11th May 2012

Andy Sack: The Iron Man of Startups

Below is a guest post by the wonderful Rebecca Lovell, mentor to TechStars. Author’s note: Rebecca Lovell is the Chief Business Officer of GeekWire, which acquired Seattle 2.0 and as such is now producing and presenting the beloved Startup Awards. Rebecca is a returning mentor to the Seattle TechStars program, and teaches a class on Venture Read more…

16th April 2012

A Second Boston Program for 2012

And now, a word from Katie Rae, managing director of TechStars in Boston… We are happy to announce that we are running another TechStars Boston session this fall. If you have wanted to take part in TechStars in Boston, you don’t have to wait until next year: you can apply right now. As our Boston Read more…

13th April 2012

Founder Stories: Orbotix

“In this video, as you can see, I’m controlling this robotic ball with my smartphone…you might ask yourself, ‘What’s so great about that?’ Well, it’s a robotic ball controlled with a smartphone.” The emphatic opening lines in Adam Wilson’s investor pitch for Gearbox during Boulder 2010’s Demo Day made the entire audience erupt in laughter and Read more…

7th April 2012

This Week in TechStars #34: Raj Aggarwal of Localytics & Jason Mendelson’s Top 10 Ways To ^&$# Up Your Company

David and I sat down with Raj Aggarwal, the CEO of Localytics, a company from the Boston 2009 program, to talk about his mobile app analytics platform. We also take a look at footage from Jason Mendelson’s talk from Boulder’s TechStars for a Day, The Top 10 Ways to F&*k up Your Company, a Cautionary Read more…

2nd April 2012

This Week in TechStars #33: Howard Diamond on How to Engage Great Mentors and Alex White on Storytelling

We recently held TechStars for a Day in Boulder and let the talks by our community do the walking. In this week’s episode, we feature Howard Diamond, mentor and salesman extraordinaire. He gives us an inside peek into life at TechStars from a mentoring perspective. Then we hear Alex White, co-founder of Next Big Sound, Read more…