807_ 3/15/10 - Global space community gathers here
For the past 10 years Pat and Larry have covered the National Space Symposium held in Colorado Springs at the Broadmoor Hotel (April 12-15th, 2010). Larry got more details for this year's event from Janet Stevens, Vice President, Communications & Public Outreach, Space Foundation. Janet explained, "This is the largest gathering of the global space community in the world. This year, they're expecting about 8000 people, getting together for presentations, there's a huge exhibit hall jam packed with the latest in space technology; and we do a lot of what people come here for networking, making business connections, learn about new products and new processes and to get caught up on what's going on in space. We have a couple of new additions, Cyber 1.0 starting Monday morning. It's a special add-on event and it's all about cyber security and cyber space. And another new thing that's interwoven throughout the entire event, is a new generation initiative that's really targeted at people 35 and younger who are starting out in their space careers, maybe just getting out of college. On Thursday we have what's called our Space Technology Hall of Fame Dinner, it's usually what closes out the National Space Symposium. The purpose of the dinner is to induct technologies into the National Space Technology Hall of Fame, which we operate in conjunction with NASA, and our speaker that evening is actor, Leonard Nimoy." Listen for more...
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806_ 3/15/10 - Be ready to own your destiny
When Gail was in high school, they didn't have personal computers, you had to go find a big computer, about the size of a refrigerator. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT and Lee Kennedy, NCWIT Director, serial entrepreneur and founder of Boldersearch, along with Larry Nelson, from w3w3.com interviewed Gail Goodman the President, Chairman and CEO of Constant Contact for the NCWIT Hero Series. Gail joined Constant Contact in 1999, when there were six people, today they have 625, and has more than 300,000 customers worldwide. When asked about her personal characteristics ... she had four: 1. Tenacity, she refuses to fail! 2. She is an analytic animal. When she sees a challenge she doesn't react emotionally, she reacts analytically. Diagnose it, do a causal analysis and then fix it. 3. She is a continuous learner. I understand that I don't know what I don't know and I'm not afraid to get help from others. I'm always reading, I'm always talking to others and I'm always picking other people's brains. 4. The final piece is not natural for me but I think it is immensely important that you be open to the feedback of others. Recognize the weaknesses in yourself - then you can compliment them with the team. Gail's advice to young entrepreneurs: "Get experience; earn your stripes somewhere else. Not only will it give you experience and a guide to your own leadership and management style, I think it'll make you much more fundable." There's much more...
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803_ 3/8/10 - Networking in these economic times
The first piece of advice Bonni Doherty offers in these challenging times you want to be focused first, on your health, believe it or not. When you go out to present to a company, presenting yourself, company or service, you want to look and feel your best. If you exercise, mediate, do yoga, eat right you're going to naturally feel more relaxed and shine. Bonni Doherty is the 2009 BPW Young Careerist Winner. Bonni's been involved in health care for 15 years now and within in BPW and the promotion of legislative issues as it relates to women, she focuses on the promotion of positive healthcare for women and the education around that. Larry interviewed Bonni and Nancy Chin Wagner who is the president of BPW. Nancy explained, "Boulder Business & Professional Women BPW, is an extraordinary group of people. What we do is promote participation, equity and economic self-sufficiency for working women. We have programs that are educational and informative that builds leadership and self-confidence. We're part of a national organization that was established in 1919." Bonnie went onto say, "Another thing, focus on what you want. If you go off on a tangent or anything like that people recognize that, you have to focus on what you want. As an entrepreneur you want to keep your overhead low. Especially today there are so many resources in the community that you can access. Networking groups where they can meet people that probably have an opportunity to be hired for a specific job - even if it's short term. In these economic times, we feel that you need to be working and doing something, it's really hard out there for everyone." Nancy was happy to announce two programs coming up, Celebration of Women, 3/18/10 and the Young Careerists Program, 4/15/10. Listen for more...
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801_ 3/8/10 - Grant leads to a sale to Disney
Silicon Flatirons, ATLAS, and ITP present Krista Marks, Kerpoof as their featured entrepreneur in the Entrepreneurs Unplugged program. Krista Marks is the General Manager of Disney Online Kerpoof Studios. Prior to the acquisition by the Disney Interactive Media Group in July 2008, Krista was the CEO and Co-Founder of Kerpoof. With Kerpoof.com, and now Disney.com/Create, Kerpoof Studios has delivered the Internet's premier creativity platforms for children of all ages, platforms praised by press, educators, parents, and kids worldwide. Krista is also passionate about engineering and has long been active in efforts to broaden kids' awareness of engineering. Lucinda Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT moderated this discussion and dug deep into the facts. Brian Patrick, founder of Colorado Tech TV video and audio taped this lively discussion. After bootstrapping Krista and team went forward on applying for a government grant. Krista said, "The NSF (National Science Foundation) has many different programs aimed at advancing the cause of research and science in the United States and even internationally in some cases. SBIR stands for Small Business Innovation Research, so to qualify for an SBIR Grant you have to be a small business (fewer than 500 employees), and the grant has to be used specifically for funding research. A phase one grant is $100K and this funds the first part of that research, typically a feasibility type of analysis." In about two short/long years Disney bought Kerpoof ...listen for more details...
