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 [...]

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

Chris Shipley, the Co-founder and Chairman of the GuideWire Group, and executive producer of the DEMO conference. She visited TechStars today to meet with the teams. Here are my notes from the 30 minute talk.
Misconceptions: DEMO is about products. A lot of the innovation in products is from startups, but DEMO is [...]

One of the 2007 TechStars teams, J-Squared Media is in the offices visiting the past teams sharing lessons learned. Joe Aigboboh and Jesse Tevelow rode the FaceBook app wave to a few very popular applications. They did not seek funding. A 9 minute interview is below.

One of the most common questions asked about TechStars is ‘what is it like?’  To help answer that, I am putting up some pictures of the events and day to day activities.
Jason Mendelson, Sarah Reed and David Cohen after a short panel on negotiations.

TechStars founders in a panel.

HighWay Girl teeam.

View from a trip this weekend, [...]

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.

Hope you like the new community tab on the TechStars website. We have put this up to give an insiders view of the TechStars program.
Also, we will be opening up the registration for readers to post their own columns. This can be about anything, but I think it would be really interesting

Pitches
Founder searches
Company [...]