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:

Just a reminder:
October 1st at 10am MST we will be having a TechStars Community call.
www.talkshoe.com/tc/24767
Phone Number: (724) 444-7444
Call ID: 24767
We will be talking about all things TechStars, so if you have a question about the program, or have a question about the recent news, call in!

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 [...]

We just premiered this at the 2008 Demo Day. Filmed in an hour, with two takes. If you are not familiar with the lipdub meme, check out our many friends that have done their own:
Digg:http://www.vimeo.com/928615
Rev3: www.vimeo.com/899301
CollegeHumor: www.collegehumor.com/video:1820582
TechStars LipDub from Andrew on Vimeo.

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 [...]

Last week it was confirmed that SocialThing!, a 2007 TechStars team was acquired by AOL.
The Inquisitr has an interesting post on why it is great to be purchased by AOL.
TechCrunch was on the story first with many other fine news outlets piling on details.
The SocialThing! team is staying in Boulder, setting up a more permanent [...]

The Boulder County Business Report puts on an annual awards ceremony. Quite a few TechStars teams were finalists for awards including SocialThing, FiltrBox, EventVue anad Intense Debate.
SocialThing! won in the Internet/Consumer category, and the full video is below.

Brian and Matt.

I love TED.  Every year, I wait, and wonder, will I, say, someday, you know, somehow, get and invite?  And then I think about paying the $6k to go, which I am sure it is worth, but just can’t stomach.
Enter BIL (of BIL and TED’s excellent conference adventure).  BIL is the free and open version [...]

Howard Lindzon came to TechStars for a visit and spend the last few days meeting with the teams as they prepare for the final push to the end of the summer.

If you don’t know Howard, you should read his about page, and also some of the more… pointed pieces he writes.
Things I learned [...]

Ben and Tom were having a nice, peaceful meeting at the TechStars office in downtown Boulder when I barged in and asked them if I could record some video.  A very interesting conversation: