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February 2009 Issue
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Against the wind
By Gary BainesDennis Lyon, manager of golf for the city of Aurora, didn’t know exactly what to expect when Aurora Golf recently sent out a survey to 25,000 people on its e-mail list, asking them if they planned to play more, less or the same amount of golf in 2009.
Given the state of the economy, and that people are watching their expenditures closer than usual, Lyon wouldn’t have been at all shocked to get a different consensus than the city received. But by a 12:1 margin, more people indicated they planned to play more rather than less this year. Out of…
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Against the wind
By Gary BainesDennis Lyon, manager of golf for the city of Aurora, didn’t know exactly what to expect when Aurora Golf recently sent out a survey to 25,000 people on its e-mail list, asking them if they planned to play more, less or the same amount of golf in 2009.
Given the…
Brighton hopes good trumps bad and ugly
By David Lewis
Brighton either is half-empty or half-full, or both. The half-empty part is so obvious even the city’s public relations counsel Ken Parks brings the subject up right off the bat. Brighton home inventories “never have gotten really out of control,” says Parks, who…
A dozen great places to play
By Gary BainesHere’s a look at costs and amenities offered for corporate events at a dozen courses along the Front Range. A sampling of public, private, semi-private and resort courses is included. Price quotes are for a summer outing and generally include greens fees, carts, practice balls and gift certificates/credit for merchandise…
Executive edge: Charlie Woolley
By Lynn BronikowskiOn a frigid night in December, Denver developer Charlie Woolley gathered business leaders and commercial real estate colleagues in a LoDo building under renovation to give them a taste of what being homeless is like. The president and CEO of St. Charles Town Co. announced he was pledging $100,000 of…
Notes from a futurist: Trends for business in 2009 and beyond
By Thomas FreyEditor’s note: This is the first of two articles presenting business predictions from the DaVinci Institute’s senior futurist. Look for the second installment next month. In a world in which systems and technologies propel changes at lightning speed, disaster came upon us like a storm, causing our financial systems to…
A public broadcaster battles the recession and the evolving media world
By Wick RowlandHow does a small nonprofit public broadcaster survive – and thrive – in a down economy? One answer: with a clear sense of purpose, a compelling vision and a comprehensive strategic plan.
KBDI was founded by a group of television visionaries. They were citizens, volunteers, community activists and media organizers…
Cheap is nice but unsustainable
By Jeff RundlesWe couldn’t believe it. My wife and I did grocery shopping sometime over the holiday period and spent a considerable sum, and Safeway offered us an extraordinary discount on gasoline as a way of saying Thank You!
We took the van down there, where the retail price on gas was…
Colorado cool stuff
By Eric Peterson
BELLE BABY CARRIERS
Seth Murray was working on a master’s in engineering management at CU-Boulder and came up with a business plan for a baby-carrier manufacturer for a class project. “I just kept at it after the class,” says Murray, a veteran of…
We can get it done here like nowhere else in the world! Let’s keep it that way
By Pat WiesnerThe U.S. has the reputation all over the world of being the one place where you can get a sure return on your own hard work. Everyone everywhere knows that if they can get to the U.S., they have a chance to make it big. These days while we are…
State of the state: February
By Mike Cote[REAL ESTATE]
Riding out the recession
Colorado’s resilience in the economic downturn recently caught the attention of the New York Times in a story that used the example of the Spire, a 42-story condo and retail tower under construction in downtown Denver by…
Speaker of the House ready for ‘legendary’ session
By Mike CoteOver the past few years, Greenberg Traurig’s legislative preview luncheon has become an annual event, where Colorado House and Senate leaders of both parties offer an informal discussion about their priorities. This year, the law firm had one of its own on the panel: attorney and Democratic state Rep. Terrance Carroll,…
MBA students vie for best business plan
By Mike TaylorWith $5,000 in prizes up for grabs, four teams of second-year MBA students squared off in mid-January to see who could write the best business plan and present it most convincingly, as if to a panel of venture capitalists. In fact, the judges were venture capitalists.
Instructor Frank Moyes from…
Small biz tech-startup: ColdQuanta Inc.
By Eric PetersonINITIAL LIGHT BULB: A fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, Dana Z. Anderson worked with the 1995 Nobel Laureates in physics. He helped prove an old Einstein theory correct: At very cold temperatures…
Federal Reserve aims to preserve system, curb pain
By Tucker Hart AdamsWhat is the Federal Reserve trying to accomplish? To prevent the implosion of the international financial system to lessen the depth and severity of the recession.
With a little luck, the first has been accomplished, although things are still fragile. We’ll never know for sure about the second, since there…
