831_ 4/26/10 - TTO New Inventor - Preventing Blindness
Malik Kahook, New Inventor of the Year UC Denver named by by the Technology Transfer Office was interviewed by Larry. Dr. Kahook explained, "The invention award was given to us for a non-invasive device that treats Glaucoma. Glaucoma is a disease that involves high eye pressure in the eye, along with other different things that can lead to disease of the optic nerve. With glaucoma, that optic nerve slowly dies. There are three ways of treating this involving medication, laser or surgery, but each has limitations. About ten years ago at the end of my medical school training, I started thinking of different ways we could approach glaucoma therapy without the need for one of those three different approaches, and started doing this work as a resident here at the University of Colorado. The approach was a very systematic study that started looking at preclinical work; eventually moving to preclinical studies; looking at this device and eventually taking it into humans here in the next few weeks. Larry asked, "How do you actually work with the CU Tech Transfer Office?" "TTO was instrumental in moving this project forward. I have to admit that initially I did not know much about tech transfer. As a physician and a researcher, my focus really is on how do I get this device to work, how do I actually get this to show the benefit that would actually make me want to move it forward in further studies. And the last thing on the mind is really, how do I deal with tech transfer, how do I worry about intellectual property?" He shares many other ideas...
Related Links: Malick Kahook || CU Technology Transfer Office || CU TTO Channel || Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute || Keywords: Malick Kahook, CU Technology Transfer Office, Colorado, Glaucoma, Researcher, Blinding Disease, Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute > 4/26/10 Chnl: News bytes: 6783689 Listen to Malik Kahook , Physician and Researcher, UC Denver New Inventor of the Year!

829_ 4/26/10 - Space debris in your own backyard
At the 26th National Space Symposium, Larry and Pat were talking with Dave Brych at The AeroSpace Corporation booth. With 8000 attendees, there's a lot of background activity so listen carefully. The AeroSpace Corporation appears to focus on cleaning up the existing Space Debris. This is a very big problem that we've been aware of for quite some time and we are interested in learning more. Dave explained, "It is a very big problem and there have been a number of presentations on the subject here at the Space Symposium. Everything from Space Situational Awareness; Collision Avoidance; it goes by many titles, but the fact of the matter is that in the early 60's there were a few pieces of junk in space and by 2010, now, we have thousands. Well over 4,000 are cataloged. Cataloged means we really care about them, we track them, the Air Force and others actively track pieces of junk so we know where it is, so that the health and safety of orbiting space craft can be protected. And these are pieces that are big enough to be monitored using radar or optical capabilities. So, we're talking about things from 10 centimeters in size and up. Things less than 10cm can be deadly also, to space craft doing a solar array or what have you. Displayed at the booth is a piece of junk (a round titanium sphere), a fuel cell that survived reentry, weighs about 67 pounds and was found in a farmer's field. "Often times this type of material burns up on reentry, often times falls into the ocean, this piece just happened to be found in a farmer's field." There's more...
Related Links: National Space Symposium || Space Foundation || Aerospace Corp || Find It || Keywords: The AeroSpace Corporation, National Space Symposium, Space Foundation, Dave Brych, Space Debris, Orbiting Space Craft > 4/26/10 bytes: 2282582 Chnl: News Listen to: Dave Brych, The AeroSpace Corporation

827_ 4/19/10 - Building a business from Boulder to Australia
The recent economic times have been challenging to many for various reasons. We decided to interview a company that is dependent on the Web and retail outlets. Larry interviewed Rick Patch, President and CEO of LifePics. Rick explained, "We are a business to business solution so we sell to very well known retailers. We have about 500 different retailers in America, Australia, Puerto Rico, Canada, mostly English speaking countries, primarily focused in the U.S. though, that hire us to represent their brand on the Web for photo printing services. For instance many of our listeners here know Mike's Camera who is one of the top retailers in the photo industry even across America. I don't think most people realize just how successful and how customer oriented that particular organization is. And, as you also know, the founder of LifePics came out of Mike's Camera and that's Vahe Christianian. LifePics is a retail business and photos can be viewed as, possibly a little more discretionary than other things such as food. As it turned out the market did slow down, but it wasn't possibly as much as we thought it would. The problem was that some of the retailers just were caught in a bad space. Retailers have to buy inventory, so they can get themselves into credit crunches that given the dynamics of the market last year, found themselves in deep trouble." With all this LifePics still had double-digit growth. Rick's advice to entrepreneurs today, "In this environment, what a great time to start a business with all the chaos going on, with the dramatic changes that the Internet has brought as well as the business models that are around. The biggest advice is really, surrounding yourself with good people." Listen for more great ideas...
Related Links: LifePics || Mike's Camera || Biz Event Photos || Mastering Change Blog || Keywords: Rick Patch, LifePics, Mike's Camera, Photos, Entrepreneur, Vahe Christianian, Australia, Puerto Rico, Canada, Colorado > 4/19/10 Chnl: News bytes: 5907856 LISTEN to Rick Patch, LifePics, President and CEO, LifePics

