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Assistant Treasurer to Chairman & CEO

 739_ Assistant to the Treasurer becomes the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 
Recently David Hoover was the keynote speaker at an ACG Denver luncheon. Dave is Chairman and CEO of the Ball Corporation. Larry asked, "When you started with Ball in 1970, did you have any information or feeling that you would become the CEO and Chairman?" Dave's reply, "No, not really. When I started with the company I was young, fresh out of business school, ambitious, but it wasn't in my mind. When I started, the company was still privately owned, it went public in 1972, so it's hard to believe it's been almost 40 years, but it’s been a great ride and I've been very fortunate to do the things that I have with Ball." Larry pointed out that many people in the geographic area think of it as Ball Aerospace, and we know that is only part of the business today? "Actually it's about 10% of our business today, and you're right a lot of the people in Colorado know us best for Aerospace. It is our oldest business; it's been around over 50 years and the next oldest business, we acquired and got started over in Golden in the beverage can business in 1969. But aerospace is still a favorite of mine. It's actually grown well over the last decade or so, sales last year were close to $800 million. But the company is close to $8 Billion now, so we've grown the rest of the company faster, primarily through acquisition but also organically." Larry asked, "What advice would you give to businesses that are addressing the changes they are today?" Dave shared some great advice, "I think the first thing you have to do is have a real good grasp on who you are, what you're good at, what your capabilities may be, and then take a look at the environment you operate in. You know, in our case now, it's a global market. Make sure you've got the people, the capabilities and the resources to go after what it is you think you want to."...listen for more...
Related Links: Ball Corporation || ACG Denver Website || M & A Channel || Event Photos || Keywords: David Hoover, Ball Corp, Ball Aerospace, Beverage Cans, ACG Denver, Acquisition, Change, Global Market > Channel: ACG 5408684 bytes 11/16/09 LISTEN

Entrepreneurs Unplugged - Nir Barkat, Mayor Jerusalem

In track 2 of 2 we have the highly acclaimed, familiar, information packed  'Entrepreneurs Unplugged' moderated discussion led by Brad Bernthal, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, CU Law School, and Entrepreneurship Initiative Director, Silicon Flatirons Center along with Robert Reich, Founder of OneRiot; Host and Moderator, New Tech Meetup, with guest of honor, Nir Barkat, 9th Mayor of Jerusalem and successful global entrepreneur. This was an engaging discussion loaded with a great deal of information for entrepreneurs as well as everyone in Colorado. Track 2 of 2: Bernthal; Reich; Barkat

Channel: Entrepreneurs - 31749416 bytes 11/9/09
Related Links: Entrepreneurs Unplugged || Gov. Bill Ritter || Jerusalem Website || BD New Tech Meetup || Economy Builders || Event Photos ||

Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem with CO Gov. Ritter

736_ Entrepreneurs Unplugged with Governor Ritter and Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem (Track 1 of 2) 
Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., the Colorado BioScience Association, CSIA, Colorado's Technology Association; the Mizel Family Foundations, and the Silicon Flatirons Center worked together to bring this special edition of Entrepreneur's Unplugged featuring Governor Bill Ritter and Jerusalem's Mayor Nir Barkat. (Track 1 of 2) This interesting program started out with an introduction of Governor Bill Ritter, Jr. by Larry A. Mizel, Chairman & CEO, M.D.C.Holding. The Governor shared the five pillars that are the foundation of progress in Colorado. Even in these challenging times they have served Coloradoans well. The he introduced Nir Barkat, the 9th Mayor of Jerusalem. Mayor Barkat's early success as Mayor, significantly, is rooted in the business methods and entrepreneurial approach which he brings to City Hall. Mayor Barkat's roots are firmly in entrepreneurship. In 1988, Mayor Barkat co-founded BRM Technologies, a pioneering software house and later venture cap9ital firm that developed and marketed ground-breaking anti-virus software now standard on personal computers throughout the world. His leadership and business acumen brought him to the position of global chairman of one of BRMs largest venture projects. Mayor Barkat's early success as Mayor, significantly, is rooted in the business methods and entrepreneurial approach which he brings to City Hall. Mayor Barkat's roots are firmly in entrepreneurship. In 1988, Mayor Barkat co-founded BRM Technologies, a pioneering software house and later venture capital firm that developed and marketed ground-breaking anti-virus software now standard on personal computers throughout the world. His leadership and business acumen brought him to the position of global chairman of one of BRMs largest venture projects.
Related Links: Entrepreneurs Unplugged || Gov. Bill Ritter || Jerusalem Website || BD New Tech Meetup || Economy Builders || Event Photos || Keywords: Gov. Bill Ritter,Jr.; Mayor Nir Barkat, Jerusalem, Silicon Flatirons, Brad Bernthal, Robert Reich, Entrepreneurs, >
Channel: Entrepreneurs - 20943044 bytes 11/9/09 Track 1: LISTEN

