We had Anil Jain in our office yesterday to chat about his roots as an engineer at Intel, how he launched the first startup internally there and then left to head up a company of his own. Anil’s current pursuit is Endeavor IP, a company that partners with other startups to coach them through obstacles and help them develop their offering during the early stages. You can listen to the audio of the conversation below, subscribe to the podcast via the button in the upper left and ask Anil questions in the comments section below.

We had Jay Jacobson, founder of Opnix and Edgeos join us this morning for in an interview where he tells us about how he came to found both companies and some of the mistakes he made in the process and lessons he learned along the way. Jay is one of the foremost experts on network security in Arizona and is home two days after attending Defcon in Las Vegas. Leave questions or comments for Jay on this page and subscribe to future Venturecast interviews by clicking the pink podcast button in the upper-left of the page. Read more from Jay on his personal site Kinetic.org. Ladies- note: Jay IS single. Enjoy!

We had James Archer in our office yesterday as our first guest on our new podcast series with local Arizona entrepreneurs. In all it was about a 45min conversation that ran the gamut covering James’ experience working as a technical writer for JDA Software, a project manager for Rhino and how he eventually made the leap to starting his own webdesign company, Forty Media and ultimately launched the podcast advertising startup Fruitcast. It was a fun conversation dense with a career’s-worth of wisdom. If you have questions for James about anything that was discussed in his interview, ask away.