When a team starts working a new way, it starts talking a new way. That’s happening at Techstars right now. So much of our work now gets made with Claude that we needed words for where a piece of work is in its life. Nobody sat down and designed a taxonomy. It just showed up …
Whenever two of us at Techstars disagree about something real, we do what we’ve started calling a Claude mind meld. I work the problem in my Claude. The other person works it in theirs. Then we pass prompts and outputs back and forth until the two sessions are arguing about the same thing in the …
Someone asked me recently how many engineers a startup will need in two years. When I said “maybe a tenth of what you’d guess,” they laughed. I wasn’t joking. Here’s what I believe is happening. In the near future, most of the features in most software systems won’t be written by software engineers. They’ll be …
When Amir Hegazi and I first started talking about writing a book together, we kept coming back to one central puzzle. Over the last two decades at Techstars, I’ve had the privilege of working with more than 5,000 startup teams. Across thousands of pitch decks, late-night mentoring sessions, and board meetings, you start to spot …
Have you heard the news? We’re planning to bring the Techstars accelerator back to Boulder in 2025! Huge thanks to Nicole Glaros and Natty Zola for making it happen! We are excited to be partnering with the Colorado startup community to make it happen! For more info, check out Nicole’s post, and then give Natty’s a …
Last week, I announced that I have returned the the CEO seat at Techstars. It’s a unique situation, because I’ve led or co-led Techstars for 13 of the 17 years it has existed and have been Chairman for the last several years. Since the announcement, I’ve consistently been asked three questions so I thought I’d …