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Angel investor, strategic advisor and board member Video
Wendy Lea with Brad Feld, Jill VanMatre & Brad Bernthal at Entrepreneurs Unplugged in the ATLAS Institute 12/3/2012 1328_ 12/17/12 - Silicon Flatirons, ATLAS, NCWIT, and Quick Left present Wendy Lea as our featured entrepreneur with moderators Brad Bernthal, Brad Feld and Jill VanMatre. Speaker: Wendy Lea, CEO, Get Satisfaction Wendy Lea is the CEO of Get Satisfaction. Wendy founded The Chatham Group, where she currently serves as an angel investor, strategic advisor and board member for a long list of startup companies. Wendy chairs the board for women's entrepreneur group Watermark and serves on the board of Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2.org). She has been recognized as a Top 100 Woman of Influence in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs Unplugged is a meeting place where faculty, students and community members with technical backgrounds learn about and get involved in entrepreneurship. In particular, the program offers students and faculty an opportunity to learn how a successful start up is created as well as an opportunity to network. Each Entrepreneurs Unplugged meeting features food, drink and - most importantly - an experienced entrepreneur to discuss his/her start-up experiences. .
RELATED LINKS: Silicon Flatirons Center || Get Satisfaction || Foundry Group || Event Photos || KEYWORDS: Brad Feld, Wendy Lea, Silicon Flatirons Center, University of Colorado, ATLAS Institute, Jill VanMatre, Brad Bernthal, Entrepreneurs Unplugged, Video, Watch Entrepreneurs Unplugged with Wendy Lea, CEO, Get Satisfaction
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An entrepreneurial blitz in the tech scene
Daniel Feld, Entrepreneur, Mentor, Investor enclosure-voice 1314_ 11/19/12 - Larry interviewed Daniel Feld a serial entrepreneur. Larry asked, "With the economic times we've gone through these past few years, what do you think are the biggest challenges that companies face today?" Daniel was quick to respond, "I think there are obvious answers to that, but I think some of the biggest challenges are just staying in business. Keeping cash flow coming in, whether that's from outside sources of capital, from investors of some sort - or from cash flow from your business. You have to have cash flow to keep the lights on, so that's just an obvious one. I think a less obvious big challenge today is getting the attention of consumers. There are so many different ways to reach out to consumers today. And, consumers are constantly being bombarded by messages across the different channels. First of all, knowing who your target audience is, is critical. Knowing how to get to those folks in a meaningful way, and connect with them to attract them to your brand or your solution, is also very critical." Larry turned the table and asked, "What are the greatest opportunities for businesses today?' His reply, "The biggest opportunity as well as the biggest challenge is, there are so many ways today, to connect with consumers directly. Having the expertise to figure out the strategy and the tactics to use those channels, whether it's using social media - and there's a lot of variety and different ways that you can track customers and speak to customers. But I think the fact that you have direct access to customers and that customers have a large megaphone out to the world themselves, means that companies really have to be on their toes about how they interact and respond to customers. Finding the right tools and the people to help them take advantage of those is a critical opportunity for people." There's more great advice, listen for more...
RELATED LINKS: Daniel Feld History || Foundry Group || TechStars || PivotDesk || In the News || KEYWORDS: Daniel Feld, Mobius Venture Capital, PivotDesk, Foundry Group, TechStars, Venture Capital, TV, Radio, Print, New Product Blowout, Branding, Packaging, bytes=4655128
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Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
1300_ 10/22/12 - Cities and towns around the world know that fertile locations for innovation help attract creative people and enable vibrant civic life. Brad Feld's new book, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City, examines how to kick-start and nurture a startup scene. An entrepreneur and high profile venture capitalist, Feld details the ingredients necessary to catalyze locations where high growth ventures can flourish. Building great startup communities is not a quick flip, rather, it is a 20 year process. Feld's view explains why entrepreneurs are best able to lead efforts concerning entrepreneurial infrastructure needed to build great innovation scenes. Phil Weiser moderates this One-on-One discussion. Crash Course: Startup Communities - Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City with Brad Feld at the Silicon Flatirons Center...watch this video...
RELATED LINKS: Brad's Book || Silicon Flatirons Center || Foundry Group || Economy Builders || KEYWORDS: Brad Feld, Phil Weiser, Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City, Silicon Flatirons Center, Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Startup Communities, Crash Course

Panel Reactions to the Boulder Thesis
1302_ 10/22/12 - Panel members, Brad Bernthal, Associate Clinical Professor of Law University of Colorado, Entrepreneurship Initiative Director, Silicon Flatirons Center; David Cohen, Founder and CEO TechStars; and Lesa Mitchell Vice President, Advancing Innovation Kauffman Foundation; question Brad Feld, author of Startup Communities & Managing Director Foundry Group; Phil Weiser Dean University of Colorado Law School Executive Director Silicon Flatirons Center Moderates. This dynamic group provides laughter, entertainment and informative ideas, opinions and more...
RELATED LINKS: Brad's Book || Silicon Flatirons Center || Foundry Group || TechStars || Kauffman Foundation || KEYWORDS: Brad Feld, Phil Weiser, Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City, Silicon Flatirons Center, Brad Bernthal, Scenius, David Cohen, TechStars, Lesa Mitchell, Kauffman Foundation

Larry Nelson & Paul Washington, Exec. Director, OED City & County of Denver Jump Start 2012 is Denver's economic development strategy
enclosure-voice 1283_ 9/24/12 - We first met at a very powerful meeting here in Denver, Colorado. We'll talk about that, and Jump Start 2012, with Paul Washington, Executive Director in the Office of Economic Development for the City and County of Denver. As an overview, Jump Start 2012 is the City of Denver's economic development strategy for this year. Based on seven pillars of economic development 1. Business Retention, 2. Small Business Advocacy, 3. Business Recruitment, 4. Sustainable Neighborhood Development, 5. Business Lending, 6. Workforce Development and 7. Key Strategic Projects. Now, in each one of these pillars, there are a number of key initiatives and numerous milestones that need to be achieved in order to meet the strategic initiative. As part of the Small Business Advocacy focus, Paul tells us, they want to make sure they are doing everything to bring attention to the small business community in Denver. The reason this is important is because small businesses represent a huge percentage of Denver's workforce and employment base. As an economic development agency OED wants to make sure they do everything they can to support small business and bring positive attention to our entrepreneurs and then that will lead to more attraction to capital which will result in more employment opportunities, insuring that economic development will remain strong in Denver. One of these initiatives is ...Listen for more…
RELATED LINKS: Denver OED || JumpStart 2012 Denver || Greenprint Denver || Entrepreneurs || KEYWORDS: Paul Washington, Denver, Office of Economic Development, Jump Start 2012, Business Retention, Small Business Advocacy, Business Recruitment, Sustainable Neighborhood Development, Business Lending, Workforce Development, Key Strategic Projects > bytes=7085142
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Paul Washington, Executive Director, Office of   
    Economic Development, Denver City and County These are non-profit organizations that lend money to small businesses
enclosure-voice 1290_ 10/1/12 - We are talking about Jump Start 2012, with Paul Washington, Executive Director in the Office of Economic Development for the City and County of Denver. This is part 2 of this discussion. Paul said, "- In mid October during Denver Startup Week, OED will publish their capital matrix where we have identified all of the investors that have done business or provided capital to Denver based businesses over the last five year period. This matrix has over 100 capital sources, which will be a great tool for the small business community. That's at the venture capital level, angel capital and mezzanine, senior debt financing, it spans the whole gambit of the balance sheet. Additionally Denver OED will identify what they term as their 'big league gazelles'. These are the highest billed companies in Denver that we feel deserve special attention and focus. One of the things we've been learning at the VC roundtable, as well as trips to Silicon Valley, is that it's important for a region to celebrate the successes that have been had for venture backed companies." Paul spoke of a business lending program, but there is one other initiative that they are focused on, to be unveiled in early 2013. This program is called the CDFI Initiative. CDFI = Community Development Financial Institution. These are non-profit organizations that lend money to small businesses, many times when banks cannot. And banks are finding it increasingly harder to lend to the small business community because of the various regulations that have come out since the down turn in 2008 at the federal level...Listen for more details...
RELATED LINKS: Denver OED || JumpStart 2012 Denver || Greenprint Denver || Entrepreneurs || KEYWORDS: Paul Washington, Denver, Office of Economic Development, Jump Start 2012, Business Retention, Small Business Advocacy, Business Recruitment, Sustainable Neighborhood Development, Business Lending, Workforce Development, Key Strategic Projects, bytes=6260927
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Find the influencers who align with your brand CONTINUATION...
1298_ 10/15/12

Rustin Banks, CEO/CoFounder, BlogFrog Holly Hamann, CoFounder & VP of Marketing, BlogFrogAnother exciting, revealing, enlightening evening with Silicon Flatirons Center, Entrepreneurs Unplugged event. Our attention was focused on BlogFrog and co-founders, Holly Hamann,VP of Marketing. Holly is a serial entrepreneur who has spent her career launching and growing start-ups in the social media, entertainment, video, and other tech industries. She is a blogger, public speaker, contributing writer on technology and marketing to various publications, is an American Marketing Association "Marketer of the Year" award recipient and guest blogger for The Huffington Post. She lives outside Boulder, Colorado and blogs about social media, triathlons and parenting teenagers. Rustin Banks, CEO, started building online communities 15 years ago by hosting bulletin board systems (BBS) in his parents' closet. With an MS in Electrical Engineering, he left his position in Aerospace designing next-gen satellite systems to start BlogFrog in 2009. He and his wife, Tara, live in Colorado and he blogs about leadership and being the father of three small children...watch for much more... This is a 4 part video! Text Links for part 1 and 2 ...
YouTube VIDEO WATCH: Part 1 of 4 - Rustin Banks & Holly Hamann - Part 2 of 4
RELATED LINKS: BlogFrog || Silicon Flatirons Center || Event Photos || KEYWORDS: Entrepreneurs Unplugged, BlogFrog, Holly Hamann, Rustin Banks, Brad Bernthal, Silicon Flatirons Center, University of Colorado, ATLAS Institute

Video Segments 3 (above) & 4 of Entrepreneurs UNPLUGGED

Telecommunications and policy issues for entrepreneurs
Phil Weiser, Dean, University of Colorado Law School and Brad Bernthal, Law Professor and Director of the Silicon Flatirons Center’s Entrepreneurship Initiative enclosure-voice 1266_ 8/27/12 - You know what teenagers are like? Especially the first, ah, 13th year? "Basically an adolescent, little rambunctious, looking to do things differently." Well that's how Phil Weiser sees the Silicon Flatirons Center - growing up on the Boulder Campus, part of the University of Colorado is the Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship. Larry interviewed Phil Weiser, Dean of the University of Colorado Law School, and Executive Director and Founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at CU and Brad Bernthal Associate Professor of Law Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurship Initiative Director at CU. Well that's how Phil Weiser sees the Silicon Flatirons Center - growing up on the Boulder Campus, part of the University of Colorado is the Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship. "This is interdisciplinary engagement - which means we're on the Law campus but it's much more than law, it’s technology, business and campus community engagement, bringing community to the campus. Give people a chance to see their ideas in a little broader perspective. Give them a chance to develop young talent. That's a very important part of our overall community. And also do a good job of raising the debates overall for national so we can elevate our local community, raise the debate nationally, support entrepreneurship and encourage our students." That's what Silicon Flatirons Center is about and they're celebrating their 13th Anniversary in January 2013. We're going to kick this off with a fabulous calendar of events. Brad Bernthal "People come to Silicon Flatirons to ideally see around the corner. The 13th anniversary is coming up, but between now and the end of the year, here are some of the things coming up. Phil says, "We kick it off on September 4th, the day after Labor Day, with the 'Future and Dynamics of Video Programming'. "We're going to have the CEO of Aereo, which is the definition of the destructive technology..."
Related Links: Silicon Flatirons Center || Startup Colorado || Startup America || Grow Denver || Venture Capital Channel || Changing Dynamics of Video Programming 9/4/12 || Keywords: Phil Weiser, Brad Bernthal, Silicon Flatirons Center, Startup Colorado, Startup America, Venture Capital, Telecommunications, Policy Issues, Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins. > bytes=7660672
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Michael Fries, President & CEO, Liberty Global 
        - E&Y Entrepreneur Excellence 2012 "Master Entrepreneur" Ernst & Young creates special award to honor Mike Fries
enclosure-voice 1233_ 7/2/12 - "You will not get anywhere without a committed, focused management team that cares about each other. It's really about being warriors together, and all the great camaraderie and joy and pain that comes with being warriors." Michael Fires - Honored with a special award for entrepreneurial excellence by the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Program - . EVENT PHOTOS
      If you look at the cable industry, it's reinvented itself many times. Fifty percent of our revenue today comes from products and services we didn't have ten years ago, so we have definitely evolved. Having said that... Mike Fries is President and Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Global (LGI). A 20-year veteran of the cable and media industry, he has spent nearly his entire career building international distribution and programming businesses. Today LGI is the second largest cable TV operator in the world and the largest outside the U.S. with over 26 million video, voice, and broadband Internet subscribers, operations in 14 countries and $11.3 billion of annualized revenue. LGI was created through the combination of Liberty Media International and UnitedGlobalCom in June 2005. Prior to the formation of LGI and his appointment as CEO, Mr. Fries served as president and chief executive officer of UnitedGlobalCom (UGC), one of the first companies to expand into international cable TV and programming. He joined UGC shortly after its formation in 1990 and spent five years as senior vice president, business development during which he spearheaded its early expansion into Europe, Asia and Latin America. In 1995, he became president of the Asia/Pacific region and launched LGI's current business in Australia as well as several other markets. He was promoted to president and chief operating officer of UGC in 1998 and chief executive officer in 2004. Mr. Fries is a member of Liberty Global's board of directors and its two-person executive committee along with the company's chairman, Dr. John C. Malone. He is an active industry partner at the World Economic Forum and a member of Young Presidents Organization. He also sits on the board of a number of professional and philanthropic organizations including CableLabs, the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, the Alliance for Choice in Education and Graland Country Day School. Mr. Fries holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. This interview (From March 2011 - Communications Technology Executive of the Year Award)
Related Links: Liberty Global, Inc || Kauffman Foundation of Entrepreneurship || Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Program Mountain Desert Region || PodCast Directory || CTP Home || DBJ Mike Fries article || Keywords: Michael Fries, Liberty Global, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Program, The Kauffman Foundation of Entrepreneurship, E&Y, John Malone, CTP Exec of Year, Communications Technology Professionals, Cable Industry, Ascent Award, Liberty Media, UIH, United Cable, TC - bytes=765607
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Startups in Boulder, Business is a Real Pitch
Mike Hamers, Founder, LightSpeed Commercial Arts1194_ 4/9/12 - With all the successful startup systems, Boulder is thought of as a "Mecca" and others are in in awe. 25 states plan on sending delegates to Boulder in June to observe and learn how the New Venture Group and others like Foundry Group, Boulder TechStars, etc,. are making Boulder the hotbed of startups. Brad Feld is a well-known venture capitalist and supporter of the entrepreneurs in our area and was very involved with this program. Brad was gratefully thanked for the financial donation he made for a porcelain chamber; a $25,000 donation for the first-floor men's room in the Wolf Law Library building to be named after him. The bathroom inauguration, a gift to the Law School for all they have done for entrepreneurship in Boulder. "I don't like to pay whole buildings as they tend to be too expensive... but bathrooms hold a special place in my heart." Brad joked he has being prodded to change the placard from "Inspiration comes at inconvenient times!" Brad proudly visits his masterpiece of plumbing every couple of months. The money will be used to support the needs of various entrepreneurial group functions at the CU Wolf Library. Baker Hostetler, attorney & registered broker dealer, informed the crowd that the laws on funding have not changed since 1930! Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act (JOBS Act) Not just pennies from heaven – but rules up in the air! The rules were finally approved by Congress this week with much bipartisan support. This includes both how to solicit funds and types of funding methods allowed for early and mid-stage companies. Briefly, Rule 504 allows for crowd-funding and new solicitation rules to include non-accredited investors. The new limit is $1 million dollars per year. There were also five pitches from newer companies. First up was Acadium, presented by Rebecca Wolf. Then Antezen – presented by Shashank Shekha. Then GizMonyx – Where innovation meets inspiration – presented by Nate DeVault. Then Cleverlike.com makes the music better with SmartSound – presented by Brian Dickman. and followed by BlogMutt – We work like a dog to fill up your blog – presented by Scott Yates. *Special thanks to Mike Hamers, founder of Lightspeed Commercial Arts for covering this event for us.
Related Links: Silicon Flatirons || Foundry Group || Acadium || Antezen || GizMonyx || SmartSound || BlogMutt || Lightspeed Commercial Arts || Keywords: Silicon Flatirons, Brad Feld, Brad Bernthal, Entrepreneurs, Mike Hamers, Lightspeed Commercial Arts, Foundry Group, Acadium, Antezen, GizMonyx, SmartSound, BlogMutt

Crowd Funding and the Crowd Funding Alliance
Brian 
        Tsuchiya, Startup Guru enclosure-voice 1192_ 4/9/12 - We've been hearing about Crowd Funding from Brian Tsuchiya for a couple of years (May 17, 2010 interview). Brian explained at that time, "There's a gap if you're not VC fundable (which is only one in a thousand businesses that are VC fundable, roughly), it's tough to find investors. If you don't have the assets, banks aren't going to lend you the money - You need 1/2 to two million dollars, angels - most angels don't invest that much. You know the average syndicated investment from an angel group is only a quarter million dollars. "What we are focused on is getting that money from a crowd. So imagine 1,000 people, and that's a lot, but as an example, and they each gave you $100. Now there's a lot of money in that. Can you find a lot of people that can give you a thousand or a hundred bucks? Well, that's the concept. You're getting a small amount of money that you would typically think of in terms of an investor, but you get a lot more of those people. The cash funding hole is basically this quarter million to two million dollar range, that's just hard to find. It's just not something people think of in terms of funding their business, but it is viable." Fast forward to March 2012, and now the excitement has a hit a new high! with the recent passage of the JOBS act (H.R. 3606). We know you've been hearing about this legislation - the news is being reported everywhere. During the process of getting involved Brian has reached out to the industry connectors, Woodie (Sherwood) Neiss, author of the bill with his partners Jason Best and Zak Cassady-Dorion among them. Brian's been reaching out, talking to and getting to know them. They're in the process of creating a self-regulatory organization and they've asked Brian to join them. "As part of the conversation", Brian said, "we're going to talk about Crowd Funding Alliance and see if we have their support." If he has their support, Brian will come back and incorporate. He said, "It is his intention, to create the Cloud Funding Alliance, ideally this will be the global trade association, based in Denver, Colorado. We have Wall Street on the east coast, technology on the west coast and we want Denver, right in the center to be headquarters for Crowd Funding." There's more...
Related Links: StartUpGuru || Funding Launch Pad || Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act || Venture Capital || Entrepreneurs Channel || Keywords: Brian Tsuchiya, Startup Guru, Crowd Funding Alliance, Entrepreneurs, CrowdFunding, Vim Funding, Jobs Act, H.R. 3606, Advisor, Colorado, Entrepreneur, bytes=4305296
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Franchising a whole new perspective for fun and profit
Ginger Jones, Owner, Bottle Bottega DenverNancy Bigley, Co Owner, Bottle Bottegaenclosure-voice1174_ 3/5/12 - The company's vision of inspired success and creative expression highlights changes in today's culture. Nancy Bigley, CEO & Co-Owner and Stephanie King-Myers President/COO & Co-Owner both made the transition from corporate America to launch Bottle & Bottega and franchise their concept across the country. A month later, in December 2011 they sold their first franchise to Ginger Jones a former pharmaceutical business development manager in Denver, CO. Ginger opened the first Bottle & Bottega franchise in Denver in January 2012. With a high focus on giving back and working within the local community, Jones has in a short amount of time partnered with many wonderful local business owners within her territory to bring inspiration, joy and new business to the Denver community. Larry interviewed Nancy and Ginger about this new franchising opportunity. The owners of Bottle & Bottega, an interactive painting and wine party business for the non-artist, are passionate about a lot of things these days. Primarily though, they are passionate about giving other executives across the country the opportunity to hang up their corporate hats and take the leap into business ownership and become passionate about work again. With 20 years of franchise experience with companies such as Dunkin’ Brands (Dunkin Donuts & Baskin Robbins) Nancy knew a solid and successful business model when she saw it. Partnering with King-Myers in February 2011 the duo refined King-Myers original business model and strategy started in 2009, built their solid infrastructure and launched their franchise offering in November 2011. Bottle & Bottega’s vision for both their guests and their franchisees is to inspire success through creative expression. Inspiring people to push beyond their limits and take that leap of faith and try something they have never tried before is what Jones looks forward to creating at each of her Denver events. “The look of surprise and accomplishment on everyone’s faces as they leave with their new creation really makes what I’m doing worthwhile”, says Ginger. Bottle & Bottega’s vision for both their guests and their franchisees is to inspire success through creative expression. Inspiring people to push beyond their limits and take that leap of faith and try something they have never tried before is what Jones looks forward to creating at each of her Denver events. “The look of surprise and accomplishment on everyone’s faces as they leave with their new creation really makes what I’m doing worthwhile”, says Jones. Listen for more ideas...
Related Links: Bottle & Bottega Home || Denver Bottle & Bottega || Franchise || Crazy Good Marketing || Podcasting Directory || Keywords: Nancy Bigley, Ginger Jones, Bottle & Bottega, Franchise, Art, Wine, Interactive, Creative Expression, - bytes=5856342
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Larry Nelson with Brad Feld, Author, Startup Communities and 
    Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Startup Communities and Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
enclosure-voice 1287_ 10/1/12 - What does a Startup Community Ecosystem look like? Ask our prolific author and Colorado based VC Brad Feld. Ok, you don't have to, we did. Now you can listen to him. Then you have to read this book. And after digesting all his great advice, one last step, or maybe the first step... "Do it!  Don't wait for permission. Don't wait to talk to someone. Do go to startup events, meetups, tech talks everything you can find and commit to that for at least six months."
      We began, that is w3w3® Media, 14+ years ago on terrestrial radio and one of our earliest interviews was Brad Feld, a relative newcomer to the Boulder area - already making a name for himself. We've watched him and his wife Amy build their home here, making this community - that's the entrepreneurial, technology (even the arts, the university) and VC communities better and stronger. He's been a champion for the community as a whole and now he's working on the young emerging entrepreneurs, his newest book, "Startup Communities - Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City".
      Brad said he's used a lot of the ideas that he's been involved in and participated in, in Boulder, since he moved here in the mid-90s, to form the framework for the book, which we called the "Boulder Thesis". They worked hard on defining on what any city in the world should do if they want to create a long-term, healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem. The key parts of the Boulder Thesis are these four components. The first is the startup community has to be lead by entrepreneurs. We separate the world into leaders and feeders. They're both important, but they're different. In the context of startup communities, the only people that can be effective leaders are the entrepreneurs. If you have the other people involved in the startup community, the feeders playing the role of leader, it doesn't work. So government can't be the leader, university can't be the leader, investors, venture capitalists, big business, those can't be the leaders. The Second is those entrepreneurs have to take a long-term view. Brad likes to say, "It's generational, at least 20 years. You can't start and build a sustainable startup community in two or three years." We're in a cycle where startups are exciting, a lot of people get involved in startups, and that's fine. But if you really want to build, in your city, a long term startup community, you have to be in it for a long time. The Third part of the Boulder Thesis is, you have to be inclusive of anyone who wants to engage at any level. This is leaders and feeders, individuals who want to get involved - it's anyone new, who moves to town, anyone who wants to be involved can and should be - Then you're way ahead of the game. The last part is you have to have a series of activities and events that have a regular cadence and rhythm to them. Things like TechStars an accelerator for 90 days, you're doing something that engages the entire entrepreneurial stack. The essence of it is this idea that... Well, listen to Brad he will tell you so much more - read his book and you'll learn so much more. Get started now!

