2013 ANNUAL REPORT

Silicon Flatirons A Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Table of Contents

Letter from the Executive Director 4-5

About Silicon Flatirons 6-7

Silicon Flatirons Leadership 8-9

Mission Elevate the Debate Surrounding Technology Policy Issues 10-11

Support and Enable Entrepreneurship in the Technology Community 12-15

Inspire, Prepare, and Place Students in Technology and Entrepreneurial Law 16-19

Output Calendar of Events 20-21

Silicon Flatirons Reports and Faculty Publications 22

People Silicon Flatirons Fellows 23

Affiliated Faculty 24-25

Advisory Boards 26-27

Supporters 28-29

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Federal Trade Commission to direct our IP/IT Initiative. Paul is through two summer programs we now host—(1) the placement tremendous such opportunity. The Silicon Flatirons’ engagement recently brought this experience to bear at our January 17th of Colorado students in technology law and policy summer in the community is also evident from our range of research conference on Privacy Harm. We also brought back Blake Reid internships in Washington, D.C. (including those supported by the reports related to entrepreneurship and innovation—ranging from (’10) as the Director of our Samuelson-Glushko Technology Dale Hatfield Scholars Program); and (2) a new Colorado-based the Denver Startup Scene to University Outreach to Health Care Law and Policy Clinic. In addition to directing the TLPC, Blake program that places students with technology companies after Innovation. assumed the lead role for the Silicon Flatirons Technology Policy completing a rigorous boot camp. If you are interested in getting DC Internship program. Blake is also one of our three affiliated involved in either one, please let me know. Summing Up faculty members—along with Paul Ohm and Harry Surden—in The state of Silicon Flatirons continues to be one of relentless the special group of law professors who code. This past summer, The boundary-jumping theme also underpins our goal of raising curiosity and experimentation, seeking to better support our we also welcomed aboard Bill Mooz (’85), a Scholar in Residence the level of technology policy discussions. All too often, policy students, raise the level of policy debates, and engage with and and a Silicon Flatirons Senior Fellow, to direct our Colorado ICT discussions take place in silos, without lawyers listening to support the entrepreneurial and technology community. As you Business Law Summer Program. Finally, on the Senior Fellows technologists or even without different areas of law and policy will notice in our report, we are building a set of endowments to front, we saw three of our fellows—Jonathan Sallet, Gigi Sohn, talking and listening to one another. At Silicon Flatirons, we are ensure that our mission and DNA remain strong and sustainable— and Phil Verveer—join FCC Chair Tom Wheeler’s team at the all about creating pathways for meaningful interaction across silos. including the Dale Hatfield Scholars Program, the Dale Hatfield FCC. We will welcome FCC Chair Tom Wheeler, along with FTC The annual privacy conference organized by Paul Ohm (this year Technology Law Professorship, the Entrepreneurial Law Chair Edith Ramirez at our February 9-10th Digital Broadband on Privacy Harm) reflects our brand of being interdisciplinary and Professorship, the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law and Migration Conference. looking carefully for new insights. Policy Professorship, and the Similarly, our spectrum initiative, To succinctly capture our identity, the best Silicon Flatirons Endowment. Boundary Jumping In Action led by Pierre deVries and Dale In this vein, I should mention phrase may well be “boundary-jumping” – Following up on the boundary-jumping theme, a number of our Hatfield, is constantly bringing that, on Tuesday, March 25th, events over the last year merit mention. For starters, Silicon together technological, legal, and that is, the exchange of knowledge between 2014, we are bringing together Flatirons continues to evaluate how the legal profession and other perspectives. Over the course people across industry sectors or spanning Silicon Flatirons friends and Over the last year, Silicon Flatirons has started to become ever legal education are approaching a changing and challenging of twelve months, for example, disparate intellectual disciplines family to raise the remaining more self-conscious—in a good way—about our identity. To . environment. Building on earlier reports (such as the Law 2.0 we are hosting three spectrum- funds necessary to endow our succinctly capture our identity, the best phrase may well be report on a new continuum of legal education), we brought together related conferences that take seriously the need to learn from other Dale Hatfield Technology Law Professorship. “boundary-jumping” – that is, the exchange of knowledge between this fall a great group of leaders from academia, industry, and domains. The final such conference takes place on April 3rd and people across industry sectors or spanning disparate intellectual practice to discuss the challenges for legal education. Building on will bring the celebrated law professor Richard Epstein to reflect Whenever I see you next, I look forward to your involvement in disciplines. The Center remains, at its core, about interdisciplinary this conversation, we will hold a conference next April 17th on Law on property rights in minerals, water law, and wireless spectrum. Silicon Flatirons. I also encourage you to be in touch with our collaboration, community engagement, and developing insights School Innovation. Finally, in the great Silicon Flatirons—and Moreover, our recent Silicon Flatirons research reports (on initiative directors (paul.ohm@colorado and brad.bernthal@ that push the boundaries of knowledge. All of these activities are entrepreneurial—tradition of a bias towards action, we are now cybersecurity in health care and energy and spectrum interference colorado.edu), our Program Director (anna.noschese@colorado. in service of our three principal goals: pioneering a number of ideas about how to develop lawyers who issues) exemplify our commitment to cut across silos. edu) or myself ([email protected]) as you have ideas are creative problem solvers, draw from disciplines outside of law or suggestions for us. Best wishes for a great 2014, with much • Elevating the debate surrounding technology policy to develop those solutions, and have an entrepreneurial mindset Finally, as to our commitment to our entrepreneurial community, intellectual stimulation, experimentation, and boundary jumping. issues; towards their careers. Silicon Flatirons continues to serve as an Applications • Supporting and enabling entrepreneurship in the Programming Interface (API) that enables a range of different Cheers, technology community; In terms of our principal goals, the commitment to creative problem communities—students, faculty, and staff; entrepreneurs; and all of • Inspiring, preparing, and placing students in the solving, interdisciplinary engagement, and entrepreneurial those who support entrepreneurs—to collaborate and support one Phil technology and entrepreneurial sectors. attitudes is at the core of Silicon Flatirons’s goal of supporting another. Our range of events held by our Entrepreneurial Initiative our students. (This spirit also drives Colorado Law’s strategy to is impressive both for their number and quality and Brad Bernthal’s Our Team adapt to the New Normal in legal education.) One important way leadership continues to be stellar. On the boundary-jumping front, Our ability to thrive and cross boundaries is supported by a great that Silicon Flatirons is supporting our students along these lines the March 14th conference on Sci-Fi and Entrepreneurship will be a team. This past summer, we welcomed Paul Ohm back from the

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he Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship is an interdisciplinary research center at the University of Colorado Law School. Silicon Flatirons’ core mission is to elevate the debate surrounding technology policy issues; support and Tenable entrepreneurship in the technology community; and to inspire, prepare, and place students in these important areas. In fulfilling Initiatives & Projects this mission, Silicon Flatirons serves as a source for new ideas, a forum for in-depth discussions and research, as well as a valuable campus Energy Innovation platform for the technology community. Silicon Flatirons pursues three basic goals: Meeting the world's growing energy needs in a sustainable and secure fashion stands as one of the great challenges of the 21st century. The Energy Innovation Initiative at Colorado Law brings together leaders from government, law, finance, • Elevate the Debate Surrounding Technology Policy Issues industry, and academia to address key aspects of this challenge and develop • Support and Enable Entrepreneurship in the Technology Community innovative approaches and solutions across a range of sectors. The Initiative builds • Inspire, Prepare, and Place Students in Technology and Entrepreneurial Law on the law school's deep expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, energy and natural resources to support research and analysis on the critical policy, regulatory, and business aspects of the energy innovation challenge; training for students and professionals; and an ongoing series of public lectures, workshops, and conferences.

