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418_ Supporting Veterans Building Their Business in Changing Times
Join SBA, Business Counselors, Elected Officials and Veterans from across Colorado!
The SBDC will be featuring programming for Veterans at a one day workshop. Free one-on-one confidential counseling will be available all day from legal experts and business consultants. Program details of this conference as well as small business challenges today were shared by Kelly A. Manning. She is the State Director for the Colorado Small Business Development Center Network. Kelly oversees the operational management, strategic planning, and financial planning of a $2.4 Million dollar federal and State Small Business Conference for Veterans. In addition to keynote addresses, the conference has three powerful tracks.
Track 1: Back to Basics: Price for Profit, Chris Luchs-SBDC Westminster
Track 2: Building a Foundation: Small Business Finance Options-Panel: SBA, Local Bank, SBIR
Track 3: Working with the Government: Contracting 101, Ric Denton-SCORE
Those eligible to participate in these courses are: Veterans, spouses of Veterans, Retired and Active/InActive Duty military, Reservist, employees of Veteran-owned businesses, and all dependents. The general public is also invited to attend. Cost is $30.00 for Veterans (includes Breakfast and Lunch) and $40.00 Non-Veterans.
Related Links: Small Biz Conference for Vets || SBDC Home Page || 2006 Conference Photos || 2005 Conference Photos || Veterans Channel || Keywords:Veterans, SBDC Network, Kelly Manning, Small Business Conference for Veterans, Financing, Budgets
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414_ Competitive Advantage:
Getting What You Want, When You Want It
Clients and customers today are expecting (demanding) relevant response time to questions and problems points out John Krzykowski, General Manager of Workplace2Go. There are a lot of hassles, installing the software – updates – the hardware goes bad, something breaks, you’ve got to bring in something new – reload all the software onto that new device. It’s a lot of expense that isn’t really necessary and there are alternatives. There is quite a history about different attempts to solve this challenge. John says there is quite a buzz about On-Demand Software, (aka: Software as a Service - SaaS) and higher software costs, upgrading necessities, down time and consumer demand are pushing this to the next level. With Workplace2go, subscribe to a name-brand business software and be free to use it from any internet-connected PC, plus: Pay only for what you need as long as you need it. One log-in, one support call, one credit card for billing. Leave upgrades and other software management headaches to us. No contracts, No minimum order, and first month free. John also they seeing in the venture capital community, that well over half the software companies that are receiving money are in the on-demand space. So the merchandise, if we use the retail analogy, is going to grow significantly. Information is the foundation for many businesses and the ability to access information from any location is critical in today’s highly competitive environment. Whether your employees are on the road or working from home, they need secure easy access to information.
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417_ LifeSciences - A Colorado Economic Powerhouse 
The 5th Annual BioWest Conference and Expo attracts more than 900 of the Rocky Mountain region’s bioscience executives for networking, presentations, services, new technologies and business strategies. Jack Wheeler, Chairman of the Board, Colorado BioScience Assoc. and Founder, VP Bus. Dev. MicroPhage, discusses with Larry the high-lights of this two-day conference. It's loaded with Stimulating and Informative Keynote Presentations:
Jim Collins noted management guru and author of "From Good to Great…Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t"; Stephen Ubl, President and CEO of AdvaMed (the Advanced Medical Technology Association); Chris Nolet, Ernst & Young, Partner and Leader Life Sciences Industry Group; Karen Bernstein, Editor-in-Chief of BioCentury; Governor Bill Ritter.
There are also some top-notch Company Presentations:
Companies presenting at the Mature Company forum include Array Biopharma, Baxa, Blue Sun Biodiesel, Cochlear Americas and Heska,. Start up companies chosen to present at the Venture Showcase include MBioSystems, Nanodisc, Sierra Puente, Solix Biofuels, ValveXchange and Ventrus Biosciences.
In addition attendees will find Industry Support Resources and see some new research discoveries.
Related Links: BioWest 2007 Details || Photos BioWest 2006 || BioScience Channel || Find It || Keywords:BioWEST 2007, Jack Wheeler, Life Sciences, Jim Collins, Governor Bill Ritter 12/3/07 Bytes: 8933128 LISTEN
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416_ Think Like a Hacker and We Can Beat Them
 Most people don’t think like hackers. Today’s hacker isn’t the hobbyist or the kid taking a break from his Xbox. Now it’s a criminal and they just don’t give up – they work through the night until they break in. Roxanne (Roxy) Podlogar, VP Commercial Services, SysTest and Ron Wood, director of Business Development for our Security Practice, he’s certified CISSP cover issues from misperceptions to firewalls; from wireless to credit card fraud. Ron explains, "Here's an example of a a misperception. You put your firewall up and you feel safe. But once the wall is compromised, your applications are wide open. There are various ways to get through and that could be as easy as you open Port 80, the standard http access. When you open your website to customers on the Internet, it’s open doors. You’ve just opened a window to your application, so you want to know that your application is secure. It’s not enough just to have a firewall; you have to harden your application. It’s got to be hardened all the way through, your barriers of defense. First you build a wall, then you harden your apps, make a hardened OS all the way down to your desktop. I mean everything needs to be hardened." Larry cringed when he heard that one. There are many famous cases such as the TJ Maxx horror story. In that example over 45 million credit card user data was stolen. There was more money made and stolen in that one transaction than every bank robbery across the last 10 years.
