766_ Being happy, enjoying life and making money
PBC began in 1988 and continues to grow. In 2010 PBC will be merging with Grow LLC. This is part 2 of 2 of a Profile of a Leader interview with Russ Farmer, founder of PBC. The merger will allow Russ to spend more time with ADA Technologies (PBC's first client). Russ describes himself as a bootstrapper and that's what ADA does. Russ attended a program at DU put on by the Positive Life Foundation. So many people Russ met were unhappy and complaining, he felt somewhat out of step because he was happy and enjoyed life. Regardless of the work he was doing, he was happy with his life. When he went to this program with Art Linkletter, and other top notch speakers, he learned that he wasn't strange, it was those folks who couldn't be happy. From that moment on he became more comfortable being positive and happy. He still meets people who say 'you can't always be happy'. Russ's advice to a young person, "Do what you love to do and you can almost always figure out a way to do it successfully. If you're not having fun - change it. Life is too short and sweet not to really enjoy life. People that don't enjoy their job spend 5/7ths of their life in misery - that's a crazy way to live! You can always find something that you enjoy doing. Learn to play the game. Life is a beautiful and fantastic game."
Related Links: PBC, Inc Home || Grow, LLC || ADA Technologies || SBIR Info || Looking for Money Channel || Commercialization || Profile of a Leader || Keywords: Russ Farmer, PBC, Inc, SBIR, ADA Technologies, Entrepreneurs, Funding, Grow Your Business, Amended Silicates, Meeting the Challenge > Channel: Profiles 9499391 bytes - 1/4/10 LISTEN to Russ Farmer, SBIR Expert

765_ Here there are service providers and funding sources
This is part 2 of 2 of a Profile of a Leader interview with David Allen, Associate Vice President for Technology Transfer at the University of Colorado
The turning point in Dave's career was coming to Colorado. The thing that continually amazes Dave is the nature of the business community here in Colorado compared to where he was in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Dave continued, "Here the entrepreneurial climate, the DNA of the community, whatever you want to call it, it's not a difference in degree, it's a difference in kind. Here there are service providers and funding sources, but more than anything else there are people who understand it - that's different than most other places. They are willing to put in the time to support to younger people (TechStars), or what we do at the Boulder Innovation Center." Dave describes much more and he also gives some great advice to young people, "Constantly put yourself in situations where you are surrounded by smart people and figure out ways you can provide value, be prepared for those interactions, it can relate to school, your business community, friends, but challenge yourself." Listen, there's more...
Related Links: CU TTO Home || CU TTO Channel || Available Technologies || CU TTO Blog || Boulder Innovation Center || TechStars || Keywords: David Allen, Technology Transfer, University of Colorado, Profile of a Leader, Boulder Innovation Center, TechStars, Entrepreneurs Channel: Profiles 14638810 bytes - 1/4/10
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760_ Government funding and having fun growing the business
Larry corralled Russ Farmer for an interview for Profile of a Leader Series here on w3w3® Media Network. Corralled is an appropriate word as Russ grew up on a farm and owns a farm with his wife Karen. In addition, he is an extremely successful business person and he has helped numerous companies rise to financial success. Larry probed into his past to find out what helped make him who he is. Larry asked, "Who was someone who influenced you in your early life?" Russ had a very interesting answer, "When I was at Arthur Anderson they had a 'big brother', mentor program. My big brother was also my manager on an audit I was working. The guy intimidated and abused me as a staff member to the point where he totally destroyed me for a period of time. What came out of that, over time, was a reflection on who I was, my life goals, and I concluded that was neither how I wanted to be treated nor how I wanted to treat other people. To this day I reflect on that as a major turning point in my professional growth. It had a very substantial influence on who I am and what I do." Larry also wanted to know what influenced his values and beliefs. "Undoubtedly it was as an individual, as a youth growing up on a farm. We had a good size family, and we started working in the field from the time when we were old enough to walk and be productive - I pulled weeds in the field when at six years old and as you got older, at ten you were driving tractors out in the field and working a good day's work. By the time you were 13-14, you were driving a truck to the beet dump. The work ethic we created and the attitude towards people, the way farmers treated each other and worked together, was just a marvelous, very positive experience, that I carry with me today." There's more...
Keywords: Russ Farmer, PBC, Inc, SBIR, ADA Technologies, Entrepreneurs, Funding, Grow Your Business - Channel: Profiles
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763_ NCWIT Needs Your Help

