|  | | 06/22/07 - Boulder County Business Report | | Intense Debate takes first steps as startup | EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a three-part series looking at Intense Debate, one of the 10 teams selected to participate in the TechStars program in Boulder this summer. Each team will receive $15,000 in seed money and access to a stable of mentors.
BOULDER - There may not be an immunity necklace or a tribal council, but a real life version of "Survivor" is happening in Boulder this summer. Survivor for startups, that is. |
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| | | 04/18/07 - Boulder Daily Camera | | TechStars boot camp roster chosen | | The teams hail from New York, Philadelphia, South Carolina, Florida, St. Louis, Texas and Colorado. One of the 26 selected entrepreneurs is coming from Sweden for the chance to live in Boulder and begin developing a business idea. |
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| | | 04/18/07 - TechCrunch | | TechStars Summer Camp for Entrepreneurs: Winners Selected | Ten startups ideas have now been selected out of 300 applicants.
All start-ups move to Boulder on May 15 and the program starts May 21 for 3 months. There will be 3 evening sessions each week that'll give the teams access to 40 mentors for personal meetings and panel discussions. They'll also have extensive meetings and access to the four founders of TechStars – notable VC Brad Feld, David Cohen, Jared Polis (founder of BlueMountain and ProFlowers) and David Brown. |
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| | | 03/15/07 - Boulder County Business Report | | Young entrepreneur has talent beyond his years | | Casnocha said TechStars offers participants unparalleled access to experienced executives and investors. "The most important thing about the program is the mentors, not the seed money," he mentioned. "That's hard for some entrepreneurs to understand." |
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| | | 03/15/07 - Boulder County Business Report | | TechStars to get funding, business mentors | Feld told potential applicants, "If the only value you see is the seed funding, then you're missing the point of what we are trying to do." He suggested candidates regard TechStars "not as a source of capital, but as a co-founder that brings a little money to the table."
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| | | 02/03/07 - The Denver Post | | Innovations & Ideas | | A startup in Boulder has a very targeted market - other startups in software, technology and the Web. |
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| | | 01/25/07 - TechCrunch, Michael Arrington | | TechStars: Summer Camp (and cash) For Entrepreneurs | | We are seeing a dramatic shift as (some) investors are lurching away from providing big capital to over funded web startups to these structured, mentor-driven angel investments. |
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| | | 01/16/07 - StartupSquad.com | | TechStars - SeedFunding+Mentoring+Boulder for your dream startup | | The right mentoring, relatively risk less funding for investors, and a super-charged summer of development period are the right mix to know whether teams can get the ball rolling or not and how much funding they really need. For those who love Boulder and Brad's field and style of investing, TechStars should prove to be good ground to grow up. |
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| | | 01/16/07 - National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT.org) | Women & IT Entrepreneurship
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