David Cohen (born 1968) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Pinpoint Technologies, iContact.com, and Earfeeder.
[citation needed] In an interview with weblog The Rise to the Top and on his Techstars profile, Cohen refers to this company as "a graceful failure" because it returned 78% of its funding to outside investors.
[4][11][12] Writing on his blog, Cohen said the company “failed well by deciding to cut our losses before we spent all the money trying to make something happen.
[4][5] Cohen co-founded Techstars in 2006 with Brad Feld,[1][4][12] Jared Polis, and David Brown.
[12] Cohen designed Techstars to improve the existing system of angel investing and to provide more support to startups.
[12][13] In a speech at the Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit, Cohen said that he was particularly interested in improving the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Techstars' launch city, Boulder, Colorado.
[2][3] Cohen serves on the Board of Advisors of the Computer Science Department of the University of Colorado.
In his personal time, Cohen enjoys technology, software startups, and tennis.
[4] In 2012, Cohen delivered the keynote speech at RailsConf2012 and at the inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards.