Here’s a great little chat (7 minutes) on the importance of co-founders, evaluating ideas, being skeptical of customer feedback, and much more. Ben Casnocha was visiting Techstars and was having an impromptu conversation with Tom Higley. Andrew Hyde jumped in to record some of the conversation and threw it up on the Techstars Community site. …
In case you are not like me and have a clue what server virtualization is all about, you might want to know about an event being planned in Denver for September 29th. Here’s an email I received detailing the event. The Rocky Mountain Windows Technology User Group (www.rmwtug.org) Virtualization mini-conference in Denver on Sept. 29 …
Larry Nelson of W3W3 sent me some great photos of the New Tech Meetup this past Tuesday. The meetup is now two years old. How time flies. I remember going to the first meetup and presenting EarFeeder at the second one ever. Me.dium hosted these early meetups in their office and somewhere between 15 and …
Last year, I invested in a company that I discovered through the CTEK angel network called RouteSmith. The company makes software for route optimization – think furniture and appliance delivery routes. I covered the company here in April, 2007. From the CTEK presentations, there were three of us (investors) who thought this was an interesting …
Frank Gruber (Somewhat Frank) and Eric Olson are bringing Tech Cocktail back to Boulder. It’s on August 20th at the Boulder Theater. Tech Cocktail’s mission is to “help amplify the technology signal in under served markets and have fun doing it.” The format is great – everyone gets to have a couple drinks, talk about …
Crispin Porter + Bogusky asked me to post this information here on the blog. You’re invited to a happy hour, informal lecture and discussion about “Getting Real,” featuring Jason Fried, Co-founder and President of 37 Signals. Jason will be speaking about some of the things he’s learned on collaboration, entrepreneurship, hiring people, stumbling into things, …