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Boulder: Where innovation is hip
July 25, 2010 – The Denver Post – Boulder is one of the hottest places in the country to launch a company. Startups there received 42 percent of the venture capital invested in Colorado from 2006 to 2009, and 8,900 businesses of fewer than 20 employees call Boulder County home. Four industry clusters – software, biotechnology, natural foods and outdoor products – are thriving in the Boulder area, and clean tech appears to be on a similar path.
Boulder Economic Summit looks at future
June 2, 2010 - Daily Camera – Nearly 300 business and community leaders attended the 2010 Boulder Economic Summit. The event, “Boulder in 2035: Opportunities and Insights”, was presented by the Boulder Economic Council and University of Colorado at Boulder. Keynote speakers included DaVinci Institute futurist Thomas Frey, who shared insights about what we could see by 2035 based on current trends, and University of Colorado economist Richard Wobbekind who described economic trends and consequences facing Boulder. The summit also included panel discussions of experts in several “industries of the future”.
Boulder a “Best City for the Next Decade”
July 2010 – Kiplinger’s Personal Finance - Boulder was ranked #4 on the magazine’s list of the ten ”Best Cities for the Next Decade”. According to the magazine, the city is where “science meets scenery” and “an intellectual hot spot where environmental and scientific ideas blossom into businesses.”
Boulder mayor only US representative invited to sustainability conference
May 14, 2010 – Daily Camera – Boulder mayor Susan Osborne has been invited to attend an exclusive conference on sustainable development in Paris later this month. Boulder was selected to participate in the closed-door seminar based on its carbon tax, participation as Xcel Energy’s first “Smart Grid” city and the community’s general commitment to reducing its impact on the planet, Osborne said.
NYTimes – Boulder a magnet for start-ups
May 14, 2010 – New York Times – Boulder has become a hotbed of capitalism, breeding tech start-ups at an attention-grabbing rate. In the first three months of the year, 11 Colorado tech start-ups raised $57 million in venture capital, solidifying Boulder’s place among the country’s up-and-coming tech centers.