CO Rotary Club, Gates Foundation - End Polio Now

727_ Colorado Rotary Club Challenge with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - End Polio Now
"Polio is a devastating disease, and we have Polio on the ropes! We have a 99% reduction worldwide and we just have to make this final push to get rid of the last cases as a gift of our generations to all future generations, so no child has to be paralyzed, crippled for life from this terrible disease," pointed out Walter A. Orenstein, MD, is a Deputy Director for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Integrated Health Solutions Development of the Global Health Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been the leading foundation in the world addressing many of the most serious and deadly diseases in the world. Dr. Orenstein came to participate in our 'Colorado End Polio Now' campaign sponsored by the Rotary Clubs in Colorado. Steve Werner an active member of Colorado Rotary (Rotary Denver Southeast) added to the conversation. "This has been a 20 year long project of the Rotary International and all Rotary Clubs around the world including Colorado, have bought into this vision of a Polio Free World. So every Rotary Club in the world is participating in fundraising and awareness building activities and we are so fortunate to have a partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation because they have offered a $250 million Challenge grant if Rotarians worldwide would raise $100 million. We have exceeded our goal in Colorado and are on track worldwide to achieve this goal. With this final large amount of money, thanks to the generosity of the foundation, we are hoping we can reach our ultimate goal of eradicating polio." Walt added, "Polio eradication is very important to the Gates Foundation. The Gates Foundation has given more $680 million to polio eradication in the last ten years..." Larry Nelson is a polio survivor. He experienced what a terrible disease it is, and remembers... Listen for how you can be involved...
Related Links: Global Polio Eradication Initiative || End Polio Now (UN Foundation) || Gates Foundation || Rotary Club of Denver Southeast || Rotary International || Keywords: Polio, Walter A. Orenstein, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary Club, Global Health Program, Steve Werner, Vaccine-Preventable Diseases > 7085560 bytes - 10/26/09 LISTEN

Top 10 Resources for Your Business

718_ w3w3® has dubbed this Business Resource Week

• Business Associations - 28 Front Range associations from Aerospace to Venture Capital - BioScience to Tech Transfer. New in town? Great place to get started with networking!
• Business Blog - w3w3® offers the capability to submit your comments on current stories - subscribe to our RSS Feed
• Business Event Photo Albums - Great photos to view and to print (Our sponsors LifePics and Mike's Camera do a fabulous job). Great way to open an introduction to a new business contact, with a photo of them from w3w3.com
• Find It Archives - Find stories filed by date going back to 2004!
• Internet Resource Links - w3w3® has been around for 10 years, you'll find resources you forgot about, send us links you'd like added to the list and don't forget to alert us to broken links. This is a great personal resource with all the links sorted by subject!
• Leader Profiles - Some of the greatest business leaders are right here in your own backyard, learn about them and who they are!
• Mastering Change Blog - Great New Book! Pick up some advice for dealing with the 'groundswells of change' hammering on every aspect of your business every day.
• Old Archives - The best historical document of the IT industry, chronicling Colorado's path through the "bubble" to the top!
• Podcast Directory - Since we've been podcasting, over 700 interviews, are preserved in their entirety, chronologically. Easy link and scroll thru - three and one-half years!
• Web Community Events Calendar- Used as a planning calendar for individuals and organizations, with links to event details and registrations. The w3w3® Web Community Calendar is a collaborative work and w3w3® invites local organizations in the technology and business sector to submit their events to w3w3.com Web Community Events Calendar. We run the calendar a year in advance - imagine how much this could help to avoid having multiple events occurring at the same time! Claim your event dates early, then there's a chance others can plan around it, and vice versa.

