Angel investor, strategic advisor and board member Video
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
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

Jump Start 2012 is Denver's economic development strategy
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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These are non-profit organizations that lend money to small businesses
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
Another 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
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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"Master Entrepreneur" Ernst & Young creates special award to honor Mike Fries
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
1194_ 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
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
1174_ 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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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

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This is true for entrepreneurs starting a new business
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...
RELATED LINKS: Startup Quest || Start-up Chile || Vim.biz || StartUpGuru || w3w3.com Blog || KEYWORDS: Adam Kaye, Startup Quest, YpickMe, Gamification e-learning, Startup Chile, Brian Tsuchiya, StartUp Guru Incubator, Entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, Steve Wozniak, bytes=6327382
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When writing be Clear, Concise and Compelling
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
LISTEN TO: Kirsten Nelson, Founder, C3 Writing

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Spending a lot of time here with the tech scene in Colorado
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
LISTEN TO: Daniel Feld, Entrepreneur

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Here, and here, and here is money to grow your business
1248_ 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
LISTEN TO: Dave Milliken, COO, Funding Launchpad

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