Primary Initiatives Hatfield Scholars & Research Program Technology Policy The Dale Hatfield Scholars and Research Program is designed to encourage student Rapid developments in technology spur economic growth and empower consumers. Innovation policy and institutional design can interest in public service by providing grants for summer internships in government stimulate or stunt technological change. Seated comfortably in Boulder, Colorado (an innovation hub), the Silicon Flatirons Center is or public interest positions. With the support of many generous benefactors, the well positioned to attract thoughtful policy leaders, legal and business professionals, and entrepreneurs to discuss the challenges and Hatfield Program has become a flagship program at the University of Colorado and opportunities of various technology policy issues. has already helped to bring several students to Washington, D.C. to take positions in government and non-profit organizations since it was established in 2006. Entrepreneurship Something special is happening in Boulder's entrepreneurial circles, and the world is taking notice that Boulder is a world-class Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics location to start a business. In support of this creative environment, Silicon Flatirons helps stitch together the entrepreneurial fabric for The Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics (IRLE) is sponsored by the the area's software, telecommunications and Internet startup communities. University of Colorado Silicon Flatirons Center as a means of supporting thoughtful regulatory decision-making. In particular, the IRLE hosts an annual seminar for Privacy state public utility commissioners and staff as well as engages in state outreach Information privacy has emerged as one of the most vital, contested, and important areas of debate in technology law and policy. activities. In so doing, it works with two related Silicon Flatirons initiatives - the Silicon Flatirons devotes a considerable amount of time and energy to this field, sponsoring an annual conference on information Samuelson-Glushko Technology Policy Law Clinic and the Dale Hatfield Scholars privacy that has become one of the most important venues for debate; housing scholars at the center of thought leadership on the topic; and Research Program. and training students to become the next generation of lawyers, advisors, and policymakers in the field.

The New Normal and Law 2.0 Project IP/IT The technological, economic, and social forces that have disrupted industries Silicon Flatirons hosts a yearly patent conference and is committed to exploring a range of IP issues. With the US Patent Office opening from publishing to entertainment to retail have started to put pressure on the legal up a branch office in Denver, Silicon Flatirons will look for promising areas where we can work together. Our Entrepreneurial Law profession as well. Tech-savvy start-up companies are competing to offer legal Clinic also has made available a select number of spots for students interested in patent prosecution to develop real-world experience services in new, automated, more efficient ways. Traditional law firms have been in this area. seeing their revenues drop in the face of this new competition. Individuals and corporations are bringing more legal services in-house. All of these changes put Spectrum Policy pressure on legal education, and law schools are considering reinvention to respond Wireless networking technology is the fastest growing segment in the United States telecommunications market and holds out the to these forces as law students struggle to adapt to changing times. The Silicon promise of providing greater broadband competition, increased connectivity in rural areas, and increased communication density Flatirons Center is deeply engaged in the national and international conversation in developing nations that are not able to invest in wired infrastructure. But making this vision a reality entails overcoming three over the future of the legal profession and legal education. Through conferences, formidable barriers that can only be solved through careful interdisciplinary work that pulls together policy, electrical engineering, and roundtables, white papers, and research, Silicon Flatirons hopes to convene and computer science expertise. engage the brightest and most forward-looking thinkers on this topic. This work will touch on the problem from every angle, examining not only the technological and market forces that are bringing about this change, but also focusing on how we might stay ahead of the curve without sacrificing important values and ethical commitments at the heart of the legal profession.

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Phil Weiser Pierre de Vries Executive Director Co-Director of the Spectrum Initiative

Phil Weiser is the Dean of the Law School, Thompson Professor of Law, and Executive Director and Founder of Silicon Pierre de Vries is a Senior Adjunct Fellow at Silicon Flatirons and researches and advises clients on the intersection of Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado. Dean Weiser re-joined the Colorado information technology and government policy. His current projects include regulatory paradigms for the Internet/web, alternative conceptual models for wireless policy, spectrum allocation in the TV white spaces, and the impact of intangibility faculty in June, 2011. From April 2010-June 2011, he served as the Senior Advisor for Technology and Innovation to the on decision-making in the digital world. Mr. de Vries is a Research Fellow at the Economic Policy Research Center of the National Economic Council Director at the White House. From July 2009-April 2010, he served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General University of Washington, and a Senior Adjunct Fellow of the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. at the United States Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. Since first joining the CU faculty in 1999, Dean Weiser has worked to He is also a technology advisor to the Washington, D.C., law firm of Harris Wiltshire & Grannis. He is a former Chief of Incubation and establish a national center of excellence in telecommunications and technology law, founding the Journal on Telecommunications & High Senior Director of Advanced Technology and Policy at Microsoft Corporation. Prior to his twelve years at Microsoft, Mr. de Vries worked Technology Law and the Silicon Flatirons Center as well as writing and teaching in the areas of competition policy, innovation policy, and for Korda & Co, a London-based seed capital company and consultancy, advising corporate customers like Pearson and Scientific Atlanta Internet policy. Over the last ten years, Weiser has co-authored three books (The Jury and Democracy: How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic on the likely evolution and business impact of new technologies. He evaluated potential venture capital investments, negotiated investments and relationships, and served as a startup board member. Engagement and Political Participation (Oxford University Press 2010), Telecommunications Law and Policy (Carolina Academic Press 2006), and Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age (MIT Press 2005)), written numerous articles (in both law journals and publications such as the Washington Post and Foreign Affairs), and testified before both houses of Congress. He also remained engaged in public service, arguing a number of pro bono cases before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, co-chairing the Colorado Innovation Council, and serving as the lead agency reviewer for the Federal Trade Commission as part of the 2008 Presidential Transition.

Brad Bernthal Dale Hatfield Entrepreneurship Initiative Director Co-Director of the Spectrum Initiative Dale Hatfield is currently a Senior Fellow at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship and an Brad Bernthal is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado and the Director of the Entrepreneurship Adjunct Professor in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program – both at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Initiative at Silicon Flatirons Center. Professor Bernthal specializes in entrepreneurial law and innovation policy. In addition to Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Hatfield was the Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the Federal his doctrinal teaching, Professor Bernthal leads the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, which provides legal help to about 20 startups Communications Commission (FCC) and, immediately before that, he was Chief Technologist at the Agency. He retired from each year. Professor Bernthal also teaches in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program ("ITP") and his experience the FCC and government service in December 2000. Before joining the FCC in December 1997, he was Chief Executive Officer of Hatfield includes telecommunications and spectrum policy research. Prior to joining the Colorado Law faculty, Professor Bernthal served as the Associates, Inc., a Boulder, Colorado based multidisciplinary telecommunications consulting firm. Before founding the consulting firm in 1982, Hatfield was Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Acting Administrator of the National Silicon Flatirons Fellow for 2005-2007. He started his legal career in San Francisco with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, then moved to Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Before moving to NTIA, Hatfield was Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy Hogan & Hartson, LLP's Denver office, and finally worked for the Boulder law firm of Berg, Hill, Greenleaf and Ruscitti LLP. Prior to law at the FCC. Hatfield has nearly fifty years of experience in telecommunications policy and regulation, and related school, Professor Bernthal taught English to elementary age students in Korea and conducted legislative research as a staff assistant to United areas. Hatfield holds a BS in electrical engineering from Case Institute of Technology and an MS in Industrial Management from Purdue States Senator Robert Kerrey. Professor Bernthal is a TechStars mentor, tennis enthusiast, and laughably serious youth sports volunteer coach. University.

