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Colorado’s 20 “perk”-iest companies: The next seven
Moots // Steamboat Springs About the biz: Moots has been hand-crafting high-performance titanium road, mountain and Cylocross bicycle frames since 1981. Employees: 25 Leadership: President Mike Sanders The big Perk: It only makes sense that a bike-concocting company would focus on keeping its employees fit for any ride. A[...]
Creative finance vs traditional venture capital
Crowdfunding, tech-oriented alternative lenders and resurgent venture capitalists are rewriting the financing rules for startups and upstarts seeking growth capital. Entrepreneurs still need to show investors they can generate sales, and alternative loan rates can be steep, but now those with a vision and the industriousness to mak[...]
Putting water to work
Gravity being what it is, any water flowing between Colorado’s highest and lowest points, a range of 11,124 feet, has great embedded energy. The question is whether that energy can be throttled and put to use. The answer, of course, is yes. Early gold-seekers used hydraulic mining to blast apart hillsides. Later, turbines were [...]
Rundles wrap up: Gluten, gluten, gluten
All you hear these days is “gluten, gluten, gluten.” I hear it and see it so often that it is ringing in my ears as if being spoken by The Swedish Chef from the Muppets in a Fake Scandinavian accent: “Gluten. Gluten. Gluten.” And it all seems as silly as The Swedish Chef, really, in that it has gone way beyond a legitimat[...]
State of the state: A&E
Arnie Grossman waited decades for his breakthrough Hollywood moment. It took him all of 35 seconds to get it. That’s how much time Grossman gave himself last November for a carefully rehearsed pitch, describing a movie concept to the agent representing actor Bruce Dern, whose career resurgence was sparked by his Oscar-nominated[...]
Women business owners thrive with confidence, conviction
For women starting their own businesses in Colorado, especially those entering non-conventional job sectors, get ready to bring the passion. Ample self-confidence and conviction in one’s business model are key assets needed to build a successful woman-owned business from the bottom up, say female entrepreneurs across the sta[...]
Alone in the Mountain time zone
When the Colorado Rockies set up shop in Denver and began play in 1993, the organization brought Major League Baseball to the Mountain time zone, and millions of fans from the region finally had a team to root for and travel to see. For the past 21 seasons, the Rockies have been consistently among the top-drawing franchises in ba[...]
Sports biz: Preseason baseball 2014
If the Rockies are able to compete in the National League West this year, the team will have to pull off some serious Billy Beane magic by overachieving from a payroll standpoint. That’s not because the Rox are skinflints. The projected 2014 payroll – around $90 million – would land the team near the midpoint of MLB spender[...]
Remote possibilities
From offices overlooking the snowy main street of a Colorado mountain town, business owner Michelle Geib helps customers with questions about sailing on a schooner on Lake Michigan or whale watching off the California coast. Geib runs Xperience Days, her company that offers unique activity gifts in locations across the country, f[...]
Made in Colorado 2014: Aerospace; Energy/Environment;
Aerospace Falcon UAV Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) falcon-uav.com Aurora Chris Miser’s Air Force background led directly to his founding Falcon UAV in 2007. “I designed and developed unmanned aircraft for the military,” he says of his service. “I know how these will be used in a tactical sense.” When Miser[...]
High standards in the spotlight
When the Colorado Ethics in Business Alliance (CEBA) was founded in 1990, as Ethics and Business – The Colorado Corporate Responsibility Awards Program, the idea was to divert some of the spotlight from the many ethical breaches running rampant in the news and illuminate the good things that Colorado professionals engaged in. T[...]
CBCA: Impact Award finalists
Creative ideas, strategies, designs, communication tactics or community partnerships can benefits both businesses and consumers. The Impact Award highlights innovative uses of the arts to propel business forward and engage employees. Watch a video about the Impact Award winner and finalists. Arts Brookfield Since 1992, Arts Bro[...]
Spirited disruption
The American craft distilling industry is experiencing profound growth, and Colorado is one of its spirited success stories. In the past 10 years, the number of active U.S. artisanal distilleries has spiked from 60 to about 400; Colorado went from zero to 46 in just a few years. “Colorado has probably set the gold standard fo[...]
CBCA: The winners
Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA) announced the winners of the 2014 Business for the Arts Awards, honoring companies and individual’s for their exemplary partnerships and engagement with the arts, to a sold-out crowd of arts, business, and civic leaders at the Seawell Grand Ballroom on Wednesday. “Congratulati[...]
Real Estate Roundup: Reclaiming Brighton Boulevard
Long eyed by Denver planners for its potential, the Brighton Boulevard corridor is attracting the attention of developers and businesses wanting to locate in what once was a tangle of rail yards and large industrial plants. Though slow to evolve, the renaissance started with the early vision of urban pioneer Mickey Zeppelin, wh[...]
Financial literacy 101
Robin Wise believes knowledge is power when it comes to money matters, and that’s why she’s determined to help the next generation become more financially literate. “Not understanding the rules of personal finance is what keeps people poor,” says Wise, president and CEO of Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain In[...]
Celebrating the spirit of snow
Seasons come, and seasons go. But in Colorado, there’s a special enthusiasm reserved solely for winter, which is treated like an art form in and of itself. Hence, the Art of Winter — the urban festival of art and design intended to engage community members in a comparable fashion to Denver Startup Week. Now in its fourth it[...]
Can entrepreneurship be taught?
Webster’s Dictionary defines an entrepreneur as “a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money.” While the word has undoubtedly earned buzz-worthy status in recent years in Colorado’s professional landscape, where 98 percent of businesses are considered small, entrepreneurship is clearl[...]
Colorado cool stuff: Cat-Ears, Powerice, Matterial, Livliga
CAT-EARS Rick Weissner liked biking with friends on weekends, but found chatting difficult. “Typically, you try to catch up, but you get a fair amount of wind noise,” says Weissner, a financial consultant. So he launched Cat-Ears in 2012 to solve the social biking conundrum. Inspired by the animal kingdom, Cat-Ears use fau[...]
Sports biz: Av-onomics: Looking up
For Colorado Avalanche fans, the best thing about the new National Hockey League season is that it’s just that: new. After closing the books on a forgettable year, the Avalanche returned to the ice with a legend in the coach’s box and a much-improved vibe among the fan base, if anecdotal chatter means anything. I know this be[...]
