23rd September 2008

Automattic acquires Intense Debate

Here’s a video of Automattic CEO Toni Schneider discussing the announcement of their acquisition of TechStars company Intense Debate. He explains that Intense Debate will be tightly integrated into WordPress, but will maintain the current brand and will still function with other publishing platforms besides WordPress. Video Courtesy of Vator.tv. Here’s coverage on the deal Read more…

18th September 2008

Occipital to show off at CEA's i-Stage

The Consumer Electronics Association has selected TechStars company Occipital as one of the 15 finalists who will present at i-Stage in Las Vegas on October 20 at CEA’s 2008 Industry Forum.  Occipital has some pretty amazing technology that enables vivid recollection and groundbreaking visualizations of your photo stream. If you’re going to be in Vegas Read more…

9th September 2008

TechStars Demo Day in Mountain View, CA

We’ve just wrapped up our second year of doing TechStars and I’m really excited about some of the companies that have come out of the program this year.  We held a Demo and Investor Day in Boulder on August 20th, and 150+ investors showed up to see the ten new companies from 2008. It’s always Read more…

8th September 2008

Interviews from TechStars Demo and Investor Day

W3W3 did two interviews live from TechStars demo day in Boulder on August 20th. The first interview is with Don Dodge and Dave Drach from the Microsoft Emerging Business Team, along with Anand Iyer who is a technology evangelist in Silicon Valley for Microsoft. All three spent really a significant amount of time at TechStars Read more…