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Bour Communications, LLC a commercialization consulting service that helps companies bring technology to customers. Tim Bour is the owner of Bour Communications, LLC and is currently the Executive Director of the Boulder Innovation Center in Boulder, Colorado (www.boulderinnovationcenter.com). Tim specializes in helping companies and researchers commercialize or scale up their technology. Tim also can consult with cities where universities are located help boost economic development and create jobs resulting from university research. Tim is available for part time consulting positions for companies/universities/research labs who have an invention and some demonstration of product feasibility and want to improve the chances of successfully commercializing that technology. Tim has a BS in Chemical Engineering along with an MBA combining a solid understanding of technology and business to help formulate actionable strategies to bring products to customers. Tim's work experience includes the Boulder Innovation Center, Dow Chemical USA, Baxter International, Hewlett Packard, Circle Graphics, as well as founding CEO of Cielo Communications (a VC backed optical communication component startup). Please contact Tim Bour if you have a project you want to discuss at tim@bourcom.com or 303-245-0946.
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| University or City where University is located wants to expand the commercialization of research to support economic development or job creation. | Over four years as Executive Director of Boulder Innovation Center. Tim has met with 75 research teams from University of Colorado and Colorado School of Mines. Facilitated the formation of 8 new companies. Tim has built and organization that works with 150 research projects/startup companies per year. | Development of a strategy specific to your community's strengths to boost the commercialization of your local University's research. Considers available funding level, specific technology concentration, entreprenuerial capability in local community. |
| Early stage technology based company struggling with commercializing technology, attracting equity investment, growing sales, attracting appropriate staff. | At Boulder Innovation Center, Tim has worked with over 75 university inventions and 50 federally funded companies across the full spectrum of technologies. Tim also worked at HP focusing on high growth, emerging businesses in product strategy, product marketing, and strategic selling. Tim was a founder and initial CEO of Cielo Communications, Inc. This was a VC backed company that operated from 1997 through 2002. Tim Bour lead ~$50 million of venture captial investment to develop the first gigabit optical transceiver used by Cisco Systems. | Identify key customer need for your technology. Develop a commercialization strategy based on a combination of your unique technology capabilities and customer needs. Impletment an optimized business model to bring your techology to the customer. Finding investment capital to support company growth. |
| Manufacutirng scale up in support of rapid sales growth or to provide a solid foundation for significant equity investment. | While at Circle Graphics from 2004 through 2007 was the Executive Vice President of Manufacturing and Engineering. During that time Tim lead the reorganization of all manufacuting, maintenance, engineering, environmental and safety processes. The improvement in the manufacturing performance led to an majority investment from TA Associates, a private equity firm. | Identify key manufacturing processes and bottlenecks in those processes. Create a culture of meeting customer needs every time. Implement process improvement and automation as needed to achieve profitability and long term growth objectives. |
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