RELATED LINKS: Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City || Brad Feld Blog || Brad Presenting, SFC Crash Course || Foundry Group || Do More Faster Book || Economy Builders || Venture Capital Channel || NCWIT Sit With Me || KEYWORDS: Brad Feld, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City, Foundry Group, Venture Capital, Amy Feld, Boulder Thesis, bytes=8827196
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Robert White, Consultant, Exec. Coach, Founder, An Extraordinary 
    People and author of "Living an Extraordinary Life" Pay attention to your own personal and leadership growth
enclosure-voice 1320_ 12/3/12 - We have quite a history with our guest today. We're talking with Robert White, founder of Extraordinary People, LLC. and author of the popular book, Living An Extraordinary Life, now in its fifth printing. Robert has also founded a number of companies, best known for the experiential training company LifeSpring, here in the U.S. and then internationally for ARC International which was the largest training company in Asia. Heavily involved with the Innovation Pavilion, we asked Robert what was going on there and why he was so involved. Robert explained, "As you know, the Innovation Pavilion is an incubator primarily for startups, or early stage companies, and I just love what they're doing out there. I love supporting innovation and job growth." It is a challenge for startups and they have a program called the Executives in Residence, which is an opportunity to give back and support these startups, and to do so without a fee on the front end. Recently the Innovation Pavilion hosted a leadership program that Robert normally does in-house with intact teams, corporations and non-profits. It was great fun, lots of learning and the feedback was excellent. Larry asked, "With all the entrepreneurs out there, and of course the economic challenges - why is executive coaching and team development so important for these entrepreneurs?" Robert replied, "Well most entrepreneurs are excited about a product. It's the latest, the greatest, they're passionate about it. Many of them have a technical or service background as opposed to a leadership and management background. So, the reason that companies fail, most often, is the people they choose. Are the people focused, are they aligned and is their commitment level equivalent? The absence or weakness in any one of those three, the people issues, can sabotage what otherwise might be a very successful company." They talked about how Robert has always been a 'giver' and involved with the community as well as offering some excellent advice for entrepreneurs. ..Listen for much more...
RELATED LINKS: Extraordinary People || TiE Rockies Colorado || Charter Members || Economy Builders || KEYWORDS: Robert White, Extraordinary Life, Personal Growth, Leadership Growth, Innovation Pavilion, Executives in Residence Program, ARC International, LifeSpring, Living An Extraordinary Life, bytes=6166050
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Success and sustainability through good and bad times
Roy Dimoff, CEO, ViaWestenclosure-voiceLarry Nelson, CEO, w3w3® Media Network 1276_ 9/10/12 - bytes=14158265 [Orig. Pub. 9/6/11]
The path to success isn't always flash, bang, big cash and lots of noise. In the long run it is knowing your customer, getting close, staying close, and understanding your customers needs. That's what Roy Dimoff attributes ViaWest’s ‘good luck' to. It was 1999, when we met Roy Dimoff and Nancy Philips as they started ViaWest here in Denver. "Back in the day", money was practically being thrown at companies. Here in Denver we had a number of very large startups going back to '99, a little pre '99. Local competitors had the advantage with 100's of millions in investments.... ViaWest took a different path, kind of low key, if you were watching from a distance. But up close it was action packed, prudent and practical. Back then ViaWest had one office which still exists. Today they have 22 data centers in five states and six major markets. Roy has a habit of checking in with his HR department and they keep adding employees, which is a good thing, especially in today's market, and they're well over 300 people now in those five states. "Knock on wood, Larry. For all the things that happened and we've seen in the 12 years that ViaWest has been around, and certainly living through two recessions is one of them, things are going extremely well. We are part of a great industry. It's nice to be in this position today. To be able to reflect back at those difficult times, knowing that you survived and succeeded in some fashion." In fact ViaWest is in a leadership position today. Looking back we remember favorite words guiding their strategic path, prudence and pragmatism. Larry asked about challenges facing business today. Roy said, "You know, I think similar to the stock market, there are a lot of ups and downs and you have to be prepared to alter your business plan if there's dramatic changes in the economy. We really reflect on our capital investment and our cash conservation and really want to reflect on all the touch points there. And do we want to be a little less aggressive if we see a double dip recession. I think companies should definitely, definitely understand their debt position, their cash position, their growth, and really understand their expense level extremely well - knowing where they can alter if they have to." ViaWest supports the community, sponsors many non-profits and has won many awards...listen for more great advice...
Related Links: ViaWest || Green Solutions || Profile of a Leader || KidsTek || Podcasting Directory || Keywords: Roy Dimoff, ViaWest, Data Centers, Leaders, Team, Management, Green Grid, Computers, Telecom, Canada, Software
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Over the last few years it's been the social network - Dave Jilk, CEO/Founder, Standing Cloudthat's coming to an end...
enclosure-voice 1246_ 7/23/12 - We're talking with what we would call a very successful serial entrepreneur, David Jiilk, Founder and CEO of Standing Cloud a Boulder based company. We have a series of questions we regularly put to entrepreneurs, like what is the greatest challenge faced today? Dave says, “For entrepreneurs generally, if you take it more broadly than the IT industry or the software industry, the usual problems are applied to most business, right? So, the economy is certainly not in a state where people are spending freely. When times are good, of course, people spend easily and they're willing to take chances. That's more important, they're willing to take chances and spend the money. That gives very new businesses and innovators the ability to get started with those early adopters. Today those early adopters might be more sensitive to spending. And, something I see all the time, the increase in regulations and taxes and other expenses definitely get in the way. Almost more, the regulation than direct costs. The various rules you have to follow just overwhelm the business that should be paying attention to building valuable products and services for their customers - and finding customers. So, that kind of gets to being a big distraction. You know the legal system is kind of a mess, the patent system. But, the answer I really want to give for the IT and Software industries, no surprise, is - hiring great talent is the biggest challenge.” Dave talks about the opportunities we have today, "Over the last few years it's been social network type things. That's probably coming to an end..". Listen now...
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Change for big and small companies and government
Larry Nelson - w3w3® Media Network, Bob Goodman - The Venture Capital Experience and 
        Frank Traylor, Colorado Entrepreneur - solving lack of innovation in government enclosure-voice 1228_ 6/18/12 - The TiE Rockies Entrepreneurial Round Table featuring Bob Goodman presenting the Venture Capital Experience was filled to capacity. We had a moment with one of the attendees, Frank Traylor, an entrepreneur and consultant. Frank wanted to talk about change, he'd just returned from a meeting he attended in New York, the National Association for Corporate Directors. These are directors of large companies and it was titled "Directors in the Digital Age". So Frank went to find out... Directors - Digital Age - Big Companies, how nimble are they being? The focus was strictly on social. Frank thought they'd talk about cloud, mobile, big data. They were all talking about social because it was a risk. They were worried about social media, what might get tweeted, what gets out on blogs - it could hurt their company. For these large companies it is all about risk. There is change going on throughout the economy, things are going so quickly, but what the companies are really worried about, rather than upside, is downside. - What is the risk? We see Kodak who led digital imaging for a century is now bankrupt and Instagram in 18 months went to a billion dollars. So what's the difference in small companies and big companies and why can't the big ones move at all? Frank thinks it's the environment. Everyone is gunning for the big companies, CEO's get egregious pay, that get's in the newspapers. If they do anything wrong it's in the newspapers. Where in the startup world it's all about pivoting, failing fast. If you talk to an entrepreneur who has failed five times, he's experienced. If you talk to a CEO of a large company that's failed once, he's in the doghouse. Frank is a native of Colorado and has been involved in government for a long time. And right now he is on the PPIC which is the Public Private Partnership Innovation Council. They're trying to figure out how to bring innovation to government. Government is in a similar position as big business. If government.. well, .there's much more to listen to...
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Tom Krekel, CEO of Full Sail Strategies Execution, the difference between success and disappointment
enclosure-voice 1179_ 3/19/12 - It is interesting when speaking to many successful business leaders, we find a lot of grads from the 'school of hard knocks'. We are speaking with
Tom Krekel, CEO of Full Sail Strategies. He says he learned the hard way, he started his first business back in 1983, which they grew and developed. Over the last 30 years he has run and developed business that ranged in size from the startup that he had to companies that had a couple hundred employees. He wishes he had had access to the kind of resources out there that he now brings to companies through the Mastering the Rockefeller Habits seminar and workshops, they will be conducting in Denver on April 24th. Larry asked, "with the economy we've been through the last few years, with the challenges we've been through, what are the biggest challenges coming up this year?" Tom replied, "It's interesting, we talk about what's happened with the recession, new technology impacting businesses. If you go back to the early 90's, Fortune Magazine does a cover article, "Why do CEO's fail?" They looked at strategy, access to resources - cash? No, it was really all around execution. In their study, what they found was the ability to get people rowing in the same direction, at the same time, whatever you want to call execution, that really was the prime area and that's still true today. You see people who start businesses, thankfully because most of our new jobs come from small business startups. But regardless of the business type, they soon learn to grow they have to change from being a functional specialist to becoming a leader of other people. That's not an easy transition. What I try to do is have them focus on a couple of disciplines. Establish priorities, and btw Tom says he's gone into companies, "...and they pull out their 12 priorities - Tell you what, any more than five, those aren't priorities, that's a checklist." 1.) No more than five priorities and one has to be the top. 2.) You've got to have some metrics so you can see what's happening on a contemporaneous basis. Not things that look backward, but things that will help you predict the future. And 3.) You've got to put in communication rhythm to keep that pace going, make sure everyone is aligned around what the goals are. And you drill it right down to every member of the team." Listen for more great ideas...

