TechStars cofounder and CEO David Cohen told Portfolio.com that when he and fellow founders Brad Feld, Jared Polis, and David Brown started their accelerator for startups, they weren’t exactly looking to make it a national phenomenon.
“We started originally in Boulder as a way to support the entrepreneurial ecosystem there,” he said. “Really, we always thought of it as an experiment. We just started getting tremendous demand all over to expand it.”
But the program Cohen and his cofounders kicked off in 2006 has caught on nationally and TechStars has drawn funding from a network of 75 venture capital firms. It's expanded to include programs in Boston, New York, and Seattle, as well as in its hometown in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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Author: Kent Bernhard, Jr.
