NCE Workshop Series: Doing More of the Right Things Faster with TechStars Director, Julie Penner ’04

As an early or high growth company how do you make sure you’re working on the right things? Based on a decade of experience by lean experts helping high growth companies, this interactive talk will show you how to not just survive the startup life, but to thrive as a high growth company.

Julie is a Director at Techstars Boulder, a technology accelerator for startups. The Techstars Boulder program emphasizes agile and lean processes and emotional intelligence in addition to providing traditional mentorship. Prior to Techstars, Julie was the VP of Operations for Graphicly, a Techstars company. Prior to that, she worked in Corporate Development at Liberty Media and Liberty Interactive. She holds an MBA/JD from University of Colorado with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and degrees from Brown University (’04) in Public and Private Sector Organizations and in Economics. She began her career at Zeo (formerly Axon Labs), a Boston-based startup founded by Brown University students.