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New VC in Town... Eric Hansen of August Ventures

Based in Boise, "August Ventures is focused on renewable energy and sustainable approaches to reducing energy consumption. The fund is also focused on companies in the western U.S."

Read Glenn Michael's full post, 5 Minutes with Eric Hansen of August Ventures, on Highway 12's blog.

Mark Your Calendars for Jelly Boise Next Thursday

At last week's Jelly event at Rembrandts in Eagle, we were joined by NPR. You can listen to the interviews and story here.

Join TechBoise and the rest of the Jelly folks on Thursday, October 15th from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm at the WaterCooler.

Interview with MobileDataForce next week

Do you have some questions you would like the folks at MobileDataForce to answer?

If you have a question leave a comment and I will be sure to ask them.

Interview with Ryan Woodings @ Metageek

Lets start off, what’s your name, title and the name of your company?

Ryan Woodings, my title is Chief Geek at Metageek.

What does your company do?

Metageek makes and sells tools to troubleshoot wireless networks specifically Wi-Spy which is a spectrum analyzer. Traditional spectrum analyzers are about the size of a microwave. They are hard to use, way a ton, and they are really expensive. They cost anywhere from $6,000 to $50,000. They can get really expensive. I used one of those at my last job and they are a pain.

New Intern!

Wanted to give a small introduction to all you folks out there.

My name is Alex Eells. I am an Information Technology Management student at Boise State University and for a few weeks now, I am the new guy at TechBoise.

Boise founders who gave up the CEO reigns

Image of Mark Solon from Twitter

Mark Solon, managing partner at Highway 12 Ventures wrote an especially thoughtful piece in the

Cautionary Tale

Those of you on Twitter or at OSCON have already seen the posts from @kveton and @turoczy about the press that Vidoop is getting as they move their corporate headquarters from Oklahoma to Portland. I think there are at least three important lessons in this article I am reposting from the Oregonian:

1) Innovation can happen almost anywhere (Vidoop's technology created in Oklahoma?)

2) Engineers are not the only ones responsible for innovation.

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