Paul Ohm Blake Reid Director of the Privacy and IP/IT Initiative Director of Fellowships and Special Projects

Paul Ohm is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School. He specializes in information privacy, computer Blake Reid is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Colorado Law and the Director of Fellowships and Special Projects crime law, intellectual property, and criminal procedure. He teaches courses in all of these topics and more, and in 2010 he was at the Silicon Flatirons Center. He directs Colorado's Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law and Policy Clinic (TLPC), where awarded the prize for Excellence in Teaching by the students of Colorado Law. In his work, Professor Ohm tries to build new he and his students advocate for policy change in the public interest on issues of telecommunications, intellectual property, interdisciplinary bridges between law and computer science. Much of his scholarship focuses on how evolving technology privacy, accessibility, and more. Prior to joining Colorado Law, Professor Reid worked as a staff attorney and clinical teaching fellow in First disrupts individual privacy. His article Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization, 57 UCLA Law Amendment and media law at the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown Law. He also served as a law clerk to Justice Nancy E. Review 1701, has sparked an international debate about the need to reshape dramatically the way we regulate privacy. He is commonly cited Rice on the Colorado Supreme Court. Professor Reid earned an LL.M in Advocacy from Georgetown Law and a J.D. from Colorado Law, and quoted by news organizations including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR. From 2012 to 2013, Professor Ohm served where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law. He also earned a B.S. in Computer as Senior Policy Advisor to the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to joining the academy, he served as an Honors Program trial attorney in Science from the University of Colorado's College of Engineering. the U.S. Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Before that, he clerked for Judge Betty Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Mariana Pfaelzer of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law. Before attending law school, Professor Ohm worked for several years as a computer programmer and network systems administrator after earning undergraduate degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from Yale University. Today he continues to write thousands of lines of python and perl code each year. Professor Ohm blogs at Freedom to Tinker.

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Silicon Flatirons had a number of merit worthy conferences and roundtables in 2013 with a boundary-jumping theme that supports our Roundtables mission of raising the level of technology policy debates and creating pathways for meaningful interaction across silos. Our annual privacy conference reflected our goal of being interdisciplinary and looking carefully for new insights. Similarly, our spectrum initiative, The Silicon Flatirons Roundtable Series on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy brought together technological, legal, and other perspectives to stress the need to learn from other domains. Our roundtable discussions on is an important means of furthering Silicon Flatirons’ goal of elevating the debate around legal education challenges, cybersecurity, healthcare, energy and spectrum interference brought together a skillful group of leaders from technology policy issues. At these events a small group of experts from diverse backgrounds academia, industry, and practice and exemplified our commitment to cut across silos. sit around one table considering multiple facets of controversial issues.

Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing: The New Normal and The Challenge to Opportunities and Challenges for the Legal Education Healthcare and Energy Sectors October 8, 2013 in Boulder, CO Conferences January 10, 2013 in Boulder, CO How Academic Institutions Can Best Randall Stephenson JOBS Act, featuring Professor Stephen Advance the Cause of Health Care The Silicon Flatirons Conference Series consists of monthly public events with a number of thoughtful leaders from government, CEO & Chairman, AT&T academia, and industry that wrestle with relevant issues in the technology policy, IP/IT, and entrepreneurship communities. The annual Bradford Innovation conference series includes topics on video programming, patents, entrepreneurship, innovation, wireless spectrum, privacy and our March 21, 2013 in Boulder, CO October 16, 2013 in Boulder, CO flagship internet policy conferenceThe Digital Broadband Migration. The Entrepreneurial University New Times, New Methods: Upgrading The Technology of Privacy Software Patents and Their Challenges Blueprint Spectrum Enforcement January 11, 2013 in Boulder, CO October 8, 2013 in Boulder, CO April 11, 2013 in Boulder, CO November 14, 2013 in Boulder, CO Keynote Speakers: Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Keynote Speakers: Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President, Commission General Counsel, and Secretary, Cisco Cybersecurity in the Energy Sector Boundary Jumping and Entrepreneurial Peter Swire, Co-Chair, W3C Tracking Protection Working Michelle K. Lee, Director, Silicon Valley United States Patent July 22, 2013 in Denver, CO Networks Group; Professor of Law, Ohio State University and Trademark Office November 15, 2013 in Boulder, CO Randy Milch, Executive Vice President - Public Policy and The Digital Broadband Migration: General Counsel, Verizon Communications Inc. The Future of Internet-Enabled Innovation Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics February 10-11, 2013 in Boulder, CO Professor of Law, University of California - Berkeley; Co- May 18-22, 2013 in Aspen, CO Keynote Speakers: Glenn Britt, Chairman and Chief Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Maureen Ohlhausen - Officer, Inc. The Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics (IRLE) is sponsored by the University Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission Randall L. Stephenson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Future of Health Care Innovation of Colorado's Silicon Flatirons Center as a means of supporting thoughtful regulatory AT&T October 16, 2013 in Denver, CO decision-making. In particular, the IRLE hosts an annual seminar for state public utility Larry Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Keynote Speaker: Glenn Steele, President and Chief Executive commissioners and staff as well as engages in state outreach activities. In so doing, it Information, National Telecommunications and Information Officer, Geisinger Health System works with two related Silicon Flatirons initiatives - the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce Policy Law Clinic and the Dale Hatfield Scholars and Research Program. Cross-Border Energy Transactions: Trends, Challenges, The Future of Entrepreneurial Finance and Opportunities in North America March 21, 2013 in Boulder, CO October 31, 2013 in Boulder, CO Presenters: Steven Bradford, Earl Dunlap Distinguished Keynote Speaker: Marcelo Mereles, Partner, Energea Professor of Law, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Jason Mendelson, Managing Director, Foundry Group Radio Spectrum : Facing the Challenge of a Threatened Resource Towards Dynamic Markets in Electric Power, Water, and November 14, 2013 in Boulder, CO Wireless Spectrum Keynote Speaker: Julius Knapp, Chief, Office of Engineering

April 23, 2013 in Boulder, CO and Technology, Federal Trade Commission Annie Anton Professor, Georgia Tech The Challenge of Monetizing Content in a Changing Era September 3, 2013 in Boulder, CO Keynote Speaker: David Bonderman, Founding Partner, TPG

