If you saw our prior post about what Jason and Ryan learned by moving to Boulder, you read about the vibrancy of Boulder’s entrepreneurial spirit. We decided to follow that post up with some specifics regarding the startup culture of Boulder and some of our related activities within it. TechStars: If you are a frequent reader of Brad’s blog, you’ve probably seen some of his posts on TechStars. Brad’s not the only Foundry Group partner,
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As we’ve previously written, one of the things we intend to do with our blog is highlight the companies and entrepreneurs in whom we’ve invested. While it’s always nice to give our portfolio companies some exposure, it’s also a good way to provide concrete examples of the investment themes Foundry Group is pursuing. The purpose of today’s post is to introduce one of those companies—Lijit Networks. The company fits into our Implicit Web theme, which
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All of us at Foundry Group try hard to be substantive members of our community. We have all chosen to live in Boulder, Colorado and we share the belief that giving back to the community in which we live is an important part of supporting this goal. In addition, we strongly believe in the cliché of "putting our money where our mouths are." As a result, we are proud to announce that we have recently
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As part of our ongoing discussion of the investment themes we focus on at Foundry Group, it is time to discuss digital life. Certainly anyone who is reading this blog post is living a digital life, and among the partners at Foundry Group, we are all gadget-lovers, early adopters of software and online services, part-time IT support staff for our own home networks, and digital media creators, curators and consumers. Our digital life theme
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