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VCIR Winter showcases the rocky mountain region's most promising emerging growth companies for an audience of over 300 venture investors, CEOs, entrepreneurs and service professionals. With significant networking time built into the conference schedule, VCIR Winter isn't just about finding new companies - it's also about connecting with the co-investors, entrepreneurs and service providers who together make the rocky mountain region an excellent location for investing and running companies. Read More About VCIR

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VCIR wraps up with final presentations

posted by: Seth Levine | posted on: March 4th, 2009

This is a guest post by David Cohen of ColoradoStartups.com.
I’m still sitting in Track 1, where I’ve been all day. The presentations at the VCIR Winter conference are wrapping up with two final companies.
Market Force Information is consolidating and transforming the “mystery shopping” market, also known as the customer experience information industry. The company [...]

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An afternoon of forward looking web companies at VCIR

posted by: Seth Levine | posted on: March 4th, 2009

This is a guest post by David Cohen of ColoradoStartups.com.
I’m still sitting in Track 1 which consists of innovative web companies, this time for the afternoon sessions. I have no idea what’s happening over in Track 2, but I hear lots of applause coming from the next room at a regular interval. There is also [...]

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Afternoon sessions are underway at VCIR

posted by: Seth Levine | posted on: March 4th, 2009

The afternoon presentations have just begun here at VCIR.  On tap in Track One are: PublicEarth, Symplified, netFactor, 3point5, Market Force and TrackVia.  Track Two features TerraLUX, Justin’s Nut Butter, Cocona, Aspen Avionics, Atrato and S5.

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Seth Levine reflects on the morning presentations at VCIR

posted by: Seth Levine | posted on: March 4th, 2009

This is a guest post by David Cohen of ColoradoStartups.com.
I caught up with Seth Levine who is chairing the VCIR conference this winter and asked him how he thought the morning sessions went. Here’s a quick one minute video with his thoughts just after the morning session ended.

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VCIR Morning Sessions Impress

posted by: Seth Levine | posted on: March 4th, 2009

This is a guest post by David Cohen of ColoradoStartups.com.
Here’s my coverage of Track I of VCIR Winter this morning. There are two tracks ongoing here.
Alliance Health Networks of Salt Lake City, UT presented their company and their “condition social networking” platform. Diabetic Connect is an example of condition social networking, and has [...]

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Positive Buzz at VCIR

posted by: Seth Levine | posted on: March 4th, 2009

Despite the backdrop of the current economic climate, there’s a clearly positive feeling at VCIR. Perhaps this is to be expected at a gathering focused on entrepreneurship, but while there’s an undercurrent of realism there is a consistent tone of optimism here at the conference (this is very apparent if you’re looking over the VCIR [...]

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Follow the day here at the VCIR Blog

posted by: Seth Levine | posted on: March 4th, 2009

We’ll be posting live from VCIR today. You can follow the action here at the VCIR blog (David Cohen already has a post up about the media panel that kicked off the morning session).  You can also follow the action via the VCIR Winter Twitter feed.
A few stats on this year’s conference. We have just [...]

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VCIR kicks off with media panel

posted by: Seth Levine | posted on: March 4th, 2009

This is a guest post by David Cohen of ColoradoStartups.com. 
Venture Capital in the Rockies kicked off with a media panel this morning, moderated by Brad Feld. The panelists were Spencer Ante of Business Week, Rebecca Buckman of Forbes, Dan Primack of peHUB Wire, and Mark Veverka of Barron’s.
We all know that the media industry is [...]

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Getting ready for VCIR

posted by: Seth Levine | posted on: March 3rd, 2009

After much work and planning, VCIR Winter is finally upon us.  We’ve worked hard to make this year’s event a great one. Check back here during the conference for updates on what’s happening up in Beaver Creek. 
Hope to see you up here - it’s not too late to register if you haven’t already.

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Follow VCIR Winter on Twitter

posted by: Seth Levine | posted on: March 1st, 2009

With the help of the folks over at EventVue we’ve set up a Twitter feed for VCIR Winter. The feed is an aggregation of all of the individual feeds from conference attendees (so you’ll see all of the tweets from all of the conference attendees).  It will be a great way to follow the action [...]

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