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751_ The Contradiction of Focus When Building a Business
Larry Nelson, Author, Mastering Change in 
         the Midst of Chaos enclosure-voice When you ask successful entrepreneurs, "What are the keys to building a successful, sustaining business?" Among other words, they'll say, "Passion, A+ Team, Commitment, Innovation, Focus." While all have substance, the successful entrepreneurs have fascinating stories that support those descriptions, I would like to point out that 'Focus' is a double-edged sword. Let’s be clear, focus is a critical element for building a successful business. It's true that if you don't know where you are going any road will take you there. Then again, if you are so focused on where you are going, you could get side-swiped because you didn't see it coming. So what does this all mean? In my book, Mastering Change in the Midst of Chaos, Chapter 12, "Ground Swells of Change - Prepare, capitalize or fall victim, I discuss five different examples of landscapes and their ground swells of change. I also write about trends of both the past and the future. Trends have an impact on the landscape; however it's the groundswell that will often determine the success or failure of an endeavor, personal or professional. ‘The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.’ said Johann Wolfgang Goethe. A ‘ground swell of change’ is never a solo effort; it takes many active forces to build up a head of steam. Examples include: innovations, inventions, laws, events, in/out of favor fads, something that is displaced or replaced, cultural changes, local events, controversy, fiscal changes, mergers, movements, etc. There's more...
Related Links: Amazon || Entrepreneurs Channel || w3w3.com Home || Mastering Change Blog || Keywords: Mastering Change, Chaos, Larry Nelson, Entrepreneurs, Focus, Ground Swells of Change, Landscape, Trends > Channel: Change 4014776 bytes 12/7/09 LISTEN

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Jim Franklin, CEO, SendGrid Making sure the ecosystem is growing
enclosure-voice 1157_ 2/6/12 - For the many years that Larry Nelson aka, w3w3.com has been talking and working together, Jim Franklin says the ecosystem for Boulder/Denver has been awesome for startups, and continues to be. It's from that ecosystem that companies like SendGrid come from. And, they are very involved in that ecosystem and making sure that it's growing. There are a number of great things happening, in particular with the Founder Institute, which Jim has been a part of for the past three years. They'll be hosting another class this spring starting March 19th, applications are open for that. Also, TechStars is now a 24/7 operation, TechStars Cloud in San Antonio, and Boulder TechStar for a Day coming up in the first week of March, and we'll have other events as well. If you're interested in TechStars Boulder, there are a lot of ways to get involved with a mentor. SendGrid came out of the '09 Class of Boulder TechStars. There are tremendous happenings with the Silicon Flatirons group out of the CU Law School. SFC puts on a variety of events that help entrepreneurs and they're also supporting the Startup America / Startup Colorado Initiative that SendGrid and others are working on to host interns over the summer. We'll have a drawing for interns. They will have meaningful experiences shadowing executives and founders in leading tech companies like Simple Energy and Tendril and Team Staff here in the Front Range, like TechStars, with events in the evenings. It will be an awesome experience for them and we hope to host a couple of those interns here at SendGrid. Silicon Flatirons also puts on the Entrepreneurs Series [Jim is the featured entrepreneur on March 5th]...there's much more, listen now...
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Essential elements of a winning logo design
Michael J. Hamers, Founder/CEO, LightSpeed Commercial Artsenclosure-voice 1169RR_ 2/27/12 - Before a logo is designed it is imperative that the branding strategy, mission statement and positioning are clear. Larry sat down with long-term colleague Michael Hamers, Founder and CEO of LightSpeed Commercial Arts to discuss the visual aspect of building your business. Mike went unto explain, "I need to understand the human side of the company we’re branding… it’s people. Who is this company, what are their Values, what do they think is Important, what is their Corporate culture. My logo will be a symbolic expression that will represent the People, the Product, and the Promise." He added, "Brand identity is the visual and verbal expression of the brand. A logo is the shortest, fastest form of communication available. You can see it, hold it, wear it,, watch it move. It starts with a brand name, then the brandmark builds out into the matrix of tools and communications: from business cards, to websites, fleet trucks to signage, brand identity increases awareness and builds businesses. Next on the list is the tagline. Often I’m involved in creating the tagline as well. The tagline is very important because 75% of the time I am designing to the tagline, or what I often times call a positioning statement. Your company name is who you are (and often is a made-up word anyhow), but the tagline can offer much more information like WHAT you do or HOW you are unique. It’s a slogan, a clarifier, company statement or guiding principle that describes, synopsizes or helps create an interest. Although the brand is much more that a brand mark, the logo is virtually indistinguishable from the brand in the eyes of the consumer. It needs to be unique, memorable and meaningful. The concept needs to be immediately understood. Effective identity is valued because it builds awareness; increases recognition; communicates uniqueness; and expresses a competitive difference...Listen for more...
Related Links: LightSpeed Commercial Arts || Logo Design || Entrepreneurs || Blog || Keywords: Michael Hamers, LightSpeed Commercial Arts, Logo, Design, Brand, Tagline, Awareness, Recognition, Uniqueness, Competitive Difference - bytes: 9385485
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Venture capital and software where technology intersects
Jim Franklin, CEO, SendGrid, 
    Inc.1178_ 3/12/12 - Silicon Flatirons, ATLAS, ITP, and the Boulder Software Club present Jim Franklin as the featured entrepreneur with moderators Brad Bernthal and Jill VanMatre. The unplugged series was designed for the function of bringing together people with a diverse set of backgrounds to learn more about and engage in entrepreneurship. Jim Franklin is the CEO of SendGrid, Inc., a Foundry-backed infrastructure applications company. Prior to his tenure with SendGrid, Jim was the Vice President of Enterprise Performance Management and the General Manager of the Crystal Ball Global Business Unit of Oracle Corporation. The Crystal Ball Global Business Unit was formed in 2007 as a part of the acquisition of Hyperion Solutions. At Hyperion, Jim served as VP and General Manager. Jim had held the roles of Decisioneering's CEO, CFO and VP of Sales prior to Decisioneering's acquisition by Hyperion. Decisioneering was the maker of the Crystal Ball brand of software. Mr. Franklin was also the founder of webfamilies.com and the CFO of Vericept Corporation. Jim serves on the board of aWhere, Inc., Denver Software Club and Querio. Jim has also been a mentor for Techstars and the Founder Institute. In this part 1 of 4 video, Jim talks about his early beginnings that lead into business. Jim loved school but had it in his head that he wanted to be a businessman. He took accounting not to be an accountant, but a business person. He graduated with an accounting degree - but what do you do with it? Well he thought, accounting taught you to add and subtract and Law school would teach him to read and write, to be that well rounded person. So he went to law school...watch and listen for more...
Related Links: SendGrid || Silicon Flatirons || RVC Angel Capital Summit || Blog || Keywords: Jim Franklin, SendGrid, Silicon Flatirons, Entrepreneurs Unplugged, Decisioneering, Foundry Group, ATLAS, ITP, Boulder Software Club, Brad Bernthal, Jill VanMatre - Watch Part 1 of 4: Jim Franklin, CEO, SendGrid, Inc.

