I just got done attending a Mocavo & FullContact ”Breakfast Club” at TechStars Boulder. Cliff Shaw, Founder of Mocavo and fellow Foundry Group CEO, approached me a few months back. He thought it made sense to get our tech teams together for a long 4 hour breakfast and swap knowledge. I thought it was a… Continue reading
Today, we’re utterly and completely exhausted. Yesterday, our post on Paid, Paid Vacation went viral, and we were up all night responding to folks from all over the the world. We thought about a detailed blog post – ala Rand Fishkin’s from SEOMoz – on what it’s like working with Brad Feld on our financing…. Continue reading
Denver, CO – FullContact, the cloud based contact management service and TechStars graduate, has secured $7 million in Series B led by Foundry Group. High Country Venture, Nancy Pierce, Walter Winshall, Jove Equity Partners, Bullet Time Ventures, 500 Startups, SK Ventures, Zelkova Ventures also participated in the round. Brad Feld will be joining FullContact’s Board… Continue reading
I woke up this morning and I couldn’t stop thinking about how evil “sugar coated” feedback is when trying to build great software – especially from end users. It drives me crazy when I know someone is holding something back. Coincidentally, a few minutes later, I read Brad Feld’s post on grinfucking and Mark Suster’s… Continue reading
The cloud is taking over everything. Whether it’s PaaS, IaaS, APIs, virtualization, security, infrastructure or hosting – everything is being built for (and in) the cloud.
This afternoon, the Daniels College of Business at DU invited me to speak to an Executive MBA entrepreneurial class about my experiences. I graduated from the EMBA program this spring, had spoken to a class this past summer, enjoyed it and (hopefully) provided value to the students, so I happily accepted the invitation again. I… Continue reading
SnapEngage, a product of TechStars, is an amazing product. At FullContact, we use it every day to engage with website visitors, provide support and turn website visitors into customers. Recently, we got together with Jerome Breche, CEO of SnapEngage, to build an integration with FullContact. The results are pretty awesome.
I love SendGrid. I have a serious bro-gramming crush. While the things I love about SendGrid are countless, here is my best stab at the Top Ten, in no particular order:
As recently reported by TechCrunch and Dow Jones VentureWire, we’ve just completed a $1.5M Series A financing round. We’re really excited that we have the capital necessary to execute some of our ambitious goals. FullContact’s mission is to solve the world’s contact information problem, once and for all. As Chris Marks from Tango points out, this is no… Continue reading
TechStars Boulder 2011, the #1 Startup Accelerator in the World, wrapped up 1 month ago. At the final session, filled with plenty of Tequila shots and aptly named “Good Bye, Good Luck, Don’t F@#! it Up!” David Cohen and Nicole Glaros encouraged us to share our TechStars experiences. After watching Brad Feld and David Cohen… Continue reading
