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Gluecon 13: 2023

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My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs. GlueCon will occur for the thirteenth time, on May 24th-25th, in Broomfield, Colorado. You can view the full agenda here.

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Implementing Social Media’s Secret Weapon

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Our investment here is in SendGrid , a company that came out of TechStars Boulder 2009 and is one of the white hot companies in Boulder. They directly address the problem Fred describes which every software developer knows is a pain in the ass, uninteresting, hard to do well, but needs to be done right.

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Rally Acquires AgileZen

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If you are an Agile software development shop, or follow ALM, Rally just added Kanban to the mix. This is the second acquisition Rally has made – the other was 6th Sense Analytics which they acquired at the beginning of 2009.

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Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

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Over the years, I’ve come to believe with moral certainty that everyone needs DevOps now, especially software startups where the successful execution of Development and IT Operations preordain success or failure. Enter the Developers. In that moment, I saw the light. manageability, scalability, reliability, security, and so forth).

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University of Michigan Joins the Global EIR Network

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I’ve been working on the Startup Visa since I first wrote about it 2009 in my post The Founders Visa Movement. After a decade, it’s clear that our federal government has broadly failed us on this front. In 2015, I announced the Global EIR initiative to try something different.

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Global EIR and Silicon Valley Bank Funding Match

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Through Global EIR, universities run programs that help international founders obtain a visa, stimulate entrepreneurship at their universities, and unlock economic development in communities across the US. In 2009, I was inspired when two of the ten Techstars Boulder companies that year had international founders.

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Learning To Program

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I had lunch today with Nate Abbott and Natty Zola, the co-founders of Everlater , a TechStars 2009 company. They decided that rather than find a “developer” to team up with, they would learn how to program. Today, while enjoying a veggie burger at Mustard’s Last Stand , we talked about how Nate and Natty learned to program.