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Entrepreneurs Unplugged: David Cohen, Techstars

731_ Entrepreneurs Unplugged: With David Cohen, Executive Director of Techstars 
Brad Feld, Managing Director & Co-founder of the Foundry Group, Brad Bernthal, Entrepreneurship Initiative Director at Silicon Flatirons and Jill van Matre got to do something many of us would like to do...ask David Cohen, Executive Director of Techstars how he got to where he is including the 'learning experiences' along the way. Brad really got into some deep and important issues. David Cohen is the founder and Exective Director of TechStars. David has a soft spot for technology startups and enjoys helping innovative early stage technology companies succeed. He also has a passion for Colorado and believes it's a fantastic community for any startup. The TechStars program combines these passions with capital, connections and real-world experience to provide a unique opportunity for early stage startups. David is a founder of several software and web technology companies including Pinpoint Technologies (now ZOLL Data Systems) of Broomfield, Colorado. While at ZOLL Data Systems, David was also the CTO. The company was acquired by ZOLL Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: ZOLL) in 1999. You can read about it in No Vision, All Drive [Amazon]. David was also the founder and CEO of earFeeder.com, which was sold to SonicSwap.com in 2006. David is also an active startup advocate, advisor, board member, and technology advisor who comments on these topics on his blog at ColoradoStartups.com. If you want to learn more about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur listen to this live recording at the Silicon Flatirons Center 'Entrepreneurs Unplugged' event.
Related Links: Entrepreneurs Unplugged || TechStars || Colorado Startups || Foundry Group || Economy Builders || Photos from Entrepreneurs Unplugged 10/19/09 || Keywords: David Cohen, Brad Feld, Entrepreneurs Unplugged, TechStars, Colorado Startups, Foundry Group, Silicon Flatirons, Brad Bernthal, Jill van Matre, Pinpoint Technologies > Channel: Entrepreneurs 24509370 bytes 11/2/09 LISTEN

New technologies are emerging at a faster pace than companies can swallow

720_ New technologies are emerging at a faster pace than companies can swallow 
Despite the new technology flood, companies lack a strategy to on-board these disruptions. As a result, they often react, flounder, or simply ignore them. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, and Lee Kennedy NCWIT board member and founder of Bolder Search along with Larry Nelson interviewed Charlene Li, founder of Altimeter Group and co-author of the business bestseller, "Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies“. She frequently consults and speaks on social and emerging technologies and publishes a blog, The Altimeter. This interview is part of the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Tool Box series was focused on the social media in the future. Charlene had a very straight forward about the topice and defined it as technology allows people to connect with each other. She started getting involved with social technologies in 1996 and has seen it evolve. Besides enabling others to connect it can have differing impacts on relationships ...enriching them as well as exploiting them. Charlene also talked about how leaders win by letting go and ROI. Listen for more...
Related Links: Altimeter Group || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || w3w3® Heroes Channel || Keywords: Charlene Li, Altimeter Group, Lucinda Sanders, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT, Social Media, Lee Kennedy, Larry Nelson, Change - Channel: NCWIT - Bytes: 23798912 - 10/5/09 LISTEN

The history of the Telluride Tech Festival now comes to Boulder

696_ The history of the Telluride Tech Festival now comes to Boulder
The Telluride Tech Festival is '@ Boulder' this year which is a great opportunity to involve some local folks here, and with some of the changes in the economy it's a little more accessible. Larry talked with Sarah McClain, Trent Hein and Ned McClain about the great news for Front Range technology enthusiasts. Larry asked Sarah to give us an idea of what this event was about. "We're talking about the annual Telluride Tech Festival which was an event we founded in Telluride in 2000. It was founded on the idea that Telluride was sort of an incubator of inventions. In 1891 Nicola Tessla, George Westinghouse and L.L. Nunn invented the first commercial grade alternating current power plant in Telluride. That's why we say the beginning of the technological revolution began there. Our event invites technological innovators from around the world to come and present their ideas to us in a small, intimate environment, and it's very interactive. Inside the event and even outside the event we have opportunities to interact with the honorees and sort of foster discussion and ideas." Some of the past honorees are Freeman Dyson, a theoretical physicist; Vinton Cerf, known as the 'Father of the Internet'; Murray Gellman, a Nobel Prize Laureate; and Jill Tarter, she heads up SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence). This year it's in Boulder at the NCAR Mesa Top Lab, a really excellent venue. So, mark your calendars for July 30th, that's a Thursday evening and we're going to gather at 5:30pm. You need to RSVP. We'll see you there...
Related Links: Tech Fest RSVP || Tech Festible History || Applied Trust || Dear Ned || Keywords: Telluride Tech Festival, Boulder, Sarah McClain, Trent Hein, Ned McClain, NCAR, Applied Trust, Dear Ned > Channel: ATE 6225609 bytes 7/20/09 LISTEN

