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Unique Perspective on Current Events with ColoradoBiz editor Mike Cote

Boulder is turning on a dime (or for a few million) and is offering reduced fees and tax credits to BIG companies. New tricks being used by online offshore scam artists…and spam filters won’t help. The popular traditional media is getting hammered in many ways (ask Bill O’Reilly) …here’s another blown out of proportion no-no. This 3-minute video by ColoradoBiz editor Mike Cote delivers an informative punch. Related Links: Complete Story || Colorado BIZ Today || PodCast Directory || Channel: Colorado Business Magazine, > VIDEO: See More

Integration of Technology Impacting TV User Experience

What would you like to ask a top-level executive in a large and growing company? Sue Wyman, Chairman of the Communication Technologies Professionals (CTP) and Larry Nelson, President of w3w3.com, went to John Suranyi's office to ask some very pointed questions about his development and where he is heading. John is the President of Sales and Services for Direct TV. Sue asked John to rewind a little and talk about the past and what he went through in his development, the challenges he faced, the turning point in his career as well as a number of other topic areas. Related Links: CTP Channel || Communication Technology Professionals Home || Jivaro Group || Find It || Bytes: 5910259 LISTEN

Revolutionizing IT as We Know It

It sounds technical, but what isn’t today? Here’s a technical best-seller, written by 3 key experts:
Evi Nemeth; Garth Snyder; Trent Hein along with 10 key contributors…all experts. This 1000-page book, "LINUX Administration Handbook" (Second Edition), has a cartoon on the cover (and drawings throughout), easy to understand with readable information and a special section for non IT managers so they understand what is going on and how to be an effective manager in this arena. IT loves this second edition because of the critical contents that are easy to reference and are now getting support from management rather than pushback. It started in 1988. Setting the standard of excellence, translated into 20 languages, and is revolutionizing IT as we know it. Related Links: Applied Trust || Book Press Release || Amazon || Channels: Software > Bytes: 6199696 LISTEN

The Trend is Changing for Start-up Entrepreneurs

Statistics show that better than 50% of new entrepreneurs are female. Many business people are surprised to hear that there is a growing number (contrary to popular belief) of women getting into and making a very productive and rewarding career in Information Technology (IT). As a result, many women of varying ages and interests are taking the entrepreneurial plunge. In walks Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), headquartered at CU Boulder. Lucy is a Bell Fellow and points out (proves) there are many female entrepreneur success stories or as she and her team states it, they are “NCWIT Heroes”. If you have any interest in  this burgeoning growth phase of Women in IT, check out the first in this series of amazing true-life stories.

Related Links: NCWIT Heroes || Nat. Acadamies Report || NCWIT Blog || CO Coalition for Gender and IT || NCWIT Practice || > Channels: NCWIT Bytes: 6525913 LISTEN

On Management: Playing the Name Game

Before I started Wiesner Publishing some 26 years ago, I had been through a rough period for a couple of years. I had helped to build another publishing company and had gotten pushed out. It all ended one night at dinner in Colorado Springs. We had a stand-up shouting match that ended with him saying," You can’t quit. You’re fired!" or I said, "You can’t fire me. I quit!" I don’t know which. Read the entire column at ColoradoBiz. Also ask Pat Wiesner your own questions on his blog, "Wiesner's World." Related Links: Complete Story || Colorado BIZ Today || w3w3.com Blog || PodCast Directory ||   Read More

‘Clean Tech Community’ on the Good Side and the Bad

It’s interesting to see what’s going on in the ‘clean tech community’ on the good side and the bad. There has been a bit of a bubble in the area. A lot of us in the community and the popular press have gotten a little over excited about the pace of technological innovation. The venture community in the US hasn’t jumped heavily into ‘wind power’ and that ironically has one of the best economics in terms of its efficiency and cost per watts produced. There has been huge public market investment and private equity investment in that area. Bill Reichert, Managing Partner at Garage Technology Ventures shares his insights. Related Links: Garage Technology Ventures || Colorado Capital Conference || Event Photos || Venture Capital Channel || Listen to Part 1 of this Interview.
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From Mir Space Station to Curiosity to Talking Plants

