RoundPegg "scientifically ensures the people that come to work for your company fit the personality and culture of the business". Robert Scoble talks with Tim Wolters (Founder / CEO) and Brent Daily (Founder / COO) and gets to the root of what this TechStars 2010 team is up to in terms of its services for employers.
Ian Bernstein, CEO and Adam Wilson, CTO of Gearbox ( now Orbotix, Inc.) demonstrate how their technology allows mobile phones to control devices. In this demo they control a robotic ball with their smartphone. Robert Scoble shot this video a couple of weeks ago outside of the Boulder Theater. Visit Building 43 for more startup and technology videos.
Andrew Warner, Mixergy.com, posted an interview with Andrew Hyde last week. Hyde talks about some past startups he's been involved in, why he is leaving TechStars, some background on his involvement with TechStars, details on the Pick.im freelance community, and a hearty discussion on spec work. Click here to view the post on Mixergy - the site has a downloadable audio option and a text transcription as well as a ton of additional startup content.
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.
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
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.
Tyler Tysdal, Managing Director of Mantucket Capital, joined Brad Feld and Brad Bernthal at CU's Atlas building for Entrepreneurs Unplugged, an ongoing Silicon-Flatirons event. Tyler talked about his past experiences which started with investment banking firm Alex. Brown & Sons. The storytelling gets very interesting when Tyler explains how he learned the process of due diligence from his business partners who embezzled several million dollars and committed bank fraud. This lead to Tyler's 100% entrepreneur stage i.e. wear all the hats - do everything, where he started five health care companies, Sports Shares, a fractional luxury suite club, various real estate investments and other "alternative investing".
We had some technical difficulties with our recording and only managed to get the first half off the event, which is unfortunate since there was much more great information flowing from both Tyler and Brad Feld. We felt it was worth posting the roughly 30-minutes of audio that did turn out.
The presenting companies for the 2010 Winter Venture Capital in the Rockies conference were split into two tracks - one featuring Clean Tech companies and the other featuring Technology companies. Due to some technical difficulties we were unable to come away from the conference with suitable video, but we did make sure to record audio for most of the presentations. You can listen to the presentations on this page or download the mp3 for listening on your portable device or computer.
BioVantage Resources, Inc. - Sue Kunz, CEO
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PureEnergy Solutions, Inc. - Dennis Grant, CEO
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Alces Technology, Inc. - David Bloom, CEO
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Zettasun - Paul Berberian, CEO
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CradlePoint, Inc. - Chris Bounds, CFO
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Eco-Products, Inc. - Bob King, CEO
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Mangia Technologies - Hal Widlansky, CEO
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VanDyne SuperTurbo, Inc. - Ed VanDyne, Founder & CEO
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TruEffect, Inc. - Ron Hill, Co-Founder & CEO
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TopSchool, Inc. - Matthew Schnittman, CEO
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Clementine Art, Inc. - John F. Maggio, CEO & President
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Green Garage - Ryan Ferrero, CEO
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DiCom grid - Mike Wall, CEO
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Cool Energy, Inc. - Sam Weaver, CEO
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