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July 2010 Contents: Julia Hartz, EventBrite: NCWIT Hero, Bootstrapping David Cohen, President & CEO, TechStars, Startup Ecosystem GearBox Adam Wilson & Ian Bernstein, TechStars Boulder Class 2010 Josh Holmberg, BroadSoft, Communication Industry Changes ISTE Denver Convention Ctr - 18,000 Attendees, Microsoft Dave Jilk, Ceo & Founder, Standing Cloud, Avoid Lock-ins Rich Martinez, Young American Center for Financial Education Larry Nelson, Super Charge Your Business Now Timothy Rodell President & CEO, GlobeImmune 1 of 3 Timothy Rodell Immune stimulation 2 of 3 Michael Joseph & Tom Feldhusen TechStars 2010
Really understanding the workings of a free enterprise economy
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In the recent past we've heard from a number of VC's and successful entrepreneurs that the one thing they wished they would have had was a better financial education.... and Larry wishes he could have had the Young Americans Center in his portfolio! Larry visited with Rich Martinez, President & CEO, Young Americans Center for Financial Education. "Young Americans has been around since the late 80s when Young Americans Bank was founded by the late cable mogul, Bill Daniels, who is well known in this community as a philanthropist. We focus on financial literacy for young people up through the age of 22. We have four content areas that we focus on, banking and personal finance, free enterprise, global economics and entrepreneurship, all for that youth age from 0 to 22. So our flagship programs include Young Americans Bank, of course the world's only bank specifically designed for young people under the age of 22; Our Free Enterprise program 'Young AmeriTowne has been in Colorado schools serving fifth graders for a little over 20 years now. This program is where fifth graders get to run a kid sized town for a day, assuming the roles of consumers and producers, but really understanding the intricate workings of a free enterprise economy. They move on in seventh grade to our Global Economics program called 'International Towne' where those seventh graders get to run the world for a day. Being citizens of 16 different countries and participating in a world economy. Then we have a variety of entrepreneurship programs, starting as young as second grade all the way up through high school. But our flagship program that is embedded in high school, our first non bricks and mortar based program is called "Get Ahead for Business". It is state wide in over 60 schools and just like all our other programs, with a hands-on component where students get to run a real life business in their high school learning those pieces of being an entrepreneur. We serve over 400 schools in the Denver Metro area and throughout Colorado." ...listen for more... Related Links:
Young Americans Center ||
Daniels Fund ||
Economy Builders ||
Podcast Directory ||
Keywords: Rich Martinez, Young Americans Center, Bill Daniels, Financial Education,
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Leonard Nimoy and Star Trek come to Colorado 832_ 4/26/10 - At the 26th National Space Symposium, Larry and Pat had an opportunity to have a discussion with Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek fame. But Nimoy is so much more than that. They decided to talk about other topics that help us learn more about him and what has shaped his character over the past 79 years as well as understanding his hot buttons. We started out by reflecting on some poetry Leonard read as 'whale song' was heard in the background...that was decades ago but it opened up insights to his current interests and concerns. When asked, Is there something businesses can do to motivate children?" His reply was an ouch. "I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a businessman, I can't speak intelligently about that. I'll tell you what I am concerned about; I'm concerned about how much television kids watch that is not uplifting, or educational or inspiring in any way. It's all about celebrity, and if you're celebrity, come and tell us about your celebrity. What have you accomplished? I'm a celebrity - I'm famous for having a lot of children, so I want a TV show - It's crazy. What we have descended to in our education, it's crazy! It's really sad, I could go on about that, I'm not going to." He had a great deal to say about advice he would give to someone following his career path. "The biggest fantasy, myth about my work, about being an actor is people who think a look will get you somewhere, be at the right place and time, that kind of thing - luck plays a big role, but I never believed that, not even as a teenager...Education, it's all about education. Learn, learn, learn and devote yourself to a profession. Be professional about it." Larry asked, "Do you feel the U.S. is losing its position in terms of space?" Leonard replied, "Yes, I don't know to what degree this is true. I don't want to be an alarmist about this, but I do think we've got some work to do." We did end with a Vulcan salute. Listen for much, much more... Related Links: Space Technology Hall of Fame® || National Space Symposium || Space Foundation || More About Nimoy || ///Space Symposium PHOTOS/// || Keywords: Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek, Spock, Vulcan, National Space Symposium,
Space Foundation, Education, Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award 4/26/10 Chnl: News bytes: 5458968 LISTEN to Leonard Nimoy, aka Mr. Spock
Very different from the post-Internet 2001-02 bubble
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Then Brad Feld, Managing Partner of the Foundry Group (co-founder of TechStars) started turning on some lights. "We are in the middle of what I think is a great 'entrepreneurial revival' in the U.S. It's been remarkable to me how, especially over the latest economic down cycle, over the last two to three years, entrepreneurs across the country have really risen to the occasion in a very fearless way. Across all ages and demographics this time around. Very different than what happened post Internet Bubble, 2001-02, which I had with my partners at Foundry Group, the joy of experiencing first-hand. What is a remarkably different tone this time, and I think there is a really good understanding both of experienced entrepreneurs as well as first-time entrepreneurs about just how
powerful, how exciting and how fun and satisfying it is to build an entrepreneurial company. When Jared and I met David, in 2006, we hoped it would be something great for the entrepreneurial community. We figured we'd lose whatever money we invested, thought that's the way it works, and it would be fun. It's been incredibly gratifying to see what's come of it. It's just a good example of how resilient entrepreneurs are and how important it is." Listen for more from Brad at the link below... Brad then introduced Nicole Glaros, General Manager of TechStars. After her review of the event, she introduces Liam Davis-Mead and Shane Taylor cofounders of ScriptPad...listen for more...
