For the last several decades, whenever someone mentioned the tech scene, you probably imagined Silicon Valley. Born from the counterculture scene, the favorable distance from East Coast headquarters as well as the weather, quality of life and proximity to elite universities, it’s no wonder a booming tech scene grew. With the explosive growth in tech […]
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Fourteen for the Fourth: The best stories you may have missed
What better opportunity than a three-day holiday weekend to carve out some time to dig into some of the deeply reported and carefully written journalism that you may have overlooked amid the constant flurry of breaking news that has marked 2020? We’ve selected 14 pieces — 13 stories and one awesome photo essay — that […]
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Tech startups come to the Mountain West, but can they grow?
BOISE, Idaho — Tech startups have been migrating into cities all around the Mountain West, from Denver to Salt Lake to Boise. However, when it comes to them taking over as the nation’s next Silicon Valley, Nick Crabbs, a partner at the tech startup Vynyl, has his doubts. “We’re not going to be the next […]
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Restaurants, job training and low(er) home prices: A dive into why Colorado Springs’ economy is booming
About five years ago, the CEO of automotive tech firm Altia considered moving the company’s headquarters out of Colorado Springs, where he co-founded the company in 1991. Engineering talent — more plentiful in places such as Silicon Valley and, increasingly, Denver — was hard to find in Colorado Springs, recalled CEO Mike Juran, a […]
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A Denver construction company’s tech saved it lots of time and money. Then it shared with competitors — for free
Ripping out the foundation for a new building because someone miscalculated by a few feet apparently happens more often than one would think. The mishap is one of a multitude of costly errors that can occur in the professional construction industry. So, a few years ago, PCL Construction invested in a team of technologists to […]
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How Techstars’ “GiveFirst” mantra became a road map for the startup community in Colorado and beyond
David Cohen gets a kick out of hearing “GiveFirst,” an oft-repeated phrase that can be traced back to Techstars, the Boulder technology accelerator he co-founded in 2006. “Someone pointed out a thread to me about Denver Startup Week, and the value of ‘GiveFirst,’ and it never mentioned us or Techstars. And I thought, ‘Awesome,’” said […]
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Guild Education’s twist on college is working for cashiers, sales clerks and others who abandoned the idea of a college degree
Scrambling to get term sheets filled out, calculations corrected and contracts signed isn’t always a pleasant experience, especially when you’re nine months pregnant. With twins. But Rachel Carlson had done this before. Not the twins thing. But convincing investors to plunk down millions of dollars towards her young Denver startup, Guild Education. The company she […]
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Two Iranians indicted in hacking scheme that held CDOT computers hostage and cost Colorado up to $2 million
A federal grand jury has indicted two Iranian men accused of holding the Colorado Department of Transportation’s computer system hostage earlier this year as part of a wide-reaching international computer hacking and extortion scheme. The malware infected critical systems nationwide, including hospitals, and extorted more than 200 victims who paid the attackers $6 million, according […]
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Colorado regulators look beyond coin offerings for other cryptocurrency fraud
A special task force to investigate cryptocurrency shenanigans will continue after Gerald Rome leaves his post Friday as commissioner for the Colorado Division of Securities. The task force, created over the summer, has four staff members investigating potentially fraudulent activity involving cryptocurrency offerings. It has since expanded its scope to include other crypto investments. “Once […]
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Why a computer maker moved manufacturing to Denver, despite ongoing trade war with China
Inside the spacious warehouse where solar-energy equipment was once made, about two dozen employees are building the craziest thing to be built in Denver: computers. Major PC makers moved manufacturing overseas long ago, but System76 isn’t known for following others. Its computers don’t have Microsoft Windows, but rather, the open source Linux operating system. The […]