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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:

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2008 Company Blogs

Occipital

  • RedLaser 2.6 – Now Scans Artificial Organs from 2057! Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:49:23
    RedLaser 2.6 is now available on the App Store. This update has a number of enhancements, including: Multiple scan toggle switch:  This mode makes RedLaser act like a checkout scanner.  Scan an item and move onto the next without pressing any buttons.  This is good for cataloging your entire bookshelf or rapidly zapping several items without having [...]
  • Announcing RedLaser 2.5 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:49:21
    About 72 hours ago, the RedLaser 2.5 update was published to the App Store.  It was a soft-launch with our new partner, TheFind, which is the fastest growing search engine for shopping in the US with over 400 million products in its search index.  In the 2.5 release we also improved our scanning speed (6% [...]


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



Foodzie



    Devver

    • Announcing Gemcutter/Caliper integration Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:09:33
      We’re extremely happy to announce that Caliper is now generating metrics for all gems pushed to Gemcutter! By taking advantage of the new webhooks feature in Gemcutter, Caliper is alerted whenever a new version of a gem is pushed. At that point, we automatically generate metrics. In addition, every gem page on Gemcutter now features a [...]
    • Help us improve Caliper by taking a short survey Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:49:44
      If you have tried Caliper, it would help us immensely if you filled out this short, eight-question survey at Survey.io. Thanks!


    BuyPlayWin

    • Ebook Readers: are they for you? Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:02:18
      There is a lot of disagreement over the value of different ebook readers. This post is intended to help you: Understand why you’d want one Decide whether or not to buy one now or in the future As a starting point, I took the product features set displayed on Amazon.com’s Kindle website and pasted the bullet-point feature specs [...]
    • 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 [...]


    2007 Company Blogs

    SocialThing!



      EventVue



        BrightKite



        IntenseDebate



        Community News

        TechStars Star 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 [...]

        TechStars Star 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/

        TechStars Star 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 [...]

        TechStars Star 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 [...]

        TechStars Star 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

        » 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 Hyde

        We 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:

        Twitter

        TechStars sees big jump in int…» twitter

        TechStars sees big jump in international applications: bit.ly/aJdSg2

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