This post was originally published on The Startup Stack. True to this blog’s name, Micah’s Mashup, this post is a compilation of resources from Bolster and our CEO, Matt Blumberg and his blog StartupCEO.com. What’s the difference between Advisors, Mentors,…
Lessons Learned from Joining Bolster as Fractional Employees
Reposting a blog post from bolster.com I co-authored with two new colleagues (Bethany Crystal and Jimmy Davis). You can view the original post here. As an on-demand marketplace, we spend a lot of time at Bolster thinking about how CEOs…
Startup Events in Startup Nation
Most people might get sick of 3 consecutive days of entrepreneurially focused events, but not me. Just the other night I was talking with a wise friend about what energizes us; him being 60% on the introvert side said he gets his…
Lessons Learned at 3 Meetups in Tel Aviv, Israel
With services like meetup.com, eventbrite & many others it has never been easier to get connected to events in a new community. Where people used to have to be in the right place to see a flyer or newspaper/magazine or posting for an…
End of Europe travels (for now) & Top Seeds Lab in Madrid & now in Start-up Nation, Israel!
My 2 month trip around Europe has ended. After 9 countries and 17 cities I can honestly say i’m not even worn out or tired of traveling; I love it! Not only has this trip enabled me to see new…
Entrepreneurship Abroad: Startup 42 in Paris, Barclays & Techstars in London
As my personal travels around Europe continue, so have my visits to Entrepreneurial Hub’s around the globe. First stop was H-Farm Ventures in Venice, followed by a visit to Startup 42 in Paris, France and most recently a visit with both two accelerators…
Writing for Kapta’s Blog
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…
Jason Mendelson on Negotiations
Yesterday we had two guests from Foundry Group. First, we heard from Seth Levine on Pricing and later in the afternoon Jason Mendelson came in to talk about negotiating. For those that don’t know Jason, he is an extremely experienced ex-Attorney/Lawyer…
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…