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…
Incubators Abroad: H-Farm Ventures, Italy
Yesterday I had the exciting privilege to visit the premier Entrepreneurship Incubator of Italy, H-Farm Ventures. H-Farm is a hybrid incubator and investor, backed by €20 million fund with international partners like Bertelsmann and Unicredit, and provides startups with the capital and…
Techstars Demo Day & Reflection
Last week the Techstars Boulder Accelerator program commenced and we hosted our annual Demo Day. Demo Day is a culmination of 13 companies working out of one giant office in Boulder Colorado for 13 weeks. It is also the culmination of…
Techstars Update (Week 11) + Time Management
Well if it wasn’t apparent by my lack of posts since returning from FounderCon in Austin, we are busy here at Techstars Boulder. It is now week 11 of our 13-week program and Demo Day is creeping up faster and faster.…
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…
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…