2/22/10 - 796_ First round of funding solicitation is March 1st
CID4 is an acronym for the Colorado Institute for Drugs, Device and Diagnostic Development, (it was started about three months ago when they received funding from the State of Colorado). Larry interviewed Richard Duke, President and CEO of CID4 along with Kevin Smith, Exec VP and COO. Richard explained, "The mission of the CID4 which is a 501c3 nonprofit organization, is to bridge the gap between the lab bench and the clinic. It's to provide funding for technologies we hope to move that have come out of research institutions or from private individuals who are actually trying to seek that first professional funding." Kevin added, "Back in late October when we last talked, we were poised to start operations, doing a lot of planning but we hadn't really started yet. The good news is since then we've finalized our grants with the State of Colorado and our grant with the Fitzsimmons Redevelopment Authority and we're ready to start operations. We've actually launched that first solicitation for technology. But in order to do that we've brought together a business and technical advisory committee consisting of some of the top leaders in the State of Colorado, both in the financing of early stage companies as well as folks with understanding of the medical drug technology development process and the medical device technology process." Larry asked, "Rick could you tell us about the solicitation process and what kind of investments you're actually looking for?" "We have a solicitation process that involves a very simple and straight forward application that's available on our web site and it's open for private companies as well as research institutions or even individual inventors to submit. The caveat is we are looking for technologies that are ready to enter clinical development." Submissions are due March 1, 2010 and commercialization is a key word. Listen for more details...
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2/22/10 - 796_ Green is a business case for sustainability
Last year André Pettigrew, the executive director of the Office of Economic Development for the City and County of Denver, coined the phrase, "It's where the Green suits and the Blue suits come together" Today André said it is really speaking to the business case for sustainability. He went onto point out, “We’ve seen companies from DuPont, IBM, local companies like WhiteWave and Dean Foods, including the Wells Fargo Bank, have understood and begun the business model that talks about using resources efficiently and effectively reducing their costs. That's really where we are now in the sustainability movement. It has been proven that the companies who are adopting energy efficient programs, time and action plans, have found a way to reduce their costs and thus be more competitive at a price level; they've also been able to brand their companies in terms of companies that are the most sustainable in our country - and that helps them get market share, it also helps them attract a new labor force. The 'gen Xers and Ys' are all over this, sustainability is important to them. So the business case is being made for sustainability. Of course it requires some investment and everyone is minding their dollars given this economy. But like I said, it is irrefutable that by making these sorts of investments, reducing the dependency and consumption of foreign oil , retro fitting your lights, building Leeds Certified buildings, all of those things are paying out for companies, and we're just beginning to understand how this is affecting our overall economy and productivity of our businesses." The City of Denver and André are very involved with the Sustainable Opportunities Summit & Expo on March 2-4, Our theme this year is "A Time to Accelerate"...we'll see you there.
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790_ 2/15/10 Funding for innovative research
Russ Farmer is the founder and president of PBC, Inc. They are leading national experts in the SBIR program. Russ gives us an update about the state of the SBIR program. "SBIR stands for 'Small Business Innovation Research', it is a federally funded program that provides for over $2 billion funding for early stage, high risk research for small businesses. And companies in Colorado have historically received $80 - $100 Million, in any given year, from this program to develop products and to grow their companies." Larry asked, "With all of the economic churning that we've been going through how does SBIR come into the picture?" "There's a general perception that funding for small business is drying up. Fortunately, the R&D being funded by the federal government has not dried up at all, and as a matter of fact continues to be very strong. The legislative mandate from Congress is that 2.5% of all of that government funded research should be set aside for the SBIR program and that equates to about $2 Billion and that continues to be very strong. Originally the program funded innovative research, which was the name of the program. Congress got concerned that there's not commercialization going on with all of this technology. What's happening now? We are seeing a couple of things; One is recent legislation (2000) Congress mandated that commercialization of the technology being a valuation criteria for the award of this money. So they started using commercialization in terms of..." Listen for more as Russ shares additional details.
