Entrepreneurs Unplugged featuring Lucy Sanders
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Dedicated Receptionist - No annual salary
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When we last spoke with Dave Milliken, he preached the pending rise of investment crowdfunding. That vision has become a reality. Now Dave, co-founder of MyGreetly.com is passionate about making your company’s reception area more efficient. Businesses today have automated many vital tasks – even creative jobs like marketing – but not the reception area. Gone are the dedicated receptionists. In its place you may find an office manager juggling three jobs or perhaps just an empty desk. Yet your reception area is how you greet your customers, vendors and prospective employees. Dave says, "Don’t burden your visitors and the nearest employee." Larry asked Dave what motivated his passion for developing this product. We learned Dave's experience over the years as an employee and as an entrepreneur, of walking into so many offices, over and again, walking aimlessly around, disturbing other employees, looking for his appointment. He couldn't imagine a company allowing their employees to be distracted…There’s much more, listen for more!
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Greetly ||
Entrepreneurs ||
Economy Builders ||
In the News ||
KEYWORDS: Dave Milliken, Greetly, Reception Area Automation, Entrepreneurs,
Dedicated Receptionists, iPad Application, Email, Text, Voicemail, bytes=4501736
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Dave Milliken, CoFounder, Greetly
High Impact 15th Anniversary Gala
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Larry is talking with Richard Liner, Executive Director of KidsTek about their 15th Anniversary Gala 2/19/2015. Mayor Michael B. Hancock is their featured speaker, and there will be silent and live auctions along with dinner. Everyone is welcome. It is being held at Mile High Station. "The mission of KidsTek is to increase the technology literacy of students at Colorado's highest-needs schools through our innovative after school, project based enrichment programs, and our in-school technical certification programs. KidsTek provides an extensive technology curriculum for our host schools with the goal of providing the tools for long-term academic and career success." It is a terrific event with many C-Level decision makers. Pat and Larry will be there.
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KidsTek ||
Colorado Technology Association ||
Michael B. Hancock ||
LinerGroup ||
w3w3.com Blog ||
KEYWORDS: Rich Liner, KidsTek, Colorado Technology Association, Cisco Training
Academy, Schools, PC Maintenance and Installation, CC&A certification, Denver School System, bytes=3959643
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Rich Liner, KidsTek
Create a team of people who will lead the company forward
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Larry asks, "Jana, the question is this, what are the types of things that you deliver and pass along to the people you're working with?" Jana: "It was so helpful that I developed what we call the 'Great Knowledge Framework'. The first thing is to help people understand there is a commonality to growth. So, one is to give them a framework - what is it you need to know to grow. Second, is to give them comfort, things they're experiencing are not idiosyncratic to them. It's a part of the normal growth process. Third is we actually create a team of people who will lead the company forward, instead of thinking it's all about the entrepreneur knowing everything." Knowing that Jana has worked with universities here in the U.S. etc., we asked about the differences she's noticed in Australia. Currently, Jana is at the University of South Australia. Larry, "What are some of the business types of things you're running into in Adelaide?" Jana said, "Interesting, all the things that Brad Feld talks about, in terms of an entrepreneurial ecosystem, are playing out in spades." Listen for more!
