How Boomtown innovates with each startup

BOULDER — Boomtown started with the idea of legacy.

Co-founder Toby Krout has been successful in business. But as he thought about what he wanted to leave his kids, he realized a trust fund or even a good example wasn’t enough. He wanted to leave them with lessons.

When it was all said and done, he wanted to leave them with lessons. He wanted to show them what it meant to take a risk.

So he formed an accelerator. At the time, in 2014, there was only one other accelerator in Boulder, and…