2008 Teams
Automatic and Intense Debate
Last week at the Mountain View Demo Day Automattic CEO Toni Schneider came on stage an announced the acquisition of 2007 TechStars team Intense Debate.
Here are some outlets that wrote about it:
{More»}2008 Company Blogs
Occipital
- Hyper-realistic augmented reality Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:34:01
Me too (doing some AR stuff)! from Anatoly Zenkov on Vimeo. Incredible stuff by Anatoly Zenkov. - We’re hiring! Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:27:21
We are just starting the search to find an extremely talented full-time engineer to join our team in Boulder. The spot will be an extremely crucial one - we need someone that’s both incredibly talented in our areas of focus, but also able to work alongside the founders at breakneck pace and long hours. You’ll [...]
Ignighter
Peoples Software
- My partner Lisa’s two cents Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:58:05
When I showed Lisa what I’d written about People’s Software and the new thing, she said this: “ I like the idea behind WhozAround. It’s a product I want and one I would personally use. However, we found that creating it made us overly dependent on people who didn’t have their skin in the game the [...] - WAIST DEEP IN THE BIG MUDDY, OR WE’RE MOVING ON Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:49:00
So why haven’t we posted at People’s Software for the last couple months? What happened to that product we were working on? When is it going to be out, already? If you have been one of the people asking these questions, believe me, you weren’t alone. As we ended our summer with an alpha, we pushed [...]
Gyminee
- Gyminee Burpee Contest Thu, 21 May 2009 17:16:43
Gyminee Burpee Contest from Andy Smith on Vimeo. We are a completely distributed team, so we frequently use TokBox for team video chat. Since we have a big release coming out next week, we needed to relieve a little stress. My bright idea was to do a remote Crossfit-style workout. Since we suck wind pretty bad [...] - Lifehacker names Gyminee one of “Six Best Exercise Planning and Tracking Tools” Sun, 17 May 2009 16:52:20
A special thanks to all of the Lifehacker readers for helping name Gyminee one of the “Six Best Exercise Planning and Tracking Tools”. We are honored to be on this list with other great companies, including Garmin and Nike+. You can see the full article by following this link: Six Best Exercise Planning and Tracking [...]
TravelFli
- Recession Drives More Mileage Redemptions Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:00:00
- I Want to go to Cuba Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:31:00
- Frequent Flyer Promo For Coloradans! Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:41:00
- We {Heart} Airlines More This Year Fri, 29 May 2009 04:49:00
Foodzie
- Red White and Blueberry Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:21:15
In celebration of Independence Day, enjoy this red, white and blue collage of products from food producers who are living the American dream and representing entrepreneurship at its best! In some browsers, if you put your mouse over the photo you’ll see a short description about the product and company. Or click any photo to [...] - Winners for our S’more Giveaway! Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:59:33
Thanks to everyone that participated in our S’more Kit giveaway for the 4th of July! Here’s the list of the lucky winners! You all are in for a treat. On Twitter @jordanful @sara6633 @nodanaonlyzuul On Facebook Fatima Kioskli Rodriguez Michele Di Pietro
Devver
- A dozen (or so) ways to start sub-processes in Ruby: Part 1 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:57:19
Introduction It is often useful in Ruby to start a sub-process to run a particular chunk of Ruby code. Perhaps you are trying to run two processes in parallel, and Ruby’s green threading doesn’t provide sufficient concurrency. Perhaps you are automating a set of scripts. Or perhaps you are trying to isolate some [...] - SimpleDB DataMapper Adapter: Progress Report Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:27:40
From the beginning of Devver, we decided we wanted to work with some new technologies and we wanted to be able to scale easily. After looking at options AWS seemed to have many technologies that could help us build and scale a system like Devver. One of these technologies was SimpleDB. One of the other [...]
BuyPlayWin
- Jeff Bezos cashes in? Amazon obese? eBay lost? Fri, 08 May 2009 17:57:31
Years before I started this company (buyplaywin), I studied eBay and Amazon very closely, and more accurately, the founders of each: Jeff Bezos (amazon) and Pierre Omidyar (eBay). You might say they are my surrogate role models, because no matter what their companies have become, they saw an opportunity, and millions of convinced customers, business [...] - Great reasons to live… at least until 2010 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:50:35
Just loose your job? Totally stressed about how to spend your last $50? Well, I noticed the Golden Gate bridge here in San Francisco has had the safety nets removed, but you’ll still need to negotiate the 9 foot barbed chain-fence, added after the 2001 dot com bust. WAIT, I’M JUST KIDDING, DON’T JUMP! Take that $50 [...]
