Accelerate your startup’s business growth with ideas and insights from the Techstars network.
Top startup founders and investors recommend focusing on product defensibility, crystal-clear messaging, and solving genuine customer problems over chasing buzzwords or quick fixes.
A startup community isn't built. It's grown. It's closer to a coral reef than a bridge: reefs form from thousands of small, local relationships over years, none of them centrally planned. You can't decree a reef into existence by writing a bigger check for coral.
At the 2026 Colorado Startup Week, Techstars Founder & CEO David Cohen sat down with PBS12's Business of Colorado to talk about Boulder's comeback, the Give First philosophy, and what AI means for the next generation of founders.
Every founder bootstraps at the start. The only real question is how long.
Comparison is stealing your joy: the founder two years ahead of you is running a different race, at a different speed, toward a different finish line, so borrowing their scoreboard to grade your own game only makes you feel small.
Techstars Founder & CEO David Cohen reflects on how AI is reshaping the earliest days of building a startup.
Techstars alumni gathered virtually to celebrate the founders who joined the Gold Shirt club this year, trading stories about their journeys from first pitch to exit.
Two centers competing for the same 40-minute radius will split a small ecosystem into two smaller, weaker ones.
A founder's mismatched fundraising materials (deck, application, pitch) illustrate how inconsistency, not imperfection, is what makes investors hesitate and stall a raise.
At Techstars, we find and fund the world's most ambitious founders. See what we were up to in August.
The best community builders I know aren't the ones with the loudest newsletter. They're the ones who ask a lot of questions and actually change course based on the answers.
Year three of the USC and Techstars University Catalyst is here, putting 20 companies founded by USC students, alumni, faculty, and staff through 10 weeks of masterclasses, pitch coaching, and mentoring on the way to a November 5 Pitch Day.
Page 1 of 45
