A Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Boulder Tech Startup Community David Cohen, TechStars Last Updated March 17 2013 @DavidCohen David@TechStars.com

Thank you to Contributors David
Cohen, TechStars Brad Feld, Foundry Group Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group Tim Falls, SendGrid Rob Delwo, PivotDesk Robert Reich Brad Bernthal, Silicon Flatirons Clare Tischer, TechStars Nicole Glaros, TechStars David Jilk, Standing Cloud Jim Franklin, SendGrid Niel Robertson, Trada Inspired by the Guide to the LA Startup Community by Sam Teller

What Makes the Boulder Startup
Community Work ● Let the entrepreneurs lead ● Give before you get ● Promote Boulder as Awesome ● Contribute Something. Anything. ● Give Back to the community once you make it big (or even before you make it big). ● Take Random Meetings (be "open door") ● Be Inclusive - Show People around town ● Don't complain. Act.

Add your startup and see
many more listed here. Some (not all) Notable Startups Backflip LogRhythm Return Path StillSecure BlogFrog MobileDay RoundPegg SurveyGizmo eCortex Mobiplug SendGrid Symplified FlixMaster Mocavo ShipCompliant TeamSnap FullContact Modular Robotics Simple Energy Tendril Gnip Occipital SnapEngage Trada Kapost Ombud SparkFun Ubooly Lifepics Orbotix Splickit University Parent Lijit PivotDesk SpotRight UsingMiles Lingoport Precog Standing Cloud Webroot LinkSmart Rally Software StatsMix Advocharge

Startup (Genome) Map of Boulder
Link to the map: http://www.startupgenome.com/city/boulder-co Please make sure your startup is on it. And tell your friends to make sure theirs is too. Companies also apear @ http://www.bdnt.org Background: http://www.davidgcohen.com/2012/11/16/new-boulder-startup-genome- map/ http://hub.startuprev.com/post/17333/get-on-the-startup-map-in-boulder

Movements Boulder is for Robots
Colorado: Entrepreneurial By Nature Startup Revolution

Meetups Boulder New Tech Meetup
Boulder is for Robots Boulder Open Coffee Club Co-Founders Wanted Mobile Monday

Events ● Boulder New Tech
Meetup ● Ignite Boulder ● TEDx Boulder ● Startup Weekend ● Boulder Beta ● Entrepreneurs Unplugged ● Crash Course Series ● House of Genius

Conferences ● Big Boulder ●
Defrag ● Glue ● Blur ● Silicon Flatirons' Annual Entrepreneurship Conference ● VCIR

University of Colorado (Boulder) ●
Graduated Entrepreneurs Association (GEA) ● StartupCU ● CU New Venture Challenge (CUNVC) ● Silicon Flatirons Center ● Deming Center (Leeds School of Business) ● CSUAC (Computer Science student group) ● CU Senior Project ● BDW

Finding Talent / Co-Founders ●
TechStars FounderMatch ● Co-Founders Wanted Meetup ● Feld / Cohen Job Seekers distribution list (only if you're *hiring*, sign up) ● New Tech ● Luke's Circle

Finding a Job with a
Startup http://foundrygroup.com/jobs/ http://www.techstars.com/jobs http://www.bdnt.org Cohen/Feld Job Seekers Distribution List - If you want to distribute your resume to hundreds of area startups, send it to Brad Feld or David Cohen for distribution.

Venture Capital Firms ● Foundry
Group ● Access Venture Partners ● Tango/High Country Venture ● Boulder Ventures ● Grotech ● eonBusiness

Seed/MicroVC/Angel ● David Cohen /
Bullet Time Ventures ● Fraser McCombs Capital ● CU Deming Venture Fund ● John Ives (Tacoma) Fund ● Galvanize

Angel Groups ● Open Angel
Forum ● Boulder Angels ● Rockies Venture Club ● If you're looking for angel capital, try AngelList.

Accelerators ● TechStars ● Unreasonable
Institute

Startup Support Orgs ● Innovation
Center of the Rockies ● TiE Rockies

Co-Working Spaces ● HUB ●
Scrib ● Boulder Digital Arts ● Boulder Co-Motion ● TechStars (Sept-April, invite only)

Dev/Design Shops ● QuickLeft ●
Slice of Lime ● Dojo4 ● Rage Digital ● AngryBovine ● MondoRobot ● Pivotal Labs ● Victors and Spoils ● Viget

Startup Friendly Big Companies ●
Google ● Samsung ● Bing (Microsoft) ● Zayo

Legal ● Cooley ● KKO
● Bryan Cave ● CU Entrepreneurial Law Clinic ● http://www.boulderstartups.org/about/legal/

Banking and Finance ● Square
1 ● Silicon Valley Bank ● AVL Growth Partners ● Kurtz Fargo

Press ● http://www.techrockies.com ● http://theupstart.co/
● http://www.downtownboulder.com/ ● http://www.dailycamera.com/ ● http://c1n.tv/boulderchannel1/

Books by Boulder Startup Authors
● Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons To Accelerate Your Startup (Brad Feld and David Cohen) ● Startup Communities (Brad Feld) ● Startup Life (Brad Feld) ● Venture Deals (Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson) ● Good to Great, How the Mighty Fall, Built to Last, Great by Choice (Jim Collins).

Blogs ● DavidGCohen.com ● Feld.com
● JasonMendelson.com ● Sethlevine.com ● Boulder.me ● Boulderstartups.org ● AskTheVC.com ● Nearly Nicole (Glaros) ● Del-iberations (Rob Delwo) ● menro.me ● Chris Marks

Newsletters ● Boulder Startup Digest
● Boulder County Business Report

Startup Friendly Hangout Spots ●
The Cup ● Atlas Purveyors ● Ozo

Engage ● Use email to
start relationships ○ keep it short ○ have one clear ask ○ make it easy to say yes ○ do your research, make it relevant ○ reduce the number of emails sent back and forth by being specific, ie. suggest times and places that work ○ Don't start by asking busy people to lunch or coffee - offer to go to their office for 15 minutes after a few emails are exchanged.