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Conveners vs. connectors
Government and universities, in my view around startup communities, are feeders, not leaders. Feeders are important, but they are different – and play a different role than leaders. For a startup community to be vibrant and sustainable the leaders have to be entrepreneurs. This is the first tenet...
The power of passionate entrepreneurship
It was the second week of TechStars, and I was doing office hours with each of the 11 teams going through the Boulder 2010 program. I was sitting across the table from Adam Wilson and Ian Bernstein who each looked tired and dejected. In front of them were three slides. I asked them what was wrong....
The dinosaur board
I’ve been writing about boards of directors some lately – both changing my behavior as well as thinking out loud as I explore reinventing how boards work for the book […]
The all@company email list
In an effort to better figure out the startup board dynamic, I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of continual communication with board members. The companies I feel most involved in are ones in which I have continual communication and involvement with the company. This isn’t just limited to...
La langue plus importante?
When I was in high school, I had to take two years of a foreign language. I had three choices – French, Spanish, or German. I didn’t really want to […]
Keep ’em coming back for more
One of the most enduring challenges any Internet marketer faces is getting users to come back regularly and engage on their website. In other words -- loyalty. Social gaming companies and a few very popular consumer web services have gotten extremely good at creating loyalty, where loyalty rate i...
Are you a TechStars wannabe?
Not including the active programs, 126 companies have gone through TechStars since we ran our first program in Boulder in the Summer of 2007. We publish all of the results – as of now 110 are still active, 8 have been acquired, and 8 have failed. 772 people are employed by these companies. The per...
Three magic numbers
Every company I'm involved in keeps track of numbers. Daily numbers, weekly numbers, monthly numbers. Ultimately, all the numbers translate into three financial statements - the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement. While these numbers are sacrosanct in the accounting and finance profession...
Resistance is futile
Marc Andreessen recently wrote a long article in the WSJ which he asserted that “Software Is Eating The World.” I enjoyed reading it, but I don’t think it goes far […]
Startup Colorado
We launched Startup Colorado this month as part of the Startup America Partnership. I’m co-chairing this effort with Phil Weiser (Dean of CU Boulder Law School) and Jan Horsfall (CEO […]
How to have a great board meeting
I’ve had a string of great board meetings lately. They all had several similar attributes. There were no powerpoint slides: While each company has a substantive monthly reporting package, this […]
Can you be a deep thinker…
I am completely wiped out. It’s noon on Saturday in Colorado. I just had five days in a row of 18-hour days. I started the week in San Francisco and […]
