Boulder Startup Week is less than a week away and you betcha Quick Left is participating! From startup crawls to chair racing brawls, we'll be doing it all! We'd love to see your entrepreneurial spirit for #BSW13 so join us, ok y'all!?

Having tried to get my own start up into Open Angel Forum last year, it was fun to attend last week’s OAF as a sponsor with Quick Left. We've sponsored the last three sessions in both spring and fall and will continue to support this event because it provides entrepreneurs free and open access to the angel investors that they need. Keep reading to learn about the entrepreneurs in attendance.

Cogs and Code. Bikes and Bytes. Geeks and Gears.

It's no secret that Quick Left is a bike-centric workplace (even our name is bike related). In celebration of National Bike Month and kicking off Boulder Startup Week, bike geeks and computer geeks (one and the same) will come together Tuesday, May 14 at our Bikes and Bytes Hackfest, where developers will be challenged to come up with bike-themed mobile or web applications in three hours or less.

Startup Weekend is coming back to Boulder for the sixth year April 26-28 and should be one of the best yet....and not just because we're there. With great speakers lined up along with some of Quick Left's finest mentors participating (Jessica Dillon, David Aragon, and Bob Bonifield), you won't want to miss this event taking place at TechStars Boulder.

There's a few more tickets left, too. Not familiar with Startup Weekend? Read on!

Over 100 Boulder and Denver software developers kicked off our Rube Goldberg Hackfest, but only four teams survived to present their machines in the end. Who knew devs were so interested in YOLO tweets (which were a recurring theme for the evening)?

Quick Left hosted the RailsBridge workshop, along with the organization of the event by Thoughtbot's Desi McAdam, earlier this month. We asked some participants to let us know their thoughts on the event and Katie and Paul of 23rd Studios graciously volunteered to share their experiences below. Not only that, they took amazing photos of the event. And yes, that's me giving a speech in a bike helmet.

Hi there, we’re Katie Falkenberg and Paul Talbot, co-owners of 23rd Studios. We just attended the most recent RailsBridge at Quick Left in Boulder and had a blast!

Paul has always been interested in learning new things and has been taken with code ever since he was a youngster. He mostly does photography and video, but Katie does a lot of web work, though mostly on the design end, and when the chance came up to attend the RailsBridge workshop, we both jumped at the chance.

Quick Left is partnering with ZingProject to host their launch party March 13. We asked Anthony Hildoer, CTO + Co-founder of ZingProject, to tell us a bit more about the project management software.

(Here's pics from the launch party!)

We’re ZingProject and we’re hosting our official launch party with the awesome folks at Quick Left on 3/13/13 from 6pm - 9pm. We think you should be there, and we know you’ll have a good time. What is Zing?

Waza is the Japanese word for art and technique. After attending Heroku's second ever developer conference, I can vouch that it is appropriately named.

Thanks to all those who attended Decoding Humor at Work. Despite the blizzard, many of you still came out to learn about benign violations of humor in the workplace. If you missed it, you'll never know what a 'too soon' comedy fail is. You could be experiencing it at this very moment, but will be in the dark. But we can catch you up to speed pretty quickly. So just what did we learn last night from Professor Peter McGraw? Well...

I've heard this phrase often since starting work at a custom dev shop: "Women who code are like unicorns."

Well, I felt pretty lucky to have been in a room full of unicorns last Thursday. Quick Left hosted the Women Who Code Meetup Kick-off in Boulder and organizer Katie Weiss, CEO of InsideGood, gave a passionate welcome to those in the room. So much so, that I asked her to share her passion of getting women into coding with all the dear readers of our blog.

If after reading you care to join us at the next Women Who Code meetup, Quick Lefter's own unicorn Jessica Dillon will be presenting her jQuery Conf Portland talk proposal .stop() using .animate() and .start using .css-animations.

On the first Thursday in February, approximately 40 female coders packed into the Quick Left offices for the kick-off of Women Who Code Boulder/Denver in Boulder. Since October, Women Who Code B/D has grown to over 225 members and...