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Made in Colorado: Toys, games and pet products
Itzadog LLC’s Quiet Spot Pet Tag Silencers Denverwww.itzadog.com Quiet Spot pet tag silencers are named for Itzadog “Lead Dog” Scott Schaible’s late dog Spot, whose noisy tags led Schaible to cut up an old wetsuit to make an anti-clinking sheath in 1999. Using local cut-and-sew networks, Schaible has since expanded i[...]
Made in Colorado: Craft beer and spirits
Ellie’s Brown Ale Avery Brewing Boulder www.averybrewing.com Step inside Avery Tap Room and you feel like you’re part of the in-crowd as twentysomethings wash down pulled pork sliders with Hog Heaven Barleywine-style Ale or Philly cheesesteak sandwiches with New World Porter. Makes you forget it’s a bit hard to find[...]
Made in Colorado: Computer & communications equipment/software
Hyper ISE Data Storage System (made by X-IO) Colorado Springs www.x-io.com ISE stands for Intelligent Storage Element, and it’s what puts X-IO’s award-winning enterprise storage system at the head of the class, says Chief Technology Officer Steve Sicola. Debuting last summer, X-IO’s 14.4-terabyte Hyper ISE “look[...]
Florida’s “Sunshine” would rain on Colorado business
Based on a Florida law, a bill in the Colorado Legislature seeks to turn upside down an important aspect of Colorado’s civil justice law concerning product liability. Should the bill become law, Colorado’s business climate and economic development efforts would take a severe hit. SB-153 essentially would put into the public[...]
Business spring cleaning
A few days ago, a glorious 60 degree February day in Colorado allowed me to run outside in shorts and a short sleeved shirt. This brief respite from winter reminded me that spring is around the corner and with it the traditional spring cleaning at our house. Springtime is also a good time for business owners to take stock of their [...]
Black gold
Five percent or more of the oil consumed in Colorado comes from a sticky, black substance called bitumen, which is mined 1,600 miles to the north in a forested, boggy region of the Canadian province of Alberta. The locals in Fort McMurray, the center of the mining operations, and at corporate headquarters in Calgary, spit out th[...]
Tech startup: CarePilot Inc.
INITIAL LIGHT BULB After a decade working in health-care IT, Scot Woolley saw an emerging opportunity based on two factors: employers pushing more of the responsibility for coverage to employees, and the lack of online tools empowering health-care consumers. "In health care, there’s not a great amount of transparency that ex[...]
Painting the town black
The thing to know about Colorado’s business and arts communities is that playing well together helps both thrive. Though media headlines scream daily of economic strife and record unemployment, mom-and-pop shops and corporations alike want their local arts communities to flourish, so much so, they put skin in the game. Rober[...]
The Economist: What does 2012 hold for Colorado?
I'm encouraged when I read the economic consensus is that growth will be really slow in 2012, much slower than the consensus expected six months ago. That's because, in my 35 years of forecasting, I've found that the consensus is almost always wrong. It's not going to be a great year. But it will be a better one than we've seen f[...]
Bring on the powder!
Die-hard skiers might be a little frustrated by the lack of snow in 2011, but not enough to keep them off the mountains, say the pros in Telluride, Vail, Winter Park and other towns. While conditions aren't ideal, the traffic up I-70 has been steady, according to reports from communications directors at resorts around Colorado.Thoug[...]
Colorado Business Hall of Fame 2012
A crisp, cold beer in a silver can. A world-class bottle of cabernet sauvignon. A plush micro-fiber sofa sleeper. A down-filled leather après ski jacket. Investment capital to take your business to the next level. Get to know this year's Colorado Business Hall of Fame laureates, and you might be able to take care of some of your mo[...]
Colorado Business Hall of Fame: Jake Jabs
While some of his competitors have gone out of business during the tough economic climate of the past few years, Jake Jabs has expanded his American Furniture Warehouse empire to 13, with new stores open or under way in Grand Junction and Colorado Springs. The company - long known for its founder's homespun TV ads - had estimated[...]
Small biz: The Netflix of the ski rental industry
Joe Sternberg was managing a Steamboat Springs ski shop 10 years ago when country singer Alan Jackson called from the Sheraton Hotel asking if his rental skis could be delivered to his room. "He said, ‘Hey, I need some skis, but I had a really long flight. I don't feel like coming down there,'" Sternberg recalls. Sternberg's co-wor[...]
Colorado cool stuff: Sleash, Suncups, Topo and the Mutt & the Mustang
SLEASHJoe Buescher and Mike Saber, co-workers in the telecom industry and dog lovers, teamed to invent a slinger, which can not only fling balls for Fido to fetch but also Frisbees and bumpers. "We started out like a couple of mad scientists," Buescher says. "The design kept morphing and morphing and morphing until we could sling ev[...]
Crawling from the wreckage
Five years ago, economist Bill Greiner gathered with a dozen or so business-people from Colorado in a San Francisco hotel meeting room and talked about the "long, hard slog" - the sluggish period he and his colleagues could see coming around the corner. Greiner and his team didn't predict the severity of the economic crisis or how f[...]
Startup Colorado
We launched Startup Colorado this month as part of the Startup America Partnership. I'm co-chairing this effort with Phil Weiser (Dean of CU Boulder Law School) and Jan Horsfall (CEO of Gelazzi). Dave Mangum (Silicon Flatirons Research Fellow) is the Executive Director and the effort is being sponsored by Silicon Flatirons at CU Boul[...]
Top Company 2011: CorePower Yoga
While the tough economy has made it a less than ideal time to grow a business, CorePower Yoga has benefited from another 21st century phenomenon: the growing interest in fitness. Since 2002, the Denver-based company has grown to 55 yoga studios in Colorado, California, Oregon, Minnesota and Illinois. CorePower plans to open 10 to[...]
Tech startup: MYAPP2GO.COM
company:MYAPP2GO.COM INITIAL LIGHT BULB After nearly a decade in the banking software and services industry, Dan Rogers "shifted gears" and launched MYAPP2GO.COM last year with cohorts from his previous business, MSP Inc. At the time, the iPhone 3 was in its infancy and Rogers saw the writing on the wall for his previous business. "[...]
Filling a prescription for prosperity
Outside Lilly Marks' window on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, tractors rumble and towering cranes jockey for position, as the university and neighboring hospitals forge ahead with roughly 1 million square feet of new construction, totaling $820 million in capital investment. Among the additions to the already-[...]
GENxyz finalists 2011
DAVID SINKEY, 33Professional position: Principal and director of marketing, sales and land procurement, Boulder Creek BuildersPath to success: The graduate of the University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business joined Boulder Creek Builders' predecessor, Cessna Associates, in 2000. He has developed sales and marketing tools that h[...]