2013 IRLE Faculty and State Regulators

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Entrepreneurship is a group activity that recalls Rudyard Kipling's insight about the Law Roundtable Series Research Reports of the Jungle. "For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, And the strength of the Wolf is The Silicon Flatirons Center this year the Pack," Kipling wrote. SFC’s Entrepreneurship Initiative (the “E.I.”) creates a scene Curricular Offerings continued the Roundtable Series on with high velocity campus/community interaction. The E.I. is premised on the belief that CU’s unique Venture Capital class, co-taught by Foundry Group’s Jason Mendelson Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public January entrepreneurship, especially in the Front Range and at CU-Boulder, is not a solitary enterprise. and E.I. Director Brad Bernthal, continues to thrive. A cross-disciplinary group Policy. These Roundtables convene a diverse New Tech Meetup of over 70 MBA, JD and telecom grad students completed the Fall 2013 course. group of thought leaders in the community Crash Course: Angel Term The class focuses upon the challenges of entrepreneurial finance and raises the Sheet Gotchas Last year the E.I. helped present over 50 public facing entrepreneurship-related events to address a wide variety of issues relevant transactional IQ of Colorado Law and MBA students. A teacher’s guide for the NVC: Spring Kick-Off with over 7,000 participants. Startups form and grow. Students emerge from CU with an to the core mission of Silicon Flatirons. Unplugged: Jeremy Bloom, entrepreneurial mindset. Other regions and universities are starting to take notice of SFC's course was publicly released in 2013. Over the past year, SFC Roundtables Co-Founder, Integrate innovative model of town/gown interaction. And we are working with partners across the CU examined Regulation A of the JOBS Act, campus to build one of the nation's leading public entrepreneurial universities. In addition, over the past year the E.I. helped facilitate two curricular innovations. the ingredients of thriving entrepreneurial First, a new course for first year law and MBA students, Philosophy of public universities, and whether cross- The summary below highlights three notable dimensions that comprise the E.I.: (1) teaching, Entrepreneurship, was introduced in Spring 2013 by co-professors Brad Feld, Phil industry boundary jumping is a useful part of research and cross-campus entrepreneurship; (2) community facing town/gown events that Weiser, and Brad Bernthal. The class orients students to entrepreneurial mindsets, entrepreneurial innovation. The Roundtable February connect CU-Boulder to the surrounding world class startup scene in the Front Range; and (3) startup methodologies, as well as economic geography concepts. Series produced two noteworthy reports: New Tech Meetup Startup Colorado. NVC: IT Track Second, in Fall 2013, Colorado Law introduced a suite of one-credit courses – styled Crash Course: Bootstrapping The Entrepreneurial Blueprint as Deals Lab – that augment lecture classes in the areas of business law. In Fall Unplugged: Bart Lorang, CEO & (forthcoming) Co-Founder, FullContact 2013, CU Law alumna Jenn Rosenthal, with the support of Paul Shoning, returned Rapporteur: Ben Abell, Research Fellow, NVC: How to Pitch to campus to teach a Venture Capital Deals Lab that complements the “podium” Silicon Flatirons Center Venture Capital course. The Deals Lab allows students an opportunity to dive deep This Roundtable explored what the successful into drafting relevant transactional documents. For eample, in the podium course, “entrepreneurial university” of the future students negotiate an investment terms sheet. The Deals Lab then teaches students should look like. Silicon Flatirons Research how to draft the Charter and associated documents behind the term sheet. A core Fellow Ben Abell’s report highlights the March value of the Deals Lab drafting sections is the timely and individualized feedback three necessary roles that an entrepreneurial New Tech Meetup that students receive. university must fulfill – (1) the university as NVC: MVP Workshop catalyst, (2) the university as teacher, and (3) Conference: The Future of Entrepreneurial Finance the university as scholar and innovator – and emphasizes the importance that these three roles be connected and networked within the university. Brad Bernthal presented the Roundtable findings in October 2013 at April Rick Levin - Baker & Hostetler LLP the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship New Tech Meetup Brad Bernthal - University of Colorado Centers Conference in Kansas City, Missouri. Crash Course: Corporate Social Law School Responsibility and the Startup Boundary Jumping and Entrepreneurial Community Networks NVC: IT Track Finals Rapporteur: Mystery Murphy, Research Roundtable: The Entrepreneurial University Blueprint Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center NVC: Champrionships This Roundtable was convened to understand Teaching, Research, and Cross-Campus Entrepreneurship more about the benefits of cross-industry boundary jumping and how and whether The CU New Venture Challenge boundary jumping should be accelerated May The CU New Venture Challenge is the cross-campus entrepreneurship championships for CU- in the Front Range. Silicon Flatirons Crash Course: The Crucible of Leadership with Jerry Colonna, Boulder. The fifth year of the NVC was a launch pad for student startups. Through a series Research Fellow Mystery Murphy’s report Executive Coach and Former of workshops and team-building events, students gained experience in the entrepreneurial describes how to architect structures and Venture Capitalist process. Startup companies in the NVC were paired with our growing army of 70+ volunteer skills necessary for facilitating boundary New Tech Meetup mentors from the Front Range community. The NVC also has become a model for cross- jumping. Further, the Report highlights the Unplugged: David Cohen, Founder campus collaboration. It is supported by several academic centers and departments on campus importance of boundary jumping in an age & CEO, TechStars in addition to Silicon Flatirons, including ATLAS, the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship, of specialization. Startup Summer Class the E-Ship Program at the College of Engineering, ITP, the Computer Science department, Jason Mendelson - Foundry Group with Startup Summer: TechStars the BioFrontiers Institute, and the Music Department’s Center for Entrepreneurship, making Brad Bernthal - Silicon Flatirons and Colorado Law A full list of roundtable reports can be found it a truly cross-campus initiative. on page 22 and at www.silicon-flatirons.org. 12 www.silicon-flatirons.org www.silicon-flatirons.org 13 Silicon Flatirons E.I. As A Convener: Town/Gown Events Connect CU-Boulder to the Entrepreneurship Sponsors Front Range’s World Class Startup Scene Startup Colorado Executives The CU-Boulder campus provides the platform on which the E.I. operates. The E.I. creates Startup Colorado is a regional initiative to increase the breadth and depth of the Brad Feld Dan Caruso the context for CU students and faculty to engage the surrounding community in messy, entrepreneurial ecosystem across Colorado’s Front Range. From Fort Collins to Jason Mendelson June bottom-up innovation. This year featured several notable offerings for CU faculty and Boulder, from Denver to Colorado Springs, Startup Colorado’s mission is to multiply New Tech Meetup students, as well as members of the broader startup community. connections among entrepreneurs and mentors, improve access to entrepreneurial Sponsors Crash Course: Brews & Geeks - A education, and build a more vibrant entrepreneurial community. Startup Colorado’s Bryan Cave LLP Tale of Two Entrepreneurship Scenes Silicon Flatirons Annual Entrepreneurship Conference various programs will deepen the communal backdrop out of which new companies Cooley LLP Our 2013 Annual Entrepreneurship Conference, entitled The Future of Entrepreneurial emerge. Vibrant new company creation, by extension, improves the broader economic Holland & Hart LLP Finance, on March 21, 2013 explored several important trends and emerging models in base of Colorado. Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle entrepreneurial finance. First, the Conference explored data that suggest that the traditional Nancy Pierce coupling of capital and outside control in startup investments is becoming unbundled. In Startup Colorado has had another great year, with several notable successes. First, July Patrons particular, the Conference examined how as super angels, crowdfunding, and accelerators Startup Colorado has helped to bring together the Front Range entrepreneurial Aweida Venture Kendall, Koenig & New Tech Meetup: Unreasonable each represent a la carte offerings that are less bundled than traditional venture capital. community to work towards the collaborative goal of making the whole of Colorado Partners Oelsner PC Institute Second, the Conference discussed the JOBS Act and considered which elements of the a hotbed for entrepreneurship. Catalyzing cross-regional interaction is essential to Baker & Hostetler Krista Marks legislation will prove important. Experts opined that, overall, the removal of the general Startup Colorado’s goal to develop a more vibrant entrepreneurial community, as the LLP Mike Boucher solicitation ban in Rule 506 offerings would be the most impactful aspect of the JOBS Act. diversity in locations and viewpoints creates a more fundamentally robust foundation BlackWood Finance Moye White LLP Finally, the Conference panelists explored the potential for alternative fund structures that on which startups can grow. In this respect, the acceleration of both the Colorado & Accounting, Inc. Orbotix Inc. could make startup investment available for nontraditional product lifecycles and industries. Springs and Fort Collins startup scenes and their connection with the Boulder-Denver Cardinal Peak Quick Left August scenes has been an inspiring product of Startup Colorado’s efforts. Creative Alignments SendGrid Entrepreneurs Unplugged First Western Trust Technology Transfer New Tech Meetup: TechStars Bank Office, University of The Entrepreneurs Unplugged Series promotes startup storytelling with a point. Featuring Next, Startup Summer had an impactful second summer. This program seeks to bring FullContact Colorado national and regional serial entrepreneurs, Unplugged showcases the stories of entrepreneurs’ entrepreneurially-minded undergraduates to Boulder to work as interns for startups, Gnip Zayo Group career paths that can lead to successful ventures, providing aspiring entrepreneurs with role while also participating in a variety of evening courses, geared towards developing the Grotech Ventures models and mentors as they pursue their own ideas. The 2013 line-up included some of skills necessary to become successful entrepreneurs themselves. This past summer, our best-received programs based on attendee feedback. The year kicked off with Colorado twenty students were placed with thirteen Boulder startups, including Rally Software, Entrepreneurs September sports legend turned entrepreneur Jeremy Bloom who is the co-founder of Integrate, and was Zayo, and PivotDesk. With the help of mentors and evening classes, the Startup Summer Brad & Ande Bernthal New Tech Meetup followed by local entrepreneurs Bart Lorang of FullContact and David Cohen of Techstars. participants developed business ideas throughout their time in the program, which they Dave Heal Crash Course: Sales for Startups The fall lineup included the CU success story of John Giacomoni and Manish Vachharajani eventually pitched to a panel of judges comprised of local entrepreneurs. This coming Dave Mangum NVC: Kick-off of LineRate Systems as well as local entrepreneur Luke Beatty, who now runs Strategic Erik J. Cecil, Esq. summer, the program will take place in both Boulder and Denver. Pete Sheinbaum Partnerships for AOL. The series also included perspectives from outside of tech industry, with one of this year’s most well received presentations coming from Heidi Ganahl, the Finally, The Startup Colorado Community Fund has raised over $130,000 and already Angels Founder of Camp Bow Wow. funded two community initiatives - 1-Million Cups, Denver and House of Genius, David Wilson October Boulder. The Fund provides capital to community focused entrepreneurial organizations Indigo Venture Law Offices New Tech Meetup Crash Course Series in Colorado to assist in amplifying the dialogue around entrepreneurship, innovation, John & Kate Ives Unplugged: Luke Beatty, Head of The Crash Course Series connects startups to the best minds and best practices within the high growth enterprises, and enhance the development of startup communities in the Lagrange Systems Strategic Partnerships, AOL Front Range’s entrepreneurial community. In July 2013, we hosted a special Crash Course State. The Fund will soon be announcing new grant recipients. The Grant Committee Marshall Custer Unplugged: John Giacomoni and entitled Brews and Geeks: A Tale of Two Startup Scenes. This event juxtaposed the stories, members are, Brad Feld, Jan Horsfall, Christine Hudson, Erik Mitisek, Bart Lorang, Rezora Manish Vachharajani, Founders, strategies and people behind Colorado’s craft beer scene with the technology community. Ryan Martens, Nancy Phillips, and Phil Weiser. LineRate Bootstrappers NVC: Pitch Night Attendees were delighted with the chance to jump across industry boundaries as well as enjoy some well built Colorado beverages. Startup Colorado is chaired by Brad Feld, Erik Mitisek, and Chris Franz; its Executive 3PMobile Nicole Glaros Director is Colorado Law student Jaclyn Freeman. Alex Ross Rebecca Savage This year’s “regular” Crash Course lineup was especially impactful. In a series of five events Artistic Mag, LLC Roberts & Olivia, Christopher Vincent LLC we hosted a panel of diverse experts who explored issues particular to angel investments; local New Tech Meetup Daniel Walkes Ted Biderman November entrepreneurs Bill Flagg, Sarah Schupp and Don Martin shared tips on how to successfully Denise Hulce & Theresa Szczurek Spearheaded by local entrepreneur Robert Reich, the New Tech Meetup provides a forum Unplugged: Heidi Ganahl, bootstrap your startup; Rally Software CTO Ryan Martens, business and corporate social David Slayden Thomas Higley Founder, Camp Bow Wow responsibility thought leader Geri Mitchell-Brown, and Colorado Law Professor Mark for Front Range techies to network, socialize, and showcase their companies. At these Elizabeth Kraus Trish Rogers New Tech Meetup Loewenstein explored corporate social responsibility; CEO of Mobile Day, techstars mentor monthly, standing-room-only meetings, local startups will give a five-minute presentation Falcon Discovery Velesnex Inc. Roundtable: Boundary Jumping and salesman extraordinaire Howard Diamond gave a primer on the importance of sales for and then receive feedback about their ideas, products, and business models. These pitches Karen Frame WonderOps and Entrepreneurial\Networks startups; and seasoned channel veterens Bill Mooz and Douglas Smith explored the benefits are punctuated by discussions, community announcements, job openings, and just about Michael Weiner Crash Course: Strategic Partners and pitfalls of using strategic partners in ones business. anything else that relates to tech. After its initial successful launch in Boulder, the New Tech Meetup has now expanded to Denver and Fort Collins.

