Forget those business conferences with long speeches and boring panel discussions. On Nov 18 (new date!), Boulder’s most innovative businesses will open their doors to the public to celebrate Boulder companies who drive the networked economy. NewCo Boulder is a city-wide event that takes you right into the corporate offices of 35 of the most innovative and successful …
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Dear Techstars Austin Class of 2014. Consider yourselves challenged. That means you have 24 hours to either meet the challenge, or donate to ALS. In fact, you should just donate anyway. Jason Seats, Brewbot, Burpy, Cloud66, Common Form, Experiment Engine, Fashion Metric, Free Textbooks , LawnStarter, NMRKT, Pivot Freight, & Smart Host! With Love, Techstars Boulder …
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I'm always looking for a great tool to help me do research into what's happening in the market. My latest favorite tool, which launched on Tuesday, is called Crunchinator which takes CrunchBase data and lets you slice and dice it in almost any way you want. Brought to you by entrepreneur and friend Eric Marcoullier, it's …
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And the Techstars Boulder 2014 schedule is out! The first thing you'll notice is the dates are very different than normal. Historically we start in May and end in August, but this year I'll be in NYC helping our new MD there, Alex Iskold, until June. So Boulder will start a little later, and end …
If you're a startup in Colorado, you've got to get in on this. Our friends at PivotDesk are organizing the first ever Boulder Startup Food Drive. Startups around can drop off their non-perishables by 11/8 at the Techstars Boulder office. PivotDesk will deliver those items to Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA) to help families in …
If you're an entrepreneur or a startup, and want to help get Colorado back on it's feet after the flood last week, consider donating to EFCO, the Entrepreneur's Foundation of Colorado. Many have already joined in, including Foundry Group, GoodApril (recent Techstars grad acquired by Intuit), the Defrag Conference, Silicon Valley Bank, Galvanize, Uber, Techstars, …
Yesterday was our anniversary and I've spent an entire day trying to figure out words that adequately convey how much I love and admire my husband Mark. Its times like these that I wish I were a poet. While we've only been married for 7 years, we've known each other for 16. We met on …
Yesterday we made final decisions for the next TechStars NYC class. It was absolutely gut wrenching. We had over 1700 applications, we narrowed it down to about 40ish, and then picked the final class from there. It took us FOREVER to decide this round - lots of debates back and forth between myself and Eugene. …
I'm spending about 95% of my waking hours right now on TechStars - reflected so in this blog! Bare with me as I get through this. Early application deadline for TechStars NYC is tonight at 11:59:59 ET. I've complied an awesome list of reasons why you should apply TODAY and not wait until the final …
Wednesday I flew into and out of Chicago for an investor event (Excelerate Demo Day!). But working mama challenge #533 almost got the better of me. My alarm went off at 4am so I could catch a 6am flight. But we still share a family bed, so my son Jackson decided he wasn't happy that …
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