Monday, October 26th in Marina del Ray, CA - you have a chance to run with the big dogs and pitch your business idea to none other than Sir Richard Branson!

What exactly are you waiting for?

There will be other investors (VCs, angels and influential entrepreneurs) in attendance too - but come on - its Sir Richard Branson.

It was about a year ago that many of you talked me into holding the TechBoise events. I first resisted because I hate event planning (I'm just not that organized). When we first started holding them we did it every other month and there was no reason to when we would hold them. I usually just scheduled one about the time people started asking when the next one would be.  After a while, as the events started to grow it became apparent that we would need to move to a set monthly schedule.

When I talk to fellow Boiseans about what's needed to jump start our local tech ecosystem, we all agree that we have all the right pieces.

Boise has great entrepreneurs. We have great companies, ranging from the big guys down to the fresh start-up. We have good support organizations and service providers. We have talented people and are attracting new people with great experience from the more tech developed coastal areas. We even have readily accessible early stage funding.