14 www.silicon-flatirons.org www.silicon-flatirons.org 15 Inspire, Prepare, and Place Students in Technology and Entrepreneurial Law

Dale Hatfield Scholars & Research Program Silicon Flatirons DC Scholars in the Private Sector

The Dale Hatfield Scholars and Writing Competition Research Program is designed to The Private Sector Scholars program, through the Silicon encourage student interest in public Flatirons Center, was founded by former Senior Fellow, We are pleased to announce that the winner of this service by providing grants for summer Preston Padden and provides placement assistance for year’s Writing Competition is Jaclyn Freeman, internships in government or public summer internships in organizations involving technology and J.D. Candidate 2014, for her paper Limiting SRO interest positions. With the support of communications issues in D.C. Immunity for Demutualized Stock Exchanges many generous benefactors, the Hatfield to Mitigate Risky Behavior, presented by Mindy Program has become a flagship program 2013 Private Sector Scholars Sooter, Partner, Faegre Baker Daniels at the University of Colorado and has Arielle Brown, Stephanie Minnock, already helped to bring many students to Hogan Lovells Time Warner Cable Each year, Silicon Flatirons accepts submissions Washington, D.C. to take positions in government and non- of papers written about a topic involving law and profit organizations since it was established in 2006. John Cook IV, 21st Century Stephen Walter, Comcast technology in order to promote and encourage Fox/News Corporation among students the continued pursuit of the The Hatfield Program also honors and promotes the values that Tim Wilkins, National Cable research, planning, organization, writing, and Dale has embodied during his distinguished career. From his Dan Henry, National & Telecommunications editing of scholarly papers in this field. This service at the FCC and U.S. Department of Commerce to his Association of Broadcasters Association (NCTA) year’s papers were read and judged by a panel of professorship at the University of Colorado, Dale has embodied (NAB) attorneys at Faegre Baker & Daniels, the sponsor the highest ideals of service, scholarship and leadership. Kurtis Zinger, AT&T of this contest. The winner receives a check for Hundreds, if not thousands, of technology leaders around the Chris Meier, Viacom $500 and an opportunity for publication in a future world have benefited from Dale’s generosity of spirit and issue of the Journal on Telecommunications and intellect. The Hatfield Program offers a great way to continue High Technology Law published by CU Law. Dale’s legacy.

Palantir Privacy Scholars 2013 Hatfield Scholars The importance of information privacy cannot be overstated. Aubra Anthony, Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) Technological advances are enabling unprecedented capabilities to track our movements, purchases, and even Moot Court Competition Telecom Fall Challenge Gabe Bouvet-Boisclair, Free Press our private behavior, including through biometrics, sensor miniaturization, data analytics, web tracking, and techniques Colorado Law participated in the 2013 The Telecom Fall Challenge is a partnership between Silicon Flatirons and CU’s Arielle Brown, Federal Trade Commission not yet imagined. An understanding of the engineering National Telecommunications Moot Court Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program (ITP) in which interdisciplinary teams processes that make these and other developing technologies Competition on February 1-2, 2013. The of Law and ITP students research and advocate for a constituency group on a timely Michelle Hersh, Federal Communications Commission possible, and the vital privacy protections that can be annual competition, hosted by Catholic telecommunications policy question judged by a group of telecom industry leaders and engineered into them, is necessary to effectively addressing University’s Columbus School of Law in Colorado Law and CU Engineering faculty members. Judging is based on a written executive Maggie MacDonald, Public Knowledge the related legal and policy challenges. Washington D.C., is the premier moot court summary, an oral presentation, and a question and answer session. event in the area of telecom law. Team Reggie Nubine, Consumers Union Recognizing the value of educational and research efforts members representing CU Law were Manab This year’s Fall Challenge, organized by Silicon Flatirons Research Fellow Laura Littman, Goswami, Megan Rose, and Ilias Politis. focused on what (if any) role a municipality should play in providing broadband services. Matt Oetting, Federal Communications Commission at the intersection of engineering, privacy, law and policy, Palantir Technologies, Inc., has made possible a number Due to a selection process quirk, this group Teams were assigned to represent different stakeholder groups, namely The Colorado entered the moot court competition without Municipal League (representing Colorado’s municipalities), (new entrant), Brad Revare, National Telecommunications and Information of Privacy Technology Innovation Grants, to support the any substantive background in a complex CenturyLink (incumbent), and Free Press (consumer group). Thirty-seven students Administration (NTIA) following programs at Colorado Law and Silicon Flatirons: area of law and technology. They nonetheless participated as contenders and three professors and ten practitioners from the community

Jamie Schuster, Common Cause 2013 Palantir Scholar in Public Service worked hard in practices, enhanced their judged the competition. Team Municipal League 2 won first place; team members included Torry Hata, Department of Education substantive understanding of the area, and Steven Martyn (Law 3L), Stuti Kapoor (ITP), Rohan Dilip Phadke (ITP), Prateek Rajesh Aaron Vimont, FCC, Disabilities Rights improved their oral communications skills. Mali (ITP), and Aaditya Goyal (ITP). 2013 Palantir Privacy Scholarship While the team did not place in the team Arielle Brown semifinals, they made significant strides, and Manab Goswami won the national competition’s Best Oralist award.