Ron and Roxy share some very important strategies.
Related Links: SysTest Labs || Hi-Tech Heist - CBS News || Cyber Security Channel || Software Channel || Keywords:Systest Labs, Ron Wood, Roxanne Podlagar, Firewall, TJ Maxx, CISSP,
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415_ Photography is Still Considered the No. 1 Hobby in the World 
 Disruptive technology has impacted almost all of us...some quicker and harder than others such as photography. "The technology today is so amazing. It’s so empowering, so invigorating. It is leveraging the “pixie dust” factor that we have every time we take a picture. The whole notion of creating images and memories is exemplified. Exciting future, in one or 2 years, you’ll be streaming all of your photos to every TV in your home, " predicts LifePics Founder, Vahe Christianian.
Jon Strickler, Practice Director with Spitfire Group, discusses with Vahe how Disruptive Technology completely revolutionized the entire photography industry...which did impact the entire industry. Vahe Christianian starred as the 'marketing man', in the very successful family business – Mike’s Camera, and they began to realize the effect digitization was going to have on the photo industry. The big talk was, "How quickly would it go digital?” It really caught lots of people in the industry off guard. Companies like Polaroid going out of business and not being ready to deal with the challenges, Kodak has suffered through the years in trying to establish themselves as a true digital company. There were a lot of other players. But really the shift happened so quickly... and that is what Disruptive Technology is all about. This is what out-of-the-box thinking is all about.
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413_ Solutions to Complexity and Changes in the Work Environment
Today's leaders are facing issues and challenges they’ve never faced before -- including rapid changes in technology, laws, and ways of working. This is how the discussion began between Mark Wilding, director of Naropa's Marpa Center for Business and Economics and Susan Skjei. Susan is the director and founder of the Authentic Leadership Certificate Program at the Marpa Center, and is president of SANE Systems, her own consulting firm. Formerly she was the chief learning officer at StorageTek. They explained, "The complexity of our environment is much greater than it was before. Even if you have a local business, you’re competing on a global level. Even if your workforce is global, you’re faced with challenges of how to work with diversity, how to work with different education levels, different language levels and cultural issues. Some people are working on site, some from home and some are working from India... So how do you as a leader create an environment where all of those people feel they are part of the team? And the generational issues are coming on very strongly, as well as the talk about the brain drain coming on with the retirement of the baby boomers." Susan and Mark suggest that the answer can be found in Authentic Leadership. It’s really a concept and a process whose time has come. Authentic Leadership can be found in the leader who is in touch with his or her authenticity, who comes from that place in addressing ethical issues and problems in defining their purpose, and also when engaging other people and implementing change in an effective manner.
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Related Links: Marpa Center || Authentic Leadership || Money and Values Project || PodCast Directory || Keywords: Susan Skjei, Mark Wilding, Marpa Center, Business and Economics, Naropa University, Human Dimension, Authentic Leadership
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412_ Sponsored Research: How it works; How to Get in the Door
 Last year the University of Colorado received $266 Million dollars in research awards. It takes a great deal of work from "the bench" to the CU Tech Transfer Office, and further coordinated with a variety of CU research initiatives. Dr. Stein Sture identified three federal grant agencies, each were responsible to over $60 million in research awards for CU. They are National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and National Institutes for Health (NIH) The Associate Vice President for Technology Transfer David Allen works with Dr. Sture and is very proud of their results. Dr. Sture is the Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. Prior to his current roles, he served as the faculty director of special projects and initiatives in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and also served as interim vice chancellor for research and dean of the Graduate School from October 2005 through July 2006. Professor Stein Sture is the Huber and Helen Croft Endowed Professor in the department of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his bachelor's, masters and doctoral degrees in civil engineering from CU-Boulder.
Related Links: CU TTO Channel || CU Tech Transfer Office || NASA || NIH || NSF || Keywords:Dr. Stein Sture, David Allen, Technology Transfer, CU, University of Colorado, Research Community, Research Initiatives, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes for Health (NIH)
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411_  Patience and Getting a Deal Closed in China
We all realize we are part of a global marketplace, but in many ways, the steps to take or avoid are not always as apparent. Garth Jensen, partner at Holme Roberts & Owen (HRO) had an in-depth discussion with his guest, Robert Lamb, also from HRO and expert on doing business in China. Rob spent the last several years in China on the ground, understands the culture, and speaks the language well. Garth asked him, "Many US companies come to you wanting to do business in China. How do you get them started?" The following is quite eye-opening to many. Rob answers, "Often, they come to me looking for direct China access. Sometimes it’s very basic, sometimes it’s more complex in the finance world. Ultimately they want to know how they go to China with whatever venture they have in their pocket, and be successful in China. There’s an array of things. You come to a lawyer and they might tell you the 9th or 10th thing you need to worry about are legal issues. That there’s a whole array of different cultural issues, administrative issues and different things that you need to be aware of before you even jump into the legal aspect. I learned early if I was going to have this sort of unique practice, I had to be able to counsel my clients on all aspects of China. The number one and most important thing that you are going to do is to identify key partnership/relationships." There's much more.
Related Links: U.S. Commercial Service || Holme Roberts & Owen || It's the Law || Find It || Keywords: Robert Lamb, China, , Holme Roberts & Owen, Garth Jensen, International, Cultural Issues >>
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