Include the entire state, regions outside of Denver Metro
Kelly Quann, Executive Dir., COIN enclosure-voice 1142_ 1/9/2012 - Monday, Nov. 28, 2011 — Gov. John Hickenlooper announced the Colorado Innovation Network to promote collaboration among Colorado’s private, public and academic organizations. The Colorado Innovation Network (COIN) will stimulate economic growth, help create jobs and attract new businesses by supporting innovative business activities and establishing Colorado as the best state for business. “The Colorado Innovation Network is a roadmap for making Colorado the best state for innovation and where every road must lead to new jobs,” Hickenlooper said. “We’ll work statewide with industry leaders to build a business environment which promotes innovative practices, creates jobs and grows our economy.” w3w3® Media Network sat down with Kelly Quann, Executive Director of COIN to discuss how COIN will attract new businesses to the State of Colorado by supporting innovative business activities and establishing a reputation for Colorado as the most innovative state in the country. Larry asked Kelly, "1.How is COIN different from prior attempts to create an innovation council in Colorado? 2.What are your immediate (one-year) priorities for COIN? 3.How will COIN work with the academic sector? 4.What is COIN pursuing or supporting in this upcoming legislative session? 5.How will COIN include the entire state, namely the regions outside of Denver Metro, in its activities? Listen and watch this lively discussion...
Related Links: Gov. Hickenlooper's Announcement || COIN || Launch Press Conference || Denver Business Journal || Kelly Quann LinkedIn || Blog || Keywords: Kelly Quann, COIN, Gov. John Hickenlooper, The Colorado Innovation Network, Colorado
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spacer graphic Contents: Entrepreneurs 2010; 2009; 2008; 2007

2012 Entrepreneurs
Rustin Banks & Holly Hamann, BlogFrog - Entrepreneurs Unplugged
Nancy Bigley & Ginger Jones, Bottle Bottega Denver 3/5/12
Roy Dimoff, Founder, ViaWest, Success & Sustainability...
Brad Feld, Author, Startup Communities and Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem
Daniel Feld, Colorado Tech Scene
Daniel Feld, An entrepreneurial blitz...
Jim Franklin, CEO Sendgrid, Growing Entrepreneurs Ecosys
Mike Fries, President/CEO, Liberty Global, E&Y 2012 Award
Adam Kaye, Startup Chile
Mike Hamers, Founder/CEO, LightSpeed Commercial Art
Mike Hamers, Startups in Boulder, Biz is a Real Pitch 4/9/12
Dave Jilk, Social Network business opportunity coming to end
Tom Krekel, CEO, Full Sail Strategies 3/19/2012
Wendy Lea, CEO, Get Satisfaction - Entrepreneurs Unplugged
Kelly Manning, CO SBDC Network & Estes Institute 8/27/12
Kirsten Nelson, Founder, C3 Writing 2/13/2012
Larry Nelson, Mastering Change in the Midst of Chaos
Kelly Quann, Exec Director, COIN, 1/9/2012
Melodie Reagan, Serial Entrepreneur 10/22/2012
SFC/Crash Course, Feld-Weiser One-on-One 10/15/2012
SFC/Crash Course, Panel Reaction to the Boulder Thesis 10/15/2012
Frank Traylor, Change for big & small companies and government
Brian Tsuchiya, Startup Guru & the JOBS Act 4/9/12
Silicon Flatirons Center, Dr. Weiser, Founder & Executive Director, & Prof Bernthal Help Celebrate 13 Years
Paul Washingtonr, Jump Start 2012 - Denver's Economic Development Strategy Part 1 of 2
Paul Wshington, CDFI Initiative... Part 2 of 2
Robert White, Founder, Extraordinary People - TiE Rockies Executive in Residence

2011 Entrepreneurs
Vic Ahmed, Innovation Pavilion 12/16/11
Vic Ahmed, TiE Rockies, CEO, Plug & Play 11/28/11
Barrett Blank, RVCs Pitch Academy Beginning 4/18/11
Brad Bernthal, Silicon Flatirons Center @ CU 2/21/11
Brad Bernthal, #1 Challenge, Assembling Right Team 3/7/11
Scott Casel, CEO, Startup America Partnership 11/21/11
Aneesh Chopra, Startup Colorado Launch 11/9/11
Brad Feld, Entrepreneurs Unplugged - Video 1 thru 5 Louis Foreman & Tom Frey, where Great Ideas Succeed 11/28/11
Jim Franklin, CEO, SendGrid, Inc. Entrepreneur Unplugged
Jim Franklin, Founder Institute 4/25/11
Tom Frey, Inventors, entrepreenurs & revolutionary thinkers
Tom Frey, Futurist, DaVinci Institute 4/4/11
Francisco Garcia, Klinggon - Consumer Product of the Year!
Josh Jacobson, Co Founder, Viktorian Guitars 7/25/11
Kimberly Lucas, President, Goldstone Partners 8/15/11
Dave Mangum, Executive Director, Startup Colorado
Kelly Manning, Financial Challenges & Solutions
Jana Matthews, Leadership in the New Economy 2/14/11
Ron McKey, FlyingBeds.com 10/24/11
Kirsten Nelson, C 3 Writing, Startup America Nov. 2011
Nancy Phillips, Entrepreneurs Unplugged 11/14/2011
Sam Pitroda, Chairman, WorldTel Ltd 10/24/11
Art Rancis, International Entrepreneur 8/1/11
Mark Seglem, ADSS, Federal Budget Crisis 4/4/11
Brian Tsuchiya, New money source - Crowdfunding 11/21/11
Theresa Szczurek, Radish Systems 6/6/11
Why Boulder - Startup Colorado, Launch in Boulder 11/9/11

