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Private lessons
Throughout countless business community conversations, you’ll hear the same call to action: “We need a big success; we need an IPO,” said Pete Khanna, CEO of TrackVia last year on […]
Trademarks on wheels
The purpose of trademarks is to protect consumers so that they know what they are buying. However, when a company fails and its marks go abandoned, anyone can pick them up and register them as their own – and then sell products under the old venerable brand. Even though I know the new Motobecane h...
Maine attraction
Doug and Nancy Van Reeth had no jobs lined up when they returned to Northern Colorado in April after eight years in Maine. The two met in the late ‘90s at the Loveland Reporter Herald, where he was chief photographer and she was a graphic designer, but they knew they weren’t going back to the shri...
Changing careers after 50
Your attitude could be a huge detriment to getting a new position. Do you think you project anger, frustration, a why-me or poor-me attitude? Ask your friends or spouse/partner; they may be a better barometer. If the answer is yes, you’d better change your attitude right away. Any negativity will...
Earning my wings
The menu read: “Roast Pork Loin with French Herbs, Mashed Potatoes and Green Beans. Louisiana-style baked Fish with Zucchini. Roasted Chicken with Pumpkin Gravy, Rice and Poulette sauce.” I must be inside one of Denver’s newest white table cloth restaurant, right? In the heart of Denver’s histo...
Oilfield innovators drawn to water
In August, Riggs Eckelberry flew into Aspen for a renewable energy conference, but perhaps surprisingly, his message concerned traditional energy development. He aimed to talk about his company’s algae-based system to help drillers clean up their water. “They will save money, which to me is a pret...
Sports biz: Going out of biz
Ten years ago, I wrote the first of what would be many “SportsBiz” columns for ColoradoBiz, examining the marketing and pricing approach adopted by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment for a newcomer on the sports scene: the Colorado Mammoth.Tom Philand of Kroenke Sports explained his belief that with t...
Mergers and acquisitions
It’s been a busy year for mergers and acquisitions, and next year could be even busier. Warren Henson, president and senior managing director of investment banking firm Green Manning & Bunch […]
Denver: Top draw for millennials
Chris Wright’s companies – and the technologies they’ve spawned – have played a big role in the energy revolution of recent years. Pinnacle Technologies, which he founded and presided over for 14 years, created the hydraulic fracture mapping industry and developed the world’s most widely used frac...
Appealing to eco-friendly tastes
More than a decade ago, the employees of what was then a fledgling brewery in Fort Collins took a vote: Would they get their profit-sharing earnings that year, or would they instead put that money toward a 10-year investment in wind energy? “It was really a defining moment for us,” Katie Wallace s...
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 […]
Back in Boulder
Not many successful CEO types would jump at the chance to lead an organization failing as badly as the University of Colorado’s athletic department was just one year ago. Fixing a department drowning in debt, hemorrhaging customers, with apathy among donors and competitors relishing every chance t...