Colorado farm owners will soon have the capability of watering plants only where and how much is needed. Richard Stoner, CEO of AgriHouse, Inc. discusses the novel leaf sensory technology optioned from the CU TTO in February. The company recently won a $150,000 STTR grant to develop the project, which will enable feedback and intelligent watering of crops. AgriHouse and water officials think this technology could provide million of dollars in water cost savings to Colorado farmers. The project also received a $10,000 proof-of-concept grant from the CU TTO in 2006. Related Links: AgriHouse || Aeroponics || Mir News || NSF Leaf Sensor || CU Tech Tranfer Channel ||   Bytes: 7150971 LISTEN

Open Source, a pathway to innovation and much, much more

Imagine you buy a software company. The transaction is completed. There’s a knock on your door. A stranger is here to confirm that you are not in breach of his ‘open source software license’. You call your attorney for help. That’s where Jason Haislmaier, HRO, enters the scene. He is recognized by many as the “Open Source Legal Guru” in Colorado. When we asked how he got into this field? his reply was direct and to the point. "Simply put, I was driven by client need."

Having earned an engineering degree prior to law school, Jason has a natural affitinity and appreciation for the technical issues he handles today. "As a software vendor, it's not uncommon to have your software product comprised of software that you've developed in-house, that you would consider proprietary, perhaps third party software that you've licensed in, and from open source software, and it's all working together. It is that comingling or interaction of the softwares that, from a legal standpoint, creates some of the stickier areas under the open source license. Even if you're not a vendor, if you're a data center, it's the same thing.

"Open source software, at its core, is licensed. Licenses can be breached and that can create liability; and in come the lawyers. And that’s where a lot of the legal aspects of open source come about. It’s very difficult to talk about open source software without talking about the legal aspects of open source software.

Related Links: Holme Roberts & Owen || GPLv3 || It's the Law Interviews || Find It || Channels: Software Bytes: 7984172 LISTEN

There's a Reward and Price to Pay for Risk

Yegor Drozdov possessed an appetite for risk that was evident in his gutsy launch of an Audi-Volkswagen dealership in the Boston area while he was still in his 20s. Born in Russia, Drozdov had moved to the United States when he was 13, and to hear friends tell it, he sought out all the experiences and adventures he could. But that thirst for thrill also caused Drozdov’s Longmont business partner, Chad Clark, concern — not only for his friend’s well-being, but for the health of the car dealership they were gearing up to open in Longmont.. Related Links: >  Read More Complete Story || Colorado BIZ Today || Find It || PodCast Directory || Channel: COBIZ

Millions of Dollars for the Colorado Collaboratory

When we started people thought it was impossible pointed out Carl Koval, Director of the Energy Initiative, CU Boulder Campus. It began with a desire to have a more formal tie to NREL and the other research institutions in the state: CU , CSU and CO School of Mines. Kate Tallman, Director, CUTTO, Boulder and Colorado Springs Campus and Carl were happy to say that there are now 3 different projects, in 3 different areas, that are moving along. One is CRISP, the Center for Revolutionary Solar Photo Chemistry and that’s a proposal we submitted for a total of $22 million over 3 years. The second S-TA C was initiated by XCEL Energy. They’re very interested in creating a site, where as new solar photovoltaic technologies come on the marketplace, they can be displayed and tested. This might be located near NREL and students and faculty at the universities would be involved in testing and various things. The Third and furthest along, in terms of the agreements that they talked about, is C2B2, or the Colorado Center for Bio Refining and Bio Fuels. Carl says, Kate ( CUTTO) will be modest about this, our ability to take 3 different research institutions together with NREL is unique in the country. Related Links: CUTTO Channel || CU Energy Initiative || C2B2 || Collaboratory || Bytes: 3619216 || Bytes: 5813501 LISTEN