Yesterday, we announced that Techstars is expanding to New York City. Since this is my personal blog, I won’t repeat all the details of that here (there are some links below if you want to learn more about it), but I wanted to let everyone know that I’ll be temporarily relocating to NYC from early …
Brad Feld and I have written a book (with contributions from Techstars mentors and past founders) called “Do More Faster” that is coming out later this year. Originally, we were going to self publish it and after some research we selected CreateSpace as our vendor for this. They were very easy to work with, seemed …
No matter what time of year it is there are always great things happening in Boulder, but the summer always has a special quality to it. While Techstars is the obvious summer focus for me, there is much going on, including Mobile Monday Colorado. This local mobile networking group started almost a year ago out …
I’m excited to announce that Open Angel Forum is back in Boulder on the night of August 4th at 7PM. The Open Angel Forum (OAF) is dedicated to providing entrepreneurs with free and open access to the angel investors that they need. We are firmly committed to fighting against “pay-to-pitch” schemes. The first open angel …
Jon Pierce organized a great event in Boston called Angel Boot Camp. He asked me to do the opening talk and made me promise to be brief. I talked about how rewarding angel investing can be, and the benefits of doing it. I also offered to show a deal that I’m doing to any new …
Here’s a ProTip for anyone sending their pitch to an investor by email. Use attachments instead of download links. Why? Because many investors are busy and often only get to “catch up on email” on planes. And planes usually have no connectivity. Additionally, with attachments, we don’t have to wait for downloads. It takes me …