Brad Feld’s random acts of kindness

When I read Brad Feld’s latest post “Random Acts of Kindness – Marathon Fundraising“, it made me think that If I had to create a fake tag cloud of words that have to do with Brad, the word “random” would be in it, as would the word “kindness.” You see, I met Brad on one …

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Help me choose a new head shot

I’m trying to decide between 3 photos to pick the headshot that I’m going to use in the future. Which do you like best? #1 #2 or #3?

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TechStars NYC and me

Yesterday, we announced that Techstars is expanding to New York City. Since this is my personal blog, I won’t repeat all the details of that here (there are some links below if you want to learn more about it), but I wanted to let everyone know that I’ll be temporarily relocating to NYC from early …

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Boulder is showing the world about mentorship

During the last Techstars summer, we were visited by representatives from two foreign governments: Singapore and France. Both had heard about something interesting happening in Boulder. Each came and observed the program for a half day or so, looking for a productive exchange of ideas and opportunities. During the summer, I was invited by the …

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DonorsChoose – Go Colorado!

Thanks to Micah Baldwin for organizing the Colorado tech bloggers to band together and compete in the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge together. I just donated to one of the Colorado education causes. You can get involved and donate a few bucks too. Doing so helps education locally, and it helps us as Colorado Tech Bloggers win …

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Metro State College seeking e-mentors

I’m on the board of advisors for the Center for Innovation at Metro State College. Because we think mentors kinda rock and that they’re critical to helping first time entrepreneurs, we’ve established an e-mentorship program there. The program matches both high school (Denver Venture School – the only entrepreneurship-focused charter school in the country) and …

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