Monday June 22, 2009 - Live at 2:00pm - Colorado Rising IP TV on w3w3.com

677_ It’s IP TV. Listen and watch the four interviews listed below. We archive all interviews for anytime viewing on the Colorado Rising / w3w3 TV Channel. And, BTW, if you have any entrepreneurial interview ideas, contact us.

Monday June 22, 2009 - Live at 2:00pm

This weeks guests are...
2:00 Kathleen Quinn Votaw & David Strong: ACG - M&A
2:15 Aleen Campbell: Saving Lives and Raising Money
2:30 Steve Replin: When the Banks Say No...
2:45 Adam Sachs: TechStars Winner (Via SKYPE)
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Related Links: Broadband Video || Colorado Rising Archives || Economy Builders || Blog ||  Channel:ColoradoRising > Show ARCHIVES

The Colorado Entrepreneurial cluster is not just sitting back

663_ The Colorado Entrepreneurial cluster is not just sitting back
The w3w3® Media Network archives for anytime listening 1000s of interviews of industry leaders, state and local governmental leaders, educational notables as well as other supportive cluster components such as Venture Capital and Angel investors; timely and critical advice from attorneys, financial experts and others that are important to all of us. They range from scientists and engineers, to those who have expert advice (based on years of experience) for startups and growing companies. As many will tell, if you want to know what is going on and what is happening, just check out w3w3.com events photo albums and the Web Community Calendar. A few event examples are the RVC: 21st Annual Colorado Capital Conference; Tie Rockies MentorFest; ACG High-Profile Monthly Luncheon; 9th Annual Apex Awards; BARD Center - 8th Annual Business Plan Competition...and a host of others that are listed and linked on our calendar. A w3w3 Announcement: A new component of our "Live w3w3tv.com Colorado Rising IP TV show" relates to interviewing startups and young Colorado companies about their business. If you are interested, send us an email. On May 11, we're in Atherton, California for the - First Annual NCWIT Symons Innovator Award presented to Anousheh Ansari. Ms. Ansari is Chair, CEO and Co-founder of Prodea Systems.. the first woman private explorer in space, and. w3w3.com will be there checking out the Google Campus. Listen for more...
Related Links: Colorado Rising IP TV || Entrepreneurs || Find It Archives || Photo Albums || Keywords: Colorado Rising IP TV, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurial Cluster, Colorado Capital Conference, ACG, Apex Awards, Anousheh Ansari, NCWIT > Channel:CRising Bytes= 9178491 > 5.11.09 LISTEN

Social Media: You have to accept that we live in public today

658_ Social Media: You have to accept that we live in public today
Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, along with Larry Nelson interviewed Tina Sharkey, Chairman and Global President of BabyCenter for the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Tool Box Series. Prior to joining BabyCenter, Tina was co-founder and chief community architect of iVillage.com. BabyCenter is the Web’s #1 global interactive parenting brand, reaching 78% of new and expecting moms online in the United States, and reaching 15 million parents monthly across 18 markets worldwide. When Tina was asked about the social media she replied, "I can tell you that social media is not an empire unto itself. Social media is really a facilitating and enabling platform about the tools, the services and applications that allow people to connect, communicate and share with each other. Social media is really a collection of things that enable conversations and sharing, that enable discovery. It's the media that's created by people and you have to figure out who are the people you trust and who is in your circle of friends, whose opinion do you trust?" She goes onto share some practical online insights...listen now...
Related Links: NCWIT Home || BabyCenter Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || PodCast Directory || Keywords: Tina Sharkey, BabyCenter, Lucy Sanders, Blogs, Entrepreneurs, National Center for Women & Information, Social Media, Expecting Moms, Entrepreneurial Tool Box; Channel:NCWIT Bytes= 29381070 > 5.4.09 LISTEN

This is NCWIT week at the w3w3.com! April 27, 2009...

