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 334_ From Apple to US West to Freshwater Technologies
  Always striving for the best while capitalizing on diversity, Donna Auguste captured the entrepreneurial spirit which took her to the ‘winners circle’ many times and then to financial freedom. Donna was the first African-American woman to enter the Ph.D. program in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, a field dominated by white men.
Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) talked to Donna about her amazing story about starting Freshwater Technologies in 1996 and selling it for $147 million in cash. Lucy explores with Donna where her passion is taking her today. Less than a year ago, she launched Leave a Little Room, a philanthropic organization dedicated to global outreach. You’ll understand why Donna is an NCWIT Hero.
"We'll never know what we're missing without more women participating in information technology. We can't measure absence."
- Lucy Sanders, NCWIT CEO and Co-founder
Related Links: NCWIT Heroes || Leave a Little Room Foundation || Leave a Little Room
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325_ Open Source, a pathway to innovation and much, much more
 Imagine you buy a software company. The transaction is completed. There’s a knock on your door. A stranger is here to confirm that you are not in breach of his ‘open source software license’. You call your attorney for help. That’s where Jason Haislmaier, HRO, enters the scene. He is recognized by many as the “Open Source Legal Guru” in Colorado. When we asked how he got into this field? his reply was direct and to the point. "Simply put, I was driven by client need."
Having earned an engineering degree prior to law school, Jason has a natural affinity and appreciation for the technical issues he handles today. "As a software vendor, it's not uncommon to have your software product comprised of software that you've developed in-house, that you would consider proprietary, perhaps third party software that you've licensed in, and from open source software, and it's all working together. It is that co mingling or interaction of the softwares that, from a legal standpoint, creates some of the stickier areas under the open source license. Even if you're not a vendor, if you're a data center, it's the same thing.
"Open source software, at its core, is licensed. Licenses can be breached and that can create liability; and in come the lawyers. And that’s where a lot of the legal aspects of open source come about. It’s very difficult to talk about open source software without talking about the legal aspects of open source software.
Related Links: Holme Roberts & Owen || GPLv3 || It's the Law Interviews || Find It || Keywords: Open Source Software, HRO, Holme Roberts & Owen, Jason Haislmaier, Lucky Vidmar> Channels: Software Bytes: 7984172 LISTEN 6/11/07
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 335_ This is Not New to 1.5 million Logons per Day
Elaine Wherry majored in Symbolic Systems at Stanford. It wasn't until she went to college that she thought technology was cool. After Stanford, she worked at Synaptics as the Manager of Usability. Elaine plays the violin and migrated west to California, after growing up on a goat farm. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) and Larry Nelson discussed her responsibilities and even got some advice about slide rules. Elaine co-founded meebo.com which is a website for instant messaging from absolutely anywhere you can hop over to meebo.com on any computer to access all of your buddies (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber). She's an NCWIT Hero.
Related Links: NCWIT Heroes || Meebo || Meebo Blog || NCWIT Blog || CO Coalition for Gender and IT || NCWIT Practice|| Keywords: Elaine Wherry, meebo, Lucy Sanders, CEO National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT > Channels: NCWIT Bytes: 18826870 LISTEN 7/2/07
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336_ See It - Link to It - Enjoy It - w3w3.com Chronicles
 The upgraded w3w3.com Photo Chronicles can help you find just about anyone who has attended a high-tech business event in the Front Range. On the Events page, In the left column, you'll see dozens of 'cover pages' for photo albums that are dated and titled and linked, according to the top events. You can then see the full range of photos and you can see them as a slideshow set up by our partners LifePics. BTW, you can also see albums from years gone by. In addition you can also find the heavy-hitters who have been interviewed on w3w3.com. You might be there too.
