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 [...]

Time for the 2nd annual Ben Casnocha ping pong tourney here at Techstars.
Last year, Arron Kallenberg beat out Ben for the championships, but this year the quality of competition is much higher.

Yes, we will be live blogging this… for some odd and twisted reason.
Competition is always good.

Here are the demos from the Boulder New Tech Meetup on August 5th.  Five of the ten 2008 teams presented, as well as one from the 2007 class.  It was a packed house at the CU Law School building.
The full picture set is here (some samples below).

Presenting tonight were:
EventVue
Ignighter (Group Dating)
Flux Capacity / Occipital
Whoz Around
Foodzie
Gyminee
After [...]

Last week the teams met with Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.
Besides leading the charge on one of the leading Open Source projects, Matt is an incredibly and friendly tech mind, willing to lend the teams his thoughts and strategies.
Here is to Matt, the whole Wordpress team and Open Source!

Matt became the first customer of [...]

Thursday was the much anticipated 30 day into TechStars Demo Day.
All ten teams showed impressive progress for their first month in Boulder.  This year, the applications to TechStars were more polished and developed, and in turn, so were the first month demos.  It seems that only a few teams (on my count 4) have had [...]

This is an interview with the founders of Foodzie, Rob LaFave, left, Emily Olson and Nik Bauman about their first impressions of TechStars and Boulder.

You can check out the Foozie Blog is here.

Gyminee is founded by Stephen Blankenship and Andy Smith. They are a 2008 TechStars team, building a fitness application and social network.
It is live and ready to test out (you can sign up here). You can see my profile here (if you sign up and need a “Gym Buddy”).
The two (rather quiet) [...]

Brad Feld is one of the principals behind TechStars, as well as an active mentor to all of the teams.
I caught Brad finishing up a meeting with Foodzie, a 2008 team, and asked a few questions about what he thought about the new class of TechStars and what his advice to Foodzie has been.  5:19 [...]

Our good friends at Ignighter are trying to redefine how we meet people and date, and they need some input from you (yes you).
http://ignighter.com/survey
Can you take their 4 minute survey?
You can check out the Ignighter blog here.

Flux Capacity has to be my favorite team name of this year. Perhaps it is my love of the 80’s, perhaps I just like how it rolls off the lounge (sounds like you just accomplished something).
Late last night, I sat down with the founders and talked about the direction of their product. 5:58 [...]