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789_ 2/15/10 Digital Broadband Migration: Ecosystem

Each panelist had their own take at The Digital Broadband Migration 2010 Conference: Examining the Internet's Ecosystem. Read a few excerpts and then listen to the panel discussion. Phil Weiser, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice moderates the panel ("What frightens me, makes me nervous - from the U.S. perspective losing our engineering talent, the Internet no longer being U.S. centric, patent litigation, a lack of cooperation among key players"); Meredith Baker, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission ("We have is a pretty good broadband environment out there - it needs to be better, it needs to cover all of America, but we have an adoption problem and we need to figure out..."); Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group ("It's nice to hear that Microsoft has adopted a term that is popular, and constructs that have been around for about 15 years...") ; Dale Hatfield, Exec. Dir., Silicon Flatirons Center, Former Chief Engineer, Federal Communications Commission ("So I get a little suspicious of re centralization and I get suspicious of cloud computing if it infringes on my freedom in terms of this is what I need to do to turn a job around."); Larissa Herda, Chairman, President and CEO, tw telecom, inc. ("We are affected by all of these things and the growth of the Internet Ecosystem has been quite staggering...") ; Michael Powell Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, Sr. Advisor, Providence Equity ("Why is it not done, because I don't know if it will ever be done. When you say what is driving it, absolutely technology first and foremost. Biggest concern is security and privacy.") ; Lisa Tanzi, VP and Deputy General Counsel for the Business Division, Microsoft Corporation ("Many people are referring to Cloud computing as the next frontier in technology and I think it's going to play an increasing important role over time".) Much more to listen to...
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Digital Broadband Migration: Ecosystem 786_ FEB 1/2010
The Digital Broadband Migration 2010: Examining the Internet's Ecosystem. Dale Hatfield kicked off the early Sunday morning conference introducing Phil Weiser... who is currently on leave from the Law School here at CU, and he currently holds the position of Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Anti-Trust Division at the Department of Justice. Phil Weiser introduces the topic of discussion lending background for understanding. Innovation is critical to our economic future and the tools we talk about today, entrepreneurship and the role of competition policy are critical ingredients. Part of the reason why this is so, is when you have established firms they may not be as inclined to experiment with disruptive technologies, deploy them, and they may even see them as a threat and try to stop them. This creates a real challenge...Join us next week as Phil Weiser, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice moderates the panel with Meredith Attwell Baker, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission; Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group; Dale Hatfield, Exec. Dir., Silicon Flatirons Center, Former Chief Engineer, Federal Communications Commission; Larissa Herda, Chairman, President and CEO, tw telecom, inc.; Michael Powell Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, Sr. Advisor, Providence Equity; Lisa Tanzi, VP and Deputy General Counsel for the Business Division, Microsoft Corporation. See the Event Photos
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The communications landscape is changing forever 787_ FEB 8/2010
Larry asked Jeff Tench, President of the business Market Group at Level 3 asked how the business landscape had changed over that time. The division Jeff runs and is responsible for selling to and handling the requirements of enterprise customers across the U.S. So, the retail arm of Level 3. Jeff replied, "One of the biggest changes we've seen is the use of video to the desktop and the amount of bandwidth that's required in order to deliver a high quality video experience. That's not just folks at work downloading YouTube, it's also using video as an important business tool. That has far reaching implications in how you handle a network to support the requirements of an IT perspective of any enterprise. It has gone beyond some people's expectations, from Level 3's perspective we're just at the beginning. . If you think about the way multimedia is being used in the enterprise, if you think of that trend along with some of the other trends that are very popular right now, the term 'cloud computing' for example is one that is in popular use today. For Level 3 what that really means is that IT processes..." Jeff was a guest panelist at a popular Communications Technology Professional (CTP) event. Listen to this interview and you'll learn how the communications landscape is changing for small and medium-sized businesses; what Cloud Computing really is and what it means to enterprises; how increased demand for video on wireless devices is being addressed by landline providers; and what impact federal broadband stimulus is set to have on rural America Listen for more...
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782_ Benchmarking: Are women leading alongside men? 2/1/2010
In 1998, Marie Wilson founded The White House Project in recognition of the need to build a truly representative democracy – one where women lead alongside men in all spheres. Since its inception, The White House Project has been a leading advocate and voice on women’s leadership. An advocate of women’s issues for more than 30 years, Marie Wilson is founder and President of The White House Project, co-creator of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work ® Day and author of Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World (Viking 2004). The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) hosted the White House Project Benchmarking study. Marie led the eye-opening program. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) along with Larry Nelson from w3w3.com interviewed Marie after the program. The White House Project, a national, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization, 501(c)(3), aims to advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors, up to the U.S. presidency. By filling the leadership pipeline with a richly diverse, critical mass of women, we make American institutions, businesses and government truly representative. Through multi-platform programs, The White House Project creates a culture where America’s most valuable untapped resource—women—can succeed in all realms. To advance this mission, The White House Project strives to support women and the issues that allow women to lead in their own lives and in the world. When women leaders bring their voices, vision and leadership to the table alongside men, the debate is more robust and the policy is more inclusive and sustainable. Listen, there's much more...
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781_ Broadband and the future of communications 2/1/2010
The Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA) serves as the oversight body of the Colorado.gov portal. The Colorado.gov portal is the gateway to Colorado government, and it is intended to be Colorado's single most comprehensive delivery channel for eGovernment services. John Conley, executive director of SIPA was interviewed by Larry to specifically address the issue of broadband in Colorado. John said, "The federal government and specifically the FCC and the NTIA have started to play a large role in wanting the nation to deploy more broadband throughout the rural and even into the metropolitan areas. In February of 2009, about a year ago, they released through what is commonly referred to as the Recovery Act, $7.2 Billion available through competitive grants, to be released to the private sector and the public sector, to deploy broadband technology. Before 2009, broadband was viewed very much as a utility, a commodity, but also as a cusp priority, for a lot of states it was viewed as something if there was time left over to do, state governments would get involved. Colorado had a different approach early on, but as time went on we forgot we had to keep deploying more and more broadband and upgrading our technologies. The federal government has put a spotlight back on it and that's good for Colorado." Larry asked, "What will the impacts of increased broadband be in Colorado?" John replied, "Economic development, is sometimes over hyped, but it will allow small businesses to expand their store front hours. People can continue to purchase and do transactions during off hours - that's a good thing for our lifestyle in Colorado. Also the nation is moving toward telemedicine, transportation, education, we're going to need high speed connectivity throughout all parts of the nation for our citizens to be able to interact and benefit from those initiatives." John is the keynote speaker at at the Broadband Now - the Future of Communications program on February 3, 2010 hosted by the Communications Technology Professionals....there's more...
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777_ Raising money and building a team; Crash Course
This CU New Venture Challenge Crash Course addresses core elements of building a business: including a discussion of how to build a team, how to identify and use mentors, and selecting and refining an idea. Brad Bernthal, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, CU Law School, and Entrepreneurship Initiative Director, Silicon Flatirons Center introduced Jason Mendelson a co-founder and Managing Director with the Foundry Group, a Boulder-based venture capital fund with over $225 million under management. In this Crash Course, Jason went onto emphasize, "Build a great team. Great teams succeed, poor teams always fail. Find mentors and advisors,Boulder is a great town, it's mentor town USA. Engage these mentors, if you have an interesting idea and you're cool to work with we'll keep engaged and most of us aren't looking for anything in return, it's just the right thing to do. But that goes to another point, don't get taken advantage of. Being confident is important but being self-aware and being trainable is one of the most sexy things for a mentor to see. If you know all the answers, know everything, are super confident, you're always right and don't listen, you'll quickly burn out your mentor very, very quickly. Learn to keep people engaged and you can do that in a number of ways... maybe a weekly email that isn't too long. It's closing the loop every time you get feedback from them. You don't always have to agree with them but at least show that you are listening - keep them engaged." Jason then talked about raising money. You'll be surprised what he had to say. Listen, there's more...
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779_ The fall of the record industry in the digital age.
