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/
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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!
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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Another successful live broadcast of the Boulder New Tech Meetup is under the belt. Past videos and future broadcasts can be found here - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bdnt
We were able to break up the individual presentations into separate videos using the Ustream Producer software. First up was the "Fireside Chat" discussing Google's Fiber for Communities Project which would bring 1 Gbit/s speeds to Boulder homes and businesses if selected. http://boulderfiber.com/
The first company presentation was KyteViewer - the next generation content viewer - http://www.kyteviewer.com
Next up was TweetSpecials - http://tweetspecials.com
Vidli presented their solution for online video monetization via buying, selling and renting videos - http://vidli.com
Pegshot presented their photo / video service meant to help you answer the question "what's happening where you are?" - http://www.pegshot.com
The last presentation was a demo of Boxee - http://www.boxee.tv
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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Tim Reeser presents Hydraulic Hybrid Systems at the Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Technology Showcase. Hydraulic Hybrid Systems has a safe, cost-effective solution for fleets that reduces fuel use by 40 percent in stop-and-go driving and reduces carbon emissions by 50 percent. First prototypes are currently in testing and sales and distribution channels are already established.
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Seth Levine, Foundry Group and VCIR Winter Co-Chair, introduces the Technology Showcase and Jason Kintzler presents PitchEngine. PitchEngine is a next generation PR platform that enables companies to create and distribute social PR content to better collaborate with media, consumers and other influencers.
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Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Conference Keynote Speaker
Dan Caruso is the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Zayo Group and has 22 years of experience in the telecommunications and Internet industries. In his keynote, Dan talks about one hit wonders, entrepreneurs gone bad and the special breed of great serial entrepreneurs.
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