Help the cause of several poor kids in the developing world by donating new kids book or cash at the TiE-Rockies holiday party on Dec 12th at Dazzle. Details of the event is on TiE-Rockies website. TiE-Rockies has partnered with Room To Read during this holiday season to help spread hope and make the world a better… Continue reading Party with a cause
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Moderating an exciting Panel
Many of us who either moderate a session or be on the panel - I like the following two recommendation from Guy. Here is the one if you are moderating a session and this is another one if you are one of the panelist.
Bootstrapping
Entrepreneurs alike who are either looking to bootstrap their business or work with an investor will find reading "Bootstrapping" book by Greg Gianforte helpful. Greg is a serial entrepreneur and currently the founder, CEO of RightNow - which is a SaaS/CRM play in the enterprise arena. Although the book is written in the context of bootstrapping… Continue reading Bootstrapping
CIO Panel
Yesterday, I co-hosted a CIO panel session organized by the local TiE-Rockies group. We had quite an accomplished group of CIOs in the panel. It included: Kamalesh Dwivedi - CIO of TeleTech. A public company in global BPO space Tim Graumann - CIO of McData. A public company in Storage space. Kumud Kalia - CIO of… Continue reading CIO Panel
Startup Ideas
Anyone looking for startup ideas that will get famous VC backing - look no further. Here is a list of compiled startup ideas actually suggested by well known VCs that they would like to fund.
A view on Indians immigrants
A BusinessWeek.com columnist and businessman, Vivek Wadhwa shares his views on why Indians are such a successful immigrant group. Ignore the catchy title but the stats thus far remain good to prove his point. Also, US immigration rules helps as typically it attracts somewhat better part of the crowd (educated, skilled, speaking english, etc.) from India… Continue reading A view on Indians immigrants
Colorado Gubernatorial debate update
Today I attended the Colorado Gubernatorial event at Brown Palace hotel during lunch. Forum was good and we had over 200 people - mostly CEOs and executives from local technology companies, in the room. My friend, Vic Ahmed, President of TiE-Rockies opened up the debate. Both VCs Jack Tankersley and Brad Feld did a good job… Continue reading Colorado Gubernatorial debate update
Colorado Gubernatorial Technology Forum – 2006
On Sept 8th, candidates for the Colorado governor race - Bob Beauprez (Republican) and Bill Ritter (Democrat) will provide their perspective on the technology landscape at Colorado. This will be a great event to hear from both the candidates on how they see the health of technology industry in Colorado. Colorado has one of the… Continue reading Colorado Gubernatorial Technology Forum – 2006
Life is not a Zero-sum game
Tuesday on 22nd, TiE-rockies organized a speaking engagement of Ralph Peterson. Ralph is CEO of CH2M-Hill. $3.8Bn company headquartered in Colorado. The company has an outstanding growth year over year and almost been doubling every few years. One can see real hockey stick in action. Company is 100% owned by its employees. Anyway, a good… Continue reading Life is not a Zero-sum game
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