Last night Current TV premiered Megan Sweeney’s fantastic film documenting “Startup Bootcamp”, Techstars. It was awesome to see the video on real TV rather than just on the Internet. Apparently Current will be reairing it many times in the next couple days, so tune in to try to catch it.
If you don’t get Current or don’t have a chance to see it, here’s the shortened, edited version that aired last night:
If you have three extra minutes, watch this original version instead. More fun, better music, more complete story:
StartUP will premier in Current TV’s Nightly New showcase TONIGHT, November 17th, 2008 at 11:00pm EST/8pm PST. Mark your calendar.
After that it will air again three hours later and enter Current TV’s regular rotation on the network.
Please help spread the word. Send to everyone & anyoneJ
StartUP takes place in Boulder, Colorado which is becoming a hub for web startup companies. This story is about Techstars, a mentorship-driven seed stage investment fund, who selects 10 companies made up of young entrepreneurs to join a summer program where they are exposed to many mentors and investors. We focus on two of the companies in this incredible program, Ignighter & Foodzie. They had the opportunity to meet people like Matt Mullenweg of WordPress to the founders of Photobucket. We hope this inspires any of you out there with an idea and a lot of passion.
Current TV is available on …
USA + DirecTV 366 +Comcast Nationwide 107 +Dish Network 196 +Time Warner Nationwide – check your local listings + AT&T U-verse 189
Just last week we publicly announced the news that we had closed our $1.2 million round of financing. The announcement was first reported by TechCrunch and then other industry blogs like VentureBeat and of course, our personal favorite, the TechStars blog:
We brought some of our old school Ignighter flyers with us, and before we knew it, people were putting the flyers on their shoulders and snapping a photo.
‘Why’ you ask? We’re not exactly sure. But we’re digging it!
Ignighter Guys:
Brett and Rob got into it too:
Not just a guy thing:
A construction worker, a valet, and the late-night security guard at Carl’s Jr.:
Celebrities (and Brooke Hogan) too! It’s really a phenomenon:
Pretty cool huh?
***What’s even cooler is that if you, kind readers of the Ignighter Blog, take a picture of yourself with your own “Ignighter Shoulder” and email it to adam (at) ignighter (dot) com, I’ll post it!
If you don’t already have an Ignighter flyer, email me your address and we’ll mail you one for the photograph. Or simply make a color print of the image below, cut it out, take a pic, and send it in to us!***