2007 Company Blogs
SocialThing!
- Times, They Are A Changing… Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:37:13
- Time for an update… Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:52:08
EventVue
BrightKite
- Bay Area Bash Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:17:03
- Brightkite Now Available in the Android Market! Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:50:00
IntenseDebate
- IntenseDebate Comments now with Facebook Connect! Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:53:43
- WordPress Plugin v2.3 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:08:40
Community News
Now your iPhone can scan barcodes, too»
Jeff Powers
Today Occipital is announcing that RedLaser, the first accurate barcode scanner for the iPhone, is available on the iPhone App Store. RedLaser allows you to scan UPC and EAN codes with a bare iPhone (no special lens), and then perform an online product price lookup via Google Product Search. And since there’s an [...]
CTO lunch with Jud Valeski»
Dan Mayer
Another month another CTO lunch. This month the lunch was with Jud Valeski of Gnip. It was another great discussion of a variety of CTO topics. Check out the full discussion of the link below.
devver.net/blog/2009/02/boulder-cto-january-lunch-with-jud-valeski/
Weheee.com goes lIve…The NEW free disa …»
weheee
Weheee.com, (We Help Educate & Empower) is an online community to support individuals with disabilities and seniors throughout the world by providing an opportunity to: • Communicate, socialize, and build supportive relationships, • Share experiences, knowledge, ideas, and insight in an inclusive, barrier-free environment, • Have easy access to information, • Be informed and obtain [...]
Event: “Bringing IT Forward”, January …»
Wyldfire Marketing
I-Generation (www.igen.tv) and WyldFire Marketing (www.wyldfiremarketing.com) are hosting a open forum learning event.
The focus of this event is “Bringing IT Forward” where your peer technologists who understand technology business needs will discuss shaping a product and producing a model that works on a global level.
The event was inspired by a global partnership of technology professionals [...]
Notes from this month’s Boulder CTO lun …»
Dan Mayer
The Boulder CTO Lunch meets once a month with a guest speaker and covers topics and questions that startup CTOs should find interesting. This lunch was originally started by a few members of TechStars and has been slowly expanding. This month, the group had Tim Wolters from Collective Intellect come lead the discussion. Tim is [...]
Community Launches
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candlel15
So, I’m an entrepreneur in the start up stage of a social networking site but I am not a developer. I am self-funding my effort because I think I have a great idea that will quickly profitable based on all-that-i-know plus a few market analyses. In any case, I am trying to extend myself to [...]
Visit Boulder For Free (Developers)»
Andrew Hyde
Want to visit Boulder for free, and say, have 20 interviews lined up for you?
Stop dreaming, it is happening.
Boulder is hosting a job fair, where 100 developers from around the country will be flown in on an all expenses paid trip to this great city.
The Boulder tech scene is growing like crazy. Twenty [...]
2008 $2M HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media …»
HASTAC
Hi, Techstars,
I wanted to make sure that you were aware of the 2008 $2M HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition (www.dmlcompetition.net , twitter.com/dmlComp), deadline October 15, 2008. The focus of this year’s Competition is participatory learning which we define broadly as using new digital media for sharing ideas or planning, designing, implementing, or just discussing [...]
Failure to Launch!»
El Kirk
On Saturday I elected to leave a 1 1/2 year old start up I joined 5 months ago as a Consultant where I then became COO and then President. It’s a company with a great product but questionable management and startup experience. My time with this young company underscores a previous experience and lesson and [...]
Getting a site up and off the ground via …»
Rbakas
Getting a site up and off the ground via self funding is not only fun, but it’s healthy! Act now and you too could drive yourself to drink just like me…
Phase two of our site will be up next week in time for launch at Aspen Food&Wine.
Pitches
Pitch: Post Yours Here»
Andrew Hyde
One of the hardest things about pitching is making changes to your pitch after receiving quality feedback
on your presentation.
When launching this community, one of the most common requests was for a place to post pitches, and get feedback.
If you would like to be able to post your pitch to here, send me and email and [...]
2008 Teams
Demo and Investor Day Open to the Public» Andrew HydeWe are opening up the balcony of the Boulder Theater to the general public for the 2008 TechStars Investor and Demo day. If you are a member of the community, and would like to come (it is from 10-4 on August 20th) please rsvp here.
Please note that these are ‘read only’ tickets that get you [...]
2007 Teams
Automatic and Intense Debate»
Andrew Hyde
Last week at the Mountain View Demo Day Automattic CEO Toni Schneider came on stage an announced the acquisition of 2007 TechStars team Intense Debate.
Here are some outlets that wrote about it:
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