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A Colorado company is bringing bees to roofs across the Front Range
Free Range Beehive's goal is to make buildings in Colorado greener and stand out amongst their competition, support the dwindling honey bee populations and nourish Colorado’s environment by providing additional pollinators. They install and maintain beehives on building roofs.
Best Companies to Work For, Revisited
Here is how last year’s honorees adapted their business models, took care of employees and prepared for a post-pandemic world.
How companies can help more kids get outside this year
Why should businesses care about children in nature? The more time our kids spend outside in safe and inclusive settings, the better their social and emotional well-being will be, and the more they will want to protect our land, air and water. Also, businesses who align their purpose with a cause like getting children into nature will have opportunities to foster deeper relationships with their employees and customers, build brand awareness, and tackle one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time.
3 lessons learned from first-time entrepreneurs
The Davidoff sisters' new business launch aligned almost perfectly with the start of the pandemic, and suddenly the found themselves in uncharted territory. While launching a business during a pandemic brought unforeseen and very real obstacles, it taught the pair valuable lessons as first-time entrepreneurs. Here are three important lessons every new entrepreneur should consider.
How one Denver company pivoted from profits to virus protection
Tia Jenkins is owner and architect at Kieding, a Denver-based interior architecture and design firm. She’s also a prolific seamstress. After sewing masks for her office team at the beginning of the pandemic, Jenkins and crew decided to add these hand-made masks to their marketing campaign—offering a practical tie-in and real-time solution to one issue many people and businesses were facing with the virus.
Urban Sky Theory's mission
Just beyond commercial airspace around 60,000 feet above Earth, the stratosphere has not generated the interest or investment of points in either direction. Urban Sky Theory is looking to change that.
What’s in store? 2021 flea market predictions
While there’s no question that flea markets have had many challenges in this past year, they are reliably consistent over the long-term. Here are six predictions about the future of flea markets.
Food & beverage insights from Society Insurance
In times of uncertainty, seasonal employees can help you keep a business afloat without taking on an excess of full-time employees. By learning the legalities regarding seasonal workers and implementing efficient hiring practices early on, your business can be better prepared.
Meet at the Hyatt Regency Aurora – Denver Conference Center
These may be unprecedented times, but some aspects of business will never change. One of those timeless, irreplaceable realities of business is the need to gather, to network, to celebrate, to brainstorm, to unwind. Introducing the new conference center in the Denver Metro area, the Hyatt Regency Aurora – Denver Conference Center.
Meet in luxury at Colorado's premier guest ranch
These may be unprecedented times, but some aspects of business will never change. One of those timeless, irreplaceable realities of business is the need to gather, to network, to celebrate, to brainstorm, to unwind. For months, these opportunities were limited to the virtual, electronic sense, but gradually the familiar in-person get-togethers have begun resuming. Plan now for your next retreat or meeting. It will remind you why you do business in Colorado.
Boss Defrost's goal to preserve fresh water
Their goal is to give food service operations everywhere the power to make a positive impact on the world by preserving fresh water, while reducing monthly water bills.
Design-Build Done Better
Design-build is an alternative delivery method that combines the design and contracting teams into one, so the project stays within one firm from start to end. Here are three things you need to know about how design-build benefits citizens, the community, and the industry as a whole.
Get a meal and give a meal this season at The Preservery
Each purchase of a Giving Meal will equal one free meal to someone in need. For only $12, guests will be able to “get a meal, give a meal.” You can also purchase a meal outright.
Vectra Bank breaks ground on a new corporate center
Denver-based Vectra Bank will celebrate a significant organizational milestone this week with a virtual groundbreaking ceremony designed to mark the start of construction on the bank’s new corporate center at I-25 and Belleview Station. The three-year, multi-million-dollar project represents a significant real estate investment during an uncertain and challenging time.
Christmas tree tribute snowballs into a bustling business
For Matt Bliss, Modern Christmas Trees are all about honoring the legacy of his late grandfather, Lawrence “Bud” Stoecker. His Denver-based company now sells a wide variety of tree-shaped cones of concentric rings, bedecked with lights and baubles. Bliss says sales are snowballing at a rate of “about 70% a year.”
Colorado-born, female-led tech company supports moms worldwide
Terra LaRock—child, family, and school psychologist, and the founder of Mindful Mamas—partnered with another Colorado-based, female-led company AppIt Ventures to develop an app made specifically for the unique mental health needs of mothers at every stage of motherhood. Mindful Mamas was awarded an OEDIT Advanced Industries Grant by the State of Colorado and is set to raise a total of $1 million by the end of 2020.
One company's mission to make buying responsibly second-nature
EarthHero is on a mission to make it normal to consume in a way that’s easier on the environment, while meeting the convenience we’ve come to expect. Founder and CEO Ryan Lewis talks about the online marketplace's commitment to sustainability and doing business better.
10 tips for preparing your website for 2020 holiday season
While the shoppers are preparing and checking their lists twice, now is the perfect time to prepare your web presence for the holiday season.
i2 Construction raises $56K in support of Brain Matters
The Denver-based full-service commercial general contractor held their third annual Chipping in for Charities golf tournament.
Best for Colorado: Business for good, in the face of the unknown
Best for Colorado celebrates companies that are leveraging the power of business to do better in Colorado. In a year shrouded in uncertainty, Best for Colorado not only reminds businesses that resiliency is possible, but that they have a responsibility to their communities—a commitment worth celebrating.
Rise of the Pueblo Chile
The Pueblo Chile Growers Association started to take shape in 2015. Now with about 15 member farms, the association helped cement the Pueblo chile brand instead of the previous, less geographic moniker: the Mirasol chile. Pueblo chile acreage in Colorado is rising.
Supporting female-owned small businesses
During the month of October, people were encouraged to support female-owned businesses, and celebrate these women who have made a substantial difference in the growth of our country’s economy. Every month we should be lifting up female business owners and making a concerted effort to support them.
Planning a funeral in the age of COVID-19
While some funeral trends were emerging before the pandemic, many were hastened by COVID-19. Here are ten factors to consider in planning a funeral in the age of COVID-19
