ConnectCast: Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs and U of Utah 2nd Behind MIT
Cydni Tetro and Colin Kelly talk about key events this week. Including the release of the Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs from vSpring Capital. It is a peer nominated and peer selected group of individuals that the community predicts will be a CTO or CEO of a high tech company in the next 5 years. This is the 5th year of the program. In addition, the University of Utah was rated 2nd behind only MIT in the number of technology spin-offs based on university research. MIT had 23 and the University of Utah had 20.
Women Tech Council
Cydni Tetro, Sara Jones, Gretta Spendlove and Kimberley Jones introduce the Women Tech Council and share the organization’s focus and community efforts to assist women with careers in technology fields.
Alan Hall, Founder & CEO, MarketStar
Alan Hall, Founder and CEO at MarketStar, talks with Cydni Tetro about the 2007 Utah Technology Council’s Hall of Fame event. Hall is the Master of Ceremonies for the event and tells the story of how Paul Otellini was recruited to participate as the keynote speaker.
Ralph Becker, Salt Lake City Mayor-Elect
Ralph Becker, Salt Lake City Mayor-Elect, stops and shares his thoughts with Cydni Tetro from Rocky Mountain Voices about the importance of technology to the Salt Lake City economy. Becker attended the Utah Technology Council’s Hall of Fame Award dinner where Bernard Daines, Father of Gigabit Ethernet, and James LeVoy Sorenson were honored and inducted.
ConnectCast Weekly – 4 May, 2007
In this week’s ConnectCast, Rocky Mountain Voices‘ Cydni Tetro and Connect Magazine Executive Editor Colin Kelly discuss the top stories of the week.
This week’s highlights include:
- Coherex closes on a $8.5M round of funding from vSpring Capital and Oxford Bioscience.
- Seth Godin is Coming to Utah May 24th, 2007. Register to attend at WordMob.com.
- UVEF Accepting Nomination for Top 25 Under 5 Awards.
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ConnectCast Weekly – 27 April, 2007
In this week’s ConnectCast, Rocky Mountain Voices‘ Cydni Tetro and Connect Magazine Executive Editor Colin Kelly discuss the top stories of the week. This week’s highlights include:
- Allegiance closes on a $5.7M round of funding
- Logoworks to be acquired by HP
- Arkona to be acquired by DealerTrack
- PricewaterhouseCoopers report shows low Q1 funding to Utah companies
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ConnectCast Weekly – 20 April, 2007
In this week’s ConnectCast, Rocky Mountain Voices‘ Cydni Tetro and Connect Magazine Executive Editor Colin Kelly discuss the top stories of the week from a Rocky Mountain perspective. The conversation includes a look at the Utah companies that made the Forbes 1000 company list, including Huntsman Chemical and, along similar lines, the vSpring v100 list of entrepreneurs. Also this week, in2M’s cool and friendly envelope budgeting software, Mvelopes. The software is a lot like the old-fashioned stuff-money-in-an-envelope, but for the Web 2.0 generation, always lookint for software on the Web or on mobile phones. (in2M must be doing something right — they’re seeing a 70 percent trial-to-subscribe rate.)
In other news, NextPage wins a 2007 CODIE Award finalist in the Best Document Management category for its document retention and compliance software.
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v100 Show: The 2007 Top 100 Entrepreneurs
vSpring Capital’s Dennis Wood talks with Cydni Tetro and Brad Baldwin about The v100 for 2007. From a base of more than 8,000 names, the peer-selection process identified the top 100 entrepreneurs most likely to lead a successful venture in the next 5-7 years in the IT or biotech industries.
The 2007 edition of The v100 list recognizes 36 new and 64 returning members. The combined membership has raised more than $3.5 billion in capital. While only 29 percent claim to be “Utah natives,” 86 percent have ties to Utah colleges and universities. Statistics on revenue and employee growth plus demographics are also discussed.
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ConnectCast Weekly – 13 April, 2007
Forbes Magazine has rated 3 of the top 11 Best Places for Business and Careers in the Rockies. Provo, Utah (#2), Boise, Idaho (#3), and Ogden, Utah (#11). While Provo and Boise have seen lots of press over the last few years, Colin Kelly is impressed at the major shift is the business climate in Odgen, Utah. Kelly thinks much of the credit can be pinned on Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey; Grow Utah Ventures’s Alan Hall and his wife, Jeanne and Curt Geiger, vice president of Descente.
Symantec shareholders approve the $830M Altiris acquisition. Some see the acquisition as bittersweet — bitter because it means another company is moving its HQ out of state, sweet because a number of people will cash in and probably return proceeds to the local economy through reinvestment in entrepreneurial ventures.
