Contributors
Contributors to the Boulder Fiber project give time, funds, and resources so we can demonstrate to Google why Boulder is the ideal place to build this fiber network. Our response to the Google Fiber for Communities RFI is a grass-roots response that demonstrate how a public/private partnership will work. There were no shortage of individuals and organizations wanting to contribute to the cause. The list demonstrates the broad-based talent that resides in Boulder, Colorado. Although this list denotes contributors to our RFI response, we must acknowledge the Boulder community for their contributions in nominating and supporting the project.
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Alliance IT—Alliance IT was founded with the goal of employing knowledgeable professionals whom are able to provide the level of service we believe our customers should expect. We are a group of industry experts who believe in doing things right. We don’t just get things working, only to watch them break time and time again; we do things using methodology, research and continuous training to provide our clients with solutions that are reliable and efficient. | Web site design |
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Boulder County Business Report—The Boulder County Business Report, an award-winning bi-weekly business newspaper, delivers quality business journalism through many forms of media. Known for comprehensive all-local business reporting in the biweekly business journal, BCBR also has embraced the Internet and e-mail, and frequently provides commentary and local news on radio programs and community TV. | Publicity |
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Boulder Channel 1—WORLD CHANNEL ONE is a network of TV channels on the internet headquartered in Boulder Colorado. Boulder Channel 1 is our first super channel . Each week we are adding more channels. See TV Guide. You can watch videos On Demand with the click of a button. We have a wide variety of channels to choose from just like your cable or Satellite provider accept most of our programming is free and WORLD WIDE. In January 2006 we will be launching World News Channel 1 a daily update of real news form five continents. Music Channel 1 is very popular and we will be adding music videos On Demand. You will also, be able to see Jann Scott Live, America’s most popular internet live call in talk show from cool Boulder Colorado. |
Publicity and video production |
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Boulder Channel 8—We are a local government television broadcasting station and video production facility serving the needs of the City Departments, as well as outside clients. | Publicity and video production |
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Boulder Daily Camera—Boulder’s home town newspaper providing local and national news. The Camera is a newspaper of the MediaNews Group. | Advertising and publicity |
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Boulder Economic Council—The Boulder Economic Council, an affiliate of the Boulder Chamber, is a group of prominent business and community leaders committed to Boulder and its economic well-being. The economic council supports the healthy business sector necessary to sustain the cultural amenities, education, transit, open space, and other facets of Boulder’s legendary quality of life. | Advisory team, business survey, and publicity |
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Downtown Boulder, Inc.—Downtown Boulder, Incorporated (DBI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to continued preservation and enhancement of Downtown Boulder as the heart of the greater Boulder community. We work to maintain downtown as the center of commerce, government, culture, and leisure. DBI members support the overall vitality of downtown through public advocacy, political involvement, and community events that enhance the Boulder experience for residents and visitors. Membership in Downtown Boulder, Incorporated (DBI) is voluntary and open to any interested person or organization. Our current membership reflects a wide variety of property owners, business professionals, retailers, and restaurants. | Publicity |
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Ken Fellman—Ken Fellman is a partner at Kissinger & Fellman, P.C. is an aggressive, multi-faceted law firm that was established in 1976. The firm’s attorneys have diverse business, government, telecommunications and utilities, estate planning, criminal defense, employment, construction and real estate law backgrounds that provide them with the experience and expertise to represent clients with a wide range of legal issues. An emphasis on taking the practical business approach to legal problems has enabled the firm to attract a growing group of clients, serving as their general counsel or working on specialized legal projects. | Advisory team |
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Foundry Group—Foundry Group is a venture capital firm focused on making investments in early-stage information technology, Internet and software startups. Our passion is working alongside entrepreneurs to give birth to new technologies and to build those technologies into industry-leading companies. We’re centrally located in Boulder, CO, but we invest in companies across North America. Our current venture fund of $225m was launched in late 2007 and is managed by our four managing directors. Collectively, we have almost five decades of experience in venture capital investing. During that time we have invested in over 70 companies as institutional investors and over 50 companies as angel investors. Additionally, we have over three decades of entrepreneurial experience in founding and working in senior operating roles inside technology startups. |
Advisory team, financial support, meeting space, and publicity |
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Inphotonics Research—Inphotonics Research mission is to design, build, and operate open-access broadband networks for municipalities and local government entities. We believe that the way to drive broadband penetration in the United States is for cities to build infrastructure based on a public/private partnership and to open that infrastructure for all service providers. Our team of seasoned telecommunications veterans has decades of experience designing, building, operating, and financing telecommunications networks. We work with our clients to achieve economic viable business models in a taxpayer neutral fashion so to drive economic vitality and choice where these networks are built. |
Advisory team, branding, financial support, marketing, technical expertise, and web design |
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Alan Kaplan—Alan Kaplan, Fast Ideas LLC, FastIdeas.biz. We provide business services locally and globally in the areas of: company building, strategic alliances, business development, sales and marketing: Crystallizing ideas into actions, actions into cash flow and cash flow into growth in asset-value for all stakeholders. Opportunity realized. Clients say: “Alan can get your opportunity in front of the people that matter most to your business.” |
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Steve Lowtwait—Steve Lowtwait’s poster art and design style has become synonymous with Boulder. His landmark-themed travel posters have widespread appeal to residents and visitors alike, and can be seen in local shops and the banners on Pearl St. As an illustrator, he specializes in imagery that tells stories with shape, color, typography and emotion. Steve’s work also includes website illustration, logos, event posters, and cartooning. View his portfolio at CampSteve.com. |
Graphic design and publicity |
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Preston Padden—Preston is an Executive Vice-President of The Walt Disney Company and Senior Fellow at Silicon Flatirons Center. |
Advisory team |
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OneRiot—Increasingly, the web’s most interesting content is what our friends and other people are talking about, sharing and looking at right now. However, when people search for that content, traditional search engines struggle to surface these fresh, socially-relevant results. That’s the hole – and it’s a big one – that OneRiot is filling. OneRiot crawls the links people share on Twitter, Digg and other social sharing services, then indexes the content on those pages in seconds. The end result is a search experience that allows users to find the freshest, most socially-relevant content from across the real-time web. |
Advisory team, branding, graphic design, publicity, and web hosting |
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RidgeviewLabs—RidgeviewLabs, the platform division of RidgeviewTel, develops and deploys dBOSS, our proprietary, flexible and fully-integrated platform. All aspects of your communications business, including any type of network equipment-wireless or wireline-can be managed from this one, central platform. dBOSS with NMS provides an integrated OSS/BSS/NMS system for provisioning, managing, monitoring and billing communications services. The platform’s architecture and design position it to be the only software needed to facilitate your current products and services as well as any future products or services. RidgeviewServices’ Network Operations Group uses dBOSS daily to provide network monitoring and customer care to thousands of subscribers. |
Network management, technical expertise |
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Jackson D. Carson—Senior UX Designer, RightNow Technologies, Boulder, CO | Branding and graphic design |
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Silicon Flatirons Center—Silicon Flatirons pursues three basic goals:
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Advisory team, graphic design, leadership, and publicity |
| Rick Thayer— | Advisory team | |
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Twenty-Ninth Street—Twenty Ninth Street is located in the heart of one of America’s most desirable cities to live. The mixed-use, open-air center is a smart, urban retail district that celebrates the best of Boulder, showcases retailers and rewards visitors in three distinct neighborhoods. Twenty Ninth Street is operated so that its customers can easily conduct business, and is merchandised to serve the everyday transactional needs of Boulder. |
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