Be part of an awesome opportunity to help connect entrepreneurs, investors and resources in Boulder’s startup community. Startup Colorado, the Silicon Flatirons Center, Startup Genome, and Foundry Group have collaborated to develop the Startup Genome map, a curated social startup map for Colorado. The map is up and running, but it’s far from complete. In …
I enjoyed doing this interview (embedded below) with Starto.TV. It’s a bit slow getting started, but after the two minute mark I think it captures a bunch of good stuff, such as: The one big thing that changed my (business life) How Techstars got started My graceful failure and the hard lesson I learned from …
The Microsoft Accelerator for Kinect concluded earlier this year. The Microsoft Accelerator is “powered by Techstars“, which means that Techstars operates it on Microsoft’s behalf. Most of those companies from the Kinect program are doing great, and many have gone on to raise venture capital or angel financing since the program ended. For a recap …
Here’s an 18 minute talk I did at the Silicon Prairie startup awards a few weeks ago. I talk about many of the concepts in Brad Feld’s great new book “Startup Communities” (go buy a copy). It includes a simple exercise that can help you know if you’re a leader of your startup community or …
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 …