I was recently interviewed for a WSJ article that was exploring the trends associated with the popularity (or lack thereof) of the freemium model called “When Freemium Fails.” In researching my answers for the WSJ reporter, I dug up some data on Techstars companies over the last several years that use the freemium model. Here’s …
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 …
When I read Brad Feld’s latest post “Random Acts of Kindness – Marathon Fundraising“, it made me think that If I had to create a fake tag cloud of words that have to do with Brad, the word “random” would be in it, as would the word “kindness.” You see, I met Brad on one …
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 …