When I hold an information session or speak at an event about TechStars, I try to have a handful of TechStars alums on hand with me. Why? I tell my audiences that it’s rational to be skeptical of the glowing things I have to say about TechStars – heck, I’m basically contractually obligated to be Read more…

Last holiday season TechStars Boston 09 founder Laura Fitton (also known as @pistachio) decided to do something a little different by supporting Charity Water.  This year she sent out a Well Wishes “What can YOU do” challenge.  Challenge eh?  We can do that. http://mycharitywater.org/techstarswellwishes We set the bar at $3000 to raise, which will do Read more…

We’re psyched to announce that TechStars is expanding to Seattle. We’ll run our first program there in the fall of 2010. We’ve found the perfect person to run the program in Seattle. Andy Sack will be the Executive Director there. Andy is already well-known on the local startup scene as co-founder and Managing Partner of Read more…

2008 TechStars Alumni Occipital have been bringing in the sales on top of the iTunes App Store for almost three months now. RedLaser is their app that turns any iPhone into a bar code scanner. How does an app get to the top though?  The growth, by early charts, happened by every paid user resulting Read more…

Although some folks are renaissance guys or gals who can do everything, the statistical rates of success for sole founders of tech companies are not attractive. TechStars has been helping fledgling tech companies for over three years now, and we’ve found that the magic number of founders seems to be 2.6 or so. Yeah, it Read more…

ReTel Technologies was one of the teams featured in The Founders video series from the summer of 2009. In that series, you can see Scott sleeping like a burrito and going all around the world to work with early customers. When I first met Scott, Adam, and George in the O’Hare airport for an interview, Read more…