How would you like to have a crystal ball that may predict success in your industry? Even better what if you had a way of knowing when you were heading in the wrong direction? Chris Carosella, principle of Carosella & Company and the programming chair for TiE Rockies speaks with TiE Rockies guest speaker, Steve Knopper, author of 'An Appetite for Self-Destruction: The spectacular crash of the record industry in the digital age.' Steve is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone Magazine, he writes the stories at the beginning of the magazine, about the music business, ticket scalpers, concert promoters, basically how people make money in the industry, he tends to write the behind the scenes stories. The shortened version of how Steve came to write this book begins with a piece he did for Wired Magazine about how to kill your computer with viruses. A literary agent from New York called Steve and said he liked the story, did he have any book ideas? Originally it was going to be about the entire history of the music business going back to Thomas Edison, but he narrowed the scope to digital music beginning with the adoption of the CD and that led to a prolonged boom in the music industry where everyone got filthy rich for a long time. Then there was this technological disruption, the Internet, Napster, mp3s, basically people pirating music files illegally, by people in their own homes, and the music industry responded to that in all the wrong ways. Steve is speaking at a special TiE Rockies event at the Liberty Media, Starz building in the Meridian Office Park on the NE corner of C-470 and I-225, January 28 beginning at 5:30pm - 8:00. Listen for more...
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773_ Age old integration and cloud app solution
Larry met Rick Nucci at the Defrag conference in Denver this past November. Rick is the Co-founder and CTO of Boomi where he is responsible for product management and engineering. He is considered an industry expert on SaaS & Cloud integration, multi-tenant architecture, and API design and best practices. Rick offered some important information about cloud computing, "Cloud computing is an umbrella and very general term to describe the act or notion of delivering compute capacity in the nebulous thing called the Web, not something you have control over - nuts and bolts, racks, security. You know, you don't have control over it. You can use it and consume it as you see fit. There are tons of products that address the individual areas, there's marketing automation, CRM, finance systems. Generally speaking, particularly in SaaS and cloud, people are trending towards not buying a suite that encompasses all those capabilities but rather buy those solutions from vendors who specialize in being the best marketing automation guy out there; the best CRM guy out there. And while that's great, and that's definitely the preferred solution. You're creating without integration silos of information across those systems. Integration is a horizontal problem, a huge problem that existed ever since there was more than one software program out there and it's a problem nobody likes to talk about. We partner with the SaaS so now you can buy an application on demand service and now you can also buy the integration on demand as a service as well." Listen, there's more...
Related Links: Boomi || In the News || Software Channel || Mastering Change Blog || Keywords: Rick Nucci, Boomi, Defrag, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Software as a Service, CRM, Cloud Integration. Channel: News
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770_ A valuable resource for commercializing
Part 1 of 2 Kate Tallman, Director of Tech Transfer for CU Boulder and Tim Bour, Executive Director, Boulder Innovation Center discussed commercialization of innovative ideas and inventions as well as support offered entrepreneurs. Kate introduced him, "Tim's been with the Boulder Innovation Center for a little over 3 years, and he has built the program from one focus mainly on software and organics and natural into one that now works with all kinds and sectors of technology including clean tech and the biosciences space. So the BIC has become a valuable resource for commercializing university technology. Can you give us some background on what the BIC is?" Time replied, "First of all, most traditionally, people think of the BIC as an incubator, but with some important differences. We're structured as a nonprofit, as a 501c6 nonprofit. We don't have any incubator space, we don't take any equity in our clients and we don't charge any success fees. This is different than many incubators you'd find around the country. But we find that it's really dealt well in terms of working with universities and it also does well in terms of growing jobs in the community, and that's one of our key outcomes. We currently have six market segments; we work in the area of clean tech which includes bio fuels, solar, software, building materials, anything that has a reduction in energy and efficiency in energy. Currently we have 750 advisors in our network and they're pretty evenly divided in those six segments. We currently have 35 outside clients and we work with between 70 and 100 companies a year that become BIC clients. Now of those 35, today right now, 24 of the 35 are based on CU research." Listen for more entrepreneurial support systems...
