The May 2017 edition of Denver Founders featured Thad Eby, CEO and Founder of Ombud. Eby spent the evening providing valuable insights to the members of Denver’s startup and entrepreneurial community. Colorado Native Eby’s story begins in Fort Morgan in the northeast part of the state. After finishing high school, he quickly moved on to […]
Continue ReadingThe February 2017 installment of Denver Founders saw Dan Lynn, Co-Founder and CEO of AlwaysEncrypted, in the hot seat. Lynn discussed his early entrepreneurial beginnings and shared some of the things he’s learned along the way. Humble Beginnings Lynn’s first sojourn into entrepreneurship came at the tender age of 7 when he roved his neighborhood, […]
Continue ReadingDenver Founders greeted 2017 by shifting permanently to our new how at the Commons on Champa. A solid crowd turned out on a chilly January evening to hear Sam Tarantino, the current founder and CEO of Chromatic FM, and the former co-founder of Grooveshark speak. Many people are probably familiar with the name Grooveshark, which […]
Continue ReadingIt’s become an annual tradition: the Denver Founders crew gets together at the end of October, has a few drinks, and share startup horror stories. As host Chris Franks is so wont to remind us, the overwhelming majority of startups fail. As a community we’re great at sharing our successes, but the same isn’t true […]
Continue ReadingIt’s the most wonderful time of the year in the Denver startup community: Denver Startup Week. The Denver Founders crew put together a panel of veteran entrepreneurs to discuss the merits and drawbacks of fundraising and bootstrapping. The all-star panel consisted of Bart Lorang, CEO and co-founder of Full Contact, Jim Franklin, former CEO of […]
Continue ReadingThe June 2016 edition of Denver Founders welcomed Carm Huntress into the hot seat. Denver Founders prides itself on the participatory nature of our meetings, and it was clear that the assembled group was quite smitten with Huntress’ company, RxREVU, as the questions came early and often. Josh and Chris doing the @DenverFounders thing once again. […]
Continue ReadingJeff Casimir, the founder of the Turing School of Software & Design, isn’t like a lot of other founders. Therefore, it’s comes as little surprise that his discussion at Denver Founder’s April meeting was unlike any previous ones. Flanked by DF’s venerable hosts, Chris Franks and Josh Churlik, Casimir actually spent more time talking about […]
Continue ReadingPassion. Zeal. Fanaticism. All of these adjectives easily describe how Josh Dorkin, founder and CEO of BiggerPockets feels about real estate investment. That passion was live and on display, at times almost palpable, at the January edition of the Denver Founders meet up. The guiding idea behind BiggerPockets is that anyone can build their own […]
Continue ReadingHow does someone who got their start in the 1980s designing coin-op arcade games in Chicago become a pillar of the Denver entrepreneurial and startup scene? The promise of Broncos tickets helped, but there’s much more to that story.
It may sound cliché, but seasoned entrepreneur Bob Ogdon proves that the old axiom “timing is everything” is a truism that should not be overlooked. Ogdon weathered a snowy Denver night in February to speak with Denver Founder’s Network about his experience building startups and working as an entrepreneur in Denver. The peaks and valleys of Ogdon’s story are likely familiar, in some degree, to many in the startup community. Although the measures of success and failure may be different, the trajectory of Ogdon’s projects provide a type of familiarity that illustrates what success looks like and how to recover from setbacks along the way.
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