AOL announced today that it has acquired Socialthing, a TechStars company from 2007,  confirming the original rumors. I’m psyched for Matt, Brian, and Ben - they worked their butts off during the program last summer, raised under $500k to get to this point, and really stayed focused.
For those of you not familiar with Socialthing, it’s […]

Last week, some great folks from Google spent the day with the new founders at TechStars. Kevin Marks and Dion Almaer (also the founder of Ajaxian) kicked off the day with a great detailed tech talk. They covered App Engine, Open Social, Gears, Android, and some other awesome Google code projects.
Many parts of the talk […]

By the end of the day this Thursday, we’ve promised to narrow our pool of 393 applications down to about 30 finalists for 10 spots this summer. About 80 applications were received on the very last day of the application period, just a week ago.
Obviously, we can’t do a ton of due diligence on […]

I was excited to see that just a few days after Filtrbox announced closing their funding round, Brightkite has followed suit. They’ve recently closed about $1M in funding from a group of private investors, and opened up a new office in Denver.
The guys from Brightkite came out with some pretty cool prototypes during the summer […]