{"id":341,"date":"2007-01-21T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2007\/01\/21\/techstars-for-entrepreneurs\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T16:04:09","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T21:04:09","slug":"techstars-for-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"TechStars for Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/techstars.jpg\" align=\"center\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\tAre you an entrepreneur looking to really get things started for you and your company (idea)? Luckily theres a group of <a href=\"http:\/\/techstars.org\/site\/page\/pg5883.html\">investors and mentors<\/a> in Boulder, Colorado here to help you this summer. Announcing, <a href=\"http:\/\/techstars.org\/\">TechStars 2007<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\t<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>The Idea<\/h2>\n<p>\tIt&#8217;s a multi step process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>take your idea and your team (up to three people) to TechStars and apply,<\/li>\n<li>get accepted and get your money ($5,000 per team member),<\/li>\n<li>get educated by some smart folks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feld.com\">Brad Feld<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradostartups.com\">David Cohen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askdavetaylor.com\">Dave Taylor<\/a>, and Ben Casnocha,<\/li>\n<li>get your business running by the end of the summer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\tThere are ten companies being accepted this summer with the application deadline being March 31st.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alert\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/techstars.org\">Click here to visit the TechStars website.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Move to Boulder<\/h2>\n<p>\tYou don&#8217;t have to reside in Boulder (nor Colorado for that matter) but it&#8217;s a good idea that you do. If you&#8217;re not around you don&#8217;t get to utilize the mentors and resources made available. CU Boulder has one of the best entrepreneurial business schools in the country. Plus, I can&#8217;t think of too many people who wouldn&#8217;t want to live in beautiful Boulder. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/devdev\/280134508\/\">this picture<\/a> I took a little while ago.<\/p>\n<h2>In short&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>\tIf this sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/ycombinator.com\/\">Y Combinator<\/a> to you, you&#8217;re absolutely right. But, I know some of the folks putting this on and I&#8217;d recommend it to any entrepreneur. You get seed funding, mentor sessions and any number of experts at your disposal. All they ask for is a 5% stake (they are investors, right?). If you&#8217;re looking for an excuse to get started&#8230; here it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you an entrepreneur looking to really get things started for you and your company (idea)? Luckily theres a group of investors and mentors in Boulder, Colorado here to help you this summer. Announcing, TechStars 2007&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[575],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-money"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}