I feel like I left my comment incomplete.

What is the Boulder Tech Scene?

The Boulder Tech Scene is a place for those who either

A) Couldn't cut it in Silicon Valley

B) Are done with their career

Theres no inbetween. Sure, there are TONS of VC-funded really crappy projects out in the Bay Area. I'm the first one to tell someone in the Valley that their company is worthless.

Now, what comprises of the first part of those who couldn't cut it? A decent chunk of CU-Boulder and CU-Denver graduates (I'm not saying all, but a decent portion).

When CU-Boulder has the worst ranked business school according to the Wall Street Journal... that really isn't saying much for these Biz Devs who are CU grads.

Now lets talk about technology and incubation. Are these engineers coming out of CU understand how to build a project and use it? We won't discuss research as we know thats non-existent without saying.

CU doesn't teach these young PHP engineers (don't get me started how being able to code in PHP makes you a godlike engineer) anything about application. Theres also no support system. In the Bay Area, when you have an idea Stanford will show you off to every person that has more than 20 bucks to invest in a company. What does CU do? What? I'm waiting for the answer of “zilch, nadda, zero”

So when these kids come out of school. They first have a degree that can't get them a job salary that they feel is “worthy of their expertise” since Boulder has a way of making people think they are better than any other human being alive. They then decide that they are anti “employee” when really they just hate the fact that during college they didn't work and its taken them until the age of 22 to open an application that wasn't college-related. These kids decide they want to start a company and become an Internet Billionaire.

Now.. What is the Boulder Tech Scene? Is this a grand environment where people collaborate? The reason why people talk to each other because the tech community is so small you'd think you were the only person with a .com if you didn't talk with other people. Walk down Castro in Mountain View, see how everyone afterhours is sitting at a cafe working. That is what a tech community is.

Yes, its great that people from Me.Dium want to “foster” a tech community here in Boulder. I applaud you for having hopes in something. I love the guys at Me.Dium and it hurts me to knock you guys, but until you come up with a PRODUCT you should worry about your company and not what others are doing, not unless you're going to take that VC money and invest in an actual product/service/company. To mention one of the first points that I made, just because you have VC funding doesn't mean you have a product thats worth it.

Am I anti-Boulder? No. Do I feel its an insult to real tech communities to say that Boulder has one? Yes. If you want a tech community move to San Jose. If you want to pretend that you're a super CEO and spend more time with your head in the sky then in front of your desk then move to Boulder.

I read the Distruptive Thoughts blog and the keyword "second tier" stuck out. Yes, Boulder is fun, but in the end the only thing to come out of Colorado has been... what? Photobucket.

Why do we work on things that don't matter? Simple. Because too many people are in the "Full Time Employee" mindset . Startups are popping all over the place, but unlike the first time around, they are starting by people who are "tired of being an employee" which isn't true at all. They're egotistical 20-somethings who want to "be the man" without knowing what they are getting into, and expect to be considered like they are still doing their first college internship.

Second Tier honestly sounds a little too giving. The only thing so far to come out of Colorado has been Photobucket.

In Russia, data exiles you.

Makes you wonder how many will start developing apps for the Google Phone (any word an API anyone?)

Co-CEO - sounds like someone needs to get off their high horse and ego. It doesn't matter whether you're CEO, VP, or an intern - the title doesn't mean anything unless you do the work. If you are fighting for a title of Co-CEO then you are focusing more about you then your organization's success.

The VentureBeat article emphasized a "good team and idea makes a difference" instead of "bootstrap your project and prove it brings in revenue." Its more than proving there is a market, its about whether the market will pay for your project and whether you can turn a profit off of it. Too many start-ups want a glorious office while some of the best projects have come out of a garage.

The end lesson is if you have made some sort of revenue without funding then VCs will flock towards you.

Hopefully Dennis will be back soon, I visited him last weekend and he seems to have settled nicely back in Silicon Valley.