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…
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…
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…
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…
Notion: Home Intelligence Sensors. Be home, even when you’re not.
I’ve had the privilege to work along-side 13 amazing startups and founders at Techstars this summer. Right away, day one, one company stood out to me in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. Notion (formerly Loop) built a single device to provide Home Intelligence…
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.…
Techstars FounderCon 2014
I recently took a trip to Austin, Texas with Techstars for their annual FounderCon event where Techstars founders and companies both past and present come together along with Techstars Staff, Sponsors and other guest speakers. This FounderCon coincided with the Techstars Austin Demo Day which…
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…