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775_ An opportunity for angel investors and startups
Part 2 of 2 Tim said, "There are two elements of the financial picture. One is how do we get funded and the second one is what do we do to help the companies we work with get funded." Kate Tallman, Director of Tech Transfer for CU Boulder and Tim Bour, Executive Director, Boulder Innovation Center continued their discussion about commercialization of innovative ideas and inventions. He continued, "Our operating budget is around $350k a year, I'm happy to report we are in the black for 2009 and we project we'll be in the black for 2010. It's been a very difficult year, we've been able to inspire the people who sponsor us to continue to do so, because of the work we're doing trying to create more jobs and start new companies. Of the $350k we get about $150k from CU, different sections of CU that have an interest in clean tech, the Tech Transfer Office, bioscience, but all together $150k. The City of Boulder is also a funder of the BIC, the Boulder Chamber of Commerce and the Boulder Economic Council. Now with public sector, the University has a very clear goal which is to commercialize research. Kate continued with the 'angel investors'. Tim explained, "We've taken on investment into our companies as a strategic goal for 2010. We started our effort back in November. We have about 100 investor types, mostly angels, some others, in our network right now. We took a look at them and realized a lot of the investors had an affinity to one of our segments. So in November we put together what we called an Angel Showcase where we had about 20 angel investors in clean tech, we brought them into a showcase with three companies two of which were from CU and happy to report that those companies are in talks with some of the investors." Listen for more...
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771_ Put money into advertising your product, your position
The keynote speaker at the January ACG Denver meeting was Alan Beaulieu, president of the Institute for TrendReseasrch. Larry was anxious to hear Alan's opinions regarding the economic recovery and asked about some of the business trends coming. Alan replied, "Let's start out with the largest 'sustainable recovery', two words that everyone wants to hear. This is not a sugar high, this is a sustainable, cyclical recovery. But it will be mild. It will be a slow turn. Unemployment is problematic; the banking crisis isn't going away over night." Larry went on, "What are some of the things organizations can do to deal with the recovery?" Alan emphasized, "The first thing I would do is to make sure they know what their competitive advantages are. They have to be sharp, clear, known throughout the company and then spend money promoting them so that the few customers that are out there have a compelling reason to buy your service or buy your product. So that you're not lost in the herd. Start spending money promoting yourself and what you do. Get ready for an improvement. A lot of firms have been hunkered down for so long that they're slow to start thinking. Get over yesterday, start thinking about what we're going to need to bring people in; the competitive advantages; and how we're going to meet the need; quick delivery, quality delivery, well trained people. Put money into advertising the product, the position; put money into everything you need to do get ready for even marginally busier times because that will flow right to your bottom line." They went onto discuss challenges, the timing of M&As and advice for entrepreneurs...
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765_ Here there are service providers and funding sources - For Part 1 of 2 Go Here
This is part 2 of 2 of a Profile of a Leader interview with David Allen, Associate Vice President for Technology Transfer at the University of Colorado
The turning point in Dave's career was coming to Colorado. The thing that continually amazes Dave is the nature of the business community here in Colorado compared to where he was in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Dave continued, "Here the entrepreneurial climate, the DNA of the community, whatever you want to call it, it's not a difference in degree, it's a difference in kind. Here there are service providers and funding sources, but more than anything else there are people who understand it - that's different than most other places. They are willing to put in the time to support to younger people (TechStars), or what we do at the Boulder Innovation Center." Dave describes much more and he also gives some great advice to young people, "Constantly put yourself in situations where you are surrounded by smart people and figure out ways you can provide value, be prepared for those interactions, it can relate to school, your business community, friends, but challenge yourself." Listen, there's more...