Related Links:
TechStars Details ||
Foundry Group ||
TechStars ||
Brad Feld Blog ||
TechStars Demo Day Photos ||
Economy Builders ||
Keywords: Brad Feld, TechStars, Foundry Group, Entrepreneurs, Demo Day, Blog, Boulder, Front Range, Nicole Glaros, 8/16/10 bytes: 4837671 Listen to: Brad Feld, Cofounder, TechStars
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The ups and downs of growing a business
The Bard Center Business Plan Competition hit another home run in 2010.
Samuel Addoms, former chairman of Frontier Airlines' Board of Directors was the luncheon keynote speaker. He served as executive vice president, treasurer and a director for Frontier during its pre-startup phase from 1993 until 1994. During that period, Addoms provided financial expertise and helped develop a comprehensive business plan for Frontier. From September 1994 until August 2001, Addoms served as the airline's president and, in January 1995, he was named chief executive officer. He served in that role through his retirement in 2002. Prior to his work with Frontier, Addoms served as an officer, director and consultant with more than 15 early stage companies in a variety of industries. In addition, he spent a year as an instructor at the University of Northern Colorado's Business School. Sam said, "In 1985 I set out on my entrepreneurial career, we started modestly and in 1989 I started my first 'at risk venture', the Rio Grande Produce Farm. And really before I tell you about the Rio Grande, I want to tell you my wife and I agreed to live on $25,000 a year, as long as we were entrepreneurs." He also went through some tough financial times. His inspiring story of Frontier Airlines combined intellect, humor and great stories as he shared the ups and downs of growing a business in an industry significantly affected by 9-11, while raising capital along with the real story behind one of the most successful ad campaigns in America. Sam opened up saying, “The Bard Center Business Plan Competition is serious business. I'm here, maybe as entertainment. But I'm about to tell you my personal reflections, over 50 years, on business planning or the lack thereof.” There's much more...listen now...
Related Links:
Bard Business Plan Competition ||
Frontier Airlines ||
Competition Photos ||
Blog ||
Keywords: Samuel Addoms, Frontier Airlines, Bard Center, Business Plan Competition,
Catherine Kunst, Entrepreneurs 6/28/10 Chnl: Entrepreneurs bytes: 9415265
Listen to: Sam Addoms
Successful entrepreneurs: Realistic optimists 885_ 8/23/10- Entrepreneurs have personal lives and sometimes have to struggle to bring balance to their life. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network interviewed Marcie Black, CTO & Co-founder, Bandgap Engineering. Bandgap has pioneered the development of a highly tunable and inexpensive method for nanostructuring silicon and is applying this technology to high efficiency solar cells. Lucy asked, "If you were talking to a young person who wanted to be an entrepreneur, what other advice would you give them?" Marcie replied with a great deal of passion, "I wouldn't advise people to be an entrepreneur, even though I love it. What I would advise them to do is really figure out what drives them. If it's making money, or having prestige, it's probably not the best route for them. But if it's something like bring technology to the market and trying to make the world a better place through their technology, then I would advise them to be an entrepreneur. Once they become an entrepreneur, my biggest advice would be to follow your passion and do what you enjoy, what you really believe in. Because if you believe in something and you work hard at it, you're much more likely to be successful. She went onto share, "I've noticed that of the successful entrepreneurs that I know, are very optimistic and I am very optimistic as well. But you can't be blindly optimistic. You have to be what I call 'realistic optimist'; you can't have your blinders on. But you do have to see a way that the company can be successful and arrange it so all the parts fall into place for that to happen. So, I'd say optimism and also persistence and work ethic are very important." ...There's more... Related Links: Bandgap Engineering Home || NCWIT Share || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Marcie Black, Bandgap Engineering, Entrepreneurs, Nanostructuring Silicon, Solar Cells, Lucinda Sanders, National Center for