825_ 4/19/10 - Global economy and your business
The ACG Denver, keynote speaker for April was Jerre Stead, the President and CEO for IHS, Inc. IHS is a 50 year old company that went public four and a-half years ago. They are the largest provider of critical information and insight, in the world, for four domains, with the largest of those four domains being energy. They do business in 192 countries and have people in 30 countries around the world. Larry interviewed him at the luncheon and was very impressed with his focus on people. We talked about the recent economic environment and Jerre said, "We saw this coming, which was helpful for us. I think clearly this change confirms, once and for all, that we truly are a global society and a global economy. So, we always need to keep that thought in mind. Reach out to the future, set goals for the future. Be patient and work backwards from those. Don't get caught in this very short term world we tend to live in. At the end of the day, people are the only sustainable competitive advantage that an organization has. People, by the way, are your customers and your colleagues, so focus on them." When asked what advice he had for entrepreneurs he replied, "Stay very focused. Don't do more than two or three things at once; Make sure you've laid out a very clean plan of where you're going to go and how you're going to get there. But focus, focus, focus. Jerre's focus is clearly trained on people and the future! There's more...
Related Links: IHS || ACG Denver Home || ACG Denver Events || M&A Channel || Keywords: Jerre Stead, IHS, People, ACG Denver, Economic Environment, Global Society, Global Economy, Entrepreneurs 4/19/10 bytes: 2375996 Chnl: ACG > LISTEN to Jerre Stead, CEO, IHS Inc.

Leonard Nimoy and Star Trek come to Colorado
832_ 4/26/10 - At the 26th National Space Symposium, Larry and Pat had an opportunity to have a discussion with Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek fame. But Nimoy is so much more than that. They decided to talk about other topics that help us learn more about him and what has shaped his character over the past 79 years as well as understanding his hot buttons. We started out by reflecting on some poetry Leonard read as 'whale song' was heard in the background...that was decades ago but it opened up insights to his current interests and concerns. When asked, Is there something businesses can do to motivate children?" His reply was an ouch. "I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a businessman, I can't speak intelligently about that. I'll tell you what I am concerned about; I'm concerned about how much television kids watch that is not uplifting, or educational or inspiring in any way. It's all about celebrity, and if you're celebrity, come and tell us about your celebrity. What have you accomplished? I'm a celebrity - I'm famous for having a lot of children, so I want a TV show - It's crazy. What we have descended to in our education, it's crazy! It's really sad, I could go on about that, I'm not going to." He had a great deal to say about advice he would give to someone following his career path. "The biggest fantasy, myth about my work, about being an actor is people who think a look will get you somewhere, be at the right place and time, that kind of thing - luck plays a big role, but I never believed that, not even as a teenager...Education, it's all about education. Learn, learn, learn and devote yourself to a profession. Be professional about it." Larry asked, "Do you feel the U.S. is losing its position in terms of space?" Leonard replied, "Yes, I don't know to what degree this is true. I don't want to be an alarmist about this, but I do think we've got some work to do." We did end with a Vulcan salute. Listen for much, much more...
Related Links: Space Technology Hall of Fame® || National Space Symposium || Space Foundation || More About Nimoy || ///Space Symposium PHOTOS/// || Keywords: Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek, Spock, Vulcan, National Space Symposium, Space Foundation, Education, Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award 4/26/10 Chnl: News bytes: 5458968 LISTEN to Leonard Nimoy, aka Mr. Spock

