TechUp Seminar: Innovative Tools to Grow Your Startup
2025-08-28 13:00 - 15:30 UTC | Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship – Suite 2800, CU Denver Business School, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support tech founders in the Denver area.
Startups in traditional industries are always looking to increase efficiency and prepare for scaling. This in-person seminar will deep dive into how and why implementing technological solutions will positively impact and accelerate your startup’s success. Plus, you’ll get an overview of the low-cost but effective tools relevant to marketing, sales, and operations that will help manage your systems, software, and CRMs.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Pivot or Persevere? Navigating Startup Challenges
2025-08-27 13:00 - 15:30 | Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship – Suite 2800, CU Denver Business School, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support tech founders in the Denver area.
The startup journey is riddled with challenging decisions that can result in big and small changes to your business. That’s why it’s important to have an honest evaluation of your venture and be prepared to pivot. This IN-PERSON seminar will review the strategic decision-making process that is critical for founders to either pivot their idea to one that may be more lucrative and meet market needs or to persevere past challenges that may arise.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Protect Your Startup With IP and Legal Resources
2025-08-26 13:00 - 15:30 | Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship – Suite 2800, CU Denver Business School, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support tech founders in the Denver area.
Learn how to avoid the most common legal pitfalls in every startup’s journey. Are you in need of low-cost or free legal resources? This in-person seminar reviews the major challenges and considerations for tech startups preparing for a successful launch. From protecting IP to ethical conundrums, this seminar overviews how to fully protect your startup.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Lead and Become Your Ideal Boss
2025-08-21 13:00 - 15:30 | Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship – Suite 2800, CU Denver Business School, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support tech founders in the Denver area.
This IN-PERSON seminar explores the essential leadership principles and practices needed to succeed in today’s entrepreneurial ventures. Content and activities will cover the distinction between managers vs. leaders; leadership’s motivation role; the critical aspects of trust and effective trust repair strategies; path-goal theory; the leader-member exchange model; transactional vs. transformational leadership; and the intricate intersections of morality within ethical, servant, and authentic leadership.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Personalize Databases for Small Business
2025-08-20 13:00 - 15:30 | Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship – Suite 2800, CU Denver Business School, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support tech founders in the Denver area.
At the beginning stages, making the most of low-cost software tools can make all the difference for your startup. In this in-person seminar, learn the essential Excel and Tableau skills to build your own databases that best serve your small business needs. Then explore how these tools can support customization for your customer service, financial, and product development systems.
Register to attend here.

Entrepreneurial Connections Palooza
2025-08-19 16:00 - 19:00 | Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship – Suite 2800, CU Denver Business School, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
Welcome to the Fall 2025 semester! The Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship is bringing together new and continuing ENTP students, alumni, faculty, advisors, mentors, prospects, and other partners for an evening of conversation and connection. Hear about the upcoming opportunities to get involved and be inspired through entrepreneurship and innovation this year. We’re excited to have you be a part of our vibrant community of entrepreneurs, innovators, and business leaders!
Event highlights include:

An orientation workshop at 5:10 p.m., led by Dr. Madhavan Parthasarathy, Executive Director and Academic Chair of the Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship
Open networking with CU Denver’s entrepreneurial community
Advice from current ENTP students and recent graduates
Light refreshments and swag giveaways

Date: Tuesday, Aug. 19
Time: 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. (MST)
Location: Jake Jabs Center, Suite 2800
CU Denver Business School, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO 80202
Register to attend here → bit.ly/ENTP-Palooza-Fall25

