People’s Software Company

When I showed Lisa what I’d written about People’s Software and the new thing, she said this:
“ I like the idea behind WhozAround.  It’s a product I want and one I would personally use.   However, we found that creating it made us overly dependent on people who didn’t have their skin in the game the [...]

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So why haven’t we posted at People’s Software for the last couple months? What happened to that product we were working on? When is it going to be out, already?
If you have been one of the people asking these questions, believe me, you weren’t alone. As we ended our summer with an alpha, we pushed [...]

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Advice from legendary investor Ron Conway about being a little boat in a big downturn:
“Raising capital will be much more difficult now.
You should lower your “burn rate” to raise at least 3-6 months or more of funding via cost reductions, even if it means staff reductions and reduced marketing and G&A expenses. This is the [...]

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Want to grow the intellectual capital and the revenue in a college town like Boulder, CO? Put some tech companies in, add TechStars and the 10+ companies who come in every summer (half or more of whom stay in town) and then celebrate the start-up culture plus vegan mountain biking goodness that is Boulder.
Oh wait [...]

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Miz Williams is the subject of a story in the Boston Globe–all about her importance as the founder of H2oTown, her adventures in Boulder, and her ability to balance work and life. Cool piece, even cooler co-founder.

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So, where’s PSCO? Right now we’re working on three things: adding more features to the FB version of WhozAround? so we can move it from alpha to beta; scoping out what the work on doing a get out the vote application based on some of the WhozAround? principals would take, and figuring out viral distribution [...]

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[Hello, Globe readers. Thanks for visiting!] WhozAround is like Twitter for your calendar — it’s a fast, simple free way to make getting together easier. You don’t have to join YASNS (Yet Another Social Network Site) to get it, because it plugs into Facebook and Twitter to make what you’ve already got more [...]

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Susan and I are in NYC to do a bunch of meetings, but at the moment, I have the easy job: just watching Susan address a group of students at the Columbia School of Journalism about innovation, entrepreneurship, and media. Sree Sreenivasan is our excellent host. Later today we’ll be at [...]

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So, it’s finally starting to seem real that TechStars is over.
It was an amazing summer, with so many great people to work beside and learn from. The mentors and sponsors involved with the program are impressive, and many of them spend time and effort to help us understand specific issues and/or to coach us [...]

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So Demo Day was great, more on that in the next post. This one is about the acute homing instinct that–despite many very tempting reasons to stay longer in boulder–from great new friends to dgcohen’s post Investor Day BBQ to tubing and finally having more fun with my fellow TechStars08 people who were staying [...]

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