I’ve got exciting news to share. We’ve closed a seed round of investment to build Timehop into the ultimate digital history experience.  You may already know (and love) timehop, a simple but deeply powerful daily email answering the question “what did you do this day last year?” In a world focused on real time, we believe [...]

NOTE: Applications for TechStar’s next NYC program are coming up very soon: January 23rd. Apply here! [continued from chapter 4] A recap: We came into Techstars convinced that our MVP (minimal viable product) was just a rebuild of Facebook’s Group feature with the right messaging/landing page on top of it to make it fit the [...]

[continued from chapter 3] When we last left off, our protagonist’s existential crisis had taken a turn for the wor… oops, wrong story. To recap: conversations with Techstars were going strong. I was more excited than ever about Friendslist (the build-your-own craigslist that would kill craigslist). And also about the Techstars program thanks to an [...]

[continued from chapter 2] “Sa-ke Bomb!  Sa-ke Bomb!” shouted the coeds at Miyake, the popular Stanford hangout.  I poked at my sushi and tried to not think about the news that would arrive any second. Finally my pocket vibrated.  ”I’m sorry to say we decided not to fund you guys.” read the email.  ”Ultimately what put [...]

As a recent graduate of the first TechStars NYC class, I thought I’d take a moment to share some of my thoughts. This blog post isn’t going to sing the praises of TechStars – Eli (Thinknear), Kevin (Red Rover), Matt (Nestio) and Vin (not even part of TechStars!) have already done that quite well.  Instead, I’d like to reflect [...]