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357_ What are Angel Investors Looking for in Return?
Mark Weakley , Partner, Holme Roberts & Owen, Boulder has helped a number of entrepreneurs raise angel funding...the right way, and that's the key. If the company is going to go on a rapid or an accelerated growth path, it will likely need some amount of institutional financing. Angel investing can get you on that trajectory, allow you to hire employees, develop your business model, finalize prototypes, and establish that what you are doing has validation in the marketplace. And then be in a better position to seek venture financing money. Another reason is a trend over the last 4 or 5 years where the venture funds are doing a lot less early stage investing. So you’re seeing the Angel Investors filling in that gap. Mark also talks with Larry about the 4 things angels are looking for and business plan strategies.

Related Links:  Holme Roberts & Owen || It's the Law Interviews || CTEK Angels || Rockies Venture Club || Venture Capital Channel || Keywords:  Mark Weakley, Holme Roberts & Owen, HRO, Angel Investors, Entrepreneurs, Business Plan, Venture Capital >> Channels: Venture Capital, It's the Law>Bytes: 5623957> LISTEN 8/13/07

356_ IT Strategies for Physicians, Hospitals and the Patients
In the past physicians made notes into a paper file during your visit (some still do), and that was the ‘medical record’. When you left your doctor’s office, that paper went into a folder and sat on a shelf. There are many limitations to that, you can’t look at data across time. And you’re also limited if you go to a different doctor, because they have a different piece of paper that sits on a different shelf. We felt the ‘electronic record’ would bridge that gap and overall improve the delivery of care to patients. Terry Morreale, Senior Engineer, Applied Trust and Dena Somers, Director of Clinical Information Systems, Children’s Hospital discuss some life-saving IT strategies for physicians and hospitals as Children's actually has computers in every exam room. Dena describes her department as “The bridge between the IT department, the technologists and the clinicians."

Related Links:  Children's Hospital Denver || Women in IT Channel || Applied Trust Engineering || FIND It || Keywords:  Dena Somers, Clinical Information Systems, Children’s Hospital, Terry Morreale, Terry Morreale, Medical Record, IT Department
Channel: Women in IT >Bytes: 11246344> LISTEN 8/13/07

355_ International Human Rights Has a High-Tech Friend
Gillian Caldwell is a film maker and an attorney with experience in the areas of international human rights, civil rights, intellectual property, contracts, and family law. She is the Executive Director of witness.org, which uses the power of video to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT board member, Lee Kennedy explore the makeup of and how Witness operates and Gillian's background as well as her take on the personal characteristics of a successful entrepreneur. She earned her way into the circle of fame of the NCWIT Heroes. Gillian was formerly the Co-Director of the Global Survival Network, where she coordinated a two-year undercover investigation into the trafficking of women for forced prostitution from Russia and the Newly Independent States that helped spur new anti-trafficking legislation in the U.S. and abroad.

Related Links:  Witness || NCWIT Heroes || NCWIT Blog || CO Coalition for Gender and IT || NCWIT Practice|| NCWIT Channel || Keywords:  Gillian Caldwell, Witness , Lucy Sanders, Lee Kennedy, Entrepreneurs, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT Heroes, Ticketmaster >Bytes: 20014710> LISTEN 8/13/07

354_  This is More Than a High-Level Alert for Your Computer

              Trent Hein and
Ned McClain, co-founders of Applied Trust discuss one of the scariest Internet subjects we have ever heard. They talk about the topic in a way that business people can understand and gives your IT staff some geart security ideas.

Their number one suggestion is to
check the Open Web Application Security Project or OWASP. "These guys publish a lot of interesting information about what’s going on with application security on the web. They publish a Top 10 Vulnerability list. The 2007 list is out and anyone who has a web site, large or small, should be aware of what’s on this list. There's also a wonderful guide that talks through how to mitigate and address the top ten vulnerabilities in your environment.

In 2007, Cross site scripting aka XSS, has risen to the number one spot of the top ten web security vulnerabilites. Sites that allow users to post content to the site might mean that a bad guy could post malicious code to the site.

No. 2 Threat: Injection Flaws. A lot of web sites have a data base behind them and any of those servers speak a language that you can use to say, “Hey, I would like to get information from the data base, or I’d like to put information into the data base.” This has been used for a whole variety of exploits.

No. 3 Malicious File Execution, really means having good website hygiene. Demo files that came with your computer, or a sample application should be cleaned up so that a ‘bad guy’ can’t take advantage of that file and take control of your computer.

Trent and Ned give a whole new meaning to TRUST.

Related Links:  Applied Trust Engineering || OWASP Home || OWASP Top 10 || Cross Site Scripting || Channels: Safe Surfing, Women in IT, Software, Cyber Security >> Keywords: Applied Trust, Trent Hein, Ned McClain, OWASP, Open Web Application Security Project, Cross Site Scripting, XSS, Malicious Content> Bytes: 13761204 >8/6/07
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353_ Founding and Selling Evite.com is Just the Beginning
Prior to joining Entertainment, Selina Tobaccowala founded Evite.com, an online invitation service that currently sends over three million invitations a month. As vice president of engineering for Evite.com, she led the company's development and operations and played a key role in setting the strategic direction with the board of directors. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT board member, Lee Kennedy explore the the challenges, choices and successes of this NCWIT Hero. In 2001, Evite.com was sold to Ticketmaster. Tobaccowala managed the transition then took on the role of senior director of product and technology for CRM (customer relationship management) for Ticketmaster.
Related Links:  NCWIT Heroes || NCWIT Blog || CO Coalition for Gender and IT || NCWIT Practice|| NCWIT Channel || Keywords:  Selina Tobaccowala, Evite, Lucy Sanders, Lee Kennedy, Entrepreneurs, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT Heroes, Ticketmaster >Bytes: 11592936> LISTEN 8/6/07

352_ Bose and Einstein 1924 Prediction Comes True
Bose-Einstein condensates are sometimes referred to as a “fifth state of matter,” a rare state or phase in which all the particles share the same quantum state. This phase was predicted by Satyendranath Bose and Albert Einstein in 1924. Further research and discovery at the University of Colorado in Boulder is about to launch a breakthrough technology that will revolutionize potential applications in improving the frequency standard and clocks, inertial navigation (i.e. gyroscopes and accelerometers), the mapping of the Earth's gravitational field, and in magnetic field sensing just to start with. Rainer Kunz, President and CEO of ColdQuanta along with Dana Anderson, Professor of Physics at CU and Jila Fellow, CU & NIST discuss the the short and long-term future. ColdQuanta recently received a $100,000 proof-of-concept investment from CU TTO.
Related Links: ColdQuanta ||  CUTTO Performance Metrics || CU Tech Transfer Office || CUTTO Channel || Keywords: Bose, Einstein, Rainer Kunz, Dana Anderson, Technology Transfer, CU, University of Colorado, ColdQuantaCUTTO, Proof of Concept Funding > Channels:CUTTO> Bytes: 15033054 > LISTEN 8/6/07