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Colorado Companies to Watch 2015: Consumer Goods/Lifestyle Products
Who are the consumer goods and lifestyle product companies to keep an eye on in 2015? Read on to find out!
Indie Business Forum sparks candid conversations
In the spirit of connecting the state’s ever-growing small business community, the Colorado Indie Business Forum recently tackled the complexity and opportunity associated with technology as it applies to education.
The paranoid optimist
There will be a downturn. It might be in a day. It might be in a year. It might be in a decade. We have no idea when it will come, but it will come.
It's all in a name (or not)
Where would Amazon be if it were called "An Online Bookstore"? Companies should pick names that are more fanciful or arbitrary instead of descriptive when compared with the services offered by the business.
How Colorado startups can build for success
Startup companies in Colorado and throughout the country have long been the darlings of the tech and innovation worlds, catching the eye of investors and entrepreneurs. But what are the common mistakes to avoid?
Long live equity crowdfunding…
Ever curl up by the fire in your favorite pajamas with a good book on securities law? Though quaint at first, the dense 1930s legalese gets old fast in any attempt to comprehend the statutes that stifle entrepreneurs to this day.
Success from a shoestring
In 1997, a Steamboat Springs-based snowboarder named Gary Hammerslag had one of those insights that makes consumers lives’ easier and entrepreneurs wealthy. Hammerslag saw something that wasn’t there, a niche nobody had noticed.
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Business success: A matter of degree
Denver admires adventurers and risk takers, inventors and experimenters (what you’d expect from a city founded by gold prospectors). And so does Olin. Consider the EMBA program a springboard for entrepreneurs.
The top 10 emotional whammies of divorce
Divorce can be a shattering experience. It knocks your socks off even when it is best to end the marriage. When you go through a divorce, you really go through four divorces: emotional, parental; financial and legal.
Snow sports' 'Smallest Big Store'
Christy Sports’ product line is just one linchpin in the Lakewood-based company’s steady expansion that now spans more than five decades. During that time the snow-sports retailer has weathered recessions, industry consolidation, the emergence of e-commerce, and competition from big-box stores and multi-sport giants.
Small-town spirits and savvy
Lakeside, the smallest incorporated town in Colorado – with fewer residents than you can count on two hands – recently welcomed one of the largest boozy businesses in the state, Molly’s Spirits, which opened at the end of November.
Colorado's bigger, stronger discrimination law
The new Colorado law goes beyond current federal protections by prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, including transgender status, for all employers, not just those that are federal contractors.