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763_ Even if you're not 'the' IT department, backups are important
Applied Trust cofounders Trent Hein and Ned McClain continue with the Dear Ned Series dishing out valuable answers to your most pressing IT questions. Trent started out with, "This time we're looking at 'end of year activities' - what should IT be doing at the end of the year or maybe the start of the year, just to make sure they're on top of stuff?" Ned replied, "It's a great and obviously timely question. With our IT hats on there are several important things to think about, and even if we're not an IT department, many of us are responsible for a blog or a website out there. One really important thing, and easy to do, is to update the copyright dates on the bottom of your website or blog. We all try really hard to keep our websites/blog looking fresh and up to date, and we look like idiots if we have last year's date on there. 2. Get your corporate holidays lined up, certainly they won't fall on the same dates, you may have to set your phone switch, setting door lock and unlocking schedules. 3. The last thing to ponder is backups and archiving. It's really important to have at least one point where you make archival backups of your most important data. Hopefully we're doing nightly backups of our important data. But it is certainly a good opportunity at the end of the year to make DVDs or Tapes or whatever hardcopy or offline copy of our data so that we know we have that really important 2009 data saved forever. Got more questions? Check out the Barking Seal Blog, Ned's looking for more questions to answer...
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780_ Questions and answers about ARRA and HIPPA
The 'Dear Ned' series has gotten a number of questions recently about the 'American Reinvestment and Recovery Act' or ARRA, and how it impacts IT.
Applied Trust cofounders Trent Hein and Ned McClain continue with the Dear Ned Series providing invaluable answers to your most pressing IT questions. Trent started out with, "What can Ned tell us about ARRA and how it will affect your IT department and especially healthcare? Ned was quick to reply, "Good timing on this question because on September 23rd, 2009, these new ARRA regulations came into effect. As Trent mentioned this definitely affects healthcare, and certainly if you are a hospital or healthcare provider of any kind, or insurance company of almost any kind, you are obviously covered by these healthcare requirements. But what's particularly interesting is that most companies handle some health information. A recent survey showed that 57% of companies believed they were HIPPA covered, that they had to follow these federal regulations for healthcare, so this is particularly important to most of us. If you are administering a benefits plan where we get to see health information of any kind, if we're transmitting health information electronically, in any fashion, you likely are covered by these regulations. They have become significantly more stringent with the ARRA Act. Before they covered security and privacy but now there is a lot more to think about. There are three new things to think about in addition to the HIPPA requirements of a year ago. 1.) Particularly, there are new requirements for having a business associate agreement or some kind of contract with each company that you share health information with. So if you're a service provider dealing with mail lists, for example, you may have clients asking you to sign a business agreement contract for HIPPA, and you need to be prepared to do that." Listen for more and ask your questions.
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778_ Entrepreurial impact on the gaming industry
The medical field, the gaming industry and the pet accessories market have seemingly little in common, but Beth Marcus has built a name in all three. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) along with Larry Nelson from w3w3.com interviewed Beth Marcus for the NCWIT Heros series. Beth has been Founder and CEO of several successful startups, most notably EXOS, Inc., which was launched in 1988, venture capital backed and sold to Microsoft in 1996. Since then she has been involved in 20 start-ups in a variety of fields as a founder, investor, or advisor. She has raised equity numerous times and has also done angel investments herself. Several of these ventures have been acquired by public companies. Beth has worked as a consultant providing patent strategy, litigation support and other strategic technology related consulting services. Beth is an acknowledged expert in the hand-device interface space and has been an expert for several of the major players in the industry in support of prior patents litigations. Recently Beth became founding CEO of Playsmrt, Playsmrt allows parents to create a safe, interactive environment in which children 1 to 8 years old can play media, communicate with family members, and learn. Parents set limits, kids explore! Beth shares some great entrepreneurial advice. There's much more...
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763_ Talking to Benjamin Franklin about History
Benjamin Franklin, one of the most important people in American history has a My 21st Century guide, Christopher Lowell is acting as his agent and he has booked him to speak all over the country and even, indeed, Europe. In this Profile of a Leader Series, Larry asked Ben, "What was the turning point in your life?" Ben replied, "A major influence in my younger life was an author I read when I was 16 years old - the famed Puritan and theologian and former judge of Salem Witch Trials, Cotton Mather, with whom I'd had some theological differences later. But when I was a lad, he wrote a series of essays on doing good. In that book I learned, for the first time, and considered the importance of collaboration, and working together collaboratively to get things done effectively. When I was a young 21 year old businessman, I took these lessons to heart and formed my first networking group, I called it the Junta. A group of young businessmen and I met weekly. We wanted to get ahead and make our businesses profitable in an aggressive but ethical way. We learned a lot from each other." Another lesson came from his half brother James, to whom Ben was apprenticed. James treated Benjamin ill, in fact he beat him regularly. He was actually teaching Ben a love of liberty and a hatred of arbitrary power improperly or unjustly applied. "This certainly affected me much later as I worked with young Tom Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and still further on the Constitution." His advice continued as he references Poor Richard's Almanac...
