Emerging Business
Emerging Business provides the perspectives of leading company executives,
investors and service firms on the business, management and financing of
growing technology companies. The program is produced by Growth Advisors
and broadcast on Market Wrap with host Mark Mills each Wednesday starting at 4:40 PM
on Boston’s Business Station WBIX 1060 AM.
Upcoming program descriptions and audio clips from prior shows are available on this page.
Show Listings
2004
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November 2004 — Taking Big Steps to Growth
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Steve Goldstein, Managing Partner, Growth Advisors — Telecom Convergence and Resurgence. Broadcast date 11/3/04. There will be no clip for this week's program. |
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Paul Lewis, CEO, Revivio — From Technology Leadership to Broad Market Acceptance. Broadcast date 11/10/04. Listen now: Windows Media |
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Bryan Pearce, Partner, Leader, New England Venture Capital Advisory Group, Ernst & Young — From Start Up to Market Leader. Broadcast date 11/17/04. |
October 2004 — The Business of Emerging Technologies
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Steve Goldstein, Managing Partner, Growth Advisors — Q3 2004 Quarterly Growth Commentary. Broadcast date 10/6/04. Listen now: Windows Media |
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Stuart Falber, Partner, Wilmer Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Door — Licensing, R&D Collaborations and Venture Funding in Life Sciences. Broadcast date 10/13/04. Listen now: Windows Media |
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Bill Fleming, Managing Partner, Growth Advisors — Medical Devices — Growth Areas and Financing Trends. Broadcast date 10/20/04. Listen now: Windows Media |
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Howard Anderson, Senior Managing Director, YankeeTek Ventures — Disruptive Technologies — Changing the Way We Work, Live and Play. Broadcast date 10/27/04. Listen now: Windows Media |
September 2004 — New Rules, Growing Industries
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Steve Goldstein, Managing Partner, Growth Advisors — This Time The Rules Are Different. Broadcast date 9/1/04. Listen now: Windows Media |
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Jack Boyle, President & CEO, EqualLogic — Growing Rapidly in a Hot Market (storage systems). Broadcast date 9/8/04. Listen now: Windows Media |
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Bob Potter, President & CEO, Kalido — Putting Better Intelligence Into Business Decisions (business intelligence software). Broadcast date 9/15/04. Listen now: Windows Media |
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Joan Parsons, Chief Banking Officer, Silicon Valley Bank — Financing Growth Companies in Today's Technology Environment. Broadcast date 9/22/04. Listen now: Windows Media |
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Gary Voight, Chief Executive Officer, Archivas — Taking the Helm of A Growing Tech Company. Broadcast date 9/29/04. Listen now: Windows Media |
August 2004 — Looking for Growth in All the Right Places
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Bill Fleming, Managing Partner, Growth Advisors — What’s Behind the Region’s Growing Life Sciences Industry? Broadcast date 8/4/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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John Bruce, President & CEO, Authentica — Protect Your (Digital) Rights. Broadcast date 8/11/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
July 2004 — Taking Advantage of Improving Markets
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Steve Goldstein, Managing Partner, Growth Advisors — Q2 2004 Growth Commentary — Broadcast date 7/7/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Tim Healy, CEO and Co-Founder, EnerNOC — Creating new value for customers in an old industry — Broadcast date 7/14/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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George Davis, Managing Partner, Egon Zehnder International — Recruiting the leaders of our improving economy — Broadcast date 7/21/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Carol Meier, Executive Director, Massachusetts Telecommunications Council — What a Kerry or Second Bush Administration Might Mean to Massachusetts' Telecom Companies — Broadcast date 7/28/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
June 2004 — Breakthrough Change in Mature Markets
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Steve Goldstein, Managing Partner, Growth Advisors — The return of managed services as a business and business model — Broadcast date 6/2/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Tim Durant, CEO, Ice Engineering — Breaking the ice in established industries with new technology — Broadcast date 6/09/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Sanjay Sharma, Chief Technology Officer, OATSystems — At the Middle of a New Industry Identity (RFID) — Broadcast date 6/16/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Alain Hanover, Managing Director, Navigator Technology Ventures — Blazing new investment trails with embryonic technologies — Broadcast date 6/23/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
May 2004 — Growing Businesses in Hot Sectors
