Last week, I attended my first Upfront Summit. I’m not a conference person – in fact, I generally try to stay away from them. However, this one was incredibly valuable and relevant to me. The curation of the people was incredible. I’m writing this post to just give a quick shout out to the entire …
As you might imagine, I get hundreds of random inbound emails each week. Many of them are seeking funding for their startup. Recently I got one such email from Matt, and as I often do I responded by directing him to learn more about the Techstars accelerators. Matt responded as follows. Your accelerator programs aren’t …
BeVisible, Techstars, and Foundry Group hosted a wonderful event recently on the topic of diversity and inclusion. We were fortunate to have Mandela Schumacher-Hodge join us from Kapor Capital. About 50 Boulder area startup executives joined for a round table discussion on the topic. First, we talked about why we should care about inclusion. There …
I’m writing this on my way back from Australia. Brad Feld and I just visited several cities on this trip to learn more about the great startup communities there. Techstars recently launched our first Techstars program in Adelaide focused on the defense industry and related applications such as robotics, security, IoT, etc. (applications are open!). It …
I’ve had a couple of situations lately where a portfolio company founder or CEO went dark on me. They just stopped communicating. Sometimes takes me a while to notice it. When I do, I usually check in with the person and just ask something like “Hey – I haven’t heard from you in a while, …
At Techstars, we’re building the best global ecosystem for founders to bring new technologies to market. One of the impacts that I think we’ll have long term is to change the way that corporations engage with startups. We want to help make those engagements effective and efficient for both parties. We do this in a few different ways. …