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VCs see new trends for investing moving fast

Democratization of investing, a powerful trend
1639_ 12/1/14 - We caught up with Seth Levine, VC and Managing Director of the Foundry Group, at DefragCon 2014, and has he got interesting news.... from investing syndicates and angels to real better privacy. Say Ello! and check out the 'Manifesto'. The Defrag conference, Seth says, "Fantastic, thought provoking. This morning, we heard from the most prolific female patent holder at IBM, to George Dyson with the history of technology, fascinating." Larry asked with all the people and companies Seth was involved in, could he tell us about his hot topics. First Seth said, "The experimentation we're doing on Angel lists and the proliferation of angel investing in general as a category, and open to far more people with some of the new crowd funding that are changing the way investing happens at a seed and angel level. And that's been interesting, we've closed 35 investments through our angel syndicate. It's been really interesting to watch how that market has...listen for much more...
RELATED LINKS: Foundry Group || Ello in Beta || Defrag 2014 || Podcast Directory || Software Chnl || KEYWORDS: Seth Levine, DefragCon 2014, Foundry Group, Ello Manifesto, Democratization of Investing, Angel Syndicate, Social NEtwork, bytes=7037495
LISTEN TO: Seth Levine, Managing Director, Foundry Group

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Celebrity status in the realm of...

What do Leonard Nimoy, Krista Marks, Vinton Cerf, have in common
1600_ 8/11/14 - [archives/2010-09-27] ...Celebrity status in the realm of science and technology; business, commerce and community, creators, educators, visionaries, philanthropists, leaders, adventurous, courageous people! You will find them and many more stand-out-leaders from actor, astronaut, genius to outspoken critic. Visit the w3w3 Podcast Directory for a comprehensive collection of our most important business leaders over the past eleven years. You won't find all these celebrity interviews any place else. Ask Google: Mike Fries, Lucy Sanders, Ted Turner, Dan Caruso, Larissa Herda, Steve Bigari, Jim Crowe, Denise Brown, Ping Fu, Mark Endry, Kathleen Quinn Votaw, Heidi Roizen, Seth Levine, Jon Nordmark, Nancy Phillips, Stephanie Smeltzer McCoy, Donna Auguste, Sam Addoms, Helen Greiner, Roy Dimoff, Greg Maffei, Vinton Cerf, Guy Kawasaki, Jay Walker, Sam Pitroda, Rick Patch, Terry Gold, Michael Powell, Richard Truly, J.B. Holston, Holli Baumunk and 1000s of more interviews can be heard 24/7 at w3w3.com. We have been doing this since January 1999. Check it out...our Podcast Directory makes it easy...
RELATED LINKS: About w3w3.com || w3w3.com Sponsors || w3w3.com Blog || Podcast Directory || KEYWORDS: w3w3® Talk Radio, Leonard Nimoy, Krista Marks, Vinton Cerf, Mike Fries, Lucy Sanders, Ted Turner, Dan Caruso, Larissa Herda, Steve Bigari, Jim Crowe, Denise Brown, Ping Fu, Mark Endry, Kathleen Quinn Votaw, Heidi Roizen, Seth Levine, Jon Nordmark, Nancy Phillips, Stephanie Smeltzer McCoy, Donna Auguste, Sam Addoms, Helen Greiner, Roy Dimoff, Greg Maffei, Vinton Cerf, Guy Kawasaki, Jay Walker, Sam Pitroda, Rick Patch, Terry Gold, Michael Powell, Richard Truly, J.B. Holston, Holli Baumunk

Taking Failing Company to Leadership Position

Software operations, strategy, and capital fundraising
1580_ 7/7/14 -   Talking about security... We are at the Mountain Desert Region EY Entrepreneur of the Year Finalists Reception at the Governor's Mansion here in Denver, Colorado, speaking with Kevin Hickey, President and CEO of BeyondTrust. Kevin brings a strong history of software operations, strategy, capital fundraising, and mergers and acquisitions to BeyondTrust, where he is responsible for the company’s day to day operations. Kevin joined BeyondTrust by way of the company’s acquisition of eEye Digital Security, where he served as CEO and Chairman. Under Kevin’s leadership, eEye experienced significant growth, launched several 'market-first' security solutions and brought the company back to category leadership. Larry asked what advice Kevin would give to an entrepreneur. Kevin said, "One is that it is all about people. Find good people, nurture them and make sure they feel part of the fabric of the organization. Two is extreme clarity. To me, anything you have in your company, if you make it extremely clear as to what the expectations are, it really helps because everyone understands, and then let people run. One of the things I've heard over again in my career is, 'it's not what you preach, it's what you tolerate'. So those are some of the things I've picked up and would like to share with folks. It's all about people." Listen for more...
RELATED LINKS: BeyondTrust || EY Entrepreneur of the Year Program || EY 2014 Finalists || Blog || In the News || KEYWORDS: Kevin Hickey, BeyondTrust, Software Operations, Strategy, Capital Fundraising, Mergers Acquisitions, Ernst & Young Denver, Governor's Mansion, Entrepreneur of the Year, Finalists Reception, bytes=3001263
LISTEN TO: Kevin Hickey, President/CEO, BeyondTrust

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Mountain Desert Region for Entrepreneurs...

