Posts tagged Charities
Boulder Bridge House helps the homeless
Oct 18th
Jann talks with a coordinator from the Boulder Bridge House and we learn about a lot of the things they do to help the community and Boulder’s homeless people and people with substance abuse. The Bridge House provides services like helping get ID’s, Birth Certificates, helping people fill out resumes, and with job interviews, getting food stamps, providing food and medical services, basically anything they can do to help they try and do so. Visit their websites at Boulderbridgehouse.org and find out more.
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
22 Boom – 2012 Holiday Special 3 – Episode 61
Dec 13th
It’s 22 Boom’s third Holiday Special for 2012 where we visit lots of fun and exciting events and places as well we help support local and national charities in their drives to help those in need in this season of giving. This episode has holiday candy, music, food, events, movies, and winter fun and fitness.
Videos in this Episode
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22 Boom Intro -
Boulder Tannenbaum Tubas -
Precision Plumbing – Happy Holidays Heating Giveaway -
Denver Zoo Lights -
Massage Envy Spa Treatment in Boulder -
Boulder Corale -
Boulder Toyota 2012 Scion FRS and Scion iQ -
Red Cross – Holiday Blood Donation -
Jann Scott Tonite – Santa Cam -
The Original Pancake House Denver -
Boulder Parade of Lights -
Synchronized Christmas Lights -
Ripple Pure Frozen Yogurt -
Jann Scott Live – Christmas Lights -
Snarf’s Sub Shop -
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Movie Trailer -
Hotshots Movie Review – Anna Karenina -
Boulder Army Store Holiday and Winter favorite things. -
Red Cross – Winter Weather Preparation -
Ice Skating at Boulder One Plaza -
D.P. Dough Boulder -
Hammond’s Candy Cane Festival -
Outro