Recent Articles from Keith DuBay
How FasTracks could change your life
Ride the Mile High City’s light rail system and you’ll witness mushrooming apartment buildings, retail and restaurants in properties that once exuded industrial grime, railroad rust or were mere highway canyons.
Golfing or yakking?
Most business golfers have seen this dozens of times: You bring a client to lunch and then a round of golf. His phone rings often and because he’s in the middle of a crisis, he answers every call and makes few of his own. On more than a few holes, he is yakking on the […]
Golf and business
The number of golf rounds played has tapered off by roughly a fourth from the high in 1988 due to the Great Recession and a variety of other reasons, but don’t tell that to business people. Golf remains an excellent way to foster business relationships. “Golf absolutely fits into my business strat...
Whistleblower bounty: This isn’t your dad’s SEC
Back in the pre-Internet days, we business reporters really had to work for our stories. It was considered a necessary skill to know how to look up and buy – yes, buy – public reports filed with the SEC by companies. We had to go to the library to do story research, look up newspapers […]
Forbes: A master of the quip
The current attempt at economic recovery is the worst Steve Forbes has ever seen, and he’s not shy about saying why. Speaking to a sold-out keynote luncheon of the recent Association for Corporate Growth’s Rocky Mountain Corporate Growth Conference, Forbes said that despite the estimate that the U.S. economy should create 3.5 million jobs this […]
Top eight tips for getting published
With all of the exciting things happening in new media – video sharing, social media, using the geo-satellite positioning on PDAs for commercial applications – I still believe that old media will survive in niches and writing for business still has a good future. I’m all for other forms of communicating, such as doing your […]
Summer’s best burger
Given the economy, we were looking to stretch our dollar a little bit so we bought some hamburger and split it up into smaller freezer bags. I get real bored with ordinary hamburgers so I decided to put a little flair into this one. Former colleague Mike Taylor and I used to trade cooking ideas, […]
Blondes at the Broadmoor
Colorado Springs – Put yourself in the position of the USGA marketing team, or, say, John Washko, vice president of sales and marketing for the Broadmoor, which will host the U.S. Women’s Open July 4-10 of next year. The last time the women’s Open was at the Broadmoor, in 1995, Annika Sorenstam won her first […]
When old media assimilates new media
That’s the dream of all Old Media, isn’t it? Use the Web and digital technology to enhance your business rather than let it destroy you, as newspapers and maybe magazines have? The lines between Old and New Media crossed my mind as I listened to Jerre Stead, CEO of IHS Corp. at the April meeting […]
Peter Kellner: a head for finance, a heart for changing the world
Fund manager and philanthropist Peter Kellner headlines the Dec. 1 meeting of the Denver Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth. In an interview, he talks about what drives him, how to find entrepreneurs in unexpected places and which state has the best skiing. Kellner is co-founder and Managing Director of Uhuru Capital Management, a fund of funds […]