This friday is is the May Peak Venture Group Entrepreneurial Breakfast. The speaker for this event is Weldon Long: Weldon Long is a successful entrepreneur, award winning author and a powerful, driven speaker/trainer who helps businesses and individuals simplify success and sales principles and implement those principles on a consistent basis. Mr. Long has developed [...]

“iOSDevCamp is an informal un-conference where the schedule is decided by the attendees. This event will be Friday evening and all day Saturday. Friday is a social meetup where we get to know each other and plan the schedule for the next day. Saturday has a variety of technical presentations and/or tutorials from attendees.” Hosted [...]

Another week, another great topic for Open Coffee Club.  This week, Donna Nelson, the Vitality Officer of Economical Development for the Mayor’s Office will discuss the state of entrepreneurial activity in Colorado Springs and provide an update about the Mayor’s actions towards supporting entrepreneurs in CS. Don’t miss out on this great event.  RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/opencoffeeclub/events/59387832/  

Over the past few months we’ve been attending events, meeting with other entrepreneurs, running our own companies, and everything else that’s involved in being a part of the crazy startup world. As we’re navigating the startup community in Colorado Springs we’ve been encountering a common occurrence: the need for developers. Whether it’s from a non-technical [...]

PVG Pitch Night has been getting better and better and last night was no exception.  Hosted at the offices of IPS, three new companies pitches their products and ideas and received great feedback from the crowd (four companies were originally slated to pitch with one dropping at the last second).  The companies: the5thsq (The 5th [...]

Tonight is PVG Pitch Night! If you’ve been to Pitch Night before then you know how awesome it is. If you haven’t then you’re missing out.  Five companies get five minutes each to pitch their product or idea then get blasted with questions from the audience–great time. Oh, and there is free food and drink [...]

The speaker at Open Coffee Club on Thursday April 5th was Bryan Lee, CEO of Oscium.  He lead a fantastic discussion concerning outsourcing for startups.  There were many great take-aways. Here are a few: Don’t Outsource Anything that you Consider to be a  Core Competency    If a task or project is absolutely vital to [...]