Women and Information Technology, NCWIT >> 8/23/10 bytes: 13017968 Listen to: Marcie Black, Co-founder & COO, Bandgap Engineering
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Healthcare, Clean Energy, Carbon Credits,
Patent Office Backlog Dave Allen hits the nail on the head as he identifies problems facing Tech Transfer at universities. The inability of Congress to handle longstanding, almost criminal neglect of the Patent Office backlog and more comes to light in the Tech Transfer's White Paper responding to a Federal request for information. In this part 2 interview David Allen, Associate Vice President for Technology Transfer at the University of Colorado, discussed issues effecting our economic health. This included Healthcare, Clean Energy, Carbon Credits and the Patent Office Backlog. David started with, "We've just gone through a very long period of discussion, all kinds of right-left-center posturing on healthcare. We ended up with a healthcare bill that has a very interesting aspect to it. Many didn't know about this prior to its actual passage, and that's a therapeutic tax credit. There's been a billion dollars set aside and that's based on this notion of innovation in healthcare. This fund has been broken into two parts, one half is for grants to companies and the other half is in tax credits to companies. In July, the Department of Health & Human Services will be receiving grant applications for basically, pre clinical research projects. This money can be applied to them, to bridge that 'valley of death' that we talk about, from the bench side to get some of this into actual clinical trials. That's a really strong positive. I know that many companies that are licensees, are working on that." He continued, "Another area, unfortunately, in the news of course, is the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. That is having an interesting effect as it's playing out in the clean energy legislation, called the 'American Power Act', that was recently dropped. If this were to be enacted, I personally believe, it will have a major impact on a lot of the clean energy technologies. Dave went onto discuss 'grant applications' and 'patent reform'. Listen for more details... Related Links: CU TTO Home || CU TTO Channel || Available Technologies || CU TTO Blog || TTO White Papers || Keywords: David Allen, Technology Transfer, University of Colorado, White Papers,
Healthcare, Clean Energy, Carbon Credits, Patent Office Backlog 6/21/10 Chnl: CU TTO bytes: 6547240 Listen to: Dave Allen, CU TTO
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Convergence and shift in the communications industry
Larry sat down with Stephanie Burnham, Vice President of CTP (Communication Technology Professionals) and Josh Holmberg, President of CTP - the Communications Technology Professionals, to discuss how the 'Communication' industry has morphed over these past years. "Well, the initial thought is that it has contracted, that it's smaller, it's not as hot, it's not the cool place to be. But really we have a different view of it at CTP. And it's because of what we're seeing from all the players that are actually working with and needing to be with the communications industry. So what used to be the telco industry were the big telcos, the Qwests, U.S.West, the 'Ma Bell' and all of those, and Denver certainly was the center for all those types of telco professionals. What we've seen is the industry change so that the pipe, the broadband, the delivery of connectivity has become so much more critical and has become available from so many providers, it's no longer a monopoly. In some ways you don't have as big a players, in terms of name recognition, but you have a lot more players that are making more inroads into how we as consumers and businesses use that connectivity." They also talked about about the resurgence of CTP. "Re branding the organization was important. We wanted the group to be more encompassing and more representative of the industry and how the industry was evolving. I've been around and involved, on the board of DTP, for six or seven years at this point, and everything reflects what the market is doing. Whether it's an organization like ours, kind of a general feeling about the industry when you're in meetings or talking to people over 'happy hour'. We wanted to make sure everyone understood that the communications industry in Colorado, and not exclusive to Denver necessarily, is alive and thriving." There's much more ...listen now...
