August 9th, 2009
TechStars, TechStars, TechStars
Last Thursday around 8 AM we launched nextbigsound.com. A few hours later we presented at TechStars’ Investor Day at the Boulder Theater to a packed house of mentors, investors, and the Boulder community. It’s crazy to think that so much has happened in the three short months we’ve been here.
The morning of August 6th we lifted the need for an invite code on nextbigsound.com and enjoyed traffic from a bevy of tweets, Read Write Web, and TechCrunch. Thank you to everyone that’s tweeted out a link, reached out to us via email, or provided feedback. We’re thrilled with the response.
The current site is the core of the product, and we have a clear vision of where Next Big Sound is going. We’re excited for it to evolve.
It’s hard not to sound like we’re gushing when we talk about TechStars — honestly, it has been the greatest experience our team has had together. It totally transformed our business and gave us a stable platform of mentors, advice, and resources to launch from. On a personal level, we learned a ton from the brilliant people who surrounded us, made some great friends, and fell in love with Boulder, CO.
Vanilla founder Mark O’Sullivan says it well in his post TechStar For Life where he talks about the friends he’s made: TechStars is all about the people, and what great people they are.
The mentors that TechStars has attracted proved to be the most valuable part of the experience. Whether they were answering questions on the super technical details of system architecture, providing key introductions in the music industry, or helping practice for investor day, their guidance was stellar.
Running a twitter search on TechStars reveals a ton of blog posts and mentions of investor day and the program in general. Sifting through these provides a pretty accurate take on what the last few days have been like. I can’t say it enough, the community here is awesome.
And with that, a big thank you to the TechStars mentors with whom we worked closely, the extended network of mentors that provided help, the excellent staff at TechStars, and the greater Boulder community. It’s been an amazing summer, and the Next Big Sound is really just beginning. I look forward to what the future holds and can’t wait to meet next year’s crop of TechStars teams.
You all are awesome, thanks for being so active and helpful with everyone around you all summer.
I love these recap posts. You guys have a great start and I look forward to more amazing things from you guys
Congratulations on a job well done this sumer.
I love these recap posts. Great start! I look forward to more amazing things from you guys
Congratulations on a job well done this summer.
congrats Alex
Guys, Great post. I can only agree 100%. The TechStars experience was exceptional.
I found out about your site by search 'music online marketing' on Google News. Totally love the service – awesome work.
How in the world are guys going to make $$$? Sure the site looks great, but its free. So is it going to be advertising (yawn)… advanced features people pay for, sorry, that won't fly when most of the site is free. Oh wait, its like facebook, its like social networking… it’ll make money later… somehow.
As much as tech stars looks like fun… I love how you young technically talented kids get all this attention. VCs fawn all over you and in reality you have no idea how to generate revenue. Perhaps if young kids, such as yourselves, were taught how to bootstrap a company to make it on your own, you would learn the value of being profitable versus learning how to woo a bunch of dumb VCs, who like to show how cool they are by throwing cash around.
The Web 2 world is just as dumb as the Web 1… just considerably toned down.
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