ITC Cohort Series is focused on the resources, strategies and advice needed to grow and sustain technology businesses. The series of meetings brings together early-stage CEOs and “seasoned” executives to discuss industry insights and emerging issues. ITC’s Leadership Committee recognizes leadership development is core to ITC’s mission. Providing early stage CEOs the… [ read more ]

Boise’s own M2M Communications has been acquired by EnerNOC, one of the country’s leading energy management companies. Congratulations to Steve Hodges and team! Press Release: http://www.enernoc.com/press/releases/219/enernoc-acquires-m2m-communications.php More about M2M: http://www.m2mcomm.com/about/who-is-m2m/index.html

Hey Techboise! We’re still looking for a couple sponsors for tomorrow nights meetup. If you would like to supply the Pizza or beer, let us know. Thanks!

Every company needs a website these days, but websites can suck up a lot of time and money if you don’t make the right choices early on. What platform should you use? What SEO terms are important? How should the site be organized? Come join our panel discussion to learn the pros and cons of different web platforms, SEO basics, and general website tips. Aftter the panel discussion we’ll break into groups to dive deeper into specific website topics. Are you a WordPress, Drupal, Custom CMS, or SEO expert? Would… [ read more ]

The typical product roadmap is either a fancy PowerPoint slide or a Gantt Chart; both are decent at representing a snapshot of the planned roadmap. But by the time that fancy PowerPoint slide is created and presented to the company the market has already shifted causing changes to the roadmap and obsoleting the fancy PowerPoint. MetaGeek follows a lot of the Agile principles; we like to keep things simple and flexible, so our “product roadmap” began as a bullet list in a Google Doc. After fleshed out basic descriptions for… [ read more ]