It’s been a long time since we’ve updated The Next Big Sound blog, but it’s not without good reason. A lot has happened in the past few months and we’re excited to share what we’ve been up to and where we’re headed.

Techstars and moving to Boulder, CO
In early April we found out that we were accepted into Techstars. More about Techstars:

TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed stage investment fund. Each year we run a summer-long program in Boulder, Colorado and Cambridge, Massachusetts. We’re very selective - each year hundreds of companies apply to the program and we only take about ten per city.

It’s hard to explain how excited (and grateful) we were when we found out about the acceptance — basically, we were ecstatic. We left Chicago on May 8th around 7pm and drove 1,000 miles overnight to Boulder, CO. I wish we’d taken more photos, packing three dudes into a 2 door hatchback filled to the brim with dirty laundry and computer monitors was quite a sight. We did snap one or two pictures, here’s one of the sun rising as we entered Colorado.

We rented a four bedroom house on The Hill near CU and set-up shop. Boulder is lovely. We’ve made some great new friends, met some exceptional mentors, and been super impressed by how strong the community is here.

The Video (look up there ↑)
Techstars is making weekly videos following three teams over the summer. We’re stoked to be one of the teams included and today at noon the first episode was uploaded to techstars.tv. This video details the first week of the program… more to come soon!

What We’re Working On
Between getting into techstars, moving to Boulder, and having a sweet video series made about what we’re up to it would be a shame to not share what we’re working on. Basically, we’re exploring a bunch of different ideas and directions to take The Next Big Sound. We’re really excited and we’ll be unveiling more details as the summer continues. If you’re super curious about what we’re doing, you can follow us on twitter. I’m @dodeca, Alex is @shalek, Samir is @samirrayani, and walter is @walterblaurock. See how the two engineers both use their full real names? Tricky tricky.

That’s it!
Until next time, 
David