The meme of “Free” is one again making the rounds.  I expect it reignited when Chris Anderson’s new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price (available on Amazon for $17.81) quickly followed by Malcolm Gladwell’s semi-scathing review in the New Yorker titled “Priced to Sell.  Is Free the future?”  (I kind of feel like […]

If you need / want your weekly view into the world of TechStars Boulder, following is The Founders: Episode 5: Engaging Mentors. This week’s episode includes guest appearances from some of my closest friends, including Seth Levine, Jason Mendelson, and my Gist t-shirt.

The TechStars 2008 Applications are now open.  Last year we had 302 applications and accepted 10 companies.  8 of the 10 companies are now either financed or profitable and several have received acquisition offers.  If you apply before March 3rd, you are invited to come to our TechStars for a Day program. We are having […]

When I was a doctoral student at MIT, my advisor was Eric von Hippel.  I’ve had my fair share of mentors in my 42 years – Eric has been one of the best.  I still remember during the first lecture of 15.351: Managing the Innovation Process – the first class I took from Eric – […]

David Cohen – the creator and ringleader of TechStars – has started a blog series of his Top 12 Startup Tips from TechStars.  His latest tip (#2) is titled Find and engage great mentors.  I think this series is going to end up being required reading for any first time (and many multi-time) entrepreneurs.  Tip […]

Yesterday was a blast.  The ten TechStars teams – which have been cranking away in Boulder for the past three months – all launched yesterday to a packed room of VCs, angel investors, mentors, and friends at the CU Boulder Atlas Institute.   Don Dodge from Microsoft was in attendance and has a great summary of what […]

TechStars is really cranking – I’m totally blown away by what everyone is working on and the level of engagement of the TechStars mentors.  I’m very optimistic that some great stuff is going to come out of this adventure and I’m looking forward to our first demo night on Tuesday. A number of out of […]

I know David Cohen is excited – I hope the TechStars teams are.  The Denver Post had a nice article on How TechStars was born which includes several very silly pictures of us including one of me and David pretending to smash guitars while Jared talks on the phone and intelligently walks away from the nonsense […]

We’ve just made a modest investment in Slice of Lime.  We’re excited – but Kevin Menzie, Jeff Rodanski, and their team are “extremely excited.” Before you say “hey Brad – why are you making an investment in a small, local, web design and development firm”, stay with me for a second.  Put your Warren Buffett […]