16 www.silicon-flatirons.org www.silicon-flatirons.org 17 2013 Student Inspiring Events A group of students, under the guidance of Phil Weiser, founded The Journal on Telecommunications and High Law Clinics CU New Venture Challenge Technology Law (JTHTL) at the University of Colorado April 17, 2013 Law School in 2001. JTHTL has since established The Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic a position among the elite national technology and (TLPC), led in Spring 2013 by interim directors Ryan Clough and Master of Laws (LL.M.) Inspiring Students in Technology telecommunications law journals, featuring seminal Bill Hunt and led in Fall 2013 by its new full-time director, Assistant Policy and Entrepreneurial Law moments in Internet policy such as former FCC Chairman Michael Powell's articulation of Clinical Professor Blake Reid, provides students an opportunity The LLM in Entrepreneurial Law is one of the only LLM Luncheon the four Internet Freedoms and Professor Tim Wu's groundbreaking definition of Network to get involved in technology, law and regulation. Clinic students programs of its kind nationwide and provides the expertise September 10, 2013 Neutrality. JTHTL is closely affiliated with the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of tackle telecommunications, privacy, intellectual property, and other needed to serve emerging companies as both outside and in- Colorado at Boulder. Annually, the Center hosts the nationally renowned Digital Broadband projects which impact policy and, thanks to support from Patton house counsel. It has already received national media attention What I Wish I Knew in Law School Migration and Privacy symposiums, submissions to which are published in the JTHTL. Boggs LLP, visit policymakers in Washington D.C. to advocate in The Wall Street Journal Law Blog and The National Law October 17, 2013 around their issues. Illustrative projects from 2013 involved Journal. The program focuses on critical aspects of transactional 2013 Board of Editors advocacy before the Federal Communications Commission practice such as intellectual property, securities, deals, and general corporate law. Rigorous academics are combined with Telecom Fall Challenge Editor-in-Chief Articles Editors concerning next-generation 911 services, network resiliency, experiential learning opportunities through the Entrepreneurial October 19, 2013 Arielle Brown Ian Kuliasha procedural reform, and closed captioning; efforts to address issues Law Clinic and substantial legal research and scholarship. Tim Simmons around patentable subject matter and patent trolls before the United 2013 Silicon Flatirons Student Group Managing Editor States Patent and Trademark Office and Federal Trade Commission; The LLM in IT & IP Law provides graduates a competitive Officers Jaclyn Freeman Lead Student Note Editor work to reform the United States Copyright Office's procedures for advantage as technology and intellectual property attorneys Steph Ryder granting exemptions from the anti-circumvention measures of the who are legitimate scholars in their fields and have a superior Chelsea Carr Executive Editor Digital Millennium Copyright Act; and cross-clinical collaboration understanding of their clients’ needs. The program provides John Cook Maggie MacDonald Student Note Editors with Colorado Law's American Indian Law Clinic on critical issues the full range of transactional practice areas such as copyright, Tyler Boschert surrounding cultural property protection. patent, trademark, telecommunications, information privacy, Lead Production Editor David DiGiacomo and computer law. LLM students will produce a significant Andy Evans Steve Martyn The Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (ELC), The Entrepreneurial Law work of scholarship and connect with future clients through the Jean Pyun Clinic (ELC), led by Associate Professor Brad Bernthal, provides Technology Law & Policy Clinic. Production Editor Lauren Ramirez law students with unique, practical experience in transactional Ilias Politis law while offering valuable legal services without charge to local Associate Editors businesses that lack access to venture capital or angel investor resources. A summer section of the ELC was also Resources Editor Nick Grice led by Keith Olivia, a principal at Boulder area law firm Roberts & Olivia. By assisting entrepreneurs when they Garrett Anderson Nick Herrick need help the most, the ELC provides Colorado Law students hands-on opportunities to make a difference in the Elena Simion community. The Clinic assisted over 20 clients in 2013, including startup companies founded by graduate students and Lead Articles Editor Genet Tekeste local entrepreneurs. The Clinic also provided community outreach presentations on legal topics for micro-business Austin Chambers entrepreneurs, especially women starting businesses with limited resources in Denver.

2013 Student Awards

The Honorable Stephen F. Williams Phil Weiser Multi-Tasker Award Leadership Award Ian Kuliasha Lauren Boesel Best Oralist at the Telecom Silicon Flatirons MVP Awards Competition Garrett Anderson Manab Goswami Arielle Brown

Bryan Tramont, Wilkinson Barker Knauer with Summer Scholars

18 www.silicon-flatirons.org www.silicon-flatirons.org 19 2013 Calendar of Events

January April July October • New Tech Meetup • New Tech Meetup • New Tech Meetup: Unreasonable Institute • New Tech Meetup • Roundtable: Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing - • Crash Course: Corporate Social Responsibility and the • Startup Summer Class 7 • Energy Series: Soren Hermansen - Renewable Energy and Opportunities and Challenges for the Healthcare and Startup Community • Startup Summer Class 8 Community Action in Denmark Energy Sectors • Student Event: DC Scholars Orientation • Startup Summer Class 9 • Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Luke Beatty • Conference: The Technology of Privacy • CU New Venture Challenge: IT Track Finals • Workshop: United States Telecommunications Training • Roundtable: The New Normal and The Challenge to Legal • Crash Course: Angle Term Sheet Gotchas • Roundtable: The Entrepreneurial University Blueprint Institute Education • CU New Venture Challenge: Spring Kick-Off • CU New Venture Challenge: Finals • Startup Summer Class 10 • Conference: Software Patents and Their Challenges • Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Jeremy Bloom • Conference: Towards Dynamic Markets in Electric Power, • Roundtable: Cybersecurity in the Energy Sector • Conference: The Future of Health Care Innovation Water, and Wireless Spectrum • Startup Summer Class 11 • Student Event: What I Wish I Knew in Law School • IP Inn of Court • Startup Summer Class 12 • Student Event: Telecom Fall Challenge • Entrepreneurs Unplugged: John Giacomoni & Manish Vachharajani • Roundtable: How Academic Institutions Can Best Advance the Cause of Health Care Innovation • Energy Series: Ensuring Reliability and a Fair Energy Marketplace with Tony Clark, Commissioner, Federal February May August Energy Regulatory Commission • CU New Venture Challenge: Pitch Night • New Tech Meetup • Student Appreciation Lunch • Startup Summer Class: Pitch Night • Conference: Cross-Border Energy Transactions: Trends, • Conference: Digital Broadband Migration: The Future of • Crash Course: The Crucible of Leadership with Jerry • New Tech Meetup: TechStars Challenges, and Opportunities in North America Internet-Enabled Innovation Colonna • In-House Counsel Series: Leading and Managing Change • New Tech Meetup • CU New Venture Challenge: IT Track • Workshop: Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics • Crash Course: Bootstrapping • Entrepreneurs Unplugged: David Cohen • Talk: Judge Alex Kozinski • Startup Summer: Kick-Off • Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Bart Lorang • Startup Summer Class 1: TechStars November • CU New Venture Challenge: How to Pitch • Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Heidi Ganahl • New Tech Meetup • In House Counsel Series: Building a Law Department that Your CFO Will Love • Roundtable: New Times, New Methods - Upgrading Spectrum Enforcement • Conference: Radio Spectrum Pollution - Facing the March June September Challenge of a Threatened Resource • New Tech Meetup • New Tech Meetup • Conference: The Challenge of Monetizing Content in a • Roundtable: Boundary Jumping and Entrepreneurial • CU New Venture Challenge: MVP Workshop • Startup Summer Class 2 Changing Era Networks • Roundtable: JOBS Act • Startup Summer Class 3 • Student Event: Technology Policy Lunch • Crash Course: Strategic Partners • Conference: The Future of Entrepreneurial • Startup Summer Class 4 • New Tech Meetup Finance • DC Scholars Welcome Reception • Crash Course: Sales for Startups • Startup Summer Class 5 • CU New Venture Challenge: Kick-off • Crash Course: Brews & Geeks - A Tale of Two Entrepreneurial Scenes • Startup Summer Class 6

