Colorado Startups

Apply for a seat

People run this community. Each of these seats runs one part of it with Paul Foley, Founder and President of Colorado Startups.

What a seat gives you

  • You meet the founders building in your part of Colorado.
  • You learn to work with AI through Claude Academy, then use it to run a real community.
  • You carry the seat's title, such as Space Peak Connector, on LinkedIn.

How it works

  1. Pick a seat, and tell us why you are excited about it.
  2. Finish the Claude Academy courses your seat needs, and paste the public link to each completion badge.
  3. Interview with Paul.

The seats

  • Slack Community Lead. Meet founders from every corner of Colorado. Learn to run an online community with AI, and carry the Slack Community Lead title on LinkedIn.
  • Photon Mountain Connector. Meet the founders of Boulder, Denver and Golden, and the rest of Photon Mountain. Learn to work with AI, and carry the Photon Mountain Connector title on LinkedIn.
  • Space Peak Connector. Meet the founders of Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region. Learn to work with AI, and carry the Space Peak Connector title on LinkedIn.
  • Fusion Canyon Connector. Meet the founders of Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor and Greeley. Learn to work with AI, and carry the Fusion Canyon Connector title on LinkedIn.

The courses

Claude Academy lists these as free courses. Take them in any order.

Your application

How we use what you send

  • We use your application only to consider you for the seat you choose.
  • Paul Foley reads every application. We never share it outside Colorado Startups.
  • We contact you about this seat only.
  • The site stores your links as text and never visits them.
  • Once Paul decides, we delete your name, contact details and answers. We keep only the seat, the dates and the outcome.

Read the full privacy policy.

The seat
An unpaid volunteer role.
A few honest sentences is plenty. The box stops at 1500 characters.
About you
Your city or town.
Your Claude Academy badges

Finish each course, then open its completion badge on your Claude Academy dashboard and copy the verification link. The link starts with https://academy.claude.com/. We open the links ourselves when we read your application. The site never visits them.

Needed for every seat. Open Claude 101 on Claude Academy
Needed for every seat. Open AI Fluency: Framework and foundations on Claude Academy
Needed for Slack Community Lead. Open Building effective human-agent teams on Claude Academy
Needed for Photon Mountain Connector, Space Peak Connector and Fusion Canyon Connector. Open AI Fluency for small businesses on Claude Academy
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