Will Seth Godin make it to Utah? That depends on the number of pledges to to get him to set foot on Utah soil. Utah bloggers Phil Burns and Ash Buckles have donated their hair, committing Godin can shave their heads as part of a Utah event.
ConnectCast Weekly is hosted by Rocky Mountain Voices‘ own Cydni Tetro and Colin Kelly, executive editor, Connect Magazine.
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Robert Scoble to Discuss Word-of-Mouth Networks and the Long Tail at SlopeCast ’07
SlopeCast 2007, a social media event, delivering education on key technologies influencing social and economic impact will be held Friday, March 2, 2007
Salt Lake City, UTAH — February 15, 2007 — Rocky Mountain Voices announces SlopeCast 2007, a social media and podcasting event to be held Friday, March 2, 2007. The event will feature a lunchtime conversation from the leading social media expert Robert Scoble, “Living in a Google World: The influence of word-of-mouth networks and the long tail.” In addition to the un-conference-style-keynote, SlopeCast will include mingling and podcasting interviews with key business and technology leaders.
“Everyday I am in the trenches helping companies and technology leaders understand, embrace and deal with the impact of the long tail,” said Robert Scoble. “I am ecstatic to leverage our relationship with Rocky Mountain Voices and have that conversation with the strong technology community in Utah.”
Robert Scoble is the former lead blogger for Microsoft and now Vice President of Media Development at PodTech Network. In addition to his www.scobleizer.com blog, Scoble is the co-author of the book on blogging, “Naked Conversation” and producer of the video blog Scoble Show.
SlopeCast 2007 is a must attend event for business leaders, entrepreneurs, technologists, bloggers, and social media buffs. “Our goal is to deliver events that directly impact economic development and foster interaction between business influencers in the mountain west,” said Cydni Tetro, co-founder of Rocky Mountain Voices. “Over the last 6 months, we’ve led the social media movement in the region, driving conversations about economic development, innovation and funding and sharing them with a network of more than 2 million podcast subscribers across the world.”
SLOPECAST DETAILS AND AGENDA
Date:
Friday, March 2, 2007
Location:
Cafe Trio – Cottonwood
6405 South 3000 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
Agenda:
10:00 – 11:30 :: Podcast interviews with select executives, entrepreneurs, or technologists (Tell us why you want one-on-one interview time with Scoble at SlopeCast. Selection details below.)
11:30 – 12:00 :: Mingling
12:00 – 1:30 :: Lunch and Robert Scoble presentation: “Living in a Google World”
Registration:
Registration is required for this event. To register, please visit www.rockymountainvoices.com/slopecast to register. Due to room capacity, the event will be limited to the first 100 participants.
Cost:
$25, lunch included.
PITCH YOUR BUSINESS / TECHNOLOGY
Rocky Mountain Voices is seeking to highlight technologies or businesses in a one-on-one podcast with Robert Scoble during the SlopeCast ’07. SlopeCast offers a unique opportunity to meet with and be interviewed by Robert Scoble. Individuals or companies interested in being selected for a podcast slot need to submit their information to slopecast [at] rockymountainvoices.com. All entries must include company name, executive name for interview, 150 word description on why their company / technology should be selected. The deadline for entries is February 23, 2007.
SPONSORSHIP
There are a limited number of sponsorship opportunities for SlopeCast ’07. If you would like your company to be associated with this event, please send email to slopecast [at] rockymountainvoices.com. Sponsorship start at $250.
ABOUT ROCKY MOUNTAIN VOICES
Rocky Mountain Voices serves the region by publishing audio and video podcasts and educating organizations on the benefits of social media. The Rocky Mountain Voices team reaches out to the community for stories, first-hand reports of breaking news and local commentary on important issues. Rocky Mountain Voices launched an exclusive relationship with the Silicon Valley-based PodTech Network — forming a partnership to give technology companies in the region distribution to PodTech’s extensive community, driving greater visibility for our companies and innovators. Rocky Mountain Voices was founded by Cydni Tetro, Brad Baldwin, Tim Kapp and Kip Meacham, all marketing executives with over 50 years of combined marketing experience.
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Ensuring Compliance at the Desktop — Cydni Tetro of NextPage
Cydni Tetro, VP of Marketing at NextPage, reports that even if organizations have document retention policies, fewer than 30 percent can enforce these polices at the desktop (Gartner). Cydni speaks with us about why public and regulated organizations need to provide support out to the mobile and disconnected workers in the field to reduce their compliance risk.
NextPage has also engaged in social media to enhance customer interaction and offer sales people with entirely new tools to build more conversational and trustworthy relationships with prospects. Cydni offers her perspective on blogs, podcasts, and social networking.