NCWIT is a strong advocate in DC for innovation, for the importance of IT/ computing, and for assuring that girls and women are involved in inventing the technology of the future. "We provide research and statistics to policy makers and convene important discussions throughout the year. Although we are generously supported with National Science Foundation and corporate funding, we cannot use these dollars in DC. Hence the need for this campaign. If this cause appeals to you, please help us pass it along."

Warm regards for a very happy holiday,
Lucinda Sanders, CEO & Co-founder

NOTE: Google incentive: Random Drawing for Trip to Sydney, Australia - for two! Learn More... Related Links: NCWIT Share || Keywords: NCWIT, Lucy Sanders, Women in IT, National Center for Women & Information Technology NCWIT Heroes > Channels: NCWIT

768_ Reform legislation,
reform the way people think
National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT is a non-profit coalition of corporations, other non-profits and universities from all around the country who believe women's participation in technology and computer sciences needs to be increased. They work together from the K-12 through the IT workforce to run programs that increase, promote and advance women's participation in IT. Larry interviewed Jenny Slade, Communication Director of NCWIT about an important project they are working on. Jenny pointed out, "Women represent 50% of the workforce and in part because technology is inherently a creative venture. If you're not including 50% of the population in the creation of technology, then you're losing a lot of innovative ideas. Women comprise about 24% of the professional IT workforce and at universities women bring home between 12-14% of computer science and information degrees and in the K-12 space, girls comprise 17% of ACT computer science test takers and that's given that young women take more than half of ACT tests. We've launched our first fundraising campaign. We've been very successful in the past raising funding from our constituents, to perform our work. If you donate $25 to NCWIT for our work in DC, what you're doing is putting statistics and important data into the hands of policy makers...people who make decisions about whether, and how computer science is taught in our schools. One of the ways we're going to recruit more women into IT is to reform legislation, reform the way people think about computer science both in our schools and in our workplaces." More info... NOTE: Google incentive: Random Drawing for Trip to Sydney, Australia - for two! Learn More...
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767_ Even if you're not 'the' IT department, backups are important
Applied Trust cofounders Trent Hein and Ned McClain continue with the Dear Ned Series dishing out valuable answers to your most pressing IT questions. Trent started out with, "This time we're looking at 'end of year activities' - what should IT be doing at the end of the year or maybe the start of the year, just to make sure they're on top of stuff?" Ned replied, "It's a great and obviously timely question. With our IT hats on there are several important things to think about, and even if we're not an IT department, many of us are responsible for a blog or a website out there. One really important thing, and easy to do, is to update the copyright dates on the bottom of your website or blog. We all try really hard to keep our websites/blog looking fresh and up to date, and we look like idiots if we have last year's date on there. 2. Get your corporate holidays lined up, certainly they won't fall on the same dates, you may have to set your phone switch, setting door lock and unlocking schedules. 3. The last thing to ponder is backups and archiving. It's really important to have at least one point where you make archival backups of your most important data. Hopefully we're doing nightly backups of our important data. But it is certainly a good opportunity at the end of the year to make DVDs or Tapes or whatever hardcopy or offline copy of our data so that we know we have that really important 2009 data saved forever. Got more questions? Check out the Barking Seal Blog, Ned's looking for more questions to answer...
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764_ Google ranks Colorado’s w3w3.com number one for the “Business Internet Talk Radio” show (Google has over 25,000,000 listings).
We were ranked higher than many big names including Voice America, etc. Check it at… The same is true for the category “Entrepreneurs Internet Talk Radio” show… see at…
In January 2010 w3w3.com is celebrating our 11th year as an all-business Internet talk radio show. We have a very active Podcast Directory and our Blog . A very popular section is our Web Community Calendar that supports, Business, Government and Education. Also check out our very popular Business Event Photos as many years are archived there. We also have numerous Channels that are focused on specific topic areas and they are on our home page. If you don’t see what you want there, check out our Find It page where you can search by name, topic, company or industry as we have 1000s of pages archived. We have many other pages and we would like your opinion and input, tell us what you like, or don't like, and what you'd like to see. Send us an email to radio@w3w3.com or give us a call at 303.860.9393 and please feel free to post your comments on our Blog. Everyone at w3w3® would like to, Thank You! Have a SUPER 2010!!! (Can you believe how fast this year has gone by?) ... 2010 is nearly here! Reach out for new opportunities and Celebrate the New Year! - 12/28/09

