Category Archives: TechStars

Feedburner: “That’s not what we do”, “Get all the feeds”

June 3, 2008 – 5:27 pm

Last night, Dick Costolo and Rick Klau from Feedburner stopped by the TechStars office to give a fascinating (and often hilarious) talk about their experiences -starting with just four guys with a tiny market and no revenue through getting acquired by Google.
There was a lot of great advice in the talk, but I want to [...]

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Sunday Funday*

June 1, 2008 – 7:42 pm

* Note: this phrase only applies if you’re like us and consider writing code all day “fun”
We’ve survived our first week of TechStars. So far, so good. We’ve had the opportunity to meet tons of great founders and mentors this week. The only problem is that with sessions and meetings every day, we haven’t had [...]

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Our Elevator Pitch

May 29, 2008 – 8:00 pm

One of the first things we’re working on the in the TechStars program is our elevator pitch: both improving the content and the delivery. In the first two days, we’ve been asked to present it to three different mentors and all of the pitches have improved dramatically.
Here’s our latest version (it’s sure to change):
“Devver provides [...]

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