Here are a couple of updates relating to the TechStars blog. First, we’ve swapped out our blog platform, so it’s possible that you’ll see a refresh of your feed along with this post. This means you may see posts that you’ve already read. This should only happen once, around the time you see this post Read more…

As I was turning the pages in the April 23, 2007 Forbes in the bathroom today, I came across The South Rises Again and a great map of the top metro areas in the US according to Forbes. One of the rankings was based on college degrees (percentage of adult population with bachelor’s degree or Read more…

For those who live in Colorado and/or may be attending the Denver IT Summit on May 30th – I hope to see you there. I’m presenting the TechStars funding model in a 1:00pm presentation in suite 707 at the Colorado Convention Center. TechStars wil also have an information booth on site all day (booth 515) Read more…

Just last week, there was an event here in Boulder put on by the MIT Club of Colorado. I covered it on my blog and posted the full video and audio segments there as well. I thought this segment was particularly interesting. We’ve heard so often lately that you have to be in Silicon Valley Read more…

TechStars notified all of our finalists personally as of last night, April 10th. We sent out notifications to our non-finalists between April 6 and April 9 via email. There have been some reports of people not receiving this notification. This could be because of spam filters, invalid addresses on the application, or other technical reasons. Read more…

Thank you to everyone who applied to TechStars! I know you’re anxiously awaiting the results. We can’t wait either. We’re carefully sifting through more than 300 applications, and will be communicating with applicants again no later than April 10th. The hardest part of running this program is that there will be hundreds of disappointed applicants. We hope Read more…