832_ 4/26/10 - Commercialization of Outer Space
At the 26th National Space Symposium Pat and Larry interviewed Scott English, Regional Sales Director, Wyle. Wyle is a broad reaching organization with a team down in Houston, of about 500 people that are doing medical and bio-medical research on the astronauts with the shuttle program. Remarking about what's on the horizon as it relates to space, Scott replied, "There seems to be a lot of changes in the space arena these days. There's a lot of push for commercialization of space. We have companies like Space Acts and Virgin Galactic that are going to take people into space for prices as low as $200,000. as opposed to the traditional manned space flight that we've seen over the last few years. So, we're kind of monitoring that situation and seeing what Wyle's role might be in that in the future. Larry interviewed Anousheh Ansari who had earned a place in history in 2006 as the fourth private explorer, the first woman private explorer, and the first astronaut of Iranian descent to visit space. She paid millions of dollars for that flight. "Being on the leading edge for these types of things costs a little bit more, said Scott. Probably in the next several years you'll see people going up in larger numbers and less expensive per seat to do so. They also have Scott Parazynski on staff at the Wyle Houston office, he is a five time shuttle astronaut. "He's also summated Mt. Everest and was honorary captain for the US Luge Team for the 2010 Winter Olympics. In addition to that he's a medical doctor, so we have some pretty impressive staff at Wyle, and he's certainly one of them." Check it out...
Related Links: National Space Symposium || Space Foundation || Wyle Home || Bill Scott Website || Anusha Ansari || Keywords: Wyle, Space Foundation, National Space Symposium, Scott English, Scott Parazynski, Astronaut, Space Shuttle, Anousheh Ansari, Space Acts, Virgin Galactic 4/26/10 Chnl: News bytes: 2061586 Listen to Scott English, Wyle

830_ 4/19/10 - Cutting edge analytics for B2B and B2C industries
Her experiences are a learning history. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network and Lee Kennedy, Founder, BolderSearch.com interviewed Candace Fleming Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Crimson Hexagon. Candace worked with Gary King to take Crimson Hexagon from a nascent research technology to a successful commercial application. She and her merry band of believers in social media have created a technology that large and small companies use to derive meaning from the online conversation. Via a software-as-a-service offering, their clients can understand daily what thousands of people are saying about their brand, their competitors, and pretty much any topic being discussed (some of which sure are doozies). She does all the crazy things a small-company CEO does, ranging from negotiating big contracts and hiring an outstanding team, to reading Tweets on snack food fetishes (anything for their clients!). Candace pointed out that many entrepreneurs and executives strive for perfection but recommends to put things 'to bed' sooner than they think...the reason being good is okay, not perfection. She explains much more in the interview. When asked what are the winning characteristics of a successful entrepreneur she replied, "Be an optimist; don't be afraid of hard work; and be direct and honest." Listen for more...
Related Links: Crimson Hexagon || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Channel || NCWIT Blog || PodCast Directory || Keywords: Candace Fleming, Crimson Hexagon, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Lee Kennedy, Entrepreneurship, 4/19/10 bytes: 11867536 Chnl: NCWIT LISTEN to Candace Fleming, CEO and Co-Founder of Crimson Hexagon

826_ 4/19/10 - Energy and economic sustainability
Most everyone in Colorado is familiar with ColoradoBIZ magazine and the quarterly Planet-Profit Report (PPR) which was launched in 2007. Now that they have tested the waters and have seen the popular response an expansive plan was announced by Bart Taylor, Founder and Publisher. Larry has been a long-time fan and decided to interview Bart. He explained, "The Planet-Profit Report was launched in 2007 as a quarterly section to ColoradoBiz magazine, a statewide business publication continuously published for more than 38 years. PPR is being expanded as a regional media platform. The quarterly section will continue publication in ColoradoBiz. The editorial mission of PPR is to engage the voices of business, research, and economic development in a meaningful dialogue about energy and economic sustainability – with a focus on the western United States, a region with common challenges and opportunities. PPR explores sustainability through the lens of business and economic development. As such, all voices in business, research, and economic development are invited to participate in a region-wide dialogue about sustainable development." There is quite an interesting editorial focus of 'voices and topics'. That includes: Energy – Toward Energy Sustainability; Water – Land-Use: Toward Sustainable Development; Sustainable Building/Communities; Corporate Sustainability. If you are interested in contributing, the Planet-Profit Report Writer’s Guidelines are on their website. Check it out...
Related Links: Planet-Profit Report || ColoradoBIZ || Conscious Economy Channel || Find It || Keywords: Bart Taylor, Planet-Profit Report, PPR, ColoradoBIZ magazine, Sustainable Development, Green, Energy, Water – Land-Use 4/19/10 Chnl: News bytes: 7279911 LISTEN to Bart Taylor, Publisher & Founder, Planet Profit Report

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