I read Startup Communities by Brad Feld a few months ago. I found it to be interesting even for me–someone who is only on the periphery of the VC\/startup community in Boulder. I especially enjoyed his first chapter, where he examined the startup history of Boulder, from StorageTek to Celestial Seasonings.<\/p>\n
I cut my teeth working as an employee of a startup in Boulder, XOR. We were a consulting company, and I was able to watch, fresh out of college and wet behind the ears, as we went from a small profitable company of 60 to a VC funded agglomeration of 500 employees spread across the country, and through some of the layoffs and consolidation.<\/p>\n
I was talking to another XOR employee who co-founded the company I currently work for about companies that spun out of XOR, and thought it’d be fun to collect a list.<\/p>\n
To make this list, you have to meet the following criteria:<\/p>\n
To make the list, a company does not have to still be alive nor profitable–I’m interested in the failures as well as the successes. In addition, it doesn’t matter if the founding happened a few years or jobs after the person worked at XOR–again, I’m interested in lineage, not in direct causation.<\/p>\n
Here are the companies I know (including XOR founders where known–there may have been other founders not listed). \u00a0In no particular order…<\/p>\n