People’s Software Company

Hop! (Cropped)

Originally uploaded by lisa.williams

When people ask me what TechStars was like, I’ve got a line — because I’ve always got one. I say, “It was like sticking my head in an active washing machine — again, and again, and again.”
So as long as the drive from Boulder to Boston was, I [...]

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modern Mum

Originally uploaded by Max Sullivan

Boulder is a great town for tech meetups. Pretty much every week you can go somewhere to see people demo alpha or unreleased software or web services.
It’s fun, but I gotta tell ya, these gatherings are tough on the mothers. There hasn’t been a single evening in which [...]

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Chris Csikszentmihályi

Originally uploaded by lisa.williams

I was away from TechStars last week — I went home to Boston to visit my kids. One of the things I did while I was in Boston was to attend a gathering put together by the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab. [There's Chris Csikszentmihályi, [...]

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Rowan [L] and Joe [R]

Originally uploaded by lisa.williams

I returned to Boulder this week after a week in Boston, where I live with my husband Evan and our two kids. Boulder is wonderful, doing a startup is amazing — try it if you get the chance — and life would be completely and utterly perfect [...]

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Ten days into the program, and already some of the axioms of the mentors, founders, and resource people I’ve been pounding on our ideas with are being burnt into my head. Here’s a few:

“When you fuck up, the trick is to still stay alive.” (Lisa and I have taken this one to heart, big time.)
“Make [...]

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Being two time zones away doesn’t keep me from reading to my kids; I just do it via YouTube. Today’s story is an Ashanti folk tale called Anansi the Spider, with lively illustrations by Gerald MacDermott. This one was filmed in front of the Boulder County courthouse on Pearl Street.

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