Related Links:
CTP Home ||
CTP Channel ||
BroadSoft ||
Blog ||
Keywords: Josh Holmberg, Stephanie Burnham, Communication Technology Professionals,
CTP, Telco Industry, Broadband, Qwest, U.S. West, Ma Bell > 6/21/10 Chnl: CTP bytes: 5686860 Listen to: Josh Holmberg, CTP President and Stephanie Burnham, Vice President, CTP
840_ 5/10/10 - Leonard Nimoy Shares Views on Creativity An enthusiastic Space Technology Hall of Fame® Dinner Audience Gave Space Icon a Warm Reception as Actor Leonard Nimoy Shares His Views on Creativity. Leonard states his views right up front. "I believe in living a creative life. I believe in bringing more to the party than is required or asked for. I believe in using both sides of the brain." These are the messages that actor, director, photographer, poet, and space icon Leonard Nimoy shared with an enthusiastic audience at the Space Technology Hall of Fame® Dinner on April 15, the final evening of the 26th National Space Symposium. Nimoy's spirited discussion of the creative process and its impact on his life fit the occasion - the induction of two innovative technologies into the Space Technology Hall of Fame®, which honors products originally developed for space that now dramatically improve life on Earth. His remarks followed the formal recognition of Eagle Eyes Optics and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for radiation-filtering technology now used in sunglasses and of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Draper Laboratory, The Boeing Company, and Airbus for fly-by-wire technology that uses electronic pulses to control aircraft. One of the examples of creativity that Nimoy shared was the development of the now-ubiquitous split-finger Vulcan salute he derived from a Jewish prayer ceremony he witnessed as a child. Nimoy played Mr. Spock, the half-human, half-Vulcan first officer aboard the Starship Enterprise in the Star Trek television series, which - judging from the crowd's reaction - is much beloved by the space community.
. Related Links: Leonard Nimoy Acceptance-Video || Complete Story || Space Technology Hall of Fame || Symposium Videos || Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award || w3w3® Interviews Leonard Nimoy || Symposium Breaks Records || Space Symposium Photos || Keywords: Leonard Nimoy, Space Technology Hall of Fame, Space Symposium,
Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, Spock, Star Trek > 5/10/10 Chnl: News Listen to Leonard Nimoy
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intelligently about that. I'll tell you what I am concerned about; I'm concerned about how much television kids watch that is not uplifting, or educational or inspiring in any way. It's all about celebrity, and if you're celebrity, come and tell us about your celebrity. What have you accomplished? I'm a celebrity - I'm famous for having a lot of children, so I want a TV show - It's crazy. What we have descended to in our education, it's crazy! It's really sad, I could go on about that, I'm not going to." He had a great deal to say about advice he would give to someone following his career path. "The biggest fantasy, myth about my work, about being an actor is people who think a look will get you somewhere, be at the right place and time, that kind of thing - luck plays a big role, but I never believed that, not even as a teenager...Education, it's all about education. Learn, learn, learn and devote yourself to a profession. Be professional about it." Larry asked, "Do you feel the U.S. is losing its position in terms of space?" Leonard replied, "Yes, I don't know to what degree this is true. I don't want to be an alarmist about this, but I do think we've got some work to do." We did end with a Vulcan salute. Listen for much, much more...
powerful, how exciting and how fun and satisfying it is to build an entrepreneurial company. When Jared and I met David, in 2006, we hoped it would be something great for the entrepreneurial community. We figured we'd lose whatever money we invested, thought that's the way it works, and it would be fun. It's been incredibly gratifying to see what's come of it. It's just a good example of how resilient entrepreneurs are and how important it is." Listen for more from Brad at the link below... Brad then introduced Nicole Glaros, General Manager of TechStars. After her review of the event, she introduces Liam Davis-Mead and Shane Taylor cofounders of ScriptPad...listen for more...
An enthusiastic Space Technology Hall of Fame® Dinner Audience Gave Space Icon a Warm Reception as Actor Leonard Nimoy Shares His Views on Creativity. Leonard states his views right up front. "I believe in living a creative life. I believe in bringing more to the party than is required or asked for. I believe in using both sides of the brain." These are the messages that actor, director, photographer, poet, and space icon Leonard Nimoy shared with an enthusiastic audience at the Space Technology Hall of Fame® Dinner on April 15, the final evening of the 26th National Space Symposium. Nimoy's spirited discussion of the creative process and its impact on his life fit the occasion - the induction of two innovative technologies into the Space Technology Hall of Fame®, which honors products originally developed for space that now dramatically improve life on Earth. His remarks followed the formal recognition of Eagle Eyes Optics and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for radiation-filtering technology now used in sunglasses and of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Draper Laboratory, The Boeing Company, and Airbus for fly-by-wire technology that uses electronic pulses to control aircraft. One of the examples of creativity that Nimoy shared was the development of the now-ubiquitous split-finger Vulcan salute he derived from a Jewish prayer ceremony he witnessed as a child. Nimoy played Mr. Spock, the half-human, half-Vulcan first officer aboard the Starship Enterprise in the Star Trek television series, which - judging from the crowd's reaction - is much beloved by the space community.
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