Niel Robertson of Trada on TWiST

 

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. 

David Cohen talks TechStars on Mixergy.com

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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Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Audio

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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