20 www.silicon-flatirons.org www.silicon-flatirons.org 21 Silicon Flatirons Reports and Publications Silicon Flatirons Fellows

Silicon Flatirons Fellows include individuals with a wide range of interests and experiences. They strive to facilitate various initiatives with the benefit of knowledge and experiences outside of traditional academia. 2013 Silicon Flatirons Reports

University Outreach and Engagement: The Ground Is Shifting Under Our Senior Fellows Senior Adjunct Fellows 2013 Silicon Flatirons Feet Fellow Recognition Award Rapporteur: Matt Burns Dale Hatfield Mark Cooper Published: January 2013 Adjunct Professor Director of Research Joe Waz University of Colorado; Consumer Federation of America A Template for Critical Mass: Next Steps for a Vibrant Denver Startup Scene- Senior Fellow Former Chief Engineer Roundtable Report for Denver Mayor Michael Hancock Silicon Flatirons Center Rapporteur: Ian Kuliasha Federal Communications Commission Pierre de Vries Published: January 2013 Former Chief of Incubation & Senior Bill Mooz Director of Advanced Technology and Receivers, Interference, and Regulatory Options Scholar in Residence & Strategy Officer Policy Rapporteur: Madelaine Maior University of Colorado Law School Microsoft Corporation Published: February 2013 David Reed Raymond Gifford Looking Back to Look Forward: The Next Ten Years of Spectrum Policy Scholar in Residence, Interdisciplinary Partner Rapporteur: Michelle Hersh Telecommunications Program Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP; Published: March 2013 University of Colorado Former Chairman 2013 Affiliated Faculty Publications Colorado Public Utilities Commission Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing in the Health Care and Energy Sectors: Boyd, William, Responding to Climate Change Perception and Reality of Risk Management Research Fellows and the Global Land Crisis: REDD+, Market Rapporteur: Matt Burns Leslie Harris Transformation, and Low-Emissions Rural Published: June 2013 President and Chief Executive Officer Phil Weiser - University of Colorado Law Development, 368 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 20120167 David Bennett Center for Democracy and Technology Bryan Tramont - Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP (2013) (with D. Nepstad, C. Stickler, T. Bezerra, and A. Azevedo). How Academic Institutions Can Advance Health Care Innovation New Normal & Law 2.0 Authors: Phil Weiser and Amy Ellis Gene Kimmelman Boyd, William, Natural Gas and the Transformation Published: December 2013 Dietrich Hoefner Senior Associate of the U.S. Energy Sector: Electricity, Joint Institute Energy Innovation Global Partners; for Strategic Energy Analysis, NREL/TP-6A50-55538, 1-240 (NREL 2012) (with J. Logan, G. Heath, E. Full reports can be found at www.silicon-flatirons.org Director of Internet Freedom and Human Paranhos, H. Carlson, K., and J. Macknick). Laura Littman Rights Project Technology Policy New America Foundation Moss, Scott, Casebook: Richard Carlson & Scott A. Moss, Employment Law (Aspen / Wolters Kluwer; 3d ed., forthcoming 2013). Mystery Murphy Bryan Tramont Entrepreneurship Managing Partner Nevelow Mart, Susan, The Case for Curation: The Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP Relevance Of Digest and Citator Results in Westlaw and Lexis, 32 Legal Reference Services Q. 13 (2013). Ari Fitzgerald - Hogan Lovells US LLP Peppet, Scott R., Prostitution 3.0, forthcoming, Iowa Pierre de Vries - Silicon Flatirons Center Law Review (2013).

Schwartz, Andrew, The Corporate Preference for Trade Secret, 74 Ohio State Law Journal 623 (2013).

Schwartz, Andrew, Crowdfunding Securities, 88 Notre Dame Law Review 1457 (2013).

Schwartz, Andrew, Rural Crowdfunding, 13 U.C. Davis Business Law Journal 283 (2013).

Schwartz, Andrew, Keep it Light, Chairman White: SEC Rulemaking Under the CROWDFUND Act, 66 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 43 (2013).

Weiser, Philip J. (with Joe Waz), Internet Governance: Mark Lemley - Stanford University, Howard Shelanski - Federal Trade Commission, and Leslie Harris - Center for Democracy The Role of Multistakeholder Organizations, 10 J. on Dale Hatfield- Silicon Flatirons Center Dorothy Attwood - Walt Disney Company and Technology Telecom & High Tech. L. 331 (2013).

22 www.silicon-flatirons.org www.silicon-flatirons.org 23 Affiliated Faculty

A large part Silicon Flatirons’ reputation stems from its impressive list of affiliated faculty. Within the law school, Silicon Flatirons benefits from the involvement of faculty specializing in telecommunications, entrepreneurship, intellectual property, and privacy. In addition, faculty from Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Economics, the Leeds School of Business, and the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program provide diverse ideas, guidance, and enthusiastic support for Silicon Flatirons conferences and other initiatives.

Brad Bernthal Laura Kornish Scott Moss Patrick S. Ryan Douglas Sicker Associate Professor of Law & Associate Professor of Business Associate Professor of Law Adjunct Professor of Law & the DBC Endowed Professor of Computer the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications University of Colorado University of Colorado Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Science; Director of the Interdisciplinary Program Program Telecommunications Program University of Colorado Kai Larsen Susan Nevelow Mart University of Colorado University of Colorado Associate Professor of Business Director of Law Library & Associate William Boyd University of Colorado Professor Lucinda Sanders Harry Surden Associate Professor of Law University of Colorado Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Associate Professor of Law University of Colorado Robert Linz National Center for Women & Information University of Colorado Law Library Faculty Paul Ohm Technology Dirk Grunwald University of Colorado Associate Professor of Law Paul Teske Professor of Computer Science University of Colorado Scott Savage Dean of the School of Public Affairs University of Colorado Keith Maskus Associate Professor of Economics University of Colorado at Denver Professor of Economics Scott Peppet University of Colorado Dale Hatfield University of Colorado Professor of Law Phil Weiser Adjunct Professor of the Interdisciplinary University of Colorado Andrew A. Schwartz Dean & Thompson Professor of Law Telecommunications Program Sharon Matusik Associate Professor of Law University of Colorado University of Colorado Associate Professor of Business Blake Reid University of Colorado University of Colorado Associate Clinical Professor University of Colorado

24 www.silicon-flatirons.org www.silicon-flatirons.org 25 Advisory Boards

Silicon Flatirons Advisory Board Entrepreneurship Advisory Board Silicon Flatirons’ past accomplishments are the rational result of its impressive board. Members of the board include successful venture capitalists, top Boulder is recognized as having a thriving venture capital and entrepreneurship community. Silicon Flatirons is fortunate to benefit from this active, executives at publicly traded corporations, and partners at large law firms. Their wisdom and guidance have been invaluable. The Board has helped Silicon generous community. In addition to students and professors from the law and business schools, the Entrepreneurial Advisory Board consists of venture Flatirons to set and achieve its objectives and provided the inspiration to explore new paths. capitalists, successful entrepreneurs, top executives at established companies, and attorneys with a variety of pertinent specialties.

