Recently added articles from ColoradoBiz:
VC is out there - if you've got the right stuff: active investors advise entrepreneurs at 21st Annual Colorado Capital Conference.(BUSINESS CAPITAL)(venture capital)(Conference news)
Jun 01, 2009; ... The good news is venture capitalists are still funding Colorado startups. The bad news is VCs are taking far fewer risks. Entrepreneurs need to create business plans that require less money; they need to do more bootstrapping; and most of all, they need to have real customers ...
Colorado clean tech goes to Washington.(COTE'S colorado)(Colorado Cleantech Industry Association)(Conference news)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Forget that schism between Wall Street and Main Street. If you want money these days, you'll find your bankers at the nation's capital, especially if you're a clean-tech company from the state whose governor swears he coined the phrase "New Energy Economy." The American ...
So you want to start a business? I have pretty much lived my dream ... perhaps I can help you do the same.(on MANAGEMENT)(Conference news)
Jun 01, 2009; ... In the early '80s, things got tough for the Wiesner family. I was working for a medium-sized publishing company. A pretty good company. I was its president, doing well, but I wasn't happy. I don't remember exactly why, but looking back it was probably because underneath it all I ...
The end of advertising as we know it.(Karsh and Hagan Advertising Inc.)(Pasquale Marranzino Jr. )(Personal account)(Column)
Jun 01, 2009; ... As Mick Jagger sings in the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," please allow me to introduce myself ... My name is Pasquale "Pocky" Marranzino Jr. I am co-president of Karsh & Hagan, a 32-year-old advertising agency headquartered a long home run north of Coors Field. I ...
It's a puzzlement.(the ECONOMIST)
Jun 01, 2009; ... "It's a puzzlement," sang Yul Brenner in "The King and I," as he tried to understand the differences between East and West. Alan Greenspan chose a different word in testimony before the House Finance Committee more than four years ago. He talked about the "conundrum" of the unanticipated ...
Bursting bubbles: after tech stocks and housing, what's next?(ECONOMY)(Society of American Business and Economic Writers)(Conference news)
Jun 01, 2009; ... A few things are certain in life: death, taxes and financial bubbles, be they tech stocks or subprime mortgages. A panel that convened in Denver in April as part of the annual convention of the Society of American Business Writers and Editors pondered how to look for the next ...
Beer by the numbers.(STATE OF THE STATE)
Jun 01, 2009 ... No. 3 - New Belgium's ranking among the top craft beer makers in the country by volume. The Fort Collins maker of Fat Tire was outranked in 2008 only by Boston Beer Co. and Chico, Calif.-based Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., which were first and second respectively. Other Colorado brewers in ...
On the record.
Jun 01, 2009 ... I HAVE PICTURES GOING UP AND PICTURES GOING DOWN, BUT THEY'RE ALL BAD NEWS." --Wells Fargo economist Gabriel de Kock ...
Left Hand extends its reach to Europe.(Left Hand Brewing Co.)
Jun 01, 2009; ... When we talk American craft beer, you're likely thinking in terms of Americans enjoying American-brewed beers from small (less than 2 million barrels of beer brewed annually), independent brewers. How about those same beers being enjoyed by suds lovers on the other side of the ...
Chipotle tests lower-priced menu items.(RESTAURANTS)(Chipotle Mexican Grill)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Despite a 22.7 percent revenue increase in a year that clobbered other restaurant chains, Chipotle Mexican Grill announced a trial run in April of a new menu in its Denver-area restaurants featuring smaller portions and cheaper prices. Fans of Chipotle's giant burritos can be ...
John Lester: bear markets no match for UBS chief, who has found courage battling kidney disease.(EXECUTIVE EDGE)(Boettcher and Co.)
Jun 01, 2009; ... John Lester's career and life started on the same day - July 10, 1986. That was the day he landed his first job - at the prestigious Boettcher & Co. - freshly armed with an MBA from the Daniels School of Business at the University of Denver. It also was the day the ...
ColoradoBiz real estate roundup.(Statistical table)
Jun 01, 2009 ... <Pre> TOTAL PROPERTIES SOLD 2008 VS. 2009 2008 2009 JAN 2.987 2,469 -17.3% FEB 3,001 2.484 -17.2% MAR 3,709 3,206 -13.6% APR 4,625 3,390 -13.6% MAY 4,664 JUNE4,845 JULY5,123 AUG 4,542 SEPT4,265 OCT 4,282 ...
Telluride: comatose but not dead: smaller houses gain fashion in downturn.(WHO OWNS COLORADO)
Jun 01, 2009; ... In this state, Telluride vies only with Aspen and maybe Vail when it comes to glamour and glitz: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and now Jerry Seinfeld. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Oprah. Need more be said? Telluride was and is ...
Fueling the economic fire: these fast-growing businesses are building tomorrow's economy.(50 COLORADO COMPANIES)
Jun 01, 2009 ... However many billions the federal government pumps into the economy, one truth rings clear: It will be business that will lift the country out of the doldrums and thrust it forward into the 21st century. Here are 50 companies you can expect to help lead the way. These Colorado ...
Too much beetle wood ain't enough: wood from beetle-killed trees can be used as fuel, yet biomass heating systems require more wood than even Colorado's 1.5 million acres of infected lodgepole pines could provide for long-term use.(PLANET-PROFIT REPORT)(Survey)
Jun 01, 2009; ... In Vail, the specter of dead and dying lodgepole pine trees presents both adversity and opportunity. Mountain bark beetles, always present in forests but in epidemic proportions since 1996, have turned adjacent slopes the color of cheaply dyed hair, the needles of dying trees a dull red ...
Colorado's share of the stimulus: the state is expected to receive more than $3.5 billion in funding, benefits and services.(PLANET-PROFIT REPORT)
Jun 01, 2009; ... President Obama signed the stimulus bill in February at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, returning to the state where he accepted the Democratic nomination for president. That Obama has borrowed the "New Energy Economy" phrase first championed by Gov. Bill Ritter and that ...
Goodwill Industries of Denver.(sustainability SPOTLIGHT)(Goodwill Industries International Inc.)
Jun 01, 2009; ... SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES Most people recognize Goodwill Industries of Denver by the nonprofit's 18 retail stores selling secondhand goods, but that arm of the organization only serves the greater mission of helping members of the community reach their full potential. ...
Colorado's public companies reflect, defy recession's ill effects.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Publicly traded companies based in Colorado showed the effects of the recession in 2008, with moves out of state, mergers and bankruptcies combining to push 15 companies off this year's Top 100 Public Companies ranking. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The most visible absence ...
Redemption for Wile E. coyote.(SMALL biz)(Column)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Early last month a co-worker and I watched with fascination from my third-floor office window as a coyote ambled across our business park in the middle of the Denver Tech Center. Stopping at the edge of Greenwood Plaza Boulevard, the coyote waited for a lull in traffic, then loped across ...
Company: Advanced Regenerative Therapies.([small biz] TECH-STARTUP)
Jun 01, 2009; ... INITIAL LIGHT BULB: The genesis of Advanced Regenerative Therapies came when Colorado State University experts cross-pollinated their expertise in tissue regeneration and equine orthopedics. Dr. John Kisiday, who specializes in the former, came to CSU in 2005 and connected with ...