2010 Entrepreneurs
Sam Addoms, The ups & downs growing business 6/28/10
Eric Alexander, The entrepreneur & the challenges 12/27/10
Kelly Burton, InvestorAvenue.com - RVC - CCC 5/12/10
David Cohen, Brad Feld, Do More Faster 10/4/10
David Cohen, TechStars Demo Day 8/16/10
David Cohen, CEO and Founder, TechStars 7/19/10
GearBox, Ian Bernstein & Adam Wilson, TechStars 7/26/10
Guy Cook, Myths and realities of innovation 6/14/10
Brad Feld, Replicating Entrepreneurial Community 10/18/10
Brad Feld, TechStars, Entrepreneurial Revival 8/16/10
Tom Frey, At the Inventor Showcase 2010 - Amazing 11/13/10
Michael Hamers, LightSpeed Commercial Arts 6/1/10
Jeff Hoffman, Value of Mentors - RVC - CCC
Jeff Hoffman, Raising Money...5/12/10
J. B. Holston, Newsgator, Colo Companies to Watch 6/1/10
David Jilk, Standing Cloud, Small Business, 7/19/10
Raymond Johnson, Infinite Power Solutions 10/25/10
Dean Kamen, Could be the FIRST step in Child's Innovation
Steve Katsaros, Nokero, Solar powered light... 6/21/10
Steve Knopper, Appetite for Self-Destruction 1/25/10
Greg Maffei, Liberty Media (Entrprs Unplugged) 10/18/10
David Moll, Infield Capital 10/4/10
Krista Marks, Disney Online Kerpoof Studios 3/8/10
Rich Martinez, Young Americans Center 7/19/10
Jason Mendelson, SFC: Crash Course 1/25/10
Larry Nelson, Contradiction of Foucs
Larry Nelson, Super Charge Your Business Now 7/26/10
Jared Polis, Washington - Pay Attention 8/16/10
Rally Software, Entrepreneurs Unplugged 2/1/10
Robert Stoll, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO 11/13/10
Theresa Szczurek, Entrepreneurs - Piece of the Action 5/3/10
Brian Tsuchiya, Coaching, Consulting, Mentorship 10/11/10
Brian Tsuchiya, Crowd Funding 5/17/10
Brian Tsuchiya, Startup Factory 1/11/10
VacationRentalPartner Michael Joseph & Tom Feldhusen 7/10
Mark Weakley, HRO Boulder, Due Diligence 5/3/10
Mark Weakley, Entrepreneurs Raising Capital 3/25/10
David Wolf, Young Americans Ctr for Financial Edu 8/23/10
Michael Zeisser, Liberty Media (Entrps Unplugged) 10/18/10

Ted Turner, Entrepreneurs Unplugged [Part 1 of 4] 11/23/09
Ted Turner, Entrepreneurs Unplugged [Part 2 of 4] 11/30/09
Christopher Lowell, Ben Franklin Live @Angel Cap Summit 09
Louis Foreman, Everyday Edisons @ Inventors Showcase 09
Nir Barkat, Jerusalem Mayor 11/9/09
David DuPont, TeamSnap 11/9/09
Paul Jerde, Larry Jones Deming Center 11/2/09
Brad Feld, David Cohen Entrepreneurs Unplugged 11/2/09
Stan Feld & Larry Nelson Making of an Entrepreneurs
Kevin Johansen By and For Entrepreneurs
Dawn Todd Colorado is the Place to be...
Hunt Lambert Going Global - Changing Markets
Dave Taylor Entrepreneur's Advice
Larry Nelson Ground Swell of Change
Terry Gold Disrupting Conference Call Market
Brian Schultz Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneur
Steve Baker, Pushing Water Uphill...
Larry Nelson, Chaing Rules for Raising Capital
Larry Nelson, The Contradiction of Focus When Building Business
Larry Nelson, Ground Swells of Change & Your Team
Baker & Repplin Sage Advice about Money & Change
Gov. Bill RitterColorado Entrepreneur Ecosystem
Brad Bernthal Putting Ecosystem into Perspective
Tob & Deb Frey Building Bridge to Future
Christine Comaford Rules for Renegades
Larry Nelson Colorado Rising: Mythin-Miracle-Mystery
Mayor John Hickenlooper From Geologist to...
Jay Walker Priceline.com

Serial Entrepreneur Vic Ahmed
Authors offer sage advice...Steve Replin & Steve Baker
Pushing Water Uphill with a Rake - Steve Baker
Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Nir Barkat, Gov. Ritter,
Yoga to High-Tech Gwen Bell
Entrepreneurs Unplugged Bernthal, Reich & Nir Barkat
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Perspective, Brad Bernthal
Leveraging Technology.. Kelly Burton, Investor Avenue
Startup Capital.. David Cohen, TechStars
Startups.. Mentoring.. Dave Cohen, TechStars
Rules for Renegades Christine Comaford, Might Ventures Inventors Roundtable Colorado - Rita Crompton
Disrupting Conference Call Market - Terry Gold
Hickenlooper: from Geologist to Entrepreneur
   Mayor John Hickenlooper
Ventrue Capital - Getting Involved Jim Franklin, RVC
Building Bridge to Future...l Tom & Deb Frey
DEMOgala Showcase Winner IOUnote.com
Colorado Entrepreneurial Paul Jerde
Angel Capital Summit 2009 Kevin Johansen
Best Practices.. Lee Kennedy
A Borad of Directors? Sue Kunz
Servicing constituents by going global... Hunt Lambert
Global Ambitions, Sales.. Ken Morse, MIT
The Making of an Entrepreneur - Larry Nelson & Stan Feld
Change is not an event - Larry & Pat Nelson
Ground Swell of Change - Tech/Communication L Nelson
Colorado's Entrepreneur Ecosystem & ICT, Gov. Ritter
Change with the Right Team Jagdeep Singh
Angel Capital Summit '09 - Colorado place to be. Dawn Todd
Opportunities for Innovation... Jay Walker, Priceline


