While Rocky Mountain, Mesa Verde and Colorado’s other national parks get the hype, the 42 state parks are significant economic engines for communities across the state. Bridget O’Rourke, statewide public information officer with Colorado Parks & Wildlife (CPW), says…
Aaron Michael says he started Earth Love Gardens in 2018 because he “wanted people to connect with the Earth” by building them redwood and cedar garden beds, providing seeds and soil, and offering hoop houses to extend the growing season…
The question of the day for sports memorabilia collectors: To funge or not to funge? OK, that’s not even a word. Still, you know what we’re talking about: The explosion of interest in “non-fungible tokens,” or NFTs, has turned the…
Wells, 55, founded Serenity Engage in 2019 following more than 20 years in software marketing. "This is my first startup," she says. "I'm really proud I'm a female founder starting a company over the age of 50." The idea for…
Approaching 600 years in age in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the oldest house in the U.S. is made of adobe. Outside Antonito, Colorado, and likewise made of adobe, Casa Covida is just a couple of years old. The construction materials…
After starting and selling Fashiolista, an early-moving social network in his native Netherlands, Schellenbach, 35, brought his next startup, Stream, to Techstars in New York in 2016 and subsequently moved the headquarters to Boulder, while maintaining an office in Amsterdam.…
The wife-and-husband duo of Knight and Sabharwal met working together at LinkedIn in the Bay Area. "We really liked working with each other and were hoping to find another opportunity to do that," says Sabharwal, 37. "I never would have…
Helen Young Hayes, 59, founded Activate in 2016 after a long and storied career as a fund manager and chief investment officer. "I spent 20 years on Wall Street, most of that at Janus, and retired from the financial industry,"…
The Small Business Administration estimates that in 2021, there were 32.5 million small businesses in the U.S., and that those businesses make up more than one third of their owner’s non-financial assets. The questions that every small business owner must…
Initial Lightbulb: Founder and CEO Joe Thurman has seen the pain points involved with job interviews firsthand. Through his 15-year career in human resources, Thurman came to realize the interviewing process was fundamentally broken at most companies. “This largely unmanaged…
Inflation in our economy has reared its ugly head for the first time in over 40 years, at the rate of 7.04 percent for the 12 months ending in December. I hear everywhere from people that it is hitting the…
Green fee coupons and punch cards. Walk-on primetime rounds and twilight deals. Group discounts. Wink-wink sales pitches from private clubs. And, best of all, beautiful, birdie-bearing conditions on golf courses private, public and municipal. Colorado golfers, the golf industry wanted…
One of the memorable presidential political quips for me was candidate George H. W. Bush labeling Ronald Reagan’s supply side economic campaign as “Voodoo Economics” trying to develop economic policy based on magic. This was in 1980 as the U.S.…
Colorado’s fintech footprint is getting bigger, with numerous companies launching and opening satellite offices in the state in the last few years. Industry observers see a burgeoning sector rooted in Denver but extending in both directions on the Front Range…
Ted Leighty has been CEO of the Colorado Association of Homebuilders (CAHB) since 2017 as well as CEO of the Homebuilders Association of Metro Denver since late 2020. The CAHB has 10 local builder associations across Colorado and a statewide…
The Downtown Denver Partnership is teaming up with Denver Economic Development & Opportunity to launch the Popup Denver retail activation program. In its pilot phase, five vacant storefronts in Upper Downtown (representing 30 percent of available spaces) will be competitively…
Denver was the No. 21 “growth city” in the U.S. last year – at least in terms of do-it-yourself movers arriving in the Mile High City with their stuff in U-Haul trucks. Colorado ranked No. 7 among all states in…
The ability to work from anywhere and a shift by property owners to rent short-term rather than long-term has made it so difficult for people in mountain towns to secure housing that businesses in those communities are having a tough…
Mici Handcrafted Italian has grown to seven locations since three siblings from Florida opened the first restaurant in Denver 18 years ago, and the family business is on the verge of getting much bigger. The restaurant group that touts family…
It all started with a bow tie — or, more precisely, the lack of a bow tie. Serial entrepreneur James Eberhard needed one for his brother-in-law's rehearsal dinner in August 2015. "I had left mine at home," he remembers. "This…
There is some algorithm somewhere that shows that a high percentage of frustrated people simply give up and drop their inquiries at a certain time in the experience, so the companies can avoid paying claims or even hearing the complaints. We just go away, and they count on that. Customer frustration is good for business.
BioIntelliSense’s “virtual care” products -- the BioButton and BioSticker -- automatically monitor a patient’s vital signs remotely to prevent this series of events from playing out.
Trying to understand health insurance can be like decoding a foreign language. But as of 2020, there’s a new vocabulary term you might want to learn: Individual Coverage Healthcare Reimbursement Arrangement, or ICHRA.
When Johnson & Wales University announced last summer that it would shut down its campus, it created a rare development opportunity in a city that has precious little land available for large-scale projects.
