We all felt the impact of the loss of Jessica Ridgeway. As a celebration of Jessica’s life, there’s an effort going on to renovate her neighborhood park in 2013. The City of Westminster has collaborated with the family on the design and has committed $200,000 in cash and in-kind services. The total cost of the …
If you’ve ever ridden in an Uber, you know it’s a great innovation. Now Denver’s PUC is trying to shut Uber down by inventing new rules targeted directly at it. It’s a sickening defense of a poor incumbent. Right! Who needs clean, comfortable rides on demand from your smart phone anyway? Please read this, …
Techstars NYC is on a roll. I couldn’t believe my eyes when more than 500 companies applied on the last day of the application period (about one company every three minutes!), bringing the total to just under 1,700 companies. Man, do we have our work cut out for us! There are some amazing companies in …
Both the Microsoft Accelerator and the Nike+ Accelerator are powered by Techstars, and both provide $20,000 in startup funding, intensive mentorship, and the chance to pitch to investors at demo day. Working on a quantified self startup? Or, are you on any startup that would benefit from integration with Nike? Need some ideas? Check out …
Today I’m in LA visting LaunchPad LA and I had a fun appearance on “This Week in Startups” with the always entertaining Jason Calacanis. The video is below. Thanks @Jason for the show, and for all you do for the startup community. If you’re not going to the LAUNCH Festival in March in SF, you’re …
Sure, it’s cold right now, but it’s time to start thinking ahead to summer if you want a chance to participate in Startup Summer 2013. A Startup Colorado program, Startup Summer is a great way for aspiring entrepreneurs to gain some real life experience and get plugged into the Boulder-Denver startup community. Startup Summer combines …