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This is true for entrepreneurs starting a new business
enclosure-voice Adam Kaye, Content Director, Startup Quest 1289_ 10/1/12 - Gamification is actually incentivizing our members and progressing through the learning process and giving them rewards for contributing and learning. Larry is interviewing Adam Kaye, a serial entrepreneur who has studied International Business & Management. he also founded multiple companies in diverse sectors such as real estate development, hospitality, entertainment, & digital software technology. His most recent entrepreneurial venture included helping found a technology business incubator SILICON TALLY in Tallahassee, the capital city of Florida. Currently he divides his time between being a technology and innovation consultant for business owners and developing his latest startup venture, YpickMe, a web application which makes resumes interactive and multimedia-enhanced. Adam is Co-Founder Vim Quests creator of StartupQuest.com. Adam explained, "StartupQuest.com is a gamified e-learning platform for first time entrepreneurs. Essentially they walk first time entrepreneurs through the startup service process helping them avoid making the mistakes made so many times by entrepreneurs. Gamification is actually incentivizing our members and progressing through the learning process and giving them rewards for contributing and learning via our system." ..Listen for much more...
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When writing be Clear, Concise and Compelling
Kirsten Nelson, Founder, C3 Writingenclosure-voice 1160_ 2/13/12 - With the ubiquitous blog and posts on Facebook etc. Larry wondered about our writing skills. After all, we're sending and receiving important messages. We contacted Kirsten Nelson, founder of C3 Writing. Larry loves her tag line, Clear, Concise and Compelling. First thing he wanted to know was what were the most common mistakes made when people are trying to write their blogs, brochures, websites and whatever. What are the biggest mistakes? Kirsten said, the biggest and most common mistakes we make when we set out to write something regardless of what it is, internally we know what we want, we know that we want it to look good and we want it to say something. But we really need to dig deeper and ask ourselves some questions. When I sit down with people I ask them to look at, what is it that you want your writing to do? You're writing because there is an end-goal in mind, something you want to cause or affect, and you're using the power of your voice in a written format to reach that goal. If I'm not intentionally specific, if my client isn't intentionally specific about what they want to create, chances are the writing is not going to carry that impact. Equally important to that is who is going to be reading this writing. Who is your audience? We have to be really specific, I don't just mean 'my customers' - Who are your customers? What group or groups of people are we talking about? the reason this is so important is, we have a message we want to get out, how is that message going to be received? What's going to touch on the information my customer needs? What are the emotions that are important to them, the things they like to hear. Again, if you don't do that you're not going to reach the reader emotionally and you're not going to reach your goal. Kirsten also addresses; Being Specific, Knowing Your Intended Audience, Researching Your Industry, Planning Your Presentation, and of course, Being Clear, Concise and Compelling. Whether you are developing a new website, writing a proposal, creating a new ad or brochure, you'll want to listen this interview...
Related Links: C3 Writing || Clear, Concise, Compelling || Startup Colorado Public Launch || Blog || In the News Channel || Keywords: Kirsten Nelson, C3 Writing, Clear, Concise, Compelling, Blogs, Brochures, Websites, Written Format, Your Intended Audience, Your Industry, Your Presentation - bytes=6123000
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Daniel Feld, Serial 
    Entrepreneur, TechStars Mentor Spending a lot of time here with the tech scene in Colorado
enclosure-voice 1305_ 11/12/12 - Who is Daniel Feld? His background as an entrepreneur, in venture capital, as an investor, a business founder, a business exec - he's worked with all kinds of organizations... we wondered who really knows Daniel Feld? and what is he doing today? Daniel said, "So I have had a variety of roles and responsibilities in my career, varying from consumer products and services to technology products and services - enterprise as well as consumer." He started out in the advertising industry in Dallas and worked with some of the nation's largest consumer packaged goods brands on go-to-market strategies and full service advertising solutions for them. So, TV, radio, print, new product blowout, branding, packaging, anything to do with traditional consumer packaged goods. Sales and distribution, he's had a chance to experience that too. About 15 years ago, he moved to Boulder, Colorado and started a company working with technology startups on channel development services. Helping those companies with go-to-market strategies typically through third parties, as a way to expand their distribution beyond their immediate reach. That lead to working with a venture capital firm, Mobius Venture Capital as they were looking to expand their business incubator [Hot Bank] to Colorado. They had one up and running in California, wanted to expand that to Colorado and Daniel came on as a co-founder to run that operation and create that for the business here. That was in conjunction with Mobius. That lead to working in a deep operating role with one of our portfolio companies, Still Secure. It's a network security company, still operating and based in Superior, Colorado. These are just some of the things Daniel's done. Most recently he's spent some time as a partner in a web design firm, Slice of Lime - an award winning web design firm and a really talented group of people working on the graphic design side of things, a high end web design and web application shop. The other thing Daniel has fun with is mentoring with the TechStar's companies...
RELATED LINKS: Daniel Feld History || Slice of Lime || StillSecure || Foundry Group || PivotDesk || TechStars || Slice of Lime 2011 || KEYWORDS: Daniel Feld, Mobius Venture Capital, StillSecure, Foundry Group, Slice of Lime, PivotDesk, TechStars, Venture Capital, TV, Radio, Print, New Product Blowout, Branding, Packaging, bytes=5709639
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Here, and here, and here is money to grow your business
Dave Milliken, COO, Funding Launchpadenclosure-voice1248_ 7/23/12 - We're going to do some interesting linking with money today. We're talking with Dave Milliken, COO at Funding Launchpad. Dave tells us that Funding Launchpad starts off with the concept of crowd funding. "We're all familiar with today's environment. So, instead of trying to get one or two wealthy individuals to give big chunks of money - you're able to go out to the general public and get smaller amounts of money from a lot more people. That's money to grow your business, but also a loyal ‘fan base’ at the same time. Not too long ago this would have been illegal. Dave tells us that has both changed and is changing. Earlier this year a bill was passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the President, called the Jobs Act. This is one of the bills allowing individuals to do exactly what we're talking about here. Interestingly enough, here in Colorado and actually in several other states, there are state regulations that do allow people to partake in such activities today, state's securities laws. Dave said "There is a process to get going. But once you do, you are allowed to tell anyone and everyone that you are raising money. And, of course, you're allowed to take their money and put it in the bank and start using it to grow your business. This is important to business because it is really tough to get money now. The venture capital industry has been shrinking consistently for the last ten years. But more important than that, only certain types of businesses are even considered for bank loans or for institutional money. You have to be in the right geography in some instances, the right industry, the right stage of development... A lot of times they're looking for teams that have done it before. It is really hard for a lot of companies to get started." There's more details...
Related Links: Funding Launch Pad || StartUpGuru || Venture Capital || Entrepreneurs Channel || Keywords: Dave Milliken, Funding Launchpad, Steve Reaser, Brian Tsuchiya, Startup Guru, Crowd Funding Alliance, Entrepreneurs, CrowdFunding, Vim Funding, Jobs Act, H.R. 3606, Advisor, Colorado, Entrepreneur, bytes=4900052
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Serial entrepreneur and strategic workforce development
Melodie Reagan,Founder/Partner,  i2iWorkforce, Crazy Good Marketing, Boulder/Denver Moxie - Serial Entrepreneurenclosure-voice 1303_ 10/22/12 - We are speaking with a serial entrepreneur... Of course, we've talked with Melodie Reagan before - so we've asked her to give us a rundown of what she's doing now. She tells us, i2iWorkforce is a strategic workforce development firm. We do recruiting, contract staffing, training and coaching. We have over 20 workshops that are soft skills development. But, we are also moving all of our content online. Crazy Good Marketing is a marketing agency with a twist. We use freelance talent throughout the U.S. And, we do everything from deploying individuals, like someone to help with the website, all the way through to doing turnkey marketing themes that are on-demand for our clients. Melodie deals with entrepreneurs all the time. We asked, what are the biggest challenges facing them today? She replied, "I'm going to sum it up in one word, money. Money is the biggest challenge. I know entrepreneurs that are looking for money to fund their businesses and grow it, and it's hard to get. Even for yourself, if you're getting second mortgages, all the way through private equity and venture capital. Everything about money - so business is about money, and getting other businesses to buy their services - and when they do buy it, they're looking to get more for less. So very simply, money." We also discussed with Melodie what were the greatest opportunities today and asked her, "what advice would you give to a wannabe entrepreneur?" Listen for great insights into today's business environment...
RELATED LINKS: i2i Workforce || Crazy Good Marketing || Moxie Exchange Denver/Boulder || CO Companies to Watch || Podcasting Directory || KEYWORDS: Melodie Reagan, Crazy Good Marketing, Moxie Exchange, i2iWorkforce, Entrepreneurs, Strategic Workforce Development, Staffing, Training Coaching, bytes=5101508
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