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UniSA Business School ||
Jana Matthews Group ||
University of Southern Australia ||
FeldThoughts ||
w3w3.com Blog ||
KEYWORDS: Jana Matthews, Boulder, Australia, Business Leaders, UniSA Business
School, University of Southern Australia, Kauffman Foundation, Brad Feld, bytes=5148319
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Jana Matthews Part 2 of 2
Building business from Boulder to Australia 1665_ 1/26/15 - It's been a few years, but we're catching up with Jana Matthews, the roving professor/consultant, advisor to high level powerful business leaders. We first met Jana in Boulder, "You did, I had moved back to Boulder after spending ten years at the Kauffman Foundation doing some of the original work on what entrepreneurs needed to know to grow companies, how do they learn it and how do we package that in the most efficient way for them to learn it quicker." Larry remembered that was where Jana met Brad Feld. "Yes, Brad worked with me at Kauffman and we've been friends quite a long time. Of course he's here in Boulder and I've been in Boulder doing quite a lot of work but, as you say, international as well." Now Jana is spending most of her time in Adelaide, Australia where she is helping them understand how to grow companies. Jana said, "I've just accepted... RELATED LINKS: UniSA Business School || Jana Matthews Group || University of Southern Australia || FeldThoughts || KEYWORDS: Jana Matthews, Boulder, Australia, Business Leaders, UniSA Business School,
University of Southern Australia, Kauffman Foundation, Brad Feld, > bytes=4574879 LISTEN TO: Jana Matthews, Professor/Consultant/Advisor
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Developing client-centered lodging solutions in various markets
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At the ACG Denver luncheon, Larry interviewed the keynote speaker, Tom Atchison who is a long-time hospitality professional with extensive sales and operations experience in apartment management, furnished apartments and the corporate housing industries. As current CEO of National Corporate Housing, he is focused on developing client-centered lodging solutions in various market segments including leisure travel, project related, training, government and relocation. In addition to developing tailored solutions for clients, his primary goal is managing a team to provide the most responsive and friendly customer service in the furnished apartment industry. Corporate housing is defined as a furnished residential apartment, house, or condominium made available for rent on a short-term basis, primarily for 30 days or more. Corporate housing is typically located within apartment communities and includes furniture, a full kitchen, a private bath, linens, house wares, electronics, and utilities. Professional, trustworthy companies like National Corporate Housing manage all the details for a client, usually at one inclusive cost. Listen for more…
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National Corporate Housing ||
ACG Denver ||
M&A Channel ||
Rocky Mountain Corporate Growth Conference ||
KEYWORDS: Tom Atchison, National Corporate Housing, ACG Denver, Hospitality
Professional, Rocky Mountain Corporate Growth Conference, Association for Corporate Growth, bytes=2584976
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Tom Atchison, National Corporate Housing
ACG Denver, Tom Atchison, National Corporate Housing
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If you're ready to sell your business
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Larry interviewed Kelly Quann Bianucci, Managing Principal, Discover Capital. Kelly launched a 'Search Fund' in June of 2014. Now a 'search fund' is basically an entity that converges entrepreneurship with private equity. So, it's a chance for an entrepreneur/operator who wants to build a business to buy and build a business as opposed to say starting one from scratch. The way a search fund works is you raise a fund up front and secure a committed investor base so that you can then go out into the market and find a great company and then take that back to your investors. If you're ready to sell your business or thinking about it, Kelly says, the first step would be to engage with an exit strategy coach. There are a lot of exit strategy coaches in the area that can help you make a plan to sell your company. Because typically it's not…Listen, there’s much more…
RELATED LINKS:
Discover Capital ||
Venture Capital Channel ||
Kelly Quann Bianucci LinkedIn ||
PodCast Directory ||
KEYWORDS: Kelly Quann Bianucci, Discover Capital, Search Fund, Venture Capital,
Exit Strategy, COIN, Investor Base, bytes=10877704
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Kelly Quann Bianucci, Discover Capital
The technology business is cyclical, like all industries
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As we continue with part 2 of Ryan McIntyre's interview he explains the current 'frothy funding environment' that we are seeing. "The enthusiasm behind today's batch of startups and growing companies is, in many ways, more warranted by actual numbers than it was in the first Internet boom. I think that explains the frothy funding environment. We've seen it ourselves, within our portfolio, which is the time between a company's starting, launching a product and getting to a revenue growth phase has really compressed over time. And companies are able to do it while investing less up front. So that, I think is one of the reasons for this current high amount of energy and level of investment happening in the early stage market." With that in mind, Ryan reminds us that the technology business is cyclical, like all industries, so he isn't "foolish enough to say this time is different" ...there's much more...
