January 11, 2009 – 10:37 pm
Interested in TechStars?
TechStars is a seed stage, mentorship driven funding accelerator. It is my humble place of employment, and a company that is near and dear to my heart. Every summer, we make ten investments in brilliant teams wanting to build their startup. We have funded BrightKite, IntenseDebate (now part of Wordpress), SocialThing! (now [...]
By Andrew Hyde
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Posted in TechStars, Travel
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Also tagged aol, BrightKite, eventvue, foodzie, gyminee, intense debate, occipital, Startups, TechStar, TechStars, Wordpress
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December 29, 2008 – 6:57 pm
In November I completed a 25 day 13 flight segment, 3 country, 6 state and 36 city trip.
I did it all with one laptop bag.
I first heard you could do this from Bryce at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. He came to TechStars Investor Day last year with one bag, ready for whatever adventure presented itself. I’ve [...]
December 9, 2008 – 6:47 pm
I’ve been impressed by the rock solid design of Brightkite. If you don’t use it, try it out, it has an amazing community and feature set.
Here are 5 interesting extensions I have seen people using Brightkite for:
1) Use Brightkite to pick dinner. Check in, and see where everyone else has checked in. I have done [...]
December 3, 2008 – 9:01 pm
Frontier Airlines got back to me a few weeks ago (meant to post it sooner, but travel has been tough). I wrote a few posts and launched Frontier Fail in a response to some of their policy changes.
Here is their letter, and they gave permission to publish it in full.
I’m sorry to hear [...]
November 16, 2008 – 12:58 pm
Miami in mid November is one of the best decisions I have made this year. Warm sand at night, cuban food to write home about and this little thing called the Knight Foundation.
12 of the screeners for this years challenge gathered to screen applications, almost finishing the over 3000 application pile. It has been interesting [...]
