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The Economist: Back to the pesky immigration issue
Last month, I had the privilege of sitting on the stage as more than 1,000 graduates of CU Colorado Springs walked across to receive their diplomas. As each name was called and the corresponding student walked across the platform, the air was pierced with cheers and whistles. Last name after last name was not of Western European [...]
Brainstorming in Steamboat
Employers planning a corporate retreat face the dual challenge of deciding on a site that advances company goals but that still feels like a reward. Many discover that harmonious middle ground in Steamboat Springs, a community of nearly 17,000 located 160 miles northwest of Denver and named for its hot springs, which remain a rel[...]
Office space evolution
Perhaps unsurprisingly, a hot topic of discussion these days is how companies can capitalize on technologies that untether and mobilize employees. If an employee can move from a desktop to laptop computer, can that employee suffice with a smaller desk? If the contents of a file cabinet can be digitized and saved onto that laptop, c[...]
High rises and high hopes
The Highlands neighborhood might be a real estate hot spot, but in its early days, residents couldn’t give their land away. According to Rebecca Hunt, president of Highland United Neighbors Inc. (HUNI) and a senior instructor at the University of Colorado Denver, in 1859 one of the earliest Highlands settlers tried to trade 136 l[...]
COCTW 2013: Precise Cast Prototypes to Zen Planner
Precise Cast Prototypes & Engineering www.precisecast.com Snapshot: PreciseCast is a manufacturing and engineering company out of Adams County that provides prototype and low-volume castings and machined parts to companies including John Deere, Lockheed-Martin, Bose and L3 Communication. Revenues for the 9-year-old company [...]
Colorado cool stuff: Biz game, dance duds, hot sauce and organicwear
DISRUPTUS Julien Sharp launched Funnybone Toys in 2012 after relocating from New York to Denver. The company started with a trio of color-oriented games – Cubu, Array and Spectrix – that all sold equally well in the museum market. Now Sharp is looking at a new target with this year’s Disruptus game: businesses. “It’s[...]
Colorado’s Top 100 Public Companies
Englewood-based Dish Network sits atop the Top 100 Public Companies ranking for the third straight year with revenues of $14.3 billion in 2012, but a much smaller Colorado public company not even on the list has generated just as much buzz on Wall Street of late. You won’t find Rally Software on this year’s ranking because the [...]
COCTW 2013: Icelantic Skis to Populus
Icelantic Skis www.icelanticskis.com Snapshot: Icelantic Skis manufactures and sells Alpine skis and boots. The company was founded in 2005 and is Denver-based. Revenues increased 69 percent in 2012 and are projected to increase 61 percent this year. Leadership: Benjamin Anderson is CEO and co-founder with Annelise Loevlie, T[...]
Lights! Camera! Inaction!
In 1974, author Stephen King found a change of scenery for his next book project by opening an atlas and randomly pointing to Boulder. King and his wife, Tabitha, took the advice of some helpful locals and stayed at the imposing Stanley Hotel at the base of Rocky Mountain National Park – a setting that ultimately inspired hi[...]
Small businesses love Colorado
Colorado small businesses owners rated their state as among the most supportive in the nation, according to the second-annual Thumbtack.com Small Business Friendliness Survey. “In surveying thousands of small businesses across America, we found that clear and consistent licensing regulations and relevant training programs were [...]
COCTW 2013: Able Planet to Chinook Medical Gear
Able Planet www.ableplanet.com Snapshot: Able Planet designs and manufactures audio and communication devices for individuals with all levels of hearing. The products range from consumer headphones to devices for hearing health. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Wheat Ridge. Leadership: Kevin Semcken has been C[...]
Colorado Companies to Watch Class of 2011: Moots Cycles
For the serious cyclist, sweet dreams are made of Moots: light-as-air, tough-as-nails, titanium beauties, lovingly designed, mitered, welded, finished and machined by Butch, Nate, Bryce, Willy, Caleb, Amy and the rest of the gang up in Steamboat Springs. They’re not cheap – a Moots can easily set you back $5,000 – but for t[...]
Best of CoBiz: Top 10 questions to bolster your brand experience
Your business does not exist in a competitive vacuum! Your customers and prospects have a multitude of choices when it comes to parting with their money. As the world becomes a flatter place (a term coined by Thomas Friedman in his book, The World is Flat) not only will your competition come from your local area, but increasingly, [...]
Executive edge: Kelly Manning
When Kelly Manning travels throughout Colorado, she thinks about the small businesses she has helped nourish and grow. She thinks of Shelley McPherson, better known as the Rag Diva, who formed American Wiping Rags Inc. in Pueblo by simply recycling cloth and turning it into rags used by companies across the country. “She’s [...]
Ski-area expansions and the bottom line
There are few touchier subjects in the Colorado business world than expansions at the state’s ski areas. Many in the industry would rather stay mum on the dollar-and-cents decisions that go into an expansion of skiable terrain, but those who will talk about it see tangible benefits. Breckenridge Ski Resort, owned by Broomfield-[...]
Made in Colorado 2013: Technology & industrial
Gamma Two Robotics Denver www.gamma-two.com andwww.vigilantrobots.com Robots Drs. Jim and Louise Gunderson are the husband-and-wife, CTO-and-CEO team behind Gamma Two Robotics. They incorporated the company in 2003 but didn’t begin developing a biologically inspired cybernetic brain until 2006. Now that they’ve honed[...]
Made in Colorado 2013: Music & sound
Viktorian Guitars Denver www.viktorian.com Carbon fiber guitars “I met Diego Grinfeld while traveling to Israel in 2008,” says Josh Jacobson. “He was in the aerospace industry using carbon fiber. On his own, he’d come up with an exact replica of a Les Paul guitar made out of carbon fiber.” Jacobson was blown a[...]
Made in Colorado 2013: Electronics
Aleph Objects Loveland www.alephobjects.com www.lulzbot.com Open-source 3D printers Aleph Objects CEO Jeff Moe preaches the gospel of 3D printing. Moe started Aleph in 2011 after selling his previous startup, ISP Verinet Communitcations, to Front Range Internet. He was a proponent of open-source software like Linux and[...]
Made in Colorado 2013: Winter sports
Never Summer Industries Denver www.neversummer.com Snowboards Brothers and Never Summer co-founders Tim and Tracey Canaday made their first snowboards in wood shop class as high schoolers in Fort Collins in 1983. Thirty years later, they’re cranking 25,000 Never Summer snowboards a year out of their Denver factory whe[...]
Made in Colorado 2013: Bicycles & accessories
Panda Bicycles Fort Collins www.pandabicycles.com Bamboo bicycles Jacob Castillo, co-founder of Panda Bicycles, says the company was one of the first manufacturers to embrace bamboo for bike frames. Launched in 2009, the company was “one of the first to scale up,” he says. “We’re seeing more competition in the s[...]
