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Executive edge: Niki Frangos Tuttle
On New Year’s Eve 2010, Denver lawyer Niki Frangos Tuttle worked into the night on an intriguing television deal before arriving late to a dinner party chock full of celebrities. It was the launch party for the Oprah Winfrey Network, and the partner in Hogan Levells’ Denver office had just cemente...
More on the lean, mean micro-college model
(Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts. Read Part One.) On a recent “Future of Beer Tour,” an event we produced at the DaVinci Institute that took us […]
The futurist: The lean, mean, micro-college model
With literally millions of people needing to shift careers every year, and the long drawn out cycles of traditional colleges being a poor solution for time-crunched rank-and-file displaced workers, we are seeing a massive new opportunity arising for short-term, pre-apprenticeship training. Many mi...
Chef Laura: Flawed to perfection
As we weave our career tapestries, let’s not beat ourselves up too much over the minutia. There’s no need to advertise our flaws like the town crier. And if someone notices a small imperfection in our work, tell ‘em the Tale of the Persian Rug. It reminds ourselves that we are all human, not go...
Sports biz: We are what we watch
In his introduction to the 2001 book, Fast Food Nation, The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, writer Eric Schlosser makes a gentle suggestion: Be an informed eater. “People should […]
Pairing made perfect
By the time you’ve spent the two hours lollygagging through beauties like the 2009 St. Francis Cabernet Sauvignon, Sonoma County (California) and the 2011 Hahn Chardonnay, Santa Lucia Highlands (California), you don’t know what hit you – and you don’t care. And that’s not because you’ve imbibed (y...
Tech startup: TextUs.Biz
Before starting TextUs.Biz, Ted Guggenheim, Andrew Kimmell and Mike Hickman worked together at Rage Digital, the Boulder app-maker best known for its virtual cowbell used during the 2010 Winter Olympics. The trio witnessed the mobile app market becoming increasingly saturated and realized that te...
More snapshots from the future
(Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts. Read Part One.) In looking at generational changes, it’s important to put everything into context – what things have changed and […]
The futurist: A look at teens — past, present and future
In looking at generational changes, it’s important to put everything into context – what things have changed and what has stayed the same. I’ve chosen to frame this discussion around middle class teenagers in the U.S., an influential, trend-setting segment of American society. Experiences differ g...
Break routine, open your mind
Present day workplaces have a tendency to be hectic and jam-packed. In marketing or public relations, every position has the opportunity to be creative in their own unique way. Unfortunately, […]
Focus forward by working backward
A milestone birthday is in my immediate future. Next week, I gain entry to the “fourth floor”. Like New Year’s Eve, birthdays are a good time for resolutions; except we don’t call them that. Instead we pause for a moment, conjure up a wish, blow out a candle (or 40), and hope for the best. It se...
Rundles wrap up: Freedom?
I am currently engaged, for the sixth time in my life, in that wonderful rite of passage known as the learner’s permit. I haven’t been this attentive as a passenger […]
