Rocky Mountain Startup Resource Guide
At C2M Beta we strive to connect startups in the Rocky Mountains and connect them to mentors, business development plans, and access to funding.
2021 Resource Guide
Table of Contents
General Startup Advice
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I. General Startup Advice
- General Startup Advice
Advice: 10 pieces of advice for leaders of early-stage startups during COVID
AMA Replay: Actionable Advice from Experienced CEOs
Resources
- Brad Feld on Validating Your Startup Idea here.
- Startups.com here.
- Y Combinator here.
- Y Combinator Startup Playbook here.
- Y Combinator Startup Library here.
- Tech Stars here.
- Founder's Institute here.
- Google Ventures "Sprint" methodology here.
- Duco Design Sprint tool here.
- Tools from DesignSprint.org here
- Strategyzer here.
- Strategyzer "From Idea to Business Videos" here.
- Business Model Toolbox here.
- Seth Godin here.
- Steve Blank here.
- Eric Ries Lean Startup here.
- Guy Raz How I Built This here.
- Startup Therapy here.
- GeekWire here.
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Inspired Classroom
Inspired Classroom builds bridges connecting learners to real-world experiences regardless of geographic isolation or opportunity.
Check This Out
Check This Out enables restaurants and other retail businesses to accelerate and amplify their word-of-mouth marketing and business growth through a text-based, incentive-driven, and highly trackable SaaS platform.
406 Bovine
Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, 406 Bovine is creating the most advanced cattle facial recognition software in the market today.
Svvarga
Svvarga’s flagship product Rubrikk is an AI-powered, cloud-native platform that transforms unstructured information from images and documents into clean, ready-to-use data.
Shop Dot
ShopDot is a technology platform that integrates with any front-end ecommerce platform and creates an ecosystem between brands and retailers to support end-to-end product and content distribution.
Docity
Docity bundles Telehealth access with the products and services that households already buy and use every month.
Prime Labs
Prime Labs is a user-friendly platform for data processing, analysis, reporting and visualization related to drug discovery instrumentation.
Blocky
Blocky is developing a suite of data immutability products with application on distributed ledger technologies.
Patient One
PatientOne is improving health care through an automated patient engagement platform that offers guidance, messaging and remote patient monitoring focused on the surgical episode of care.
Cartalytics
Cartalytics starts where GIS ends to help your organization to get the most from your spatial data.
III. Accelerator Program Updates
If you have applied to the accelerator program for Fall 2021 we will be accepting applications on July 15th and determine participants by Aug 15th. The Fall 2021 accelerator will begin on September 14th and run 12 weeks through December 7th. In the meantime all of the course material is available in the Rocky Mountain Community. Companies who have gone through the tracks ahead of time will have an advantage for application as well as a personal advantage from learning the material and language of this journey.
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IV. Community Program Updates
This online platform has a plethora of resources for you to leverage. The entire framework for our accelerator program can be found in the “Tracks” within the network.
Start with How to Use this Network. As mentioned above, if you are planning to apply to be in the accelerator program, companies who have completed the tracks ahead of time will have their application prioritized.
Found In The Rockies
Stef Sample, Founder, CEO, Investor, Mentor hosts a podcast aligned around the journey for startup founders.
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VI. Fundraising
Investors
- Front Street Capical Jeremy Brown
- Homestake Venture Partners here
Venture Capital Specific to Rocky Mountain
- Next Frontier Capital
Les Craig - Goodworks Ventures
Angel Investor Fund - Frontier Angels here
- Resources:
How to Find Investors and Get Email Intros
The 5 Things That Kill Startups Post Seed Round
Goodworks Ventures - Financing Resources here
Book - Venture Deals, Brad Feld here
Book - The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital here
Blog - The Non-Obvious Guide to Fundraising here
VII. Legal
Resources:
Startup Legal Mechanics (SUS 2018)
Intellectual Property
A special thanks to Joel Henry @ Worden Thane P.C. for creating and sharing these modules.
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