Fact #1: Boulder has the most PhDs, per capita, of any city in the United States. Fact #2: The majority of these PhDs don’t teach at CU Boulder. They work, live, and play off the Hill. Fact #3: Degrees granted by institutions are a great metric of communal knowledge, but they represent just one facet [...]
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13 Jul
Recap: @BeUnreasonable Institute Crushes My First #BDNT
My first Boulder Denver New Tech! Amazing! The July 12, 2011 edition of BDNT featured speakers from The Unreasonable Institute, along with local favorite BumperTunes. I was really, really stoked on the international group of innovators that talked about their Unreasonable projects. Unreasonable reminds me why I moved to Boulder. It shows a complete lack [...]
11 Jul
Entrepreneurialism vs. Wantrepreneurialism
First off, those are both very, very difficult words to spell. Especially #2. Entrepreneur: Someone doing cool shit. Wantrepreneur: Someone talking about doing cool shit. Anyone can (and everyone has) come up with their own vision of The Next Big Thing. In America, it usually ends there, after some lamenting over how much corporate life [...]
