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Ben Casnocha and Tom Higley

By Andrew Hyde • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Bunker (the office), Community, Interviews

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:



Boulder New Tech Meetup Demos

By Andrew Hyde • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: 2008 Teams, Community, Interviews, News

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 [...]



And There Will Be Writing - Startup Writing

By Andrew Hyde • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Community, Interviews, News

I sat down with Brian Burns, who runs Startup Writing, to talk about mistakes startups make with respect to copy.



Dave Taylor of AskDaveTaylor

By Andrew Hyde • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Community, Interviews

Dave gets asked a lot of tech questions, and answers them on his popular tech blog, AskDaveTaylor.  One of the rare sites you will see advertising actually work on a site, Dave drives a whopping amount of traffic to the site. If you have ever heard ‘content is king’ you can see it in use [...]



Product Management and Startups- Niel Robertson

By Andrew Hyde • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Community, Interviews

Wednesday was an incredible session with Niel Robertson.  I have read his blog and followed his companies from afar for years, and been nothing but impressed.  Neil is one of those smart, nice, and driven guys that has had a great community around him.
After the panel, Niel sat down with me in the Studio to [...]



Gyminee’s First Three Weeks at Techstars

By Andrew Hyde • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: 2008 Teams, Boulder, Community, Interviews

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) [...]



Meeting Flux Capacity

By Andrew Hyde • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: 2008 Teams, Community, Interviews

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 [...]



Devver

By Andrew Hyde • Jun 13th, 2008 • Category: 2008 Teams, Interviews

A quick interview with at 2008 TechStars team Devver.

Devver is building web-based tools that allow Ruby developers to easily understand and improve their code. Their first product is helping developers cut down on unit testing.



Launching a Company (podcast)

By Andrew Hyde • May 27th, 2008 • Category: 2007 Teams, Community, Interviews

What does it take to launch your company and brand?
Brian Dewitt, a founder of SocialThing! gives 3 tips on launching your company, which include
1. Focus/ Refine (listen to your advisors and mentors)
2. Plan Attack/ Roadmap
3. Followup
8:19 in length, hit the play button below to listen in.



About to Begin (podcast)

By Andrew Hyde • May 25th, 2008 • Category: Community, Interviews

David and Andrew sit down to talk about TechStars 08 kicking off in 2 days.
Has it really been a year? Press the play button just below, 4:18 in length.



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