Ryan C. Arney Dale Hatfield Andrew T. Pouzeshi Dan Caruso Brad Feld Kevin McGuire Trish Rogers Partner Spectrum Initiative Co-Director and Senior Fellow Attorney at Law Co-Founder, President & CEO Managing Director Executive Director Partner Zayo Group Foundry Group J.P. Morgan Private Bank Moye White Davis Graham & Stubbs, LLP Silicon Flatirons Center Merchant & Gould P.C. Adjunct Professor David Cohen David Jilk Jason Mendelson Jennifer Rosenthal Dan Caruso University of Colorado David Reed Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer Founder & CEO Founder Managing Director Attorney Scholar in Residence, ITP TechStars Standing Cloud, Inc. Foundry Group Kendall, Koenig & Oelsner PC Zayo Group David Huberman University of Colorado General Counsel Senior Fellow Elizabeth Cook John Kembel Bill Mooz Daniel Sherwinter Norton Cutler Webroot Software, Inc. Silicon Flatirons Center Of Counsel Founder, President, & Director Entrepreneur Scholar in Residence & Strategy Officer Attorney Philanthropiece University of Colorado; Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle Perkins Coie Justin C. Konrad Evan Rothstein Laura Kornish Senior Fellow Partner Partner Howard Diamond Assoc. Professor, Silicon Flatirons Center Nancy Stevens Steve Davis Hutchinson Black and Cook, LLC Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP Senior Vice President of Policy and Law Chief Executive Officer, Leeds School of Business Chairman MobileDay University of Colorado Zach Nies First Western Trust Bank CenturyLink Jon Lehmann Mike Rouleau Director, Government & Regulatory Affairs Chief Technology Officer Senior Vice President Business Dev. & Strategy Jason Eckenroth Richard Levin Rally Software Michael Zeisser Stanton Dodge Comcast Cable Corporation tw telecom Executive Vice President, General Counsel, & Sec. Chief Executive Officer Counsel Chairman US Investments ShipCompliant Baker Hostetler Nancy Pierce Alibaba Group Lawrence Levine John Ryan Associate Vice Chancellor & Chief Information Officer President & Managing Director Chief Legal Officer Tim Enwall Krista Marks KELD LLC Joe Zell Craig Donaldson University of Colorado Level 3 Communications Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs Principal Chief Executive Officer General Partner Comstock Ventures Woot Math Mike Platt Grotech Ventures Intrado Bill Levis Lisa Scalpone Director of the Office of Consumer Counsel Partner Vice President of Legal and Government Affairs Julian Farrior Jana Matthews Cooley LLP Michael L. Drapkin State of Colorado WildBlue Communications Partner Founder Chief Executive Officer Backflip Studios The Jana Matthews Group; Robert Reich Holland & Hart LLP; Tom Lookabaugh Douglas Sicker Adjunct Faculty Executive Vice President, R&D Program Director Founder DBC Endowed Professor, Computer Science ANZ Innovyz START (Adelaide, AU) Developers Cooperative University of Colorado CableLabs Director, ITP University of Colorado David Drucker Dan McCormick IT & IP Advisory Board WildBlue Communications Associate David St.John-Larkin The inherently technical nature of information technology and intellectual property results in unique legal and policy issues. Approaching such issues Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Senior Counsel requires an understanding of engineering and computer science, in addition to traditional legal knowledge. In this complex environment, Silicon Flatirons Jill Dupré Perkins Coie benefits immeasurably from its IT & IP Advisory Board, which includes leaders in the educational, entrepreneurial, and legal communities. Associate Director of ATLAS Bob McKenzie University of Colorado Board Member Amber Tafoya Jud Cary Jason Haislmaier Mindy Sooter Crown Castle Corporation Director, External Affairs VP, Video Tech. Policy and Deputy General Counsel Partner Partner Brad Feld AT&T CableLabs Bryan Cave LLP; Faegre Baker Daniels Managing Director Stephen Meer Adjunct Faculty Foundry Group Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder David B. Wilson Michael L. Drapkin University of Colorado David St.John-Larkin Intrado Station Manager Partner Senior Counsel Raymond Gifford KGNU Community Radio Holland & Hart LLP; David Huberman Perkins Coie Partner Jason Mendelson Adjunct Faculty General Counsel Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP; Managing Director Sue Wyman University of Colorado Webroot Software, Inc. Senior Adjunct Fellow Foundry Group President Silicon Flatirons Center Jivaro Group and JivaroCXO Jill Dupré Lawrence Levine Tom Moore Associate Director of ATLAS Assoc. Vice Chancellor & CIO Jason Haislmaier Founder and President Michael Zeisser University of Colorado University of Colorado Partner WildBlue Communications Chairman US Investments Bryan Cave LLP; Alibaba Group Phil Gordon Douglas Sicker Adjunct Faculty Bill Mooz Partner DBC Endowed Professor, Computer Science University of Colorado Scholar in Residence and Strategy Officer Joe Zell Littler Mendelson Director, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications University of Colorado Law School General Partner Program Natalie Hanlon-Leh Senior Fellow Grotech Ventures University of Colorado Partner Silicon Flatirons Center Faegre Baker Daniels Lee Zieroth Senior Vice President and General Counsel CableLabs

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Silicon Flatirons is uniquely positioned to bring together members of the community interested in law, technology and entrepreneurship in order Sponsors to elevate the debate around technology policy Charter Members st issues, facilitate networking, and inspire student 21 Century Fox Liberty Media Corporation interest in technology law. These goals would AT&T Backflip Studios Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle be unattainable without the generous financial CenturyLink Baseline Telecom Merchant & Gould, P.C. contributions of our supporters. We feel fortunate Bryan Cave LLP Motion Picture Association of to have the assistance and encouragement of Comcast Corporation so many respected companies, law firms, and CTIA-The Wireless Association CableLabs America (MPAA) individuals. Microsoft Cooley LLP Nancy Pierce CoreSite Qualcomm Verizon If you or your organization are interested in DIRECTV Sheridan Ross P.C. becoming a supporter and would like more DISH Network Squire Sanders (US) LLP information about the annual support levels, please contact: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Facebook T-Mobile US, Inc. Anna Noschese Faegre Baker Daniels Program Director Globalstar Time Warner Inc (303) 735-5633 Hitachi tw telecom inc. [email protected] Executive Members Hogan Lovells US LLP Wiley Rein LLP Brad Feld Holland & Hart LLP Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Intrado Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Latham & Watkins LLP Dorr LLP 2013 SUPPORTER OF THE Dan Caruso YEAR AWARDS Google Hutchinson Black and Cook, LLC Telecom Policy Patrons Jason Mendelson Rebecca Arbogast, Comcast Applied Broadband Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Aweida Venture Partners Kendall, Koenig & Oelsner PC IP/IT Level 3 Communications Ben Fernandez, Faegre Baker Baker & Hostetler LLP Krista Marks Daniels National Cable & Telecommunications Association Balan Nair Littler Mendelson, P.C. Palantir Black Hills Corporation Mike Boucher Entrepreneurship Patton Boggs LLP BlackWood Finance & Accounting, Moye White LLP Rick Levin, Baker & Hostetler LLP Perkins Coie Inc. Neustar Polsinelli Cardinal Peak Orbotix Inc. Time Warner Cable Comptel Quick Left Cox Enterprises, Inc. SendGrid Creative Alignmnets Sherman & Howard L.L.C. Crown Castle International Simple Energy Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP Steptoe & Johnson LLP Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Technology Transfer Office, Entertainment Software Association University of Colorado First Western Trust Bank Tendril FullContact Viacom, Inc. Gnip VictorOps Greenwood Telecommunications WildBlue, A ViaSat Company Consultants Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Grotech Ventures Zayo Group

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