Posts tagged CEO
Pro Challenge amateur race set for Sunday
Aug 8th
Professional Cyclists Rory Sutherland and Timmy Duggan to Lead Mass-Participation Ride in Advance of the USA Pro Challenge
WHAT: Professional cyclists and Colorado residents Rory Sutherland and Timmy Duggan are set to lead the 2013 Pro Challenge Experience presented by UnitedHealthcare, a mass participation bike ride taking place in Fort Collins, Colo., Sunday, Aug. 11. Fans will have the unique opportunity to meet and ride alongside Sutherland and Duggan, members of Team Saxo-Tinkoff, just one week shy of their respective participation in the 2013 USA Pro Challenge, which kicks off in Aspen on August 19.
Open to all ages, the Pro Challenge Experience gives recreational cyclists an opportunity to challenge themselves against some of the most difficult and scenic terrain in the world. Beginning in Fort Collins, a host city for the 2013 professional race, Pro Challenge Experience participants can choose to ride one of three distances – 30, 52 or 108 miles of mountainous roads.
WHO: Amateur riders of all ages. Interviews available with:
- Shawn Hunter, CEO, USA Pro Challenge
- Rory Sutherland (AUS), professional cyclist on Team Saxo-Tinkoff
- Timothy Duggan (USA), professional cyclist on Team Saxo-Tinkoff
WHEN: Sunday, August 11
6:30 a.m. MT – 108 mile race begins
7 a.m. MT – 50 mile race begins
7:30 a.m. MT – 32 mile race begins
**Interviews available prior to the start of the ride and after the finish (around noon)
WHERE: Starts and ends at New Belgium Brewery
500 Linden St.
Fort Collins, CO 80524
CONTACT: Nicole Okoneski
310-854-8189
NICOLE OKONESKI | ROGERS & COWAN
Director
Boulder Startup Week 2013: what we did.
May 18th
First of all we are not exactly a start up. We are more an old school OG Boulder entrepreneurial company. That is to say Brad Feld and David Cohen didn’t invent the entrepreneurial movement here in Boulder. They joined it in the 90s and capitalized on it. Yes they are modern day Gurus, but Boulder has 100’s of gurus. Boulder’s entreperurship started in the late 1800s during the Colorado Gold rush and it never stopped.
So old timer tech entrepreneurs look at Feld , Cohen and Polis with some bemusement. They’ve seen it all before. This new hippy feel good neo communist business start up scene was really started by Moe Segal and the natural foods biz heads of the 1960s and 70’s. One CU business professor scoffed at the notion of Start Ups. ” Most of it is junk” he said. ” One or 2 out of 100 will be swallowed up by the VCs and make it to market but the other 98 will fail. So this is nothing new and Brad Feld is not that special.” he said.
And this is where I’d like to pick up. So what did we at Boulder Channel 1 do during this years Boulder Start Up Week. ?
We kept working that’s what we did. Part of our work was to send out sales reps to various event s to see where there was an opportunity to make some money by selling our services. What?? yep. We were looking for advertising clients, We were not looking for funding an angel or a VC. But we were looking to deal. We were selling. Overtly and not so overtly. We were looking for one $20,000 client for a year. One advertiser who needed banner ads, video, sm, pr, design, a show series, a web site and who wanted consumers from Boulder to buy their goods. We were on the hunt. We set a goal and went after it. That’s what start Up Week Boulder meant to us. No bullshit. No drinking. No fucking around. No chasing millionaires. Just hard work. Sales.
Did we land anyone. Yep we did. Two. we made $40,000 bucks this week off of Boulder Start Up week from two companies who wanted our services….. who needed our service… and who did not want to be dicked around by a bunch of drunks who are playing at business.
There is a lesson here for those of you who want to be serious business people. ( We have been successfully in business since 1975 here in Boulder. Like everyone else who digs this city, it only keeps getting better) We live in Utopia and we don’t take it for granted. We are truly blessed
What do we do to give back to Boulder?? We have been here for a long long time. We are established and have roots. we give cash to 30 different Boulder charities who help feed and clothe people. We produce videos for free for any non profit. We don’t charge non profits. We mentor homeless techies who need a hand up. We mentor kids of impoverished families.
Jann Scott is the CEO of Channel 1 Networks