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772_ Internet change is dramatic
Part 1 of 2 Sue Wyman joins Larry in this interview with Liberty Media, Sr. Vice President, Michael Zeisser. Michael is European, half French and half German. He has spent the last 23 years here in the US, most of his professional career. He came to Liberty Media six years ago and is responsible for Liberty's Internet, digital media, ecommerce companies and initiatives. Michael was asked, "What do you consider the most far reaching technological innovation today?" He has much to point out, but here is part of it. "I think the biggest innovation is the Internet itself. I think is very important for people building businesses on the Internet to recognize that in spite of its frankly short life, it has gone through three or four dramatic shifts itself, and I think it is very important to be mindful of the degree and the ferociousness with which these innovation shifts occur on the Internet because they have tended to destroy businesses that haven't been able to adapt to them. And they've created opportunities for others to come into the market. There is a lot of discussion about what the Internet companies are doing to newspapers or the music industry - yet one that is discussed less frequently is the change that occurs within the Internet industry itself. The second shift occurs a few years later when we went from directory based navigation to search based navigation. If you recall, big portals like Excite and Yahoo were primarily directory based. Then Google emerged. The rate of change in the Internet environment is so much higher and for this reason Internet companies need to be organized differently." There's much more...
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776_ Biggest social and cultural change on the Internet
Part 2 of 2 "What the Internet has done at a very fundamental level and it's doing this in so many areas, including of course for society and democracy, is it creates transparency and it fundamentally makes more information available to more people. In enabling those forces it gives more power to the end user for whatever purpose that might be," said Liberty Media, Sr. Vice President, Michael Zeisser. Sue Wyman joins Larry in this interview with Michael Zeisser. He continuous, "So the Internet is, I believe, fundamentally important for democracy, I think it's changing nations, it's giving people more power because they have more information. I am really excited to live right now because I equate what's happening with the Internet to the invention of the printing press." Larry asked, "Many have concerns about transparency, with your background at Mackenzie, what are some of the things the Internet has changed fundamentally as it relates to business?' Michael points out, "The Internet creates markets where there were no markets. If you have a business that is built on scarcity or inefficiencies then the Internet is very bad news for you because the Internet is going to create efficiency where there was none or transparency where there was none. The music industry, for a long time, music companies were able to force the buyer to buy 12 songs at a time on this format called a DVD. If you only liked three of the twelve songs, too bad. The Internet created the opportunity for single songs, the Internet created the opportunity for people to buy the one song that they wanted, that's been a transformational change for the music industry. The biggest threat in my mind is that the Internet becomes a cesspool as we've already experienced, there is a lot of bad stuff on the Internet. For some people it brings out really bad human traits." There's much more...
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769_ When you're looking to create and build a business
Currently, Brian Tsuchiya known as the Startup Guru, has a Founders and Startup Meetup, and has 800+ people involved. He also has a Social Meetup where they focus more on the giving back component, that's a new Meetup and growing as well. In addition Brian also does webinars on funding... for the people who participate, it's really about, are you fundable, what's the ecosystem of funding. Larry had heard about a new project Brian is launching 4/1/10 called, 'Startup Factory'. Larry went to the new 'incubator' to interview Brian and he detailed his ideas, "When you're looking to create and build a business there are some people, will call this an incubator, that have been very successful. If you look at TechStars they have a very specific model with a focus on technology, that's mentor driven. If you look at Boulder Innovation Center, you know, theirs is more advisors driven. Those are excellent programs for the types of clients they're attracting. What we've done is taken on their great ideas and we've added but we have more of an integrated 12 month program, we also do coaching and help them understand how their lives impact their businesses. So there is this very specific process that we use based on this eQuest process. We give them resources and the ability to work on their strengths. Entrepreneurs have a hard time doing what they really do well because they're bogged down by minutia - we try to free them up by designing this incubator in a way to support them." Brian talked about funding also. Listen, there's more...
