[duaneb]

Fort Collins and Colorado Springs are both part of a much larger tech corridor across Colorado; however, Denver is a distinct self-sufficient subset.

[wavefunction]

Though Colorado Springs tends to mostly consist of defense contractors, there are a few startups. My buddy is CTO of Bombbomb (http://bombbomb.com), as an example of one successful firm that's completely local in origin.

In the Eighties, Colorado Springs (and perhaps the larger corridor) was named "Silicon Mountain" and handled a lot of chip fab. YT Cracker came up out of there, and some other interesting folks.