Om Malik posted a 20-minute video interview with Brad Feld on his blog - GigaOm.com. They cover a lot of ground and Brad provides some sound advice for entrepreneurs and startups. Side note - this is one of the first times I have seen the Ooyala video player in use. Here is the link to the blog post - http://gigaom.com/2010/05/26/brad-feld/
click here to watch the video - http://gigaom.com/2010/05/26/brad-feld/#ooid=xtazVmMTohVeUsM2l8zPIbKSvS6QOERF
Robin Wauters, a TechCrunch writer based in Belgium, interviewed Joe Stump during the Next Web conference held in Amsterdam during the last week in April. Joe, a former Digg employee, is currently the CTO of Boulder based startup SimpleGeo along with Matt Galligan. The interview talks in detail about SimpleGeo, a bit on their pricing model, and location tactics from the big boys - Twitter & Facebook.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/simplegeo-joe-stump/
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Niel Robertson, currently building Trada into his next successful empire, recently showed up on Mixergy with Andrew Warner. They talk about his past and the success Niel had as a co-founder with Service Metrics. Service Metrics took on the task of measuring how quickly web sites load in different parts of the world. The company was eventually sold for $280 million. Andrew and Niel also talk about Trada in this interview. Make sure to check out the variety of interviews that Mixergy.com provides - it is well worth the time.
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Andrew Warner interviewed Brad Feld on April 26th, 2010. They cover many topics and Andrews blog has a transcript available plus many more pertinent interviews with entrepreneurs, investors, and technologists. Head over to mixergy.com for more goodness!
The May 4th 2010 Boulder New Technology Meetup is available for viewing. We provided the live broadcast via Ustream - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bdnt
May Presenters included:
Hotshoo.com presented by Jeffery Herman
openstreetmaps.com presented by Steve Coast
MicroFailure on the importance of AB testing presented by Josh Fraser
New Tech Gadgets presented by Matt Emmi of onebuttonlife
DuckDuckDeal.com presented by Chris
This Week in Startups episode #47 featured Niel Robertson, who is the Founder and CEO of Boulder based Trada. Props to @Jason and the crew for a nice website redesign.
Trada, which launched a couple of weeks ago, has developed the 1st PPC (Pay Per Click) marketplace for agencies, advertisers and PPC experts. According to the Trada website advertisers create a new paid search campaign, PPC Experts within the Trada marketplace join the campaign, ads begin running on the Google, Yahoo and Bing ad netwroks, click and conversions are generated, and PPC Experts earn money.
Trada recently received $2.2M in Series A funding.
During the interview the conversation turns to the Boulder / Denver tech scene at roughly the 53:00 mark. There is specific dialog about the benefits of being in a 2nd tier startup city. You can advance the playhead on the video player above to skip to that point or any point in the video.
Andrew Warner of Mixergy.com interviewed David Cohen about how TechStars is launching startups across the country. The video is embedded below along with the audio, but I would recommend heading over to www.mixergy.com where you will find tons of great content including many more interviews with successful entrepreneurs.
On aside note, this video player is powered by Wistia, a company that just announced raising $775K in angel funding - http://www.crunchbase.com/company/wistia.
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This morning we produced a live video broadcast of Red Door Interactive's March Speaker Series: Content Marketing Made Simple. Some of the topics covered during the hour long event included how to brainstorm ideas for content by leveraging internal as well as external resources, creating consumable and shareable content, and tools to measure your content marketing success.
The March Speaker Series Panelists included:
- Sandra Ahn, Data Insights & Strategy Supervisor, Red Door Interactive
- Ken Barber, Interactive Marketing columnist , Denver Business Journal
- John Dockstader, Catalog Manager, Vitamin Cottage
- Toby Hedges, Associate Brand Manager , WhiteWave Foods
- Moderator – Scott Esmond, Director of Business Development Denver, Red Door Interactive
Silicon-Flatirons hosted the annual Mile High Tech Entrepreneurship Conference which focused on "The Role of Place: Entrepreneurial Immigration, Iteration and Innovation. More details about the conference can be found here - http://www.silicon-flatirons.org/events.php?id=790
The first panel discussion was on the topic of Entrepreneurial Immigration Policy. The panel was moderated by Clare Huntington and included Brad Feld, Lance Nagel, and Vivek Wadhwa.
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After a 15-minute break the Entrepreneurial Impact Award was given to Julie Penner, a Student at the Leeds School of Business School of Law University of Colorado. The second half included two panels. The first was moderated by Brad Bernthal and discussed Place and Iteration: Lessons From Storage. The panel included Jesse Aweida, Kyle Lefkoff, James Linfield, and John Spiers, The final panel discussed Innovation and The Architecture of Geography. John Barbour moderated this panel which included Meredith Banasiak, Sharon Matusik, Bill Mooz and Joe Zell.
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There was multi-camera video being streamed within the campus building, and we were told that it will be available as an archive. We will update this post if video surfaces.
SlopeViews is a company based in Vail, CO that creates interactive 360° spherical videos. The company uses a Dodeca 2360 camera that synchronizes 11 video streams and 3 channels of audio that captures high resolution footage and sound in every direction. The result is a video that can be interacted with by clicking and dragging the mouse in any direction. Here is an example:
SlopeViews uses the same technology as Google Street View and the company behind the camera and software technology is Immersive Media based in Calgary, Alberta Canada. SlopeViews plans to produce and deliver interactive videos for ski resorts, golf courses, sporting events, music festivals and "anywhere else immersive video can help people experience a remote environment".
SlopeViews was recently featured on 9News.com and talked about their new ski resort mapping application - OnSnow
Here is another video produced by PlanetDo.com showing off SlopeViews new interactive goggles from the SIA tradeshow:
