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.

TechBoise came across a great quote by Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google that makes our Startup Toolkit event this Wednesday even more important:

"I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great."

TechBoise can't come up with an idea for you.

The next TechBoise event will be Wednesday, May 27th at the usual time and place (5:30 - 7pm at the WaterCooler). We will be joined by the participants from TechLaunch, fresh from their 'grilling' by the 'murder board' of VCs, angels, entrepreneurs and others. Join us and find out how they did, who won, tips and tricks for starting your own venture. More importantly, we'll all celebrate their successes.

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.

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.