In a follow up to our Who We Are post, Ryan and I thought we would compare VC life in Boulder, CO to that of the Silicon Valley. In some ways it’s remarkably similar and in some ways wonderfully different. For those of you who don’t know, Ryan and I met in 2000 while at Read more…

I have a very patterned daily information consumption routine. The left-most tab in my browser is called “Daily” and contains a set of web sites that I open up each morning and look at as part of my routine. Recently, Filtrbox – one of the TechStars companies – graduated to be part of this tab. Read more…

Wanna have some fun? Many TechStars 2007 companies are still hiring. Brightkite (location based social networking) which recently raised a little over $1M in funding is hiring Rails developers and Flash/Flex developers. Their office is in downtown Denver. J-Squared Media (social communication services) in Philadelphia is hiring a UI designer. Filtrbox (content monitoring service) is Read more…

First, I’d like to say thank you to those of you that have made this community so strong. It is an honor to join the team. TechStars has a special place in my heart. I was lucky enough to sit in on last year’s session, observe how the program worked and what made the teams Read more…

I’ve known Andrew Hyde for a little over a year now. He hung out at TechStars last summer filming many of our sessions, interacting with our companies, and helping out any way he could. For Andrew is wasn’t a job, it was just fun. Sometime last summer, Andrew plopped down in my office and explained Read more…

By the end of the day this Thursday, we’ve promised to narrow our pool of 393 applications down to about 30 finalists for 10 spots this summer. About 80 applications were received on the very last day of the application period, just a week ago. Obviously, we can’t do a ton of due diligence on Read more…