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TechStars
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05.06.08Interview: Wayne Sutton Catches Gwen Bell in Chapel HillDuring the year I spent in England, when I got homesick I would throw myself onto the floor (dramatically) and cry to the crooning of Ryan Adams. Oh My Sweet Carolina, what compels me to go? Sometimes, I truly miss the place...the blue skies. But if my heart is in Carolina, my head is in Colorado. Gwen Bell is a TechStar from Wayne Sutton on Vimeo. This weekend I took a whirlwind tour of North Carolina and while there met with Wayne Sutton (of Twitter & MSNBC fame). He interviewed me about the startup scene in Colorado & ...
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03.28.08Project NutmegA small group of developers got together last Saturday for a top secret meeting (yes, we all got secret agent names) at the sunlit Dushanbe Teahouse in Boulder. Four of the five of us were developers, as this story will reveal. The waiter came to serve us our water. He lifted up the first glass and the bottom dropped out mid-air, spilling water on the floor. I thought "a sign?" as the four scientists/programmers around me set to work determining what laws of physics were at play for such a thing to occur.* We were ...
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03.18.08Apply!TechStars applications are open for another fourteen days. Got the reminder this morning while reading Brad Feld's blog. Not that I could forget, mind you... Working out of the TechStars offices means I get to hang out with rad mentors, talented teams and hopeful applicants daily. Around 8 am today at Boulder Open Coffee I was reminded yet again why I do this. The format this morning was "self-help." Folks from the group of nearly fifty threw out questions/problems they're currently wrestling with (like: how do I manage my investors?) and the group responded. Knowledgeable, ...
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03.04.08It’s Like Prom Week. For Geeks.This morning, all fresh and recovered from last night's TechStars Open House party, I woke up to an email letting me know about the Daily Camera coverage of our efforts to reach out to women for TechStars. The word is getting out. With 27 days left until the deadline (and 12:01, April 1st, according to a 2007 TechStar, is one minute too late), this is good news. You have a little less than a month to get your app in. What are you waiting for? In about thirty minutes I'm heading to a Silicon Flatirons event. ...
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02.28.08Perfecting Your Pitch: Working it for the WomenThis Monday we had our third Boulder Women Engaging Tech meetup at The Cup. This week we all came armed with our copies of Getting Things Done. We're doing productivity work together as a team (Goldie covered GTD further on her blog). After thirty minutes or so of talking about contexts and how to delegate, we moved on to discuss a bit about tech evangelism - zealous advocacy of the tech cause. In other words, how to spread the word about your product or service. Technology evangelism is a hot topic around Boulder these days. We ...
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02.11.08The Secret to Productivity? Careful CollaborationI've been back in Boulder nearly six weeks. All of those weeks have been full, absolutely brimming with the people I love to see and the activities I love to do. There has been light hiking, karaoke singing and tango dancing late into the night. On the work front, I've learned more over this month and a half than I did in a semester of college. I'm learning a lot about productivity, and this is what I'm finding. The secret to productivity is not to work in isolation. The key is careful collaboration. ...
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