From one event in college that promised free pizza and beer to a career in Startups, VC, community, and connection. PSA: Brad Feld has a new book, Give First: The Power of Mentorship, it’s available on kindle and paperback and…
Tips on Creating Your First Board of Directors
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…
11 Steps to Plug into the Boulder/Denver Startup Scene
Many times a month I get asked for ways to plug into the Boulder/Denver startup scene. While working as an Associate at Techstars, Julie Penner shared a list with me of great resources to get plugged into the startup scene…
Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado is rebranding to Pledge 1% Colorado
Giving back and engaging with communities has been on my mind a lot lately. Since graduating from CU in 2014, I have been enamored by the Boulder and greater Colorado startup community. I owe most of where I am today…
Introducing the Techstars Boulder Class of 2015
It’s a year later and time for another class of startups at the Techstars Boulder Accelerator. After an amazing year of adventure and learning abroad I was asked to come back as an Associate and help out with the last…
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…
Startupbootcamp & Twilio Steampunk Fairytale Winter Party
Last week I was sitting down for coffee looking up companies with headquarters in Berlin. Of course I came across SoundCloud located in a newly built entrepreneurial haven (backed by google) called “The Factory”. I knew Startupbootcamp had operations in Berlin…