Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

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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Shortened URLs and Twitter Ads with Joe Moreno of Adjix

Monday, June 1st, 2009

In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Joe Moreno, President of Adjix, a unique URL shortening service which features click through stats and a unique Twitter advertising program.

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Joe Moreno’s Bio

Joe MorenoJoe Moreno worked for Apple Inc. from 1998 – 2007 in engineering and marketing.

Joe’s past ventures have included Acasero, Inc., designed to give offline consumers the ability to transfer funds via SMS, and IG Photos, where runners could purchase their photos after races such as 5Ks and marathons. IG Photos was unique in that it was the only service to synchronize each photo with the race clock allowing runners to find their photos before their bib numbers were linked to each photo.

Joe is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He served in the Marines, in both the enlisted and officer ranks, and he made three deployments to the Middle East and Africa in 1995, 1997, and 2005.

He currently sits on the board of the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association and he is Chairman of SMS Pal, Inc. – the parent company of Adjix.

Joe lives in Carlsbad, CA with his wife, Laura, and beagle, Cocoa while working full time for Adjix.

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Data Mining with Aubice Co-Founder Michael Webb

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009


In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Michael Webb, co-founder of the software technology company Aubice, about how business owners can use Aubice for data mining and data analysis about their market.

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Michael Webb’s Bio

Michael WebbMichael R. Webb is Chairman and Co-Founder of Aubice LLC. Aubice is a software technology company that is changing the way people interact with their data to create meaningful information. It combines a powerful connection engine with search to create new insights of data relevancy in unstructured data. Previously Webb was the Chairman and CEO of The Knowledge Webb, Inc. the world’s premier intellectual capital applications company recognized as one of the top 25 fastest growing companies in Colorado, with clients including 3M, AT&T, BMW-America, Sumitomo Corporation, R.R. Donnelley, The Boeing Company, Imation Corp., Qwest, Ryobi, Pac-West Telecomm, Commerce One, Aprimo and many others. He has served on the boards of Aubice, China First Gas, Japan America Society, and was the Chairman of the Global Leadership Council for Colorado State University.

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Green Electronics Recycling with YouRenew.com

Friday, May 1st, 2009


In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Rich Littlehale of YouRenew.com, an electronics recycling business that pays you to recycle your old or unwanted cell phones, laptops, gaming systems and more.

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Rich Littlehale’s Bio

Rich LittlehaleRich Littlehale is one of the founders of YouRenew.com, a website that pays you to sell back or recycle your old electronics. Rich took time off from Yale to work on developing and running YouRenew.com full time. He also was a varsity rower at Yale. He’s originally from outside of Boston, MA and a devoted Red Sox fan.

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Consumers Loyalty Programs with Roger Toennis of Loyal2Me

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Liquid Media CEO Roger Toennis about Loyal2Me, a unique business to consumer loyalty program.

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About Liquid Media

Liquid Media LLC formed in 2007 with a focus on delivering innovative
and powerful business & consumer solutions that combine the ease of
use of the web/internet with the rich and nuanced character of the
human voice. The company’s founders have extensive experience in the
integration of enterprise class Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions with
web-based business applications having worked previously at companies
such as Avaya, Nortel, Lucent, Carrier Access, Intrado, Roving Planet
and Surfnet. Liquid Media is headquartered Arvada, CO with an
engineering operation in Beijing, China. The company is operating on a
seed investment round and is currently seeking Series A investment to
scale it’s operations and achieve profitability.

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