Telluride Venture Accelerator

[caption id="attachment_35244" align="alignright" width="180"] Thea Chase, new director, Telluride Venture Accelerator[/caption] Thea Chase brings 20 years of experience building successful entrepreneurship and accelerator programs After a nationwide search with over 50 applicants, the Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA) announced Thea Chase will be the new director. TVA is a...

[caption id="attachment_25239" align="alignright" width="200"] Telluride Venture Accelerator's Jesse Johnson (left) & Telluride Foundation's Paul Major (right)[/caption] The Telluride Venture Accelerator is now accepting applications! What is the Telluride Venture Accelerator? The Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA) is a mentor-driven accelerator based in Telluride, Colorado. What We Do: We accelerate businesses by...

[caption id="attachment_25239" align="alignright" width="200"] Telluride Venture Accelerator's Jesse Johnson (left) & Telluride Foundation's Paul Major (right)[/caption] With the help of sixty Telluride expert mentors, TVA winners conclude six-month training program The Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA) is entering the final phase of its inaugural year. Launched in the...

[caption id="attachment_28716" align="alignright" width="100"] Pete Wheelan, TVA Entrepreneur-in-Residence[/caption] To know Pete Wheelan even a little bit is to wonder what influences modeled the success he embodies today – and wears as comfortably as a bespoke suit. The data reports that 1/3 of our creative capacity is DNA, our nature....

[caption id="attachment_28230" align="alignright" width="224"] Lucia Young in very early prototype of the Hoggle.[/caption] Nothing like shooting for the moon. Hoggle Goggle wants to be the Apple of everyone's eye(wear); especially those wearing googles. And the Telluride Foundation's new initiative to incubate promising start-ups, Telluride Venture Accelerator, is betting...

[caption id="attachment_27905" align="alignright" width="240"] Bill Manning at Arches National Park[/caption] Here's one sweet business proposition that contains very little sugar. Although the outlook for this new company was just sweetened by a recent victory. Bill Manning and his High Desert Farms became one of four winners of the...

[caption id="attachment_27807" align="alignright" width="224"] Mike St. Pierre of Hyperlite Mountain Gear[/caption] Mike St. Pierre followed his bliss onto commercial fishing boats in Maine, on tour as a sound technician with the Eagles, into the kitchen with celebrity chefs such as Thomas Keller at Per Se in...

[caption id="attachment_27605" align="alignright" width="215"] Sarah Fazendin, founder, Globa.li[/caption] Here's a good one for a hot game of Scrabble: "glamping." The word is a mash-up of "glamorous" and "camping," on the face of it, an oxymoron. In fact, glamping is one the latest trends in luxury travel, which...

Editor's note: Announcing "Telluride Venture Accelerator companies presenting." Owners of the four companies who won the inaugural initiative plan to present regularly to the local entrepreneur community (tellurideXchange). First gathering is Monday, February 11, 5:30 – 7:30, 2nd floor, Camel's Garden Hotel. Snow. [caption id="attachment_25239" align="alignright"...

Applicants from around the world seek to participate in new entrepreneur initiative [caption id="attachment_25239" align="alignright" width="200"] Telluride Foundaton's Jesse Johnson (left) & Paul Major (right)[/caption] Launched in the fall of 2012 as an initiative of the Telluride Foundation, Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA) ended the year with a...