Speakers & Mentors

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  Brad Feld
  Foundry Group
  Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over twenty years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies. Brad is also a co-founder of TechStars.
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  Zach Nies
  Rally Software
  Zach is CTO of Rally Software, the collaboration platform that allows companies to build great products faster with Agile and Lean practices. Prior to joining Rally, Zach was co-founder of a startup that radically changed how creative professionals managed projects. His company was acquired by publicly-traded Creo, Inc., now a division of Kodak. Before that he served as Chief Software Architect at Quark.
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  Robert Reich
  OpenSpace Store
  Robert Reich is a developer and serial entrepreneur. Robert co-founded Me.dium, a browser add-on that let friends discover and share the best content on the web. Me.dium morphed into realtime search startup OneRiot. Prior to OneRiot, Robert served as Founder & CEO at Ecosystems, a company focused on selling collaboration technologies to the global 2000. This year, Robert founded Openspace Store, Inc. an HTML5 app store. Openspace is run by a cooperative of developers and gives consumers a place to buy apps for any and all devices.
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  Rob Delwo
  High Country Venture
  Rob is an associate at High Country Venture (HCV) in Boulder, Colorado and an entrepreneur at heart. He loves riffing on new ideas helping and entrepreneurs realize their full potential.
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  David Cohen
  TechStars
  David Cohen is the founder and CEO of TechStars, a mentorship-driven seed stage investment program for Internet startups. Previously, David was a founder of several software and web technology companies. He was the founder and CTO of Pinpoint Technologies which was acquired by ZOLL Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: ZOLL) in 1999. You can read about it in No Vision, All Drive [Amazon]. David was also the founder and CEO of earFeeder.com, a music service which was sold to SonicSwap.com in 2006. He also had what he likes to think of as a “graceful failure” in between.
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  Patrick Riley
  TechStars
  Patrick Riley currently oversees business development for TechStars as the Director of Business Development. In addition to this role, he manages the Global Accelerator Network which is an affiliation of short-term mentorship-driven accelerators started by TechStars. He has experience in the non-profit and venture-backed tech companies.
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  Nicole Glaros
  TechStars
  Nicole has been working with tech startups for over 10 years now, after successfully building and selling her own company. She currently serves as the Managing Director for TechStars in Boulder.
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  Clare Tischer
  TechStars
  I like curling my hair, travel travel travel, period television/movies, working out, and falling asleep with books on my face. I dislike entitlement and when people only want to discuss other people. Let’s talk about our ideas.
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  Tom Markiewicz
  StatsMix
  Tom is the co-founder and CEO of StatsMix, a TechStars company. As a serial entrepreneur, Tom has held leadership positions in several startups and also has over 12 years of product management experience.
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  Danny Newman
  ROXIMITY
  ROXIMITY co-founders Danny Newman is a serial entrepreneur and inventor. He has a background in music, mobile, and was a judge at StartupWeekend Denver in 2011. He started Roximity with Joe Mease and Austin Gayer, and the team won Ford SYNC App Developer Challenge during the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in Sept 2011.
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  Ara Howard
  dojo4
  Ara T. Howard (CTO) is an earliest adopter, minimalist architect, and prolific problem solver. His background includes designing large-scale 24x7 satellite processing systems, building lean technology stressing startups, and contributing countless solutions to budding developers.
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  Andrew Cohen
  Next Big Sound
  Andrew is the Lead Designer at Next Big Sound with 6 years of design experience. In a previous life he was a print designer, a senior designer at an award-winning interactive agency, and most recently ran a small independent studio in Virginia.
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  Monika Runstrom
  BlogFrog
  To call Monika the social maven of music, tech, and digital media in Colorado isn’t far from the truth. Rarely seen without iPhone in hand, she advocates brand loyalty and strives to build meaningful and long-lasting relationships in the world of social media.
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  Jacqueline Claudia
  DSI
  Jacqueline Claudia, a Principal at DSI, helps clients drive innovation and break through customer thinking in their organizations. “We begin with a nugget of an idea. We poke, prod and shape it into a solid business, and then comes the hard part – communicating the concept and turning it into a reality.” Jacqueline’s passion for achieving results with clients has been key to bringing about strategic change from the chief executive level to the line managers in DSI’s client organizations.
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  Joni Klippert
  Standing Cloud, Inc.
  Joni is Director, Customer Development for Boulder startup Standing Cloud, Inc. Prior to joining the Standing Cloud team, she earned her MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship & capital markets at CU Leeds School of Business. Joni is a member of the Deming Center Women's Council and provides customer development coaching to local startups.
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  Suzan Bond
  Suzan Bond & Co.
  As a CMO-for-Hire, Suzan helps tech startups and growing businesses create their marketing, social media and community management function. In her work with enterprise, growing businesses and startups she has built numerous departments and companies. She got her start in technology as the head of project management for an interactive agency during web 1.0.
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  Jon Rossi
  StartupDenver.com
  Ambitious up-and-coming entrepreneur. Apps, Social Media, Technology, and Business Enthusiast. Producer, Connector, and Motivator Living at 5,280 feet, enjoying life and making a difference for others. Organizer for StartupWeekend Boulder & Denver
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  Aaron K White
  Empire Avenue
  Aaron is the Director Design & Interactive Development at Empire Avenue Inc., organizer of StartupWeekend Denver and two times StartupWeekend Denver winner!
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  Dan K Lynn
  FullContact
  Dan is the CTO and Co-Founder of FullContact, a TechStars Boulder 2011 graduate which is solving the world's contact information problem. Dan's background includes product development, continuous delivery, big data, data science, and music.
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  Richard K Miller
  Mocavo.com
  Richard is CTO at Mocavo.com and his work has been featured in Smashing Magazine, Lifehacker.com, and Seth Godin's blog.
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  Graham Furlong
  Strategic Consultant
  Graham has over 11 years global strategic planning and marketing experience working inside some of the most creative agencies in world, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, JWT and TBWA. Along the way he has created integrated marketing, interactive, social media and product strategies for businesses in almost every category. He has an unrivalled ability to read the situation, zeitgeist and cultural tension for businesses, inventing strategies that fizz and crackle. His ideas and stories blur the lines between strategy and execution.
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  Andy Stone
  Mocavo.com
  Andy has six years of working at advertising agencies and running his own design agency. He has led projects for Adobe and Jack Johnson, along with designing social campaigns for Travel Channel and Horizon Organic.
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  John Kembel
  Oracle
  John is a serial entrepreneur, design thinker, social business strategist, and customer experience innovator. His third startup, an enterprise social software provider was acquired by RightNow in 2009, which was in turn acquired by Oracle in early 2012. As Vice President of CX Design at Oracle, John is responsible for understanding how customer experience innovation can be accelerated through the application of design, agile, and social business practices. John also serves as a Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford's