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CREED: Key player in cleantech
CREED, the Colorado Center for Renewable Energy Economic Development, celebrates its first anniversary this year, but forget any talk about baby steps. CREED already has taken giant steps. One reason […]
Top Company winner: Zayo Group
TELECOM Zayo Group Zayo Group may be the most precocious 5-year-old you will ever know. Founded in 2005, Zayo Group already has annual revenue approaching $1 billion. Zayo revenue is […]
Top Company winner: IMA Financial
FINANCIAL SERVICES IMA Financial Group Denver-based IMA Financial Group won Top Company 2012 honors by scoring the business equivalent of a triple crown. Rivals for Colorado’s most competitive business honor, […]
Last year’s winners: Where are they now?
Time marches on, and last year we marked it by recognizing a handful of companies, institutions and individuals as contributors of the year in Cleantech. So one year after last […]
Cleantech’s “bridge fuel”
Cleantech and natural gas. If reading that sentence makes your blood pressure rise, just hang in and read on. Because sometimes things work out. If they do this time, the […]
Cleantech 2.0: Pragmatic and capital-efficient
While the popular media and one presidential candidate actively berate cleantech, a Colorado fund remains strongly confident in a strong future for cleantech. Aravaipa Ventures’ Founder and Managing Director Robert […]
Top Company winner: Junior Achievement
NONPROFIT Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc. does what it can to fill an almost infinite space, the gap between what our schools teach and what goes on in […]
A recruiter’s journey from renewables to oil & gas
The mighty U.S. government for some years now has been pushing green jobs as, among other things, the solution to the nation’s economic stagnation. That might be an appealing idea, […]
Oil & Gas in the high-tech age
Brace yourself for impact, Colorado. Something’s coming, and you might not be ready. You might not be used to it. You might even have forgotten what it is. It’s called prosperity. Even with our ongoing sluggish economy, mediocre employment growth and flabby real estate markets, Colorado is already...
A closer look at “subsidies”
Type “Obama” and “oil subsidies” into Google, and you get 6,120,000 results. These include first-Google-page headlines such as “Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Helping the Richest Get Richer,” “Senate Republicans reject Obama […]
A Stronger Economy and Deal Diversity Driving Private Equity Aid
Nobody in the private equity funding business is arranging a ticker-tape parade just yet, but investing in confetti futures may not be such a bad idea. “Without patting ourselves on […]
Corporate Growth Award Winner: Schomp Automotive
You would have to be a very recent Colorado transplant not to have heard of Schomp Automotive. First off, the company is a fourth-generation family business this year celebrating […]
