There are several companies at TechStars that are nearing an early launch. One of them is MadKast, which you might have noticed this blog for the last week or so. It’s the little green icon next to the end of the title of each post (visit the blog if you’re seeing this in a reader). Read more…

Todd Vernon – the CEO of Lijit – went on vacation last week. While searches continued to happen, the gang from Villij got together with the some of the Lijit folks and they worked on a new top secret project. Yeah, well. I’m not sure that’s what he meant when he said “keep up the Read more…

Dan’l Lewin, Don Dodge, and Dave Drach from Microsoft visited TechStars this past Tuesday. They did a great job of describing how startups could leverage Silverlight, PopFly, and the Microsoft Startup Zone. I’ve been a fan on Don Dodge’s blog “The Next Big Thing” ever since his well-known rebuttal to the Microsoft is Dead linkbait Read more…

Here’s the TechStars (sort of) weekly update from week 7. Brad Feld and David Cohen are joined by Kimbal Musk of Me.dium, a Boulder company focused on revealing the hidden world of people and activity behind your browser. Me.dium recently raised $15M and Kimbal talks about the company, as well as his experience providing mentorship Read more…

On June 14, the founders of MyBlogLog (Todd Sampson and Eric Marcoullier) visited TechStars for a couple of days. They met individually with many of our founders, and then told the story of MyBlogLog which was recently acquired by Yahoo. In the video below, Eric remarks that this is really the first time they’ve had Read more…