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Angel Capital Summit 2008 - Colorado Entrepreneurs Take Recession Head-On

If you live in Colorado and fall into the entrepreneur category, you better head to the Angel Capital Summit being held tomorrow at the Marriott City Center on 1701 California.

This year's Angel Capital Summit will bring specific focus to today's economic climate and how entrepreneurs can be successful during these changing times.

The event will start early with a kick-off keynote from Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.
During lunch, Anita Burke, one of the top thought-leaders in energy economics and markets, with talk about "evolutionary risk management."

There will also be a Town Hall Meeting, "Disrupting the Recession", with thought-leaders discussing Colorado's entrepreneurial response to the credit crisis, election, energy issues, and sustainability.

The companies that are presenting include:
18 Principles, Inc,  3D at Depth, Affinity Telecom, Inc, Alaskan Hardgear, Allegro Multimedia dba Music Wizard Group, ApopLogic Pharmaceuticals, Inc., AppVenture, Atrato, Inc., Aubice LLC, AWhere Inc., BOCS, Cadeka Microcircuits, Center For Innovation, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Chata Biosystems, Inc., CTM Software Corporation, Del Norte Brewing, DEMAND1, FacetoFace Health, flaik Inc, Fluonic, Inc., Frontline Aerospace, Inc., GroGreen Inc, iVation LLC, JuJu Central, LLC, Lingoport, Inc., Magic Portrait, Munch Away, LLC., NanoPrint Technologies, Progressive Health Center, PROJECT C.U.R.E., Shrewd Foods, Inc., Spatial Networking, Tissue Genetics Inc., Toghers Inc., TruEffect, Inc., Two Moms in the Raw, VanDyne SuperTurbo, Inc, VarVee, LLC, VitruMed Inc., Web2Storage, WhiteDove Herbals, Inc., Xpressplay, LLC, and Zerista.

For more information and the schedule, click here. Follow me on Twitter throughout the day.

Cisco scoops up Jabber

Denver-based company, Jabber, was acquired today by Cisco. In an attempt to strengthen its collaboration portfolio, Cisco will incorporate Jabber to bring ubiquity and messaging into the network and make the messaging available to Saas-based collaboration applications with Cisco Connect and premise-based applications with Cisco unified communications. Jabber is known for being built on open standards and enabling collaboration across a variety of messaging and presence systems such as Microsoft Office Communications Server, IBM Sametime, AOL AIM, Google and Yahoo!. To learn more, listen to Cisco's Podcast. The acquisition should close in January.

Congrats to the team at Jabber!

Boulder... The 2nd cybercity!

Rocky Mountain News reported that Boulder holds the #2 cybercity spot following San Jose/Silicon Valley. This according to a recently released study by the American Electronics Association.

While some of the data is a tad dated, you can imagine this number has grown thanks to all the great stuff happening in the start-up community.

So a toast to Boulder, may you hold on to your mortgages before they equal those in the Valley.

Meetups... Collaboration Gets Real

Just returned from the Boulder/Denver New Technology Meetup held on the CU campus. The traffic was a nightmare from Denver so I arrived a few minutes late to a standing room only crowd. Great energy, interesting and sometimes bizarre presentations (blog about watching grass grow and paint dry and a 3D social world that I still don't understand). Anyway, two companies really stood out from the pack with interesting ideas. A brief snapshot on each below:

which launched a public beta yesterday is a networking and referral exchange site. Unlike Linkedin, users can earn credits for referrals, use credits to obtain referrals, or cash out credits for money. According to the presenter, this site will help professionals with the ebb and flow of the business cycle. Definitely one to watch!



claims to be the world’s leading social network for book lovers. Founded by three former RealNetworks veterans, this site allows users to build virtual bookshelves and socially interact around the books they care about. The widget can be added to Facebook and Myspace profiles in addition to individual blogs. I added the app to this blog, check it out.

Great event.... stay tuned for more...