Strategy is for amateurs, execution is for professionals
1569_ 6/23/14 - We are at the Mountain Desert Region EY Entrepreneur of the Year Finalists Reception at the Governor's Mansion here in Denver, Colorado, speaking with Dan Burns, CEO, Accuvant, an EY Finalist. Accuvant is a cyber security company otherwise known as information security company and security today affects everyone, not only companies and organizations, but people. So the awareness and seriousness of security is just absolutely huge these days. Our goal is to help enterprises protect their data, their information, your information from leaking out to the bad guys. We're a fairly large organization at this point, $700M in revenue, 37 offices across the U.S. and Canada and we're looking to grow this company to $2-3 Billion in the next three to five years. Advice for entrepreneurs: Dan always tells his leaders, "If your best interest is aligned with the success of the people around you, you're automatically going to be successful. So I focus on the success of the people around me and don't worry so much about my own personal success." Dan added, as an entrepreneur you would be best served by focusing 10% of your time on strategy and 90% of your time on execution."...Listen for more…
RELATED LINKS: ACCUVANT || EY Entrepreneur of the Year Program || EY 2014 Finalists || Economy Builders || Blog || KEYWORDS: Dan Burns, Accuvant, EY Entrepreneur of the Year Program, EY Mountain Desert Program, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Cyber Security, Information Security, bytes=3333959
LISTEN TO: Dan Burns, CEO, Accuvant - EY Finalist

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Management and Analytics Service helps customers achieve...

Uncover cyber-attacks, detect and prevent breaches
1557_ 6/2/14 - We are speaking with Stefan Zier, Chief Architect at Sumo Logic at the Glue Conference. Stefan began by telling us a bit about his company, "Sumo Logic...provides a log management analytic service in the cloud and people use this product for three different use cases, generally." Sumo Logic immediately transforms Big Data logs into new sources of operations, security and compliance intelligence. Starting with log data, the single-largest enterprise data set, Sumo Logic Log Management and Analytics Service helps customers achieve unprecedented operational efficiencies, a stronger security posture and more streamlined compliance with regulatory mandates by providing real-time actionable insights from raw machine data. Sumo Logic enables IT operations teams to perform rapid root cause analysis of critical IT infrastructure; Dev Ops teams to quickly analyze and troubleshoot production application issues; and IT Security teams to uncover security incidents buried in terabytes of log data. Founded in 2010 by experts in log management, scalable systems, Big Data and security, Sumo Logic is backed by Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, and Sutter Hill Ventures and headquartered in Redwood City, California. In February, Sumo Logic launched enterprise security analytics to detect and investigate cyber attacks Sumo Logic, the next generation machine data intelligence company, today announced Sumo Logic Enterprise Security Analytics to rapidly uncover cyber-attacks, detect and prevent breaches and reduce the costs of maintaining compliance. You can register to try Sumo Logic's revolutionary log management service for free, Click here to register to try Sumo Logic’s revolutionary log management service for free.
RELATED LINKS: Sumo Logic || Register for free || GlueCon 2014 || Mastering Change || Software Channel || KEYWORDS: Stefan Zier, Sumo Logic, Glue Conference, Machine Data Intelligence, Big Data Logs, Security, Compliance Intelligence, Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Redwood City, California, bytes=4408114
LISTEN TO: Stefan Zier, Chief Architect,Sumo logic

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Open Cloud Code

Flexible hybrid cloud platformE
1560_ 6/2/14 - Here at the Glue Conference 2014, we're talking with Kyle Kelley, with Rackspace a Flexible hybrid cloud platform. Kyle explained. You need choice, especially when it comes to where you run your databases, applications, and websites. That's why we provide tools for creating the right fit for your specific needs—whether hosted in your data center or ours, whether multi-tenant or dedicated, whether virtual or bare metal. By combining environments, you can run each workload where you get the most value, performance, and reliability. Other cloud vendors focus on developing proprietary technologies that lock in your data and apps. That's why we really shook up the industry when we gave our cloud code to the world. OpenStack® is now the fastest-growing cloud platform on earth, with over 12,000 contributors in 130 countries. Our cloud is powered by OpenStack and optimized for open technologies, so you can stay in control of your data—and innovate and scale faster than you can in a proprietary cloud. From the unmatched expertise that gets you going to the technology that advances your business daily, we deliver it like no one else. Whether you need help architecting, managing, or troubleshooting your environment, call us. Our teams of professionals—including Database Administrators, Red Hat® Certified Engineers, and Microsoft® Certified Professionals—want to put their expertise to work for you, to help accelerate your success.
RELATED LINKS: Rackspace || GlueCon 2014 || Podcast Directory || Economy Builders || KEYWORDS: Kyle Kelley, Rackspace, Glue Conference, Cloud Infrastructure, Open technologies, Data Centers, Cloud Vendors, OpenStack, Certified Engineers, Certified Professionals, bytes=3079003
LISTEN TO: Kyle Kelley, Rackspace

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Security in virtual cloud infrastructure...

