My friend, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo is hiring.  And unlike many companies, he is looking for recent college grads.  Dan is a great guy and the folks that I’ve meet at his company are as well.  In his words:

“Amazingly, in this economy it is hard to fill key positions.  Zayo occasionally looks to fill senior positions.  Usually though, we are looking to complement our veteran team with recent grads who have engineering, IT, construction project management, and finance backgrounds.  We are looking for ambitious, hard working and entrepreneurial people, especially women and minorities as well as Iraq/Afghanistan veterans.  We are an ideal home for those who want to accelerate their career development and hone their entrepreneurial skills.

We are looking for the following positions:

1. Senior Product Management
2. CFO for internal business units
3. Recent grads in engineering (learn how the Internet really works)
4. Recent grads in IT (learn Salesforce.com and GIS)
5. Recent grads with an interest in operational finance
6. Construction/project management who understand telecom projects (or recent grads)
7. Recent grads with an interest in technical sales”

If you are interested, send your resume to Kellie Lemmel at Kellie.Lemmel at Zayo dot com.

One of our companies Organic Motion is powering an awesomely cool exhibit at Seattle’s EMP Museum. By use of their marker-less computer vision platform, one can put themselves in the middle of James Cameron’s Avatar. Here is a great news report about the event including an intro from James Cameron, himself.

Also, here is an example of a person using the system to reenact a scene from Avatar.

Today we announced our investment in Attachments.me.

What is attachments.me? It’s a really cool company and one that I’m proud to be associated with.

Imagine that you remember someone sent you a document about a particular subject or a funny video.  You just don’t remember who sent it to you or what the email text was.  Now, you will be able to search by subject matter embedded in links and attachments, and browse by content type, not just by sender, and the results will include not just data in the email body itself, but in the attachments and links themselves.

This mailbox crawling technology will allow for a single searchable interface to automatically group and filter the structured data and documents in a user’s email archive.  This data will also be accessible via mobile applications for on-the-go access.  Attachments.me recognizes the fact that for most users, email is their de-facto filesystem, knowledgebase and personal information manager, and that better tools are needed to access and manipulate the extremely valuable data in the messages a user sends and receives.

We were investors in Stratify (Acquired: Iron Mountain) which changed the way lawyers worked the discovery process by automatically reading documents and creating subject matter-based folders. Personally, I’ve always had a “thing” for technologies that allow machines to read, interpret and make our information processing faster as humans.  I’m stoked to get to try it again in a very different manner in a different industry.  I’m even more excited to work with Jesse Miller and Ben Coe on it, as well.

About 4 years ago, I founded the Boulder Open Coffee Club.  It’s been a massive success with about 50-70 people attending each event.  The popularity of it, in fact, has led to the creation of a Denver Open Coffee Club by local entrepreneur Michael Sitarzewski.

The Coffee Club has become a real local hub where we’ve gotten to know each other and help each other learn from each other’s experiences.  It’s been a ton of fun, too, and we’ve even got some airplay on TV recently.

From time to time, I get an email from another open coffee club telling me about what they are doing.  I’ve done a poor job keeping track of all the OCCs in the US and I am wondering whether or not it would be worthwhile to create a network between them.

If you participate in an OCC, drop me a line or leave a comment.  I’d like to see who else is out there.

For all of you out there interested in metrics-based marketing (and if marketing is your thing, you should be interested), here is a must attend event.

Sponsored by Trada, Silicon Flatirons, CU Marketing Department and SendGrid, this event promises to share their collective knowledge along with a host of great speakers.

Tickets are limited to 75 people.  This is going to be an intimate event.

The website for the event is here.

ADD-on-CON is back this year and it’s going to be a great conference.  Before I get into the nitty gritty, let me invite you to a Jason deal for registration:  SuperSecretAddonConDiscount

This year will be an especially meaty discussion, in part because of the amount of press about how the Web is Dead.  I say “no.”  But I do think many things are changing quickly.

The best summary I’ve seen of the discussion is actually from the conference’s two founders Robert Reich and Fraser Kelton.

Enjoy the conference.  It should be a great event.  The conference is on December 8 and 9. In Mountain view California. And this years sponsors include Google, Mozilla and Opera.

I’m excited about the upcoming Blur Conference showcasing thought leadership in the human computer interaction ecosystem.

As active investors in the area, we’ll be there in full force along with some of our companies.

Interested in the conference?  Check out Brad’s earlier post about it.

And see below for a cool promo video from Organic Motion. 

Great picture of who’s suing whom in the Telecom world.  Man, I love patents…

We invested in Organic Motion about a year ago and have been really happy with how far they’ve brought the technology forward.  For those of you who haven’t been introduced to them, they are the preeminent technology developer for marker-less computer vision solutions. 

They’ve recently made major inroads into the animation market.  The following two videos show some of what they are capable of.  The first video is a game that was developed by students at a German university using the Organic Motion SDK.  It’s great that folks are starting to innovate off of the Organic Motion platform.  The second video is an update, generally, about how the company is approaching the animation market.  Enjoy. 

My partner Seth has a great interview on Stocktwits TV, hosted by one of the smartest and funniest entrepreneurs that I know, Howard Lindzon.  The topic is whether or not the Web is Dead.  (It’s not).  Also, he will give you his stock picks, as well.  This I can’t wait to see if he is correct.