As an Associate at Techstars Boulder I have the opportunity to help teams with various projects and tasks. This week I helped Kapta, a platform for Agile Business Management, create some blog posts for their website. As I have recently been diving…
Running Lean with Ash Maurya himself
If you’ve been following me along my journey at Techstars you know we have had some awesome speakers on extremely relevant topics. Tonight we had the pleasure to hear from Ash Maurya, author of “Running Lean” How to Iterate from Plan…
Techstars Week 6 + Seth Levine Pricing Talk
We started off week 6 with a talk from Seth Levine, Managing Director at Foundry Group, about pricing. Seth started off this talk with “Admit it…you don’t know [anything] about pricing” and “sadly neither do I”. Seth did write 2 blog…
Techstars Week 5 + Mitch Wainer with DigitalOcean on Growth Hacking
As mentor whiplash starts to subside at Techstars Boulder, the companies finally have time to act on and digest all the information and feedback they’ve gotten from various mentors. This is a great time for a talk on Growth Hacking, enter…
Weekly 9:09 With The Dude & Walter + The End of Mentor Madness
This week our weekly Wedesnday night 909 feedback session was hosted by Walter and the dude. Well not really, it was hosted by two of the co-founders dressed up for The Big Lebowski theme. This week the companies goals were…
Techstars Week 4 + Jerry Colonna On Being A Founder
As week 4 of the 13 week Techstars Boulder program kicks off, the companies are getting ready to sprint and Do More Faster*! *Before I go over some details from today I recently thought of a caveat to the Techstars tagline.…
Catalyze CU-Boulder Demo Day & CU Entrepreneurship
Last night I was invited to attended the Catalyze CU-Boulder Demo Day by my friend who was on one of the teams. I had only knew about his company and idea and was eager to learn about the others. The event was…
Happy Hour with GAN (Global Accelerator Network)
For those that don’t know GAN (Global Accelerator Network), they are in 6 continents, 59 cities, and have 50 accelerators and are powered by Techstars. GAN and some of it’s international founders are on tour visiting San Francisco, Los Angeles and Denver/Boulder with 12 startups…
Just another day at Techstars
Week two at Techstars Boulder has almost come to an end. Teams are starting to build some momentum after having rapid feedback from over 20 mentor meetings in the short amount of time they have been here. Last night we…
Techstars: A Tale of Two Founders
Today we had the opportunity to hear from two of the four founders of Techstars, David Cohen and David Brown. They had often given their founder stories separately, but for the first time today they were both in the office. These…