Talking Podcasts with InsideUtah
Inside Utah #62 Friday, 10/27/06
Jennifer Napier-Pearce, an award-winning journalist living in Salt Lake City and the driver behind InsideUtah, invited those of us at Rocky Mountain Voices to take the “interviewee” side of the mic and share our purpose and vision for the community play and future of Rocky Mountain Voices. Jennifer soon learned that we’re a lively bunch with lots of side humor bouncing off in every direction. Of course Cydni did what she does best and brought the conversation into focus. Thanks Jennifer. You’re a “great” interviewer and do awesome work with your podcast production.
Keep it up!
Cydni, Kip, Tim, Brad
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TECHNOLOGY MARKETERS ANNOUNCE CREATION OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN VOICES SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNITY
Strategic Partnership with Silicon Valley PodTech.net Gives Audio and Video Podcasts Reach in the Western States Region
Salt Lake City, UTAH – October 4, 2006 – Leading technology marketing professionals from four Utah-based companies today announced the launch of a social media community named Rocky Mountain Voices (www.rockymountainvoices.com). Recording conversations from throughout the region, Rocky Mountain Voices will produce and distribute the podcast content primarily through the PodTech Network for influencers and leaders in the global technology and media industries.
The strategic partnership between Rocky Mountain Voices and Silicon Valley-based PodTech Network (www.podtech.net) will be launched at an inaugural ‘Meet-Up’, held Thursday, October 5 at the Cottonwood Corporate Plaza in Salt Lake City. The PodTech partnership will deliver business and technology content from companies in the Rocky Mountain region over the PodTech network. John Furrier, PodTech CEO and Founder will address the meet-up attendees and talk about the partnership.
“PodTech is excited to have Rocky Mountain Voices as the exclusive PodTech Content Partner for audio and video podcasts in western United States,” said Furrier. “I am confident the Rocky Mountain Voices team will serve this community well—adding a strong authentic voice and providing quality content and conversations from this region of innovation and growth in technology and media.”
The meet-up is sponsored by an impressive list of regional companies representing the finance, investment, high technology and e-tail institutions including: Yahoo! Publisher Network, vSpring Capital, Overstock.com, NextPage, Wasatch Venture Fund, Northwestern Mutual, Card Access, MediaRain and Printsmart.
Content for the Rocky Mountain Voices community will be produced by founders Cydni Tetro, Tim Kapp, Kip Meacham and Brad Baldwin. Each has extensive marketing experience, and all are passionate advocates of the social media movement. Prior to forming the community, they individually have produced successful corporate and personal blogs and podcasts. Together, they bring a combined 80+ years of industry and technology marketing experience to the effort.
Tetro is vice president of marketing at Salt Lake City-based NextPage Corporation, a document management applications company. Kapp is a co-founder of the BayHill Group, an Orem, Utah-based investment company. Meacham is vice president of marketing at Salt Lake City-based Card Access, Inc., an engineering products and services organization. Baldwin is vice president of campus marketing at Agilix Labs, an Orem-based maker of distributed learning solutions for the education market.
“In today’s marketing environment, creating community and enabling conversations are critical to the success of companies and we are committed to bringing that opportunity to our community,” said Cydni Tetro, Co-Founder of Rocky Mountain Voices. “Establishing the Rocky Mountain Voices community makes it easy for regional companies to create powerful, profitable conversations with influencers and customers. Rocky Mountain Voices–in partnership with PodTech–provides a great opportunity to capitalize on the intersection of marketing and the podcasting and blogging phenomenon.
Rocky Mountain Voices will provide complete podcast production and consulting services to the business and technology sectors, and will expand its channels in support of regional interests. For more information, please visit www.rockymountainvoices.com.
ABOUT PODTECH NETWORK PodTech marketing partners include leading brands such as Intel, IBM, Seagate, and SAP. PodTech marketing partners benefit from our proprietary morecasting suite of services that combine social media planning, podcast production and syndication, and sponsorships to create powerful, profitable conversations with influencers and customers. PodTech was founded in 2005 and our investors include Venrock Associates and US Venture Partners.
ABOUT ROCKY MOUNTAIN VOICES Rocky Mountain Voices had launched an exclusive relationship with PodTech—a partnership designed to give technology companies in the Rocky Mountain area access to the extensive PodTech community, driving greater visibility for our companies and innovators in the Rocky Mountain Region. Rocky Mountain Voices was founded by a group of marketing technology professionals from four Utah-based companies. Rocky Mountain Voices is owned by Utah-based mCast Productions. For more information, please visit http://www.rockymountainvoices.com/blog/about.
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