TechUp Seminar: Build Your Organizational Toolkit
2025-08-14 13:00 - 15:30 | Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship – Suite 2800, CU Denver Business School, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support tech founders in the Denver area.
Dive into the dynamic realm of project management and operations in this IN-PERSON seminar designed for those with an entrepreneurial mindset. Get to know the essentials—including project planning, budgeting, and profitability—before moving into the best team management practices. This seminar promises a holistic approach to project management, offering practical tools and strategies to navigate the challenges of entrepreneurial endeavors.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Lean Digital Marketing
2025-08-13 13:00 - 15:30 | Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship – Suite 2800, CU Denver Business School, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support tech founders in the Denver area.
Startups and small businesses cannot afford extravagant marketing campaigns that fail to deliver. Learn how entrepreneurs can apply the lean methodology to their marketing efforts to prioritize resources, minimize costs, and maximize performance. By the end of this IN-PERSON seminar, you will know how to create a lean digital marketing plan that makes the most out of a limited budget.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Perfect Your Pitch
2025-08-12 13:00 - 15:30 | Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship – Suite 2800, CU Denver Business School, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support tech founders in the Denver area.
Have you perfected your elevator pitch yet? This IN-PERSON seminar will show you how to refine your Lean Canvas Model, executive summary, and full business plan. Then, you will learn how to translate these into a high-quality pitch deck with the necessary components for selling investors and other stakeholders on your idea.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Mission-Driven and Social Entrepreneurship
2025-08-07 13:00 - 15:30 | Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship – Suite 2800, CU Denver Business School, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support tech founders in the Denver area.
Mission-driven entrepreneurship does not only exist in the nonprofit realm. This IN-PERSON seminar will highlight examples of successful organizations driven by purpose in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Learn how to define mission-driven entrepreneurship, create solutions using mission-driven metrics, and create planning documents for a variety of social, environmental, and ethical issues.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Entrepreneurial Funding Sources
2025-08-06 13:00 - 15:30 | Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship – Suite 2800, CU Denver Business School, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support tech founders in the Denver area.
Understanding your business’s finances is vital for every entrepreneur. This IN-PERSON seminar will overview the essentials of financial management, especially for tech-related startups. Learn to recognize the importance of cash and cashflow; when to consider funding; pricing strategies and models; how to navigate financial statements and taxes; modern accounting software tools; exit planning; and how and when to hire professional support.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Personal Entrepreneurial Finance
2025-08-05 13:00 - 15:30 | Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship – Suite 2800, CU Denver Business School, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support tech founders in the Denver area.
Are you interested in funding your own startup? This IN-PERSON seminar will review the essentials of personal finance and how to sustainably invest in your business. There will be an expert review of how to analyze your options and the best ways to bootstrap.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: 3D Printing and Prototyping
2025-07-22 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
Developing a prototype for your business is an art and a science, and using customer feedback in an iterative process is critical to developing a feasible MVP. This online seminar will walk through the process of rapid prototyping and using 3D printing for product development.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Emotion-Driven Algorithms in Social Media and Marketing
2025-07-16 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
Have you ever spoken about a product or service with a friend and then seen it show up as an ad on your phone? Natural Language Processing is an emerging wave of technology that can be used in your business, social media, and marketing to increase your business reach. This online seminar is all about the influence of emotion in the algorithms that we rely on in our modern market.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Strategic Pricing for New Products and Services
2025-07-15 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
An effective pricing strategy is a crucial component to launching any product or service and its marketing strategy. Are you ready to optimize your business’ profitability? This online seminar goes into the mechanics and analysis of pricing strategy so that you can learn how to take your next innovation to the market and see it take off.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: The Best AI Admin Applications for Startups
2025-07-10 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
As a founder, streamlining your business and optimizing expenditures is integral to profit, efficiency, and scaling. In this online seminar, you will learn about the ethical use of AI and how to best use it as a tool to meet your business administration needs. You will get hands-on experience building your own AI assistants and understand how to effectively use many machine learning tools for all of your business operations.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Build an Authentic Brand on Social
2025-07-09 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
Social media isn’t just about showing up and scrolling—it’s about building a thriving, healthy social community, both online and offline. In this online seminar, you will learn how to develop an authentic and evolving personal brand using the “Five Es” of keeping social media social: empathy, encouragement, engagement, education, and entertainment. These principles go beyond superficial posting, guiding you to create meaningful content that fosters real community connections.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Personalize Databases for Small Business
2025-07-08 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
At the beginning stages, making the most of low-cost software tools can make all the difference for your startup. In this online seminar, learn the essential Excel and Tableau skills to build your own databases that best serve your small business needs. Then explore how these tools can support customization for your customer service, financial, and product development systems.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Protect Your Startup With IP and Legal Resources
2025-06-26 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
Learn how to avoid the most common legal pitfalls in every startup’s journey. Are you in need of low-cost or free legal resources? This online seminar reviews the major challenges and considerations for tech startups preparing for a successful launch. From protecting IP to ethical conundrums, this seminar overviews how to fully protect your startup.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Innovative Tools to Grow Your Startup
2025-06-25 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
Startups in traditional industries are always looking to increase efficiency and prepare for scaling. This online seminar will deep dive into how and why implementing technological solutions will positively impact and accelerate your startup’s success. Plus, you’ll get an overview of the low-cost but effective tools relevant to marketing, sales, and operations that will help manage your systems, software, and CRMs.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Pivot or Persevere? Navigating Startup Challenges
2025-06-24 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
The startup journey is riddled with challenging decisions that can result in big and small changes to your business. That’s why it’s important to have an honest evaluation of your venture and be prepared to pivot. This online seminar will review the strategic decision-making process that is critical for founders to either pivot their idea to one that may be more lucrative and meet market needs or to persevere past challenges that may arise.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Lead and Become Your Ideal Boss
2025-06-18 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
This online seminar explores the essential leadership principles and practices needed to succeed in today’s entrepreneurial ventures. Content and activities will cover the distinction between managers vs. leaders; leadership’s motivation role; the critical aspects of trust and effective trust repair strategies; path-goal theory; the leader-member exchange model; transactional vs. transformational leadership; and the intricate intersections of morality within ethical, servant, and authentic leadership.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Build Your Organizational Toolkit
2025-06-17 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
Dive into the dynamic realm of project management and operations in this online seminar designed for those with an entrepreneurial mindset. Get to know the essentials—including project planning, budgeting, and profitability—before moving into the best team management practices. This seminar promises a holistic approach to project management, offering practical tools and strategies to navigate the challenges of entrepreneurial endeavors.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Entrepreneurial Funding Sources
2025-06-12 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
Understanding your business’s finances is vital for every entrepreneur. This online seminar will overview the essentials of financial management, especially for tech-related startups. Learn to recognize the importance of cash and cashflow; when to consider funding; pricing strategies and models; how to navigate financial statements and taxes; modern accounting software tools; exit planning; and how and when to hire professional support.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Perfect Your Pitch
2025-06-11 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
Have you perfected your elevator pitch yet? This online seminar will show you how to refine your Lean Canvas Model, executive summary, and full business plan. Then, you will learn how to translate these into a high-quality pitch deck with the necessary components for selling investors and other stakeholders on your idea.
Register to attend here.