759_ In order to do that he had to give up his tenure
David Allen, Associate Vice President for Technology Transfer at the University of Colorado is featured in the Profile of a Leader Series here on w3w3® Media Network. Before they got into the Leader Profile, Larry asked for David's forecast for the coming year. David said, "It's going to be a tough year. The economic horizon is looking a little brighter than it has for the last 12 months or so, but we're not seeing any financing, very little activity in M&A at our level; We see some of the ice starting to crack and hopefully melt; But for new companies and new ventures, which is our bread and butter, there's very little. I'm an eternal optimist and I know it's going to get better. For years we've known we would be in a revenue trough (we talked about this on your show before). We planned for that, we're going to be able to make it through that." David has a very interesting background and Larry had many questions including, "Who influenced you the most, he said his parents more than anyone else. But he thought about Elinor Ostrom who has won the Nobel Prize for Economics this year. She was David's advisor when working on his PhD at Indiana University. She is an absolutely wonderful person. What I learned from her was a sense of patience, to challenge yourself and surround yourself with bright intelligent people. I am immensely pleased to see her win, the first woman to ever have done that." Larry asked, "Can you imagine a failure you couldn't overcome, you had to live with?" David was a professor at Penn State, he had an opportunity to go to the Business School - in order to do that he had to give up his tenure. Tenure is hard earned, a torturous process and he was turning his back on it. His friends and colleagues thought he was insane...there are many leadership suggestions...listen for more...
Related Links: CU TTO Home || CU TTO Channel || Available Technologies || CU TTO Blog || Profile of a Leader || Keywords: David Allen, Technology Transfer, University of Colorado, Profile of a Leader, Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize for Economics > Channel: Profiles
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761_ Big changes in the venture capital community
Terry Morreale, producer and director of the Women in IT Channel and also a senior engineer at Applied Trust Engineering, is back with another of her fabulous 'Women in Information Technology' interviews and her guest is, Lisa Reeves, General Partner with Vista Ventures. Lisa has two partners, Kirk Holland and Catharine Merigold and she's been with Vista for about two years. Prior to that she was in the software industry, specifically at SAP, AG, the largest German software company where she spent 9 years on the operational side and for five years she managed the venture fund worldwide. Prior to that she was in the automotive industry in Detroit. Terry asked, "The term VC seems to have a different flavor than it did maybe 5 or 10 years ago. How have things changed?" Lisa replied, "There have been changes. I've only been in the industry for two years. My observations are that maybe in the 'hey days' there were a lot of firms that had a number of general partners and funds that were established - and time will tell. I think there is a real focus on capital efficiency, capital constraints and insuring that you really pick the right partner to work with." That brought up another question, "What are some of the things an entrepreneur should consider when looking at a VC partner? Lisa strongly suggested, "Do your due diligence on the VC. There are a number of things you can find online.. you can look at the fund, do all kinds of research online. You can back channel individuals, you can look at their previous investments. You can also talk to corporate folks who might have worked with that VC in previous transactions. But I would do my research - it's a long term relationship, it's like a marriage." Listen for more...
Related Links: Vista Ventures || Women in IT Channel || Applied Trust Engineering || ATE is Hiring || Keywords: Lisa Reeves, Terry Morreale, Vista Ventures, Applied Trust Engineering, Venture Capital, SAP, VC, Entrepreneurs > Channel: WiIT
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