People’s Software Company

So I was at BlogHer Boston on Saturday, and I ran into a gal at Spring Partners — they’re a software company with a novel web-bookmarking tool, and they were showing off their private beta. She’d been to the session at BlogHer San Francisco where my cofounder Susan Mernit and I — as well [...]

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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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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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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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5 am, get up to drive friend/advisor to yoga
6:3 leave for meeting in Denver at 7:30
10 am conference call
11 am Head to office, meeting re application development and goals for week
12 noon  Discussion of user interface for application
1 PM Discussion of development envronment
2:30 PM Head to The Cup for food and to se a friend
3 [...]

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There’s a model of learning, which I first encountered years, when I spent time as a professional technical educator, which states that we pass through four stages of learning:

Unconscious Incompetence - we are such novices that we don’t yet know what we don’t know;
Conscious Incompetence - we know enough to recognise the limitations of our [...]

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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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There’s a swan in my coffee…
Originally uploaded by Catherine Taylor

Let’s see:

Because I love coffee, and the Baristas here have turned a cup of coffee into a treat for the eyes, as well as the olfactory and gustatory senses;
Because Boulder is one of the most beautiful cities, in one of [...]

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Boulder Leads in Latte Art Per Capita

Originally uploaded by lisa.williams

People say that Steve Jobs has a reality-distortion field; Bill Clinton has one too, some say.
But I’ve made a big discovery: The Cup, a Boulder web 2.0 hotspot that happens to dispense caffeinated beverages has a mistaken identity field.
Yesterday, I was walking out [...]

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This weekend was all about product ideas, user values, specs, user flow, logic and building prototypes. That means we were able to walk into the office on Monday morning and show folks what we’d done and get feedback. Wow, did that feel good.
We’ve got a ways to go, but I feel like we’re finally getting [...]

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