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365_  Leadership, Management, Production: Friends or Foes?
Most people go through life not ever really understanding their strengths and what they can capitalize on. On the other hand, they don't always understand their personal challenges that often sabotage their potential success. It's all about people. People cause all problems and people solve all problems. Before we try to understand and harness the world, we need to start with ourselves. Here's a program that will help you "Unravel the People Puzzle - It's Powerful • Proven • People-Oriented." All people are part of this equation. 'Quality is the enemy of innovation, innovation is the enemy of quality, and people get in the way of both'. A great organization needs to focus on all three (quality, innovation, people), all the time and a great manager must make decisions based on all three. The 3-Filters Technology offers a way for dealing with these conflicting needs. At the RMIMA Fall Information Technology Leadership Series, Larry Nelson, using 3-Filters Technology specifics will address these key topics...What you need to know before your next promotion... What you wish you had known before your last promotion...What you need to know to grow your company to the next level. LISTEN

Related Links:  Leadership Series || Institute for Change Research || RMIMA || Training Trends || Keywords: Leaders, Managers, Producers, 3-Filters, RMIMA, Training Trends, Institute for Change Research > Channel: Training > 8/27/07

364_  Sophisticated Angel Investors Take It Up a Notch
Securing angel investment today has changed a great deal in the last 2, 4 and 6 years. Gary Held, president of CTEK (C = Capital - T = Technology - E = Entrepreneurship - K = Knowledge) reflects back on his own angel investment he made in the 1980s. He and many others like him wish there was a CTEK back when he made some of his first investments. Back then, it was common for an angel investor to make an investment based on if this was someone they knew, were they liked and if it sounded like a good idea. Today, you need more than that just to get an appointment. In short, angel investors have become more sophisticated, knowledgeable, and there are angel support mechanisms that help the entire process. Gary points out the most common mistakes made by entrepreneurs when trying to get angel funding. He also feels this is a great time for entrepreneurs to get started. CTEK has a couple of very powerful programs coming up that both angel investors and entrepreneurs should check out. LISTEN

Related Links:  CTEK Angels Live || Power of Angel Investing || CTEK || Venture Capital Channel || Keywords: Angel Investors, Gary Held, CTEK, Entrepreneurs, Business Plan, Venture Capital, > Channel: Venture Capital > Bytes: 11743297 > 8/27/07

363_  It Started Out on Atari Game Computers and Now It's on Cable TV and More
With all the distractions and businesses making their pitch, it has been getting more challenging to get your message out to the right people. Dale Lemke, President of Display Systems International (DSI) and past Chairman of SATA is coming to Denver the week of October 9, 2007 with a Trade Mission from Canada with some other very innovative and dynamic companies.
Display Systems International manufactures and markets industry leading character generators and video bulletin board systems. Common names for these products include digital signage, information display system, events channel, community channel, or even dynamic signage. All these mean the same thing - getting your information out to your audience. Colorado is a hot-bed for Internet, cable, phone, in fact, every facet of the broadening telecom industry. Digital signage is growing with these and other industries. DSI does business with all the big cable companies as well as schools, hotels, hospitals, casinos, gated communities, convention centers and the list goes on. Listen to his interview and if you have an interest, contact Larry at w3w3.com and he can set up a face-to-face meeting with Dale. LISTEN

Related Links:  Display Systems Int'l || CTP Channel || Doing Business with Canada || David Smith: Denver Canadian Consulate || Keywords: Display International, Dale Lemke, Cable, Telecom, Internet, TV, Canada, Information Display Systems > Bytes: 8010608 > 8/27/07

361_  Interactive Media - Bridging Saskatchewan and Colorado
During the week of October 9, 2007 Deborah Black, President of the Saskatchewan Interactive Media Association will be joining a number of other Canadian organizations in a trade mission to Colorado. Deborah's organization is looking for partners on this two-way bridge between Canada and Colorado. They are looking for Colorado partner companies in addition to individuals who could be speakers at their events and developers in joint programs. Interactive communication, enabled by the application of new technologies and techniques is a rapidly evolving field. Saskatchewan Interactive started in 1995 and is in the leading edge of computer gaming in the traditional sense, moving into online games, advergaming, serious games, and games for health...education is also an important issue for them. LISTEN

Related Links:  Deborah's email || Doing Biz with Canada || In the News || David Smith: Denver Canadian Consulate || Building a Win/Win Bridge for Canada & the US || Keywords: Interactive Media, Saskatchewan, Deborah Black, Canada, Saskatchewan Interactive Media Association> Bytes: 7304780> 8/20/07

360_  Angel Investors, Term Sheets, Valuation and Control
A good target audience, vetting system, for your business plan or executive summary would be your corporate or business or finance lawyer. Because if they are not getting it after the first two sentences, it’s likely the angel investor isn’t going to do any better points out Mark Weakley , Partner, Holme Roberts & Owen, Boulder as he addressed questions about getting healthy financing from angel investors. Mark brought up some poignant thoughts about term sheets and evaluation. Valuation is often looked at by the entrepreneur only in terms of ‘how much of the company am I going to have to give up?’ They’re not thinking about the return that the angle wants to have. The entrepreneur is thinking if my valuation of the company is $4 mil and I have to raise $2 mil, then I have to give up ½ of the company. There you see the entrepreneur’s interest is control, management, other issues; and they’re not really thinking ‘What makes sense for the angel?’ LISTEN Part 2 of 2 - If you haven't seen and heard Part 1 of 2 CLICK HERE

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: 18325319 >8/20/07

359_  eBags Expanding While Deleting Its 50% Brain Drain
When we started eBags our goal was to create a billion dollar company. It takes a lot of capital; we ended up raising $30 million dollars (prior to 9/11) – that ended up being a great thing for eBags explains Jon Nordmark, co-founder and CEO of eBags. When I was trying to do eBags, I knew, from all the research I’d done, that 10% of all bag sales came from catalog sales. I was confident that at least that many would purchase online as they’d already bought without seeing and touching. Then we got into the shoe business – we sold that recently. It was very successful, quadrupled the size of the site in 3 years. It grew rapidly, but it only grew to be 11% of eBags total sales, but it was taking 50% of our heads! So what we’ve done is refocused back on bags. Larry and Pat also got some great entrepreneurial and networking advice from Jon. LISTEN Part 2 of 2
If you haven't seen and heard part 1 of 2 CLICK HERE

Related Links:  eBags || Profile of a Leader || In the News || Entrepreneurs || Keywords: Jon Nordmark, eBags, Luggage, Hand Bags, Samsonite, Entrepreneur, Leader, Online, Dot Bomb, Transparency Management> Bytes: 138326 >8/20/07