Colorado Tech Weekly #304: Selling Shovels

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!
There’s a fun saying about selling shovels. It’s along the lines that if you find yourself in a gold rush it’s better to sell the shovels than look for gold. This week’s articles make me realize just how much tech is often the shovel regardless of the rush.
Have a great week!
Top Colorado Technology News
- Douglas-County’s Arrow Electronics launches freelance marketplace [TechRockies]
- Denver-based Velocity Global hosts Global Day of Service to celebrate Its five-year anniversary [VelocityGlobal]
- A day in the life of a Denver-based Choozler [Choozle]
- Denver cloud-computing company Faction raises $14M [BizWest]
- Denver’s Healthgrades launches first-of-its-kind platform for health-care industry [DBJ]
- Denver gov-tech firm Granicus makes acquisition from across the pond [DBJ]
- Szczurek brings entrepreneurship to state CIO role [BizWest]
- San Francisco tech firm, Udemy, inks LoDo lease to ‘put down roots in Denver’ [DBJ]
- Boulder-based Bonusly raises $1.5M in seed funding round [BizWest]
- Boulder Techstars grad BubbleIQ rebrands raises $2.6M [BizWest]
Top Upcoming Events
- 4/10 – Denver Java Users Group – Jamming with a Quantum Computer: A musical journey into quantum computing [Denver]
- 4/10 – Learn to Code Colorado – Learn to Code: JavaScript 101 [Denver]
- 4/10 – Denver Software Architecture – Functional Programming and Cloud Transformations [Greenwood Village]
- 4/10 – Denver UX – Special Happy Hour with SendGrid Twilio [Denver]
- 4/10 – Refresh Denver – Pitch Lab: How To Tell A Captivating Story Like A Stand Up Comedian! [Denver]
- 4/11 – Denver Women in Tech – The Irrelevance of Insecurity [Denver]
- 4/11 – Denver Code Club – Vault on Kubernetes [Denver]
- 4/15 – Boulder WordPress Meetup – WordPress Security Best Practices for Users with David Hayes [Boulder]
- 4/16 – Denver Droids – Effective Unit Testing by Erick Garcia [Denver]
- 4/10 – Amplify Denver/Boulder – First Happiest Hour [Denver]
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