Recent Articles from Jamie Siebrase
Lone Tree's iFLY Takes Team Building to Daring New Heights
Responding to the times, employers such as the Opus Group, Charles Schwab and Facebook are taking an exhilarating approach to team building by hosting corporate events at Colorado’s only indoor skydiving gym.
Restaurant Industry's Back-of-House Going to Pot
In Colorado, about 18,000 people have jobs in the marijuana industry, which generated $1.1 billion in profit in 2016.
From neglected to celebrated – Stanley Market goes full throttle
Commerce is impacting the neighborhood in more ways than one. Housing prices, for example, have spiked in Aurora’s northwest corridor.
Diversifying Telluride's economy with more middle class jobs
What if entrepreneurship could play a role in diversifying the economy by creating more middle class jobs?
First to market and no fear of failure
Tanner McGraw started Apto in 2012 to provide a cloud-based CRM and deal management platform for commercial real estate brokers. Five years later, Apto holds enterprise agreements with five of commercial real estate’s top seven brands, and has 85 full-time employees — up from 27 in 2015.
Josh Dorkin bets on social network for real estate investors
Josh Dorkin had a long list of real estate related inquiries, and when he couldn’t find the answers in the public domain, he started BiggerPockets, a one-of-a-kind social network for real estate investors.
Marijuana empire comes up green for serial entrepreneur
Greg Gamet has been busy since 2009. That was the year he launched DANK, a medical marijuana dispensary that became one of Colorado’s first recreational dispensaries on Jan. 1, 2014. While getting DANK off the ground, Gamet founded Kush Bottles, the state’s leading supplier of packaging solutions to the cannabis industry.
Everest climber mixes business and adventure in Colorado
Luis Benitez tapped to lead state's Outdoor Recreation Industry Office.
How Denver restaurants and retail adapt to rising rents
The general rule is simple: A restaurateur’s occupancy cost – rent plus interrelated fees – shouldn’t exceed 10 percent of gross sales. For many local joints, though, it’s become challenging to operate within those parameters.
How to pay for college: The 18-year plan
For contemporary parents, the main problem is that the cost of a college education is growing faster than the economy. When my kids are in college, for example, around 2029, analysts estimate public tuition will cost roughly $44,000 annually.
Concierge services emerging as emergency-room alternative
It’s no secret that public health care costs are high, and patient-satisfaction rates are low. That conundrum has some doctors looking for alternatives — providing niche services that cut costs while enhancing consumer experience.
Academia charts a new course
Lifelong learning is no longer just an exercise for the intellectually curious. Increasingly, it’s a matter of career survival, or at least advancement. “In the good old days, you graduated college, went to work for a company and could expect a 45-year career,” says University of Phoenix’s Kent Blumberg, Colorado campus director of academic affairs. […]