Recent Articles from David Mead
Colorado success stories: comCables
Editor’s note: This is another in a series of Colorado company success stories as told by CEOs and business owners. When we started the Colorado success stories series about our clients and friends six months ago, we decided to focus on companies that were enjoying success despite the downturn by disruptive innovation, new business models […]
Don’t be held back by past success
The business is profitable. It generates cash. There seems to be no end to new ideas and plans to invest and grow the company. But ideas seem to almost never get evaluated, or if evaluated, never are seriously considered. The company continues to focus on the familiar strategy, with the founder maintaining, “This is what […]
Failure to launch
Superior execution is one of the strengths of the Colorado success stories we have been profiling over the past few months. But these companies are the exceptions; nearly 65 percent of all strategies fail to reach expectations. Why do so many business strategies fail? Barriers to successful planning and execution develop in all companies over time. In […]
Colorado success stories: Page 1 Solutions
Editor’s note: This is another in a series of Colorado company success stories as told by CEOs and business owners. When Dan Goldstein left a Denver law firm in 1993 to join an area marketing firm as general counsel, he never expected to one day be president of an online marketing company. But in the […]
Seven traits of Colorado success stories
Since the beginning of this year, I have met with the CEOs or owners of over 120 private companies. These companies range from new technologies, products and services in such diverse fields as education, web conferencing, burgers, trucking, logistics, steel distribution, medical devices, focus groups, outsourced services, and social media. Some of these companies are […]
Colorado success stories: Liberty Acquisitions Servicing
Editor’s note: This is another in a series of Colorado company success stories as told by CEOs and business owners. I did not know what to expect when I met with Mark Cannon one of two managing directors of Liberty Acquisitions, a collection agency for consumer debt. I thought to myself, “What can I possibly […]
Colorado success stories: Otterbox
Editor’s note: This is another in a series of Colorado company success stories as told by CEOs and business owners. Curt Richardson, CEO and founder of OtterBox, recently spent time with me, sharing some of the challenges and keys to OtterBox’s explosive growth. The OtterBox tagline, “We’ve got technology covered,” is descriptive of the protective […]
What do burgers, focus groups and web conferencing have in common?
Editor’s Note: CEOs Dave Prokupek (Smash-burger), John Williamson (Qualvu), and Dan King (ReadyTalk) will be presenting at the Rocky Mountain Corporate Growth Conference on April 27-28 at the Inverness Hotel What do burgers, focus groups and Web conferencing have in common? All are crowded, competitive spaces that might be considered to be commodity markets. Most […]
Colorado success stories: 3t Systems
Editor’s note: This is another in a series of Colorado company success stories as told by CEOs and business owners. Discussions of cloud computing and Managed IT Services have become the rage. 3tSystems, through its strong commitment to client satisfaction and customer service, has grown dramatically – mostly from word-of mouth referrals – doubling in […]
Colorado success stories: ReadyTalk
Editor’s note: This is another in a series of Colorado company success stories as told by CEOs and business owners. ReadyTalk, provides audio conferencing, web conferencing and webinar services for companies. ReadyTalk emerged from the ashes of a dot-com-era bust, when its co-founders transitioned to a strategy to provide wholesale web conferencing services to infrastructure-based […]
Colorado success stories: Ayuda Management Corp.
Editor’s note: This is another in a series of Colorado company success stories as told by CEOs and business owners. Maria Vogt and Sonya Yungeberg are co-owners who lead Ayuda Management which provides services to a select client base in the areas of general contracting/construction management, construction defect repair, homeland defense consulting/security system design and […]
Colorado success stories: Newsgator
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of Colorado company success stories as told by CEOs and business owners. NewsGator specializes in Enterprise Social Computing which involves integrating social media and social computing (Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, etc.) at the enterprise level. The company started in 2004, but hit an inflection point in 2007 […]