Boulder is one of the most athletic cities in the world. Even though I’m a marathoner and can do +/– 2,000 feet on a two hour run, I’m way down low on the fitness ladder here. The range of sports people play are wildly diverse, including stuff like “I ran up a 14,000’ mountain and Read more…

Well, we’re 30 days into TechStars now, and I have to say it’s been a blast. Eight of our ten teams have significantly changed course and are pursuing improved or completely new ideas. More on this soon. TechStars.tv has some great fresh content every week, including this look at the first 30 days. I couldn’t Read more…

TechStars.tv is now live. It’s an easy place to go and check out the video coming out of TechStars in Boulder this summer. We’ll continue to post the videos here on the blog as well, but TechStars.tv is a great place to go to catch up on what’s happening at TechStars this summer. If you Read more…

Noah Kagan recently came out to TechStars to hang out with our founders and talk about building community and awesome user experiences. Noah worked at Facebook as a project manager back in the day, and helped grow that somewhat successful community. These days, Noah is working at a cool new startup called Mint. I’m one Read more…

Last week was pretty cool here at TechStars. One of the highlights was a two day visit from Eric Marcoullier and Todd Sampson of MyBlogLog, which was recently acquired by Yahoo. I have to say that these are two of the nicest, smartest, coolest, laid back dudes I’ve met in a while. They fit in Read more…

This week is a bit “unusual” around TechStars. Usually we try to keep things quiet most of the time for the founders to work on their companies, but once in a while we have a bit of a crazy week. This is one of those weeks. Don Loeb is in town from FeedBurner (ok, damnit Read more…

Me.dium (first covered last October) just announced a $15M Series B round this morning. I couldn’t have been more excited for Robert, Kimbal, David and the gang. Their progress lately has been fantastic, and they’ve gotten tons of buzz. This should just full the next generations of what Me.dium can become. Me.dium is already really Read more…

On day 4 at TechStars this summer, we held a session called “Starting your startup”. Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group, Greg Reinacker of Newsgator, and Andrew Currie of Email Publishing (and more) talked with our 26 new founders about startup ideas, the evolution and cycles they go through, consumer web vs. B2B, Read more…

We’ve got 6 or 7 (depending upon how you count them) would-be consumer internet companies at TechStars this summer. Some will morph and become something else, so who knows what the final count will be. The others are making on-demand applications for businesses. The latter often get made fun of by the former. I defend Read more…

Brad Feld and I got together on Thursday to shoot a quick ten minute video update on TechStars. We’ll try to get one of these short form updates out every week or two. We were joined by Stan James, the founder of Lijit.com and we got his impressions of the first two weeks at TechStars. Read more…