Recent Articles from Eric Peterson
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 […]
Plant-based Protein is Taking Root in Colorado’s Food Economy
When Gov. Jared Polis signed a declaration proclaiming March 20th as “MeatOut Day” in Colorado in 2021, the backlash was furious and often hyperbolic. Cattlemen decried the call for a meat-free day as near-blasphemy, as Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts retaliated with a competing “Meat on the Menu Day.” Republican State Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer of Weld […]
Denver International Airport (DIA) is now the Third-busiest Airport in the World
At times overshadowed by conspiracy theories and punchlines about the since-scrapped automated baggage system, Denver International Airport hit an inarguable zenith during the pandemic, jumping from the 16th-busiest airport worldwide in terms of total passengers in 2019 to the eighth-busiest in 2020. In 2021, the ascent continued: DIA was the third-busiest airport on Earth with […]
Good Company: Mike Shand, CEO of Bron Tapes
Mike Shand joined Bron Tapes as a sales representative in San Diego in 2003. The company manufactures, customizes and distributes adhesive tape of all kinds to industries ranging from aerospace to construction to film. Its Killer Red Tape is trademarked as “the world’s best double-sided tape.” The 150-employee business now has locations in seven states […]
Live Music: Sounds Good to Colorado Economies
Morrison’s legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre sold 505,312 tickets in 2007. That number soared to 1.3 million in 2021 and could top 1.5 million in 2022, according to Denver Arts & Venues. Over the last five years, out-of-staters bought 42 percent of tickets to Red Rocks shows. Those people book hotel rooms, eat meals, and otherwise […]
Taming Agriculture’s Energy Hogs
Sam Anderson, energy specialist with the Colorado Department of Agriculture, oversees the state’s ACRE3 program that provides agricultural producers with grant funding for energy-efficiency projects and renewable energy. Return on investment depends on the type of operation. “Dairies and year-round greenhouses are incredibly energy-intensive,” Anderson says. READ — Colorado Agtech Hi[...]
Made in Colorado 2022 — Outdoor Edition
LavaBox Portable Campfires Joshua Thurmond’s background as a rafting guide led to the launch of LavaBox in early 2021. A fellow board member at the Colorado Whitewater Association asked Thurmond if he could come up with something better than the big, round fire pits used on overnight trips. “I said, ‘Yeah, I can make one […]
Plains tourism pitch: Head east for peace, quiet and solitude
Getting away from it all has gotten increasingly difficult in Colorado’s high country. Heading west, I-70 is prone to traffic snarls, Vail and Breckenridge are the busiest ski resorts in the U.S., and lodging and lift ticket prices are sky-high. Then there are the great outdoors. Campgrounds in the mountains are at capacity and some […]
Colorado Agtech Hits Critical Mass
A third-generation Colorado farmer, Marc Arnusch grows barley and other grains on 2,200 acres in the Prospect Valley east of Keenesburg. His son, Brett, joined Marc Arnusch Farms after he graduated from Colorado State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences in 2018. “We didn’t know if he’d come back to the farm or not,” Arnusch says. […]