25th June 2008

You gotta start somewhere

I had a beer tonight with David Brown, and much to my surprise he whipped out this old email that he recently stumbled across. This email is the birth of TechStars. To give you a little context, Boomtown Enterprises was the name of a small investment fund that David and I operated at the time. Read more…

18th June 2008

Don't be afraid of maps

I’ve spent a bunch of time with a handful of the TechStars teams in the last few weeks. The first week of TechStars was a complete whirlwind (lots of new people to meet, presentations from a bunch of big tech vendors, learning the lay of the land in Boulder, etc). Now the teams have caught Read more…

11th June 2008

Techstars Reverse Mentoring with Foodzie

I just got out of a great meeting with the Foodzie founders. I invited them over for lunch for multiple purposes, all quite frankly benefiting me.Darby my oldest daughter and her friend Emily are working for Lijit helping with some much needed testing of our service this week. As part of that I wanted to Read more…

10th June 2008

Google visits TechStars

Last week, some great folks from Google spent the day with the new founders at TechStars. Kevin Marks and Dion Almaer (also the founder of Ajaxian) kicked off the day with a great detailed tech talk. They covered App Engine, Open Social, Gears, Android, and some other awesome Google code projects. Many parts of the Read more…