MobileIron won Best in Show at Under the Radar today!  Here’s a link to the presentation we gave:  http://www.undertheradarblog.com/  I am really proud of the hard work the team has done to get us here.

It was an honor to be invited to Under the Radar.  There were some awesome mobile startups there and I learned a lot from watching what others were doing.

I thought these guys http://www.m-via.com/ were solving a fascinating challenge of money transfer from US to developing countries over the phone.  And these guys http://hopephones.org/ were collecting old phones and using them to provide better medical care in developing countries - that’s impact.

Plus I met Greg Grunberg, who plays the mind-reading cop on Heroes and is both a really nice guy and a mobile entrepreneur (http://getyowza.com/).  A cool day.

CNBC just started a new series this week called “The Good Entrepreneur” (http://www.goodentrepreneur.com). It’s actually a competition to “identify entrepreneurs across Europe with environmentally responsible business concepts.” I’m always happy to see anything that encourages entrepreneurship, especially in down economies.

We were pumped up because CNBC asked our CEO, Bob, to write an article for the series launch about why downturns are actually a good time to start a new company (http://tinyurl.com/nhxbno), since he has now done that two times in a row.

They’ve also featured an interesting article by Niels Billou, Assistant Professor at the European School of Management and Technology on what governments have to do to promote entrepreneurship in times of crisis (http://tinyurl.com/nktxag).

Looking forward to some great new ideas springing from this CNBC initiative.