This lemonade czar is all of 10 years old
When life hands you lemons, the saying goes, you make lemonade. Unless you’re 10-year-old Jack Bonneau – then you build a business.
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Why immigration reform would be good for Colorado
As an investor, I’m always looking for the next great American company. Today, it is just as likely to be someone born in Beijing or Jaipur as it is to be someone from Boston or Boulder.
Secrets behind the success of a serial restaurateur
Start early, stay late and be prepared to lose most of your friends, your mind and at least one marriage. Be prepared to live a half rags and half riches lifestyle, while your restaurant has a line around the block.
Opposite attract: Why entrepreneurs need financial planning
There's a business market where two philosophies clash: the old school thinking of the financial planning industry and the dynamic thinking of entrepreneurs. Marrying the two philosophies isn't easy, but it is necessary.
Evolution of a startup: How to build your business to scale
The early days of running a startup can be a frenzied time. But it’s during the early days that you, as an entrepreneur, are able to put in place the processes that will keep the business moving and growing in the years to come.
Where are you in the seven stages of business ownership?
Okay, so you're building the business of your dreams. But do you have any reference point for how your business actually affects you personally? If you don't, you just might be building a trap for yourself.
This entrepreneur's advice to himself: Think big. Now bigger.
If Eric Wu weren’t the co-founder of Bracket Labs, tasked with sales and customer success, he’d like to be running a surfing school in Hawaii. Right now, he’s busy building high-quality collaboration and productivity apps for the Salesforce AppExchange.
Austin Johnson bet on fowl and hit a homer
Austin Johnson eschewed the clichés of dreaming big, hitting a home run and swinging for the fences, opting instead for a baseball metaphor of his own: "Hit a single, and move out of my parents' basement."
How a father-son team is repurposing Denver's forgotten spaces
The word “visionary” gets bandied about, but there’s no doubt it applies to the father-son entrepreneurial team of Mickey and Kyle Zeppelin, who can see potential where others see only rust and rebar.
Kayvan Khalatbari: An entrepreneur on the road less-traveled
Kayvan Khalatbari has his fingers in multiple pies, starting with pizza – as in his Sexy Pizza chain, with three Denver locations. It was the first venture in which the Nebraska native wedded his entrepreneurial endeavors with his fervent activism.
Meet our Entrepreneur of 2016: Koel Thomae
Eighteen flavors and $100 million in sales later, it’s fair to say that Noosa Finest Yoghurt is still the love of Koel Thomae’s life, and more people are falling for it every day.
Why we're returning to the age of the business owner
Here's the historical perspective on why no one wants to be an executive and why 65 percent want to own their own business. We are going back where we came from ― business ownership.
Evolution of a startup: How you know your idea is right
“If we have facts, we’ll use facts; if we have opinions, we’ll use mine.” It’s one of my favorite lines, not because it’s the mantra for my own business, but because it illustrates the approach taken by so many business owners.
Made in Colorado 2016: Michael Clark
After serving in the military, Michael Clark moved to Lyons to get away from the crowds in Denver. “Too big, too much, just too many people,” says the 68-year-old Lakewood native. Lyons had less chaos, plus one very important lure: “It had a river in it,” Clark says.
Made in Colorado 2016: Rich Sharples
While master luthier is a moniker he shies away from – “I still feel like I’m learning, for sure,” he says – Rich Sharples has had a hand in making thousands of banjos in his tenure at OME. He now supervises two other luthiers, and the team crafts about 180 high-end banjos a year at the company’s shop in northeast Boulder.
Introducing the Futurist Hall of Fame
Over the coming months, the DaVinci Institute will be unveiling the world’s first Futurist Hall of Fame. As with other “hall of fame” efforts, this one will be dedicated to drawing attention to those who have contributed the most to our thinking about the future.
Eight tips to get unstuck from a dead-end job
Embarrassment and fear of not meeting others’ expectations are the main culprits keeping people from uncovering their true path. There are no simple or easy answers, but the questions to help you in your journey are relatively simple.
Larry Mizel: An empire built on real estate and faith
Larry Mizel serves as chairman and CEO of M.D.C. Holdings Inc., parent corporation of Richmond American Homes. Richmond American has built more than 180,000 homes, mostly in the Western U.S.
The strange bedfellows who created Rocky Mt. National Park
Poor health brought both Enos Mills and F.O. Stanley west. Both men became enthralled by the mountains, and both left a lasting legacy in the high places they loved.
Anne Evans' gift to Denver: A legacy of art, music and books
Anne Evans gave her heart to the heart of Denver: Civic Center Park. The Denver Public Library. The Byers-Evans House. But nowhere is her legacy more apparent than in the galleries of the Denver Art Museum.
The story of a family who saw the future in the land
To understand the future of Denver International Airport, you need to start with the past of the Fulenwider family.
What happened when the Jersey girl met the oilman
She was a Jersey girl who had never been west of Pittsburgh. He was a Western oilman with a fast car and a head for business. They met on a charter flight for a European ski vacation. And that, as they say, was that.
Reading about Wall Street is fun; real finance, not so much
I’m a big believer in the Bogle school of thought about owning the market, rather than trading stocks. As a result, I don’t have to pay attention to the public markets on a daily basis. Or a weekly basis. Or an monthly, quarterly, or annual basis. Or basically, at all.
Meet the man behind Denver's $80 million cable TV mystery
At the helm of the yet-to-be unveiled cable-TV service is 50-year-old Jeff Binder, whose previous business successes include mass-produced customized audio cassette tapes and the founding of Broadbus Technologies.