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Amazon says 'No' to Colorado-based Associates
808_ 3/15/10 - Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate: (More Details) We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers. The regulations are burdensome and no other state has similar rules.

Larry talked to Dave Taylor, founder of Intuitive.com and asked for an overview of the newly passed legislation known as HB1193. We've heard rumblings and a lot of discontent recently. Now we're beginning to feel the effects, and it hurts. "A couple of months ago the legislature in Colorado looked at all the ways tax money was coming in and said, god, there is some of it that we're not getting - and some of it is Internet related transactions. And so, they created a tax on affiliate transactions. Which is to say, if you on your web site were to link to a book on Amazon, up until today (March 8th, 2010) Amazon might have paid you a very small percentage of that transaction as a thank you for enabling that person to find the stuff on their site. Basically the Legislature looked at it and said, you know, that's a transaction that we should be able to generate some tax revenue from. They drafted a bill called HB1193 that basically said any company..." Listen for more... Amazon's email included: "Regrettably, as a result of the new law, we have decided to stop advertising through Associates based in Colorado. We plan to continue to sell to Colorado residents, however, and will advertise through other channels, including through Associates based in other states." We have a Link to the entire Amazon email below...
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805_ 3/15/10 - Leaders are made not born...
"Leaders are made not born!" This statement elicits the questions, What is it then, that makes leaders? Is there a leadership formula? If we follow the rules can we all be leaders? Being a leader is not an accomplishment. It is an ongoing process. It's a process that capitalizes on strengths and overcomes challenges with a powerful energy. For the w3w3.com Profile of a Leader Series, Larry interviewed André Pettigrew, Executive Director, Office of Economic Development, City and County of Denver. When asked what are the three core values necessary for a leader, André replied, "The first one is to earn your way each and every day. This is in recognition that you've got to earn whatever you get in this world and you need to measure it every day. The second one is to learn and to teach. This to me is about the importance of lifelong learning and continuous improvement. Whatever point in my life and career, I'm always going to want to learn, but learning is not enough. You need to share your knowledge, and so the opportunity to mentor, to teach, to consult has always been important to me. The third area is really excellence in reputation. It really is about getting things done, quite frankly maintaining that 'brand identity', that recognition of your peers and other people in your community that this is someone who is really focusing on excellence and results and getting things done. Those have been self referencing for me throughout my career." ...listen for more advice and details...
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804_ 3/8/10 - We're looking at an environment of chaos today
Learn some insights from a seasoned-pro. Stephanie Burnham, Vice President, CTP (Communications Technology Professionals) joins Larry in this pre-award interview with David Leonard, CTP's 2009 Executive of the Year. This is the tenth annual CEY celebration and Stephanie is anxious to share David Leonard's exemplary career accomplishments with our listeners and the many reasons he has been selected to receive this prestigious award. Recently David negotiated the sale of WildBlue to ViaSat. Stephanie asked, "Can you give us an understanding of some of the factors that impact the network infrastructure business today and in the future?" Dave's reply really made us take another look. "There are a whole host of factors that impact the network infrastructure business. We're looking at an environment of chaos today - in terms of Internet evolution and development. Compounding that is the evolution of broadband consumption on the Internet which is growing at an annual compound rate of - blended over all formats of use, is about 35% per year. But when you look at the individual components, video for example is growing at over 100% per year. I think a real challenge in that environment is how do you build a robust network infrastructure that will be there for the long term. The long term being from 5 to 25 years down the road. Added to that would be the developments we see in computing power, storage. Bill Gates likes to use the analogy, 'If you applied the same cost curves to the airline industry that you see in the storage industry, you'd be able to buy a 747 for the price of a pizza'. And this is true." Listen for more...
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802_ 3/8/10 - Some high growth areas throughout Asia
Looking at 2009 and going forward - Michael Webb, founder of Michael Moto said "Like everyone we've been hit by the sluggish economy but we are actually picking up very, very well. We reported a profit for 2009, and a lot of that was through our operations in Japan. As you know the Yen to Dollar valuation, with the Yen being pegged about 90 yen to the dollar, has really changed the balance of trade that's going there. So for someone in Japan to buy from the U.S., their currency has never been stronger. Looking to the future, part of what we do is try to understand what the valuation of the dollar is going to be, how we can take advantage of that and how we can move into some high growth areas throughout Asia to leverage the currency market in our favor. During this 'Profile of a Leader' interview Larry discussed with Michael a number of foundational aspects of a successful leader: Influential people in his life and what that translates in today's world; Development of values and beliefs; challenges he had to learn to live with that could not be overcome; The turning point in his career learned experience; Larry also asked what advice this serial entrepreneur would give to a new entrepreneur; How does he bring balance to both his personal and business life coupled with the fact his businesses require a great deal of travel; Larry wanted to know how he wanted to be remember (his legacy)? Michael replied, "I'd love to be remembered as someone who gave back, someone who had convictions about he wanted to accomplish, and someday when there is a Eulogy, hopefully, that they would say, 'You know he was a really good guy and he helped others'. If that's all it said on my tombstone, I'm a happy man!"
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