This is NCWIT week at the w3w3.com! April 27, 2009...
The National Center for Women and Information Technology, located right here in Boulder, Colorado, and Lucy Sanders, CEO and Co-founder will be celebrating their 5th anniversary. On May 11, 2009 they will hold the NCWIT Symons Award (In Memory of Jeannette Symons) honoring Anousheh Ansari. Background here
Next is the NCWIT "Global Status of Women in Technology" event which will be held May 12-14 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Details here

Reaching more than 14 million women each month with blogs and more

655_ Reaching more than 14 million women each month with blogs and more
Lucy Sanders, CEO and Co-Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, along with Larry Nelson interviewed Elisa Camahort Page the co-founder and COO of BlogHer for the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Hero Series. BlogHer is the leading community and media network for women who blog. BlogHer reaches more than 14 million women each month via annual conferences, a Web hub, and a publishing network. She is a blogging pioneer and marketing executive with 18 years of experience in Silicon Valley. Elisa was at the vanguard of professional and business blogging. Among the seven blogs she writes are blogs with personal, professional and political focus areas. Elisa opened her own high-tech marketing consultancy, Worker Bees, after a successful career as a marketing executive in the cable broadband sector. Founded in February 2005 as a labor of love by three bloggers, BlogHer's mission is to create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community and economic empowerment...listen for more entrepreneurial ideas...
Related Links: BlogHer Home || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || > Channel:NCWIT Bytes= 28647552 > 4.27.09 LISTEN

“We're on the verge of entering the Exponential Economy"

640_ “We're on the verge of entering the Exponential Economy"
Jack Uldrich's understanding of nanotechnology has brought him into emerging technologies and in a sense what he is a "Business Technology Forecaster". Jack says, "I don't predict the future but explain a range of possibilities and highlight the broad trends that are pulsating through society and definitely going to impact business." Larry Nelson, w3w3® interviewed the ACG Denver Corporate Growth Conference Keynote Speaker earlier this month. He asked Jack about the economy and how he saw the technological forces changing or impacting the future. The long term economy... Jack is really optimistic, he believes we are entering the 'exponential economy'. He goes on to talk about the nine technological forces growing exponentially (doubling every 6 to 24 months), "These forces are going to break thru, they're going to transform business and they're going to create new business. No doubt we are in a crisis right now and it is easy to focus on the danger, but if we focus on these forces you will see the opportunity and that's what good executives need to do". In the Near Term material sciences... nanotechnology is creating immense opportunities in the manufacturing sector; Mid Term, Jack is really bullish on the energy sector, solar, wind, cellulosic ethanol. and the big trend is in healthcare. "The future is going to be diagnosing disease and preventing them before they take root. There are lots of exciting things coming down the pike". Uldrich, a former naval intelligence officer and Defence Department official, he also served as the Director of the Minnesota Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning.
Related Links: ACG Denver || M&A Channel || Jump the Curve || YouTube || Channel:ACG Bytes= 8300985 > 3.30.09 LISTEN

Twitter and the growing of business users and 'older folks'

618_ Twitter and the growing of business users and 'older folks'
Social networking has gone mainstream. Larry sat down with Tom and Deb Frey of DaVinci Institute to discuss this phenomena. Tom is a well-known futurist and Deb is a 'Renaissance Women' and vice president of DaVinci. Deb is really into Twitter and one of the leading instructors on Twitter. It started with Tom following all the people talking about the iPhone, and he said I should follow this to get a feel for how it worked. Some of it was really funny, and I could watch all the dialog that was going on around the iPhone. After that, I just got hooked. I realized it was a great way to find out what was going on in the world in real time as opposed to waiting for the evening news or whatever. It was quite fascinating to watch the whole event unfold. Ever since then, like the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, since we were in Mumbai last year and we were supposed to stay in that hotel, that had a special draw to us. You only get 140 characters or less on Twitter. It is a cleaner form of communication. So it’s short bursts of information." Deb went on, "The younger people seem to enjoy MySpace more. I don’t use FaceBook as a business tool, but more for family relations. The nice thing about Twitter is it does update into FaceBook so I don’t have to type twice. Linked in tends to be more of a passive type of operation where nothing happens unless you initiate it." There's more...
Related Links: Twitter Boot Camp || DaVinci Institute || Night with a Futurist || - Channel:News Bytes=12146210 - 2/9/09 LISTEN