Today was an exhausting and exciting day:
David Cohen launched a $2.5 mil startup fund. He also launched a hot new site that I helped with.
We had the TechStars mentors night tonight, with 40 mentors coming down to our office to meet the new TechStars teams.
Did I mention TechStars started this week?
Dave Morin announced he was [...]
I am very excited to announce the TechStars Boulder Community Party happening on May 19th. Get your ticket here.
TechStars, if you don’t know, is a mentorship driven startup accelerator and investment program (where I work). We have ten teams we have invested in moving into town this weekend, and decided that after they settled [...]
An exciting day, we launched a new video show at TechStars called TechStarsTV.
Welcome to TechStarsTV, a weekly video series showing you the places, companies and mentors that make TechStars what it is.
The first episode is hosted in Chautauqua Park, and features:
Lecture series from Brad Feld and Phil Weiser on what makes Boulder, well, Boulder [...]
Wow. BrightKite and Limbo have joined forces.
I don’t know why, but hearing about mergers and acquisitions of my friends companies leaves me shocked for a bit. As an avid user, I’m both happy and sad. I don’t know why, perhaps it is the loss of innocents of what the company could be or fears of [...]
Just over two years ago I hacked into TechStars, the company where I now work.
I read about it in the local paper and decided I had to be involved. I knew three of the four founders, and thought I was a shoe in for funding.
And that funding didn’t happen, I was not chosen to be [...]
My name is Andrew Hyde, and I'm a startup enthusiast. Thanks for checking out the site. This is my personal site where I share my thoughts about startups, communities, coffee, and my residence in Boulder, Colorado. The great company that I work for is TechStars, which is most certainly the finest startup accelerator in the land. I have founded 4 companies, including Startup Weekend and VCwear. Find me online here:
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