Startup Weekend is coming to Kansas City April 24-26, 2009 and is going to be a blast.  Startup Weekend is an intense event bringing brilliant tech minds together to create companies, projects and great tech communities!

 
 Yes, there is still money out there for investment!
Seed capital is the early stage money needed to get most businesses off the ground. It is considered a high-risk investment, but one that can reap major rewards if the company becomes a growth enterprise. This type of funding is often obtained in exchange for an equity [...]

DaVinci Institute’s Inventor Boot Camp – 2008
It all starts with an epiphany. Every invention begins with a single “eureka moment” or some “brilliant revelation” that causes the inventor to take action.
These epiphanies become the idea seeds that will eventually get planted around the world. But we can only wish the process [...]

1,200 newly hired patent examiners attend the new USPTO Patent Training
Academy, a university-style approach to teaching USPTO’s new examiners.
USPTO Reps will be on hand on [...]

Future Edisons will be out in force at the Inventor Showcase
Are you still on the fence about exhibiting at the Colorado Inventor Showcase? Well, the good news is you still have a couple days to decide, until Wed Nov 5th. The bad news is that we only have a limited few [...]

 
Going from zero to Twitter Master in one short morning
Over the past few months, Twitter has emerged as one of the hottest online tools of all time. But while Twitter serves well as a vibrant social network, its also serves as a legitimate business tool. People on Twitter use it to find people working on [...]

Colorado Inventor Showcase – 2008
Produced by the DaVinci Institute along with
some of the finest inventors in the world
This year’s event will mark the 4th annual Colorado Inventor Showcase. Each year the Showcase attracts some of the nation’s finest inventors and their incredibly clever inventions. Inventions are judged by a cast of over 50 [...]

 
The Legendary Ben Bova
Ben Bova’s series of novels about the planets, including his newly released “Mars Life,” has been dubbed “The Grand Tour.” The six-time Hugo-winning author will be making a grand tour of sorts when he comes to Denver this week for the World Science Fiction Convention, where he will receive the Robert A. [...]

 
 Life on the moon as depicted by the legendary science fiction author, Dr. Ben Bova
On August 6th the DaVinci Institute will be hosting the legendary science fiction author, Dr. Ben Bova, at its Night with a Futurist event.
In his various writings, Dr. Bova has predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, solar power satellites, the [...]

Photobucket Founders Alex Welch and Darren Crystal
On May 21st the DaVinci Institute will host the now infamous dual of Alex Welch and Darren Crystal, the two founders of Photobucket, who will tell the story of what it took for them to launch what is now the World’s number one photo site on the Internet. [...]

On may 5th Dave Elchoness will take a look at the major information and technological revolution that lies ahead
In a wide ranging keynote address at the 2007 Influence Forum, ICANN CEO Paul Twomey made the bold statement that virtual worlds are the future of global commerce.
Twomey sited several examples of the virtual [...]

You are securely belted into the driver’s seat of your new startup and you are about to smash down on the gas pedal to get it launched. You have gone through the steps all startup leaders take in those first few months, and then you realize that there is no road ahead. You smile as [...]

Does your message work? You only have 10 seconds to connect before a person tunes you out. That’s the bad news. The good news is that improving the first 10 seconds allows for a HUGE leap in communications.
On Saturday, March 1st, the DaVinci Institute will be hosting [...]

On Saturday, January 26th the DaVinci institute will be playing host to an Elance Boot Camp starting at 8:30 am at DeVry University in Westminster, Colorado. The event will focus on teaching people how to match talented professionals from around the world
with the needs of your business – at the click of a button

The upcoming Angel Capital Summit on November 13th is a collaboration of Colorado’s leading professional organizations that serve entrepreneurs and early-stage investors. Instead of simply presenting pitch after pitch, this collaboration makes possible an entirely new approach to helping entrepreneurs and investors find each other.

In practice, business owners and salespeople often have monthly goals that they need to meet and as a result feel enormous amounts of pressure to make things happen. This is a dangerous practice because it can seriously damage personal & professional relationships and destroy the reputation of an individual company.

Just a quick reminder about tomorrow’s "Creating Website Content Boot Camp" for people in the Denver area.  Two powerful demonstrations, five topic experts.

The DaVinci Institute is offering a special discount to readers of the Impact Lab for Tuesday’s Colorado Inventor Showcase in Denver.

"Feeder Businesses" are small, sometimes tiny, new businesses and services that feed off online mega-sites like eBay, Google, Match.com, Amazon, and MySpace. They often create a win-win situation, making it easier for consumers and businesses to use a key service that, thanks to its popularity, reach and depth, has become so sophisticated that getting the [...]

USA today recently reported that people are changing jobs an average of nine times before the age of 32. Nine times! The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports average tenure on a job of 4.6 years. Futurists predict the average to drop to 3.8, maybe even 3.5 years, by 2010. Whether you see this is as [...]

You have the rare opportunity on May 16th to meet USPTO Patent Commissioner John Doll and hear his thoughts on the future of the US Patent and Trademark Office. Seats are still available. Here are some of the key trends affecting the USPTO and the American Inventor:

On May 16th the DaVinci Institute will play host to USPTO Commissioner John Doll at the Phipps Mansion, the site of the former G8 Summit.  Commissioner Doll’s talk will be on the "Future of the US Patent & Trademark Office".

On March 24th, futurist Thomas Frey will be presenting a talk on "Driving Forces for 2006" at the upcoming Movers & Shakers Breakfast at Phipps Mansion in Denver, Colorado.

Scott Degraffenreid, has been working successfully with a wide range of clients for more than a dozen years.  His track record in employee retention in over 100 successive engagements is having reduced voluntary employee turnover by at least 50% with no recourse to compensation or other recurring costs.   Productivity gains routinely exceed 100%.

Upcoming Event: What is the Participation Age? We are in a
transition from the Information Age to the Participation Age. In the
Information Age, information itself was at the center of the stage and
its creation and control was of paramount importance in technology.