24th January 2012
by If Northwestern University ever needs a case study for success, their board should look no further than Boulder’s Next Big Sound. Co-founders Alex White, Samir Rayani, and David Hoffman found themselves together in an entrepreneurship class in 2008. White was a senior and Rayani and Hoffman were juniors. Hoffman and White had met slightly earlier Read more…
23rd January 2012
by An interview with Joshua Baer, founder of OtherInbox and a ton of big news about money raising in our episode below. For all the details and stories, see the links below: Contently • @contently / Facebook Empowering and Connecting Quality Writers and Brands. TechStars program: NYC TechStars Contently Raises $2 M. From Groupon Investor Lightbank Read more…
24th September 2011
by This week on This Week in TechStars, we cover the latest news from our new (half finished) studio in our new office in Boulder. In episode 8 of This Week in TechStars, I interview both Brad Feld and Roger Ehrenberg about their participation in the recently announced $24M in new funding which will be used Read more…
31st January 2011
by I’m at the White House today and we’re just kicking off the announcement event for Startup America, a White House campaign to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation. This coordinated public/private effort brings together an alliance of the country’s most innovative entrepreneurs, corporations, universities, foundations, and other leaders, working in concert with Read more…
1st September 2010
by We’re excited to announce that TechStars is expanding to New York City, with our first program starting there in early 2011. As of today, applications for NYC are open and will close on November 21, 2010. The program will start in mid January, 2011 – see the schedule for full details. We are so thrilled Read more…
7th July 2010
by I guess once the seal on the 2008 class was broken by DailyBurn, things started to happen. Recently, TechStars 2008 company Occipital announced that they had sold RedLaser, their popular bar code scanning application, to eBay. RedLaser quickly amassed millions of users. Below is a great video interview by StartupTrek with Occipital co-founder Vikas Reddy, Read more…
20th May 2010
by Today, DailyBurn announced that they had been acquired by IAC and will be part of their MindSpark Interactive Network. We wanted to send a shout out to Andy, Stephen and the rest of the crew at DailyBurn – this is very well deserved! DailyBurn built a fantastic product and has attracted about 500,000 members. It’s Read more…
12th March 2010
by You might have heard us say that TechStars is “open-source” in the past. Last year we shared our Series AA Financing docs and now we’re now publishing our actual historical company results in full detail. This includes information on funding, acquisitions, failures, number of employees, etc. Applying to and participating in a Seed Accelerator program Read more…
17th November 2009
by The 2009 class in Boulder was really outstanding. It was our third year, and I think this class was the strongest overall group we’ve had yet. All the deals aren’t done yet, but 6 of the 10 companies from this summer in Boulder will eventually announce that they’ve closed deals led by VC firms. These Read more…
7th April 2009
by I just saw the news that Limbo has finalized their merger with Brightkite and announced $9M in new funding. I’m pumped for Martin and Brady – they built a fantastic product that’s had very strong adoption over the last 18 months or so since they left TechStars after the summer of 2007. Congrats are also Read more…