Category — Tech Events

Another week is in the books here at Everlater and the team is eagerly awaiting the Halloween festivities tonight.  Most of the team will be in Denver for the night, Nate will be a mad scientist (makes us wonder where the costume is?), Ryan is going as a biker, I am a pirate, and Charlie has yet to decide.

This week, like all previous, was filled with a mix of intense programming and site design blended with important meetings and Boulder tech events.

• The whole Everlater team met on Saturday for a work and strategy session hosted by Charlie at the classy Metropolis Cafe.  Ryan and Charlie spent much of the time building out the site back-end and Nate and I pulled together a business strategy presentation for the upcoming weeks meetings.
• The week began with a meeting with Jim Collins, the best selling author and management consultant, where the team discussed startup strategy and presented Everlater’s early stage plans.  Many thanks to Jim for spending time with us and his incredibly valuable advice.
• Nate and I attended Boulder’s OpenCoffee at The Cup to schmooze with the Boulder tech community and also met with Facebook guru David Clements.  We continue to be impressed with breadth of the tech community.
• Throughout the week Boulder hosted the Boulder.me tech job fair aimed at growing the Boulder tech community by attracting some of the world’s top developers.  The event appeared to be a hit (even though most startups are in liquidity lock-down at the moment) and we fully support any and all efforts to grow the Colorado tech scene.
• On Wednesday night, Boulder hosted its first Ignite Boulder event.  Ignite is night of presentations with a twist, each presentation has 20 slides that automatically advance after 15 seconds.  Nate and I helped local startup aficionado Andrew Hyde organize the event and Ryan stepped up to the plate and pitched a great piece on food headlines over the past seventy years. The event was well attended and one of the most fun tech events we’ve attended.  You can see Ryan’s pitch below.  Great job Ryan!

Yesterday Natty and I presented at the Boulder BarCamp meeting regarding User Generated Content and Online Travel.  The presentation is below:

We are also looking for better data regarding travel guidebook sales over the past 10 years — if you have access to this data or have seen it, please let us know in the comments!