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Dream Tank Summer Programs For Kids in Boulder

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Dream Tank is a summer program designed for kids and teens who want to launch and implement their ideas to address real-world challenges. It is currently expanding to offer year-round accelerator-for-kids-and-teens programming through summer camps, after-school programs, and a homeschool program for teens.

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The R/GA Connected Devices Accelerator, Powered by Techstars

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R/GA creates advertising and marketing products based in technology and design and has earned countless accolades over the years, including Advertising Age’s “Digital A-List” and “Agencies of the Decade.” It’s super exciting to me to do an accelerator program specifically around connected devices with Techstars.

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Bolt – Making Hardware Easier

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From an outsider’s perspective, it’s stunning how much damage one bad component on a PCB board can do to a company’s bottom line, or how different industrial design is from software design, or even how the brains of a software person and a hardware person collide in bizarre ways.

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Birth of An Entrepreneur

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At age 13, he was certain that he could learn to program the Apple II computer. Not only did he learn how to program the Apple II himself, he started a business. He taught boys and girls in the neighborhood how to program in Basic for a fee. The laboratory program he created was a bargain to me. He said about $1300.

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Thoughts For VC Backed Companies Considering SBA/PPP Loans

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But we’re encouraging all of the companies in our portfolio to pause and consider whether they truly qualify for the program and whether their participation in the program will save jobs and result in their business being less threatened by the crisis.

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The Holographic Display Of The Future Is Here

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It’s a technology at the Apple II stage, designed for the creators and hackers of the world — specifically 3D creators in this case. I like to just call it a holographic display.

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A Quality Benchmark for Accelerators: The Global Accelerator Network

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When David Cohen and I came up with the idea for the Global Accelerator Network (GAN) in 2010, we counted roughly 100 accelerator programs around the US that were founded following the Techstars model. From that initial outreach, 16 high quality accelerator programs joined us to launch the network.

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