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.

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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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Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Technology Showcase.  Presenting companies included BlipSnips, Hydraulic Hybrid Systems, Grogger, Pitch Engine, and Prieto Battery.  Panel members David Cohen, TechStars, Dan Primack, peHUB, and Mark Veverka, Barrons, discuss and provide feedback on the presentations.

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John Bliss, CEO of BlipSnips, presents at Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Technology Showcase.  BlipSnips enables users to tag, syndicate, and inspire conversations about specific moments of videos across their social graph.  The service provides a unique way for online users to more highly engage with videos across the world's most popular video players through a platform providing scale and measurable data-driven statistics concerning user engagement.

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Tim Arthur presents Prieto Battery at the Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Technology Showcase. Prieto Battery is an advanced Lithium Ion Battery developed and manufactured for the transportation industry.

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Toby Murdock presents Grogger at the Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Technology Showcase.  Grogger provides a group publishing platform.  A Grog is a group blog that combines the social components of platforms like Ning and the CMS functionality of platforms like WordPress.  Publishers run their sites on Grogger in order to better engage their audience and crowdsource their content.

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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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Brad Feld posted an audio interview with Jon Hansen on his blog yesterday.  Jon Hansen produces a new series in his blogtalkradio show called Business Thought Leaders.  In December he interviewed Brad and covered Domestic and Foreign investing.  In this episode he talks with Brad about how he got involved with Rally Software and the reasons why he decided to invest in the company.  You can also view our Rally Software videos from Entrepreneurs Unplugged with Ryan Martens and Tim Miller that Brad moderated - http://www.coloradotechtv.com/rally-software-ryan-martens-and-tim-miller

Colorado's first Open Angel Forum event took place last night in Boulder, CO. We had the opportunity to interview Jason Calacanis, founder of the event, and talk with a few of the presenters to get their comments about this new format.