Recent Articles from Eric Peterson
US Farm Labor Shortage: Affordable and Secure Food Act Fails to Pass in Congress Despite Increasing H-2A Visa Numbers
In the fiscal year 2021, the U.S. issued 258,000 H-2A visas to seasonal farm workers. That number is roughly double the visas issued in 2016. Even though demand and wages are up, supply is still stretched pretty thin, with an estimated 10 percent to 15 percent labor deficit in agriculture nationwide. For these reasons, Sen. Michael […]
How Modular Construction Could Ease Colorado’s Housing Affordability Crisis in 2023
It’s been a banner era for residential real estate in Colorado. Zillow ranked Colorado as having the fifth-highest typical home value of any state, a number that eclipsed $600,000 in 2022. The dark lining to this seemingly silver cloud is a statewide affordability crisis. Modular and other offsite construction represents a potential salve, and the […]
Tech Startup — OneClock is Your Solution for a Tech-free Bedroom
ONE CLOCK Boulder FOUNDED: 2021 WEBSITE: www.oneclock.co INITIAL LIGHTBULB “My wife and I committed to getting our phones out of the bedroom,” he says of the inspiration for OneClock. “We’d been using them, keeping them plugged in on our nightstands, using them as our alarm clock. We were both ready to commit to trying to […]
Made in Colorado 2023 — 10 Stories Behind the Colorado Craft
These businesses have at least one thing in common: They all make products in Colorado. There are some subsets with other commonalities. Two, coincidentally, were born in garages in Windsor. Three others have new ownership since 2020. After that, it’s all over the map. One is sending cutting-edge technology to space. Another makes spillway gates […]
Made in Colorado 2022 — Manufacturer With a Mission
All Made In Colorado’s winners and finalists have at least one thing in common: They all make products in Colorado. It underlines the sheer breadth of the products made in Colorado. While the Colorado manufacturing base is not as established as places like the Rust Belt and the Southeast, it is also unconstrained by tradition […]
Made in Colorado 2022 — Most Innovative Manufacturer
All Made In Colorado’s winners and finalists have at least one thing in common: They all make products in Colorado. It underlines the sheer breadth of the products made in Colorado. While the Colorado manufacturing base is not as established as places like the Rust Belt and the Southeast, it is also unconstrained by tradition […]
Made in Colorado 2022 — Emerging Manufacturer
All Made In Colorado’s winners and finalists have at least one thing in common: They all make products in Colorado. It underlines the sheer breadth of the products made in Colorado. While the Colorado manufacturing base is not as established as places like the Rust Belt and the Southeast, it is also unconstrained by tradition […]
Made in Colorado 2022 — Top Food and Beverage Manufacturer
All Made In Colorado’s winners and finalists have at least one thing in common: They all make products in Colorado. It underlines the sheer breadth of the products made in Colorado. While the Colorado manufacturing base is not as established as places like the Rust Belt and the Southeast, it is also unconstrained by tradition […]
Made In Colorado 2022 — Best Designed Goods
All Made In Colorado’s winners and finalists have at least one thing in common: They all make products in Colorado. It underlines the sheer breadth of the products made in Colorado. While the Colorado manufacturing base is not as established as places like the Rust Belt and the Southeast, it is also unconstrained by tradition […]
Good Company — Natasha Bond, President of ERI Group
Natasha bond joined ERI group as president in 2021. The company has been helping clients bring medical devices to market since 1988. “we offer development, manufacturing quality, and regulatory. Some projects touch all of those and some projects touch one of them,” says bond. “our job — my job — is to fill the gaps […]
Tech Startup — Maybell Quantum and The Next Generation of Quantum Computing
Maybell Quantum Denver FOUNDED: 2021 WEBSITE: www.maybellquantum.com INITIAL LIGHTBULB Co-founder and CEO Corban Tillemann-Dick spent a decade with Boston Consulting Group before he launched Maybell Quantum. The gig encompassed quantum computing — the emerging technology that could make the status quo look like an abacus — and inspired the startup. “Every computer that we rely […]
Made in Colorado: Fall 2022
Farm to Summit — Dehydrated Meals Durango Louise Barden saw a void in backcountry cuisine while working as a research ecologist in the Yellowstone backcountry. “These grown men were just complaining about food and how they hated their meals,” Louise says. She subsequently teamed with her culinary-focused wife, Jane, to launch a line of dehydrated […]