RELATED LINKS:
Foundry Group ||
ASk the VC Blog ||
Economy Builders ||
Soul Patch ||
Podcast Directory ||
KEYWORDS: Ryan McIntyre, Foundry Group, Venture Capital, Ask the VC, Technology,
Trade Secrets, Intellectual Property, IP, Patents, Soul Patch, bytes=5864701
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Ryan McIntyre, Managing Director, Foundry Group
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Venture Investments at Highest Level Since the Internet Bubble
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Larry is talking with our friend Ryan McIntyre, Managing Director at the Foundry Group, and Larry wanted to get Ryan's take on the economic future. But Ryan tells us as a venture capitalist who works in the technology industry and specifically in the very early stage startups, they don't spend much time at all focusing on the macroeconomic environment. Ryan's involvement in a company comes when it's a couple of people and an idea through hopefully an acquisition or an IPO, a success case. But, he says, "We are by no means public market investors, we are not macro economists, we don't spend a lot of time focusing on what the current state of the economy is. Partially because that is not our area of expertise and we've found over the past number of years that the venture business, particularly very early stage is pretty uncorrelated with the macroeconomic environment..."
RELATED LINKS:
Foundry Group ||
ASk the VC Blog ||
Economy Builders ||
Soul Patch ||
Podcast Directory ||
KEYWORDS: Ryan McIntyre, Foundry Group, Venture Capital, Ask the VC, Trade Secrets,
Intellectual Property, IP, Patents, Soul Patch, > Bytes=5864701
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Ryan McIntyre, Managing Director, Foundry Group
Founding Director of BridgeUp; STEM, a New Educational Initiative 1659_ 1/20/15 - Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network are interviewing Christina Wallace, the Founding Director of BridgeUp: STEM, a new educational initiative at the American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. It is funded by a generous $7.5M
5-year grant from the Helen Gurley Brown Trust. Previously Christina was a Vice President at Startup Institute, the Founder and CEO of venture-backed fashion company Quincy Apparel, a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, and an arts manager at the Metropolitan Opera. She holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and theater studies from Emory University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Originally from Lansing, Michigan, Christina is a mentor with Coolhouse Labs, a startup accelerator based in Northern Michigan, and is pleased to sit on the Alumni Board of Interlochen Center for the Arts. She is also a mentor with the Fashion Tech Lab in New York City. RELATED LINKS: Christina Wallace Website || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Podcast Directory || KEYWORDS: Christina Wallace, Founding Director of BridgeUp: STEM,
Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women in Technology, NCWIT, Entrepreneurs, Coolhouse Labs, Alumni Board of Interlochen Center
for the Arts, Fashion Tech Lab Ni , bytes=14294102 LISTEN TO: Christina Wallace
Founding Director, BridgeUp STEM [Part 1 of 2]
Mentor, startup accelerator, board participation 1664_ 1/26/15 - In 2013 she won a $250,000 Take the HELM grant to open Startup Institute's New York campus. In her free time, she is an amateur athlete, with 18 half marathons, 2 triathlons, and 2 marathons under her belt... Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network continue their interview with Christina Wallace, the Founding Director of BridgeUp: STEM, a new educational initiative at the American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. It is funded by a generous $7.5M 5-year grant from the Helen Gurley Brown Trust. Originally from Lansing, Michigan, Christina is a mentor with Coolhouse Labs, a startup accelerator based in Northern Michigan, and is pleased to sit on the Alumni Board of Interlochen Center for the Arts. She is also a mentor with the Fashion Tech Lab in New York City. An avid writer, she contributed a chapter to Passion and Purpose, published by Harvard Business Press in 2011. She was named to Mashable’s list of “44 Female Founders to Know” in 2012 and has been profiled in...there's much more... RELATED LINKS: Christina Wallace Website || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || w3w3.com Blog || KEYWORDS: Christina Wallace, Founding Director of BridgeUp: STEM, Lucy Sanders,
National Center for Women in Technology, NCWIT, Entrepreneurs, Coolhouse Labs, Alumni Board of Interlochen Center for the Arts,
Fashion Tech Lab, > bytes=12464695 LISTEN TO: Christina Wallace, Founding Director, BridgeUp STEM [Part 2 of 2]
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