I wrote the Mentor Manifesto exactly one year ago today. Since then it’s been shared a ton and it’s still one of my most popular posts. Many accelerators use it as the basis for how they teach their mentors to behave around their companies. I’m glad so many people have found it useful. It seems …
We’ll be hosting another Open Angel Forum in Boulder on September 20th. Many thanks to Rob Delwo and Tim Falls for putting it together. Our last event, OAF 5, was a great success. Of the presenting companies we had two get into Techstars Boulder (Pivot Desk and Ubooly) and others who received funding. You can apply to present …
Today, David Tisch announced on his blog that he is stepping down from his day-to-day role at Techstars as Managing Director of our New York City program. I’ve gotten to know David very well over the last two years. I moved to New York City for 4 months in early 2011 to help run the …
The Microsoft Accelerator in Seattle has been a huge hit. Techstars first announced this in January, and it’s really blown me away. Techstars “powers” the program which is run at Microsoft in Seattle. The first focus was on Kinect-based applications for Windows and XBOX. We had over 500 companies apply and we funded eleven. It’s …
Recently, Techstars announced the Patriot Boot Camp in Washington D.C. from July 18-20. The deadline for applications to Patriot Boot Camp is already upon us: June 24th (this Sunday) at midnight Eastern time. We have lined up an impressive roster of mentors for this July event in D.C., including Aneesh Copra, Former US Chief Technology …
I get asked to make many introductions. I’ve noticed a trend lately, which is that more and more of them go something like this: Hey David, can you introduce me to investors that you think might be interested in my company? To me, this is the lazyweb version of asking for introductions, and it has …