Archive for the ‘Finance’ Category

2009 Angel Capital Summit with Chuck Blakeman

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Chuck Blakeman of TeamNimbusWest about the Angel Capital Summit, which is taking place in Denver on November 17th at the Colorado Convention Center.

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Chuck Blakeman’s Bio

Charles BlakemanChuck Blakeman has experience with companies as small as $100,000 and as large at $120 million. He re-positioned, started and sold businesses, and obtained multi-million dollar contracts with Fortune 100s. He has extensive experience leading companies, and in business development, operations, marketing, and major account management.

Mr. Blakeman is a lifetime business practitioner who now uses his experience to help other companies create success. His company, TeamNimbusWest, provides outcome-based mentoring, peer advisory, and consulting for Business Owners, CEOs, and their growing businesses. He is a regular convention speaker, trade journal contributor, and non-profit board member.

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Surviving Debt with Mitchell Allen

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy offers a timely interview with Mitchell Allen, author of A Survival Guide to Debt: How to Overcome Tough Times & Restore Your Financial Health.

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Mitchell Allen’s Bio

Mitchell AllenMitchell L. Allen is the founder, president, and chairman of Debt Education and Certification Foundation, a leading provider of personal debt management courses. Courses he helped develop have been used in over 200,000 counseling sessions, and he has personally conducted more than 1,000 interviews with individuals in financial crisis.

Mitchell previously worked for Citigroup and The Associates Financial Corporation as senior director of modeling, where he led a team of economists and statisticians in developing statistical models to predict response, risk, and fraud within various private label credit card portfolios.

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Green Business Opportunities with Teddi Davis and TiE Rockies

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009


In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Teddi Davis about green business opportunities and the TiE Rockies event Stimulus Funding for Energy, taking place this Thursday, August 6, 2009 in Broomfield, Colorado.

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Teddi Davis’ Bio

Teddi DavisTeddi is Vice President of Strategic Marketing for EcoAlign, a strategic marketing agency focused on energy and headquartered in Washington, D.C.  The near future will be full of fundamental changes for businesses, customers and regulators as we confront carbon legislation, smart and green homes, interactive technologies, clean tech products, re-engineering of value chains, changing customer preferences and values. There is a gap, however, between what customers say they want around energy and what they actually do.  Ecoalign was formed to help fill this gap and help align corporate and consumer behavior with the future of energy and environment

Before joining Ecoalign, Davis was Director of Customer Choice and Renewables Marketing at Xcel Energy, one of the nation’s most progressive and largest investor owned utilities serving customers in eight states. In her position she contributed to the company’s environmental leadership aspirations through the development and management of customer choice options for residential, commercial and industrial customers, such as payment and billing programs, optional rate programs, self service strategies, information programs that helped customers better understand their energy usage, and choice renewables programs such as Windsource–the #1 green pricing program–and Solar*Rewards–the #4 solar rebate program in the nation. She also helped develop marketing strategies for the company’s SmartGridCity program in Boulder, Colorado, and was also responsible for the company’s demand response programs including Saver’s Switch. During her tenure at Xcel Energy, Davis was responsible for Product Development for all conservation and energy efficiency programs, and managed residential DSM programs as Director of Consumer Product Marketing for the company.

Teddi is also co-chair of the TiE-Rockies Sustainable Energy Initiative, with the missing of supporting entrepreneurism in the clean energy space, including energy efficiency.

You can register or find out more about the TiE Rockies presentation: Stimulus Funding for Energy at their website.

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Common Legal Issues in Business with Attorney Kevin Houchin

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews attorney, author and artist Kevin Houchin about naming, branding and common legal issues faced by business owners.

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Kevin Houchin’s Bio

Kevin HouchinKevin E. Houchin lawyers from a wholly different perspective. Kevin knew from a very young age that his purpose in life was to help people reach their potential. Entering law school at 33 enabled him to mindfully integrate his experience as a graphic designer and his dozen or so years as a small business and brand development consultant. His artistic eye, his marketing skills, and his legal knowledge combine to make him a highly effective counselor.

Kevin advises creative people on how to maximize creativity, build businesses, and protect intellectual property. He enjoys discussions that turn toward relationships and creative collaboration which enable him to play the role of business and life coach in addition to attorney and marketing consultant.

Kevin writes about how to get the most out of law school in his book Fuel the Spark: 5 Guiding Values for Success in Law School & Beyond. He is also the author of the forthcoming The Secrets of Creative Business. Both books are published by Morgan James Publishing. He also contributes a chapter on the legal issues of social media in Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time, by Joel Comm (Wiley Publishing).

Kevin writes a regular column for the leading business journal in Northern Colorado, blogs compulsively, and has a large following on Twitter.com. He speaks regularly for creative entrepreneurial business, continuing legal education, and law school audiences.

Kevin’s diverse background helps him provide expert counsel to people seeking to reach their creative potential. To fuel his own spark of creativity, Kevin enjoys creating fine art and cooking without a recipe. His favorite art medium is batik, because it combines his design and planning skills with an element of chance. His favorite cooking medium is the grill because it is a perfect catalyst for a really rockin’ party.

A native Iowan, Kevin is an active father and husband. He lives with his wife and their three children in the mountains outside Fort Collins, Colorado where on a clear day you really can see forever.

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Which Virtual Assistants are Top on Twitter

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Virtual AssistantAs our various business ventures grow, its a total understatement to say that we’re a little overwhelmed with tasks like answering and returning customer calls and setting up appointments.  We place a high value on offering excellent customer service, but we’re also mindful of the need to keep our costs under control.

We’ve been toying with the idea of hiring a virtual assistant for the past few months, but haven’t made the leap yet.  We also know plenty of entrepreneurs and small business owners who are in the same position.

So, to that end, we’d love to hear from our readers about the best virtual assistants in the Twitterverse.  We can’t promise we’ll be making a hire, but we can gaurantee a link and some promotion to our readers’ top picks.

Leave us a comment below with your nomination for the best virtual assistant on twitter.  Be sure to include their twitter handle, and why you think they rock.

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