MS in ENTP Webinar - June 2025
2025-06-10 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom
Join our next free webinar to learn more about our Master’s in Entrepreneurship degree program. The Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship’s head of recruitment and student advisor, Brian Brinkman, will cover the degree program’s design, course options, experiential components, tuition and fees, scholarships, and the application process. Come prepared with questions!
DATE: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
TIME: 1:00 PM (MST)
WHERE: Zoom
RSVP: ucdenverdata.formstack.com/forms/ms_entp_webinar_june2025

TechUp Seminar: Lean Digital Marketing
2025-06-05 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
Startups and small businesses cannot afford extravagant marketing campaigns that fail to deliver. Learn how entrepreneurs can apply the lean methodology to their marketing efforts to prioritize resources, minimize costs, and maximize performance. By the end of this online seminar, you will know how to create a lean digital marketing plan that makes the most out of a limited budget.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Personal Entrepreneurial Finance
2025-06-04 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
Are you interested in funding your own startup? This online seminar will review the essentials of personal finance and how to sustainably invest in your business. There will be an expert review of how to analyze your options and the best ways to bootstrap.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Mission-Driven and Social Entrepreneurship
2025-06-03 10:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support underrepresented tech founders in the Denver area.
Mission-driven entrepreneurship does not only exist in the nonprofit realm. This online seminar will highlight examples of successful organizations driven by purpose in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Learn how to define mission-driven entrepreneurship, create solutions using mission-driven metrics, and create planning documents for a variety of social, environmental, and ethical issues.
Register to attend here.

TechUp Seminar: Emotion-Driven Algorithms in Social Media & Marketing
2025-05-21 18:00 - 20:30 | CU Denver Business School – Room 2200, 1475 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
TechUp Seminars are free learning opportunities designed to upskill and support tech founders in the Denver area.
Have you ever spoken about a product or service with a friend and then seen it show up as an ad on your phone? Natural Language Processing is an emerging wave of technology that can be used in your business, social media, and marketing to increase your business reach. This in-person seminar is all about the influence of emotion in the algorithms that we rely on in our modern market.
Register to attend here.
