INDEX

A

Accelerators, power of

compared to incubators

TechStars

expansion to New York

spread to Boston and Seattle

university

Activities and events

Boulder Beta

Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup

Boulder Open Coffee Club

Boulder Startup Week

CU New Venture Challenge

Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado

Ignite Boulder

office hours

Startup Weekend

Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO)

Birthing of Giants event

Addoms, Ben

After-party, importance of

Artificial geographic boundaries, creating

Aulet, Bill

Avitek

Awieda, Jesse

B

Bayh-Dole Act of 1980

Benioff, Marc

Berberian, Paul

Bernthal, Brad

Bhargava, Rajat

Biotech startup community (Boulder)

Bitter Bar

Bizspark (Microsoft)

BlueMountainArts.com

Boston startup community

Boulder Angels

Boulder Beta

Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup

Boulder Open Angel Forum

Boulder Open Coffee Club

Boulder Jobs List

Boulder startup community

Boulder as laboratory

history of Boulder

beginning of next wave (2003–2011)

collapse of Internet bubble (2001–2002)

pre-Internet (1970–1994)

pre-Internet bubble (1995–2000)

Boulder Startup Week

Boulder Thesis, xii, xvii

Brown, David

Business incubators

C

Calacanis, Jason

Capital, complaining about

Carman, Carl

Caruthers, Marv

Case, Scott

Cohen, David

Coleman, Bill

Colorado Internet Keiretsu

Colorado School of Mines Field Session program

Colorado Springs startup community

Community, power of

after-party, importance of

embracing weirdness

give and take

honesty

mentors

openness to ideas

walking

Creative class

CU New Venture Challenge

Cuccaro, Nick

Currie, Andrew

D

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship

Diamond, Howard

DiBanca, Suzanne

E

Email Publishing

Entrepreneurial density

Entrepreneurs

and government, contrasts between

action vs. policy

bottom up vs. top down

impact vs. control

micro vs. macro

self-aware vs. not self-aware

leadership role of

as participants in startup community

Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado

Entrepreneurs Unplugged

Enwall, Tim

Essler, Pete

Events. See Activities and events

Everlater

External (agglomeration) economies

F

Failing fast

Falls, Tim

Feeder control

Feinblum, Barney

Filtrbox

Florida, Richard

Franklin, Jim

G

Global Accelerator Network

Gold, Larry

Gold, Terry

Google

Gottesman, Greg

Government

being too reliant on

and entrepreneurs, contrasts between

action vs. policy

bottom up vs. top down

impact vs. control

micro vs. macro

self-aware vs. not self-aware

as instigator of feeder control

as participant in startup community

H

Haislmaier, Jason

Harris, Donna

Higley, Tom

Highway 12 Ventures

Hill, John

Holland, Kirk

Horizontal networks

Horsfall, Jan

Huh, Ben

Hyde, Andrew

I

IBM

Ignite Boulder

Investors

Ives, John

K

Kamallakharan, Bala

Kauffman Foundation

Kedrosky, Paul

L

Lawton, Jenny

Leadership, attributes of

being inclusive

being mentorship driven

experimenting and failing fast

giving people assignments

having porous boundaries

playing a non-zero-sum game

The Lean Startup (Ries)

Lefkoff, Kyle

Lejeal, Jim

Leonsis, Ted

Levine, Seth

Limmer, Ben

Lorang, Bart

M

Makare, Brian

Markets and Hierarchies (Williamson)

Markiewicz, Tom

Marshall, Alfred

Martens, Ryan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Founders’ Skills Accelerator

Matchlogic

Mendelson, Jason

Mentors

Mercure, Merc

Message Media

Microsoft

Microsoft Accelerator

Miller, Tim

Moyes, Frank

Myths, about startup communities

need to be like Silicon Valley

needing more local venture capital

organized angel investors

N

Nager, Marc

National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT)

Natural-foods industry (Boulder)

Nelsen, Clint

Network effects

Newcomers, having a bias against

Newman, Ari

Nouyrigat, Franck

O

Obama, Barack, xi–xii

Omaha startup community

P

Participants in startup communities

entrepreneurs

government

investors

large companies

leaders and feeders, importance of

mentors

service providers

universities

Past failures, avoiding people because of

Patriarch problem

Platt, Mike

Polis, Jared

Postinformation era

Principles of startup communities

Boulder Thesis

entrepreneurial stack, engaging

entrepreneurs, leadership role of

historical frameworks

inclusiveness, fostering a philosophy of

long-term commitment

Problems, classical

artificial geographic boundaries, creating

attempt by feeder to control community

avoiding people because of past failures

capital, complaining about

government, being too reliant on

newcomers, having a bias against

patriarch problem

risk aversion, having a culture of

short-term commitments, making

zero-sum game, playing

R

Raindance Communications

Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Saxenian)

RegOnline

Reich, Robert

Renaud, Christian

Rice University

The Rise of the Creative Class (Florida)

Risk aversion, having a culture of

Robertson, Niel

Rodriguez, Ef

Rodriguez, Juan

Roser, Jim

Route 128 (Boston)

S

Sack, Andy

Salesforce.com Foundation

Sanders, Lucy

Saxenian, AnnaLee

SendGrid

September 11

Service Metrics

Service providers, as participants in startup community

Short-term commitments, making

Silicon Flatirons program

Silicon Valley

Slobotski, Jeff

Small businesses

SocialThing

Softbank Technology Ventures

Solinger, Diane

Solon, Mark

Stanford University

Startup America, xi

Partnership

Regional Summit

Startup Colorado

Startup Communities website, xv

Startup Iceland

creating

Startup Revolution website, xv, xviii

Startup Weekend

startups2students

StorageTek

Syntex

T

Technology transfer offices (TTOs)

TechStars

expansion to New York

spread to Boston and Seattle

TEDx Boulder

Tisch, David

Trefler, Alan

U

Universities

as instigators of feeder control

as participants in startup community

alumni, power of

components of CU Boulder

entrepreneurship programs, challenges to

getting fresh blood into the system

networked approach vs. hierarchical approach

Silicon Flatirons

University accelerators

University of Colorado Boulder

components of

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship

Eship initiative

technology transfer office (TTO)

CU New Venture Challenge

law school (CU Law)

Silicon Flatirons program

V

Venture capital industry (Boulder)

Vernon, Todd

W

Warner, Bill

Weaknesses, in startup communities

diversity, lack of

integration

parallel universes

space

Web 2.0

Weiser, Phil

Williamson, Oliver

Wyman, Bruce

Y

Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO)

Z

Zero-sum game, playing