Posts Tagged ‘podcast’

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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The Federal Reserve with Stick it to the Man Author Ronald Lewis

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Ronald Lewis about his new book, Stick it to the Man, and the problems with the Federal Reserve system.

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Ronald Lewis’ Bio

Ronald LewisRonald Lewis, author of Stick it to the Man,  is a Denver-based activist, speaker, entrepreneur, and technologist.  An early adopter of emerging technologies, Lewis became the first Denver-based lifecaster to broadcast his life 24/7 in May 2006, to a global audience of more than 600,000 to date. Lewis’ engaging personality has secured not only a devoted following, but also an increasing number of opportunities to produce engaging content including conversations with prominent executives and corporations.

Lewis’ vast background spans the spectrum from entrepreneurship to software development. He has worked with most of the world’s largest corporations including Microsoft, IBM and Unisys. He has been featured or quoted by an impressive array of media outlets including ABC News, the Associated Press, CNN, Businessweek, FastCompany, TechCrunch, NewTeeVee, Cisco and others.

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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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Strategic Entrepreneurism with Jon Fisher

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Jon Fisher, author of Strategic Entrepreneurism: Shattering the Start-Up Entrepreneurial Myths about entrepreneurship.

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Jon Fisher’s Bio

Jon FisherJon Fisher is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, adjunct professor and analyst. Fisher co-founded and was Chief Executive Officer of Bharosa, an Oracle Corporation company, which produced the Oracle Adaptive Access Manager. Fisher served as an Oracle VP until December 2007. In April 2008, Fisher predicted U.S. unemployment would rise to 9% by April 2009.

An entrepreneurship aficionado, Fisher is a media commentator and lectures frequently at university business schools. Fisher was named Ernst & Young’s 2007 Entrepreneur of the year in California and has served as CEO of three technology companies in the Silicon Valley over the past 17 years.

Strategic Entrepreneurism BookFisher writes for Sandhill.com and the Belvedere Tiburon Chamber Of Commerce and is a trustee of the Nueva School, Buck Institute For Age Research, the Foundation For Accelerated Vascular Research and the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society (Emeritus).

You can connect with Jon Fisher on Twitter.

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