Hey Devs: Visit Boulder for free

CORRECTION: Deadline is Tuesday, October 7! If you’re a software developer living somewhere outside of Colorado and have been hearing all these great things about the startup scene here, it’s time to come check it out. For free. Twenty of Boulder’s most interesting early stage companies have teamed up to fly 100 developers in, put …

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Colorado Angel Capital Summit is November 21st

The Colorado Angel Capital Summit is looking for interesting companies to present at this second annual event. Some good coverage from last years event can be found on Dave Taylor’s blog. I was out of the country for last years event but I plan to attend this year. Here’s some text from the organizers: The …

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Cory Levy on being open

This summer, we were fortunate to have Cory Levy, a 16 year old student and entrepreneur from Houston, TX join us at Techstars as an intern. Recently, Cory and I had an email exchange about being open on the web, and I wanted to post his words and thoughts here. This is a some good …

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Tip #7: Obsess over core metrics

For those of you with good memories, you’ll recall that I have been blogging a series of startup tips. I’ve previously done tips 1-6 of twelve startup tips that I derived from my Techstars experiences. This tip is about “core metrics.” I think most startups should have 2 or 3 core metrics that they use …

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Auctioning my Google Chrome comic book

Google sent me two copies of the Google Chrome comic book. It’s a beautifully printed version of the lengthy comic strip explaining Chrome that you’ve probably seen online, and it’s pretty rare. Following in the footsteps of others, this post marks the start of an auction for one of these rare Chrome comic books. TechCrunch’s …

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Parentricity – Dads are parents too ya know

How do you compete with the likes of CafeMom.com, MayasMom.com, MomJunction, and MothersClick.com? You guessed it, you include the dads in the message and in the solution. Irked that when he became a new father, he couldn’t find a place to interact with other new parents that wasn’t totally geared towards moms, founder Eli Mandelbaum …

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