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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Startup Dog
Originally uploaded by lisa.williams

IMO, it’s not really a startup unless you have:
1. Problems
2. A dog.
Just sayin’.

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Next week, July 16th, is the 45th day mark at TechStars, Yesterday, we used a teleconference/Glance/Mac set up to demo our product fr Brad Feld, who was in Alaska. We ran through the problem we want to help people solve, the roadmap map, the screens and then the live code. And then we talked about [...]

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BlogHer is great for lots of reasons — it’s a conference where the speakers are just as amazing as the crowd, which is, in a word, stellar.
However, I have very personal reasons for thinking BlogHer is the best conference ever.
Today, I am one of the three cofounders of a web startup that [...]

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So it was not quite a month ago–3.5 weeks to be exact that Lisa and I came to Boulder for TechStars, or, as I’ve started to think of it, came to Boulder to be molded into co-founders in the cauldron of fire.
Yeah, there really isn’t any fire, but we’ve put ourselves through it anyway.
There was [...]

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So we’re heading to week three at TechStars, and while the problems we want to solve have changed, the products wer’re building have shifted 180 degrees.On one hand, this is marvelous–we’re going to get real products into the market and used by customers sooner than we thought; on the other hand.
But as we narrow and [...]

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Watching a start-up come together from the inside, when it’s your own, is very different from watching from the outside. IMHO, the statements about “hire the best athlete” and “get the best” are both true and inspiring, but they don’t really reflect what putting a team together, inside the TechStars incubator, has been like [...]

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