Summer Event Photos: It was Party Time; Learning and Award Time

Were you gone for the summer or did you do a 'staycation'. Do you know what went on here in the Colorado Technology Community? Well, check it out, if you missed it, here's your chance to catch up! If you were there in the middle of the action, there are photos you will want to see! Check it out! Event Photos - Summer 2009

Changing times creates challenges, choices and competitive advantages

717_ "If there is one lesson that history has taught us, it's that even in the midst of what would seem like the greatest point of confusion - that is perhaps when some of the greatest competitive advantages are created." David B. Strong, Partner, Holme Roberts & Owen Denver. Dave is also the immediate past president of the Association for Corporate Growth Denver. "It's been a wonderful past year and my involvement in ACG Denver has just been a wonderful experience." Larry asked Dave about the new and evolving tax changes business is facing. "For those folks who don't deal in the technical workings of tax every day, I think we're in an interesting time because tax during difficult economic times tends to take the stage in way where it's a tool to help create and spur economic development, that's kind of the bottom-line. So we've heard a lot of noise around that, particularly in the beginning of the year when the new tax proposals came out and the Obama Administration put things into place. The question I get a lot is, As a business owner what do I need to know? What's going on in 'tax land' that I need to be aware of? The most basic way to put it, in addition to all the economic incentives that were created by the relief program, aside from tax, you know direct economic expenditures." He talked more about business taxes and incentives and went onto discuss private equity. "I get a lot of Private Equity questions around the so called 'Carried Interest Legislation' which started in middle to late 2008 and really got legs leading up to and through the election. These rules would change the way in which a lot of partnerships are taxed. And the perceived 'evil' is the way in which hedge funds. Listen for more...
Related Links: Holme Roberts & Owen || It's the Law || HRO Taxes || ACG Denver Home || ACG Channel || Keywords: David Strong, Holme Roberts & Owen, Association for Corporate Growth Denver, Tax, Competitive Advantage, Private Equity, Obama, Carried Interest Legislation, Change,  11686873 bytes 9/14/09 LISTEN

Eight Key Trends Affecting Our Future: An Inside Conversation

“The economy’s greatest hope may be in its aspiring entrepreneurs. Traditionally it could be predicted that for every 100 people who join the ranks of the jobless, seven will attempt to start a business. Some find business niches, others invent and still others find a better way to do something markets are craving. Ingenuity and daring often are the catalyst for setting business and commerce in motion. Though nothing overcomes inertia like the lure of cash." Larry Talked with Thomas Frey about a favorite topic, entrepreneurs. Tom is Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, and Google's top rated futurist speaker. He went on to reference an article integrating some interesting and valuable information. "The slow trickle of business starts is about to swell into a tsunami. Legions of former auto workers, mortgage processors, school teachers and others will be forced to do something unusual and that’s hire themselves. Overnight, an undetermined number, but assuredly greater than 7 percent, are about to become entrepreneurs and perhaps herald a new era of great wealth building. The problem: This is a nation ill-prepared to serve these burgeoning numbers. He details 8 trends in his Future Trends Report. Tom also offers some great advice on page 184 in Larry’s book, Mastering Change in the Midst of Chaos. Listen for more...
Related Links: Coming Wave of Entrepreneurship || DaVinci Institute || Inventor Boot Camp || Entrepreneur Channel || Mastering Change || Mastering Change Blog || >> Bytes= 5880270 > 8.31.09 LISTEN

Repairing the HealthCare System - Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE

Because the pending bill on our ‘HealthCare System’ will have such a huge impact on all sizes of companies and to all of us personally, we decided to give you a link to the person we know and respect in the area of health care research, Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE. Congress did not have time to study the proposals, we didn't either! Congress is in recess now; the voting will come up again this fall. As you all know, there has been a great deal of discussion on this topic. Not all of it, but most of the rhetoric was based on what side of the isle they came from. This is too important of an issue to make decisions based on partisanship. Here’s the information you need to begin developing an informed opinion. There are hundreds of links you can find online. We invite you to post your thoughts on Dr. Feld’s blog as well as w3w3.com blog.
NEWS FLASH:  WASHINGTON, July 31, 2009 - Health Care Bill Passes Key Committee - Democrats Pushed Legislation Through House Energy and Commerce Committee, Clearing Way for September Showdown... Pay attention, this is about your medical care!
Related Links: Repairing HealthCare || Dr. Stanley Feld Blog || You Tube - Atlas Shrugged || Brad Feld Blog || Mastering Change || Keywords: HealthCare System, Stanley Feld, Congress, Atlas Shrugged, Blog > Channel: News 8/3/09 Follow the Links - Read More...

Ground Swell of Change

698_ Ground Swell of Change - Technology and Communication 
We would really appreciate your input; comments, suggestions, additions. We are in the process of building a platform that allows everyone to interact and be an integral part of the ‘changes’ that are important to us personally and professionally. When leading workshops and seminars, there’s plenty of two-way interaction and this is how we can do it virtually.
Related Links: Mastering Change Book || Mastering Change Blog || Order Book || About Us || Keywords: Ground Swell of Change, Technology, Communication, Mastering Change in the Midst of Chaos, Larry Nelson, Social Networks - 7/27/09