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Inside the Battle of the Accelerators: 5 Key Founder Takeaways
Top startup founders and investors recommend focusing on product defensibility, crystal-clear messaging, and solving genuine customer problems over chasing buzzwords or quick fixes.
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The Government Capital Trap: Why More Money Rarely Makes a Startup Community
A startup community isn’t built. It’s grown. It’s closer to a coral reef than a bridge: reefs form from thousands of small, local relationships over years, none of them centrally planned. You can’t decree a reef into existence by writing a bigger check for coral.
September 21, 2026
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Inside Colorado Startup Week: A Conversation With Techstars Founder & CEO David Cohen
At the 2026 Colorado Startup Week, Techstars Founder & CEO David Cohen sat down with PBS12’s Business of Colorado to talk about Boulder’s comeback, the Give First philosophy, and what AI means for the next generation of founders.
The Thief in Every Founder’s Pocket
Comparison is stealing your joy: the founder two years ahead of you is running a different race, at a different speed, toward a different finish line, so borrowing their scoreboard to grade your own game only makes you feel small.