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768_ Reform legislation,
reform the way people think
National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT is a non-profit coalition of corporations, other non-profits and universities from all around the country who believe women's participation in technology and computer sciences needs to be increased. They work together from the K-12 through the IT workforce to run programs that increase, promote and advance women's participation in IT. Larry interviewed Jenny Slade, Communication Director of NCWIT about an important project they are working on. Jenny pointed out, "Women represent 50% of the workforce and in part because technology is inherently a creative venture. If you're not including 50% of the population in the creation of technology, then you're losing a lot of innovative ideas. Women comprise about 24% of the professional IT workforce and at universities women bring home between 12-14% of computer science and information degrees and in the K-12 space, girls comprise 17% of ACT computer science test takers and that's given that young women take more than half of ACT tests. We've launched our first fundraising campaign. We've been very successful in the past raising funding from our constituents, to perform our work. If you donate $25 to NCWIT for our work in DC, what you're doing is putting statistics and important data into the hands of policy makers...people who make decisions about whether, and how computer science is taught in our schools. One of the ways we're going to recruit more women into IT is to reform legislation, reform the way people think about computer science both in our schools and in our workplaces." More info... NOTE: Google incentive: Random Drawing for Trip to Sydney, Australia - for two! Learn More...
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766_ Being happy, enjoying life and making money For Part 1 of 2 Go Here
PBC began in 1988 and continues to grow. In 2010 PBC will be merging with Meeting the Challenge. This is part 2 of 2 of a Profile of a Leader interview with Russ Farmer, founder of PBC. The merger will allow Russ to spend more time with ADA Technologies (PBC's first client). Russ describes himself as a bootstrapper and that's what ADA does. Russ attended a program at DU put on by the Positive Life Foundation. So many people Russ met were unhappy and complaining, he felt somewhat out of step because he was happy and enjoyed life. Regardless of the work he was doing, he was happy with his life. When he went to this program with Art Linkletter, and other top notch speakers, he learned that he wasn't strange, it was those folks who couldn't be happy. From that moment on he became more comfortable being positive and happy. He still meets people who say 'you can't always be happy'. Russ's advice to a young person, "Do what you love to do and you can almost always figure out a way to do it successfully. If you're not having fun - change it. Life is too short and sweet not to really enjoy life. People that don't enjoy their job spend 5/7ths of their life in misery - that's a crazy way to live! You can always find something that you enjoy doing. Learn to play the game. Life is a beautiful and fantastic game."
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764_ Google ranks Colorado’s w3w3.com number one for the “Business Internet Talk Radio” show (Google has over 25,000,000 listings).
We were ranked higher than many big names including Voice America, etc. Check it at… The same is true for the category “Entrepreneurs Internet Talk Radio” show… see at…
In January 2010 w3w3.com is celebrating our 11th year as an all-business Internet talk radio show. We have a very active Podcast Directory and our Blog . A very popular section is our Web Community Calendar that supports, Business, Government and Education. Also check out our very popular Business Event Photos as many years are archived there. We also have numerous Channels that are focused on specific topic areas and they are on our home page. If you don’t see what you want there, check out our Find It page where you can search by name, topic, company or industry as we have 1000s of pages archived. We have many other pages and we would like your opinion and input, tell us what you like, or don't like, and what you'd like to see. Send us an email to radio@w3w3.com or give us a call at 303.860.9393 and please feel free to post your comments on our Blog. Everyone at w3w3® would like to, Thank You! Have a SUPER 2010!!! (Can you believe how fast this year has gone by?) ... 2010 is nearly here! Reach out for new opportunities and Celebrate the New Year! - 12/28/09