Related Links: Photo Albums || Find It || Web Community Calendar || 2003 Photos || Keywords:Event Photos, High-Tech, Business, Interviews, Photo Chronicles, Pat and Larry Nelson
>See More 7/2/07
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CB-27_ Founders Help Company Make Transition to Professional Management
  From the Front Lines: Correctional Healthcare Management's journey - providing cost-effective healthcare for correctional facilities. Founders help company make transition to professional management. The chairman of the Association For Corporate Growth-Denver interviews the principals in this frank discussion of their challenges and ultimate success. Founded by Cristina and Chris Capoot in 1997, CHM has enjoyed significant growth over the past ten years and currently has more than 500 employees with 27 customer facilities in 8 western states. By David Mead: Read the interview
Related Links: Complete Story || Colorado BIZ Today || w3w3.com Blog || PodCast Directory || Channel: COBIZ || Keywords: Colorado Business Magazine, COBIZ, David Mead, Cristina Capoot, Chris Capoot, Correctional Healthcare Management > Read More 7/2/07
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331_ Success Story Inspired by Star Wars and Dad 
Helen Greiner is co-founder and Chairman of the Board of iRobot Corp., maker of the Roomba® Vacuuming Robot (over 2M units sold) and the iRobot PackBot® Tactical Mobile Robot, which  deactivates mines in Iraq and Afghanistan. Inspired by the science fiction movie, Star Wars, and getting enthralled with R2D2, led to the innovative "iRobot" success story.. and yes, credit cards are part of the story. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) asked Helen some revealing questions about the 17-year history of iRobots. There wasn't an iRobot business plan, we didn’t have a clear crisp idea of how the technology would be used. And it was a long haul in the beginning. If I were to do it over again ...listen for more.
Related Links: NCWIT Heroes || iRobot || US News & World Report || NCWIT Blog || CO Coalition for Gender and IT || NCWIT Practice|| Keywords: Helen Greiner, iRobot, NCWIT, Lucy Sanders, Women in IT, National Center for Women & Information Technology NCWIT Heroes > Channels: NCWIT Bytes: 7441243 LISTEN 6/25/07
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332_ The Five Deaths of Frontier Airlines..
And How They Lived to Tell About It!
 The Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Denver had as their guest,
Sam Addoms, Chairman of Frontier Airlines' Board of Directors. 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 didn’t pull any punches…he called a spade a spade. With all the tough times, including the bout with the BIG gorilla, humor was always part of Sam’s delivery. It’s an extremely interesting story, filled with learning experiences for all of us.
Related Links: ACG Denver || ACG Denver Calendar || Frontier Airline History || Event Photos || Find It || Channels: ACG, News :: Keywords: Sam Addoms, Frontier Airlines, Association for Corporate Growth, ACG Denver> Bytes: 18826870 LISTEN 6/25/07
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333_ From NASA, to the Mir Space Station, to Earth Experience 
NASA Commercialization Center located here on the CU-Boulder campus, it’s called Bio Serves Space Technologies. Richard Stoner, CEO of AgriHouse, Inc. discusses another success story with CU TTO, Boulder Campus. They sponsored us to test our product on the Mir Space Station, to enhance growth and resist disease in enclosed environments on the space station. And since, it has been returned to earth and the experiments worked really well, and we have been promoting 'Beyond' for the last seven years. We have tested the product world wide, and have customers and distributors all over the world. There are many dramatic possibilities, including a radical reduction of pesticide use.
Related Links: AgriHouse || Aeroponics || Mir News || CU Tech Transfer Channel || Keywords: AgriHouse, Aeroponics, Richard Stoner, CUTTO, University of Colorado, Pesticides, Mir, NASA> Channels: CU Tech Transfer > Bytes: 5132855 LISTEN 6/25/07
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CB-26_ Universal Languages - It's All in the Translation
 Beatriz Bonnet is president and CEO of Syntes Language Group, a translation and interpretation firm based in Centennial that last year generated revenues of $1.8 million, a 73 percent jump from the previous year. Bonnet is formally educated in the universal language of music, but her business for the past two decades has been in translating actual words. Predictably, a lot of her firm’s business comes from translating services for companies intent on tapping the huge Hispanic market in the United States. She estimates the U.S. Spanish-speaking market to be about 40 million. Additional languages are commonplace.
Related Links: Complete Story || Colorado BIZ Today || w3w3.com Blog || PodCast Directory || Channel: Colorado Business Magazine, COBIZ, Mike Cote, Culture Changes, Syntes Language Group, Beatriz Bonnet > Read More 6/18/07
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