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Foundry Group Backed Mobile Startup Looking for First Developers In Boulder

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If you are looking to be in on the ground floor of a hot, new mobile startup based in Boulder, now is your chance. We’ve funded a new company focused on the business conferencing / collaboration market that uses a unique mobile approach. The company is looking to build its core development team here in Boulder.

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Two New Techstars Programs – Mobility/Detroit and Techstars++/Mayo Clinic

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Last week Techstars announced the new Techstars Mobility program, Driven by Detroit. Techstars Mobility, driven by Detroit will run for three years with a new class of 10 startups each year. I think Ted is awesome and it’s super exciting to have him join Techstars as the Managing Director of Techstars Mobility. Status quo?

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Implementing Social Media’s Secret Weapon

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They directly address the problem Fred describes which every software developer knows is a pain in the ass, uninteresting, hard to do well, but needs to be done right. Everyone that uses apps on a mobile phone is likely experiencing push notifications as an increasingly important as a form of engagement.

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More Coders. More Diversity.

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To address this, Heather Terenzio, founder and CEO of Boulder’s Techtonic Group, developed Techtonic Academy , an innovative solution in the form of Colorado’s first federally recognized by the Department of Labor technology apprenticeship. After about six months, graduating apprentices are qualified junior developers, ready to work.

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Mobile Monday Colorado with Dion Almaer

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Mobile Monday Colorado is hosting a member of the TechStars mentor family, Dion Almaer, for their July 19th event. Dion is Managing Director of Developer Relations at Palm (now part of HP). He will talk about the direction of the WebOS operating environment specifically and the future of mobile and the web.

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The R/GA Connected Devices Accelerator, Powered by Techstars

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The Internet has rapidly expanded beyond desktop, server, laptop, and mobile computers and connected itself to many of the different devices in our everyday life. They are the force behind the opening title sequence for 1978?s s Superman to 2006?s s Nike+ platform to 2010?s s HBO Go connected device.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

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Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. What do you think?