What is a Startup? It’s a question that we get asked all of the time. It’s a question that doesn’t have a simple answer. Surprisingly, Wikipedia provides one of the best definitions: …the phrase “startup company” is often associated with high growth, technology-oriented companies, many of which seek to disrupt an existing market or to create [...]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create a company in 54 hours? Wonder no more thanks to Startup Weekend Colorado Springs taking place April 12th-14th. Startup Weekend started as a small gathering of entrepreneurs who worked on ideas and, over the course of one weekend, matured those ideas into a viable [...]

Open Coffee Club Welcomes Some Amazing Speakers Colorado Springs Open Coffee Club has grown into an awesome event and we’re looking to make it even better! Over the next six months we’ll be hearing from some incredible entrepreneurs with a wide range of experiences. Each will have 30 minutes to tell us their stories followed [...]

Same time, different place! PVG Pitch Night is hitting the road again in November.  Giving the gracious hosts at Epicentral a break, Pitch Night will be happening on the campus of UCCS! We’ll be in Centennial Hall room 188. Campus Map HERE. Please not that you must park in LOT 1 or the Parking Garage.  Parking [...]

Startup Weekend Denver took place this past weekend at Denver co-working space Uncubed (Oct. 19th-21st 2012).  Four of us from Colorado Springs made the trip north to take part in the awesome event: Ian Lee and Me as event co-organizers, Justin Bergen as a participant, and Chris Franz as a judge on the final day.  Here’s a [...]

The past few weeks have been exciting and bursting with entrepreneurial excitement here in Colorado Springs. This month’s Open Coffee Club featured Robin Roberts of Pikes Peak National Bank speak and share insight into how and when entrepreneurs should engage with banks for their startups (the answer is yes, do it now, they do more than [...]

  It can’t be avoided (nor should it), no matter what your startup is involved in, design will sooner or later be a crucial part of your company. Not all founders can be an expert in amazing design or even basic design principles.  However, Silicon Valley-based Interaction Designer Wells Riley  created an amazingly designed and easy to [...]