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Steve Goldstein, Managing Partner, Growth Advisors — Broadband Industry and Emerging Business Opportunities — Broadcast date 5/5/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Steve Nicolle, President & CEO, Tatara Systems — Roaming in a Crowded Market (Wi-Fi) — Broadcast date 5/12/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Steve Zamierowski, Director, Deloitte & Touche LLP Tech-Venture Center (TVC) — What's working for today's early stage companies — Broadcast date 5/19/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Rich Geruson, CEO, VoiceSignal Technologies — Making it Easier for Consumers to Adopt New Technology (mobile device voice recognition) — Broadcast date 5/26/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
April 2004 — Developing Initial Products, Markets and Investment Partners
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Steve Goldstein, Managing Partner, Growth Advisors — Q1 '04 Financing Recap — $s invested and quarterly/annual changes, segments getting most of the funding, major investments in MA companies, etc. Broadcast date 4/7/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Andy Paff, President & CEO, Cedar Point Communications — Development Stage Considerations — Choosing target industries, working with customers to conceive the first product, making sales at top tier accounts. Broadcast date 4/14/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Ashraf Dahod, President and Chief Executive Officer, Starent Networks — Gaining Market Traction — Launching a new product, creating market attention, getting reference customers, gaining a foothold in the market. Broadcast date 4/21/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Sean Dalton, General Partner, Highland Capital Partners — First Institutional Round — Today's environment for new companies, separating good ideas from potentially good companies, what VCs are looking for from emerging companies to get funded. Broadcast date 4/28/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
March 2004 — Growing a Revenue Base and Expanding the Business
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Steve Goldstein, Managing Partner, Growth Advisors — Wireless — Emerging wireless segments, business drivers, area companies to watch. Broadcast date 3/3/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Steve Papa, Chief Executive Officer, Endeca — Growing Revenue — Reshaping the business model based on initial customer experience; customizing the offering for specific verticals and applications, converting traction into sustained momentum, expanding the customer base. Broadcast date 3/10/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Mark Macenka, Partner and Chair, Business Practice Group, Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault — Legal Considerations — Issues to address throughout all stages of development from incorporation and technology acquisition through initial public offering and post-IPO merger and acquisition transactions. Broadcast date 3/17/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Tom Crotty, General Partner, Battery Ventures — Revenue Stage Financing — Financing for revenue growth, getting "up-round" valuations, bringing in the right investors to expand the base. Broadcast date 3/24/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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G. Jarvis Coffin III, co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, BURST! Media — Growing Again — Rebuilding the revenue base after an economic downturn and major industry dislocations. Broadcast date 3/31/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
February 2004 — Turning the Corner to Profitability
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Steve Goldstein, Managing Partner, Growth Advisors — Software — Emerging software segments, business drivers, area companies to watch. Broadcast date 2/4/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Tim Barrows, General Partner, Matrix Partners — Steps to Profitability — Funding technology start-ups, the current venture capital environment, and the road emerging companies must take to reach profitability. Broadcast date 2/11/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Lawrence Handen, Partner, UBS Capital Americas — Later Stage Financing Strategies — Debt vs. additional rounds, increasing valuation, bringing in strategic investors. Broadcast date 2/18/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Gregory Casale, President and CEO, STARBAK — Reaching Profitability — Management approaches and skills required to reach profitability. Making acquisitions, expanding product lines and sales channels/business alliances. Broadcast date 2/25/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
January 2004 — Achieving Liquidity for Investors
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Steve Goldstein, Managing Partner, Growth Advisors — Annual Recap — Emerging Business program plans. Major developments in the market for emerging technology companies in 2003. Expectations for 2004. Broadcast date 1/7/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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John J. Prior, Jr., Managing Partner and Co-Head of Corporate Finance, Needham & Company — Growth Challenges — Knowing when it is time to exit, key business and financial milestones to hit, trade-offs of IPO vs. acquisition. Broadcast date 1/14/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Steve Goldstein, Managing Partner, Growth Advisors — Investments in Massachusetts venture backed companies in 2003. Attractive sectors in 2004 — biotech, telecom and software. Broadcast date 1/21/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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Maria Cirino, Chairman and CEO, Guardent — Management Experiences — Lessons of going from private to public or acquired status, what it means to customers, investors and employees. Broadcast date 1/28/04. Listen now: Real Audio | Windows Media |
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