Everyone needs user management, login, secure API, secure passwords
1556_ 5/27/14 - After the morning keynote address at the Glue Conference, we sat down with one of the featured speakers, Les Hazlewood, co-founder /CTO of Stormpath. Impressed by his talk, Larry asked Les to give our audience an overview of his company. "Stormpath is an identity management service. We offload management user integration as a backend for people building applications." Stormpath works with all sizes of companies from startups to very large companies. Everyone needs user management, login, secure API, secure passwords and Stormpath does that for anyone that has a public website. Les told us that he and his co-founder spent at least six months in market research before they actually started building the technology. Their thesis being that security is difficult and as more and more companies go to the modern cloud, security breaks more and more often. Larry said, "While security is such a continuous and growing problem are there other challenges facing business today?" The modern cloud movement is difficult for a lot of companies to adopt and understand, 'How do I make the change from my on-premise physical infrastructure to a kind of virtual cloud infrastructure'. That's difficult for a large company to wrap their heads around. Also it's incredibly difficult to staff high tech companies, to find people with enough skill sets, training and experience to join and be successful. In the tech space, keeping abreast of new technologies is always difficult. There are always new things, new innovations. You have to spend a descent amount of time on a regular basis investigating new technologies to see where they fit and how they could benefit you. The companies that can be more nimble - adopting things faster typically can outlast the companies that can't.
RELATED LINKS: Stormpath || GlueCon 2014 || Podcast Directory || Entrepreneurs Channel || KEYWORDS: Les Hazlewood, Stormpath, Glue Conference, Cloud Infrastructure, Security, Skill Sets, Training, Experience, Nimble, Modern Cloud Movement, bytes=4117214
LISTEN TO: Les Hazlewood, CoFounder, Stormpath

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What to expect at GlueCon 2014

 
Glue Con coming May 21 & 22, 2014. Eric Norlin, Founder of the Glue Conference, said, On day 1, you’ll see several breakout tracks: APIs, Cloud, DevOps and Identity. These tracks are designed to be taken “as a whole” — which is to say, that my intent is that you would pick a track for the afternoon. Of course, you’re more than free to violate that, and bounce from track to track. But, for instance, in the Identity track, you’ll get exposed to a session on tokens, one on OneName (distributed identity via bitcoin’s block chain), several on SSO and OpenID, and one on mobile platforms and identity. Similarly, in the DevOps track, you’ll dig in on SaltStack, Ansible, using Go and AWS clusters, and Docker. And again, the same kind of pattern for APIs and Cloud. Each track has discussion time and led Q&A — where the sessions are meant to inspire discussions *across* the individual session topics. 2.) Running parallel to the day 1 tracks, you’ll find 2 workshops. These workshops (one on Mesos, and one on ECL and HPCC) are 2 hours in length, and meant as extensive dives into a specific topic. 3.) Day 2s breakouts are grouped by themed tracks, per se, but you’ll still find broad groupings of topics — be they devops, APIs, platforms, SDKs, or analytics. 4.) In all cases, you’ll find solo presentations that are meant to be technically advanced. In other words, come prepared. 5.) Over the 2 days of GlueCon, you’ll find 78 sessions PACKED with content. No fluffy panels, just substance. "I hope you’ll take a few minutes and really look through the agenda. If you’re a developer, I’m confident that doing so will make you want to attend. And to do that, all you need to do is register."
RELATED LINKS: Agenda || REGISTER || Photos Gluecon 2013 || Defrag Conference 2013 || Software Channel || w3w3 Blog || KEYWORDS: Eric Norlin, Gluecon, tokens, OneName, bitcoin, SSO, Open ID, DevOps, SlatStack, Ansible, Go , AWS, clusters, Docker, APIs, Mesos, ECL, HPCC, Cloud Computing, Mobile Development, Big Data, APIs, CIO, CTO, Techno Babble, Renaissance Enterprise Developer, Drone Technology, Foundry Group, Brad Feld, Seth Levine, Jason Mendelson, Ryan McIntyre

2014 RMCGC - Capital Connection, Leadership Insights

2014 Rocky Mountain Corporate Growth Conference
1530_ 4/7/14 - Enjoy seeing the photo album from 4/1/14 2014 RMCGC