Colorado Companies to Watch 2014: Advanced manufacturing
These Colorado advanced manufacturing companies are making it happen...discover who they are.
Magazine Articles
Entrepreneur of the Year finalist: Frank Segrave
For Frank Segrave, it’s all about the littlest patients. After nearly 30 years as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry for Walmart and Cardinal Health, Segrave left the C-suite behind to fill a need for children suffering from serious illness and chronic conditions.
Sports biz: Improving on the old college try
Your kid just scored the goal, blasted the home run, swished the three, leapt over the linebacker, or chipped it in for birdie to win the tourney. Later than evening, as you burn a fresh DVD highlight reel, you can almost feel that $30k tuition melting away. But here comes George White, ex-college coach, with some advice: Stop right there!
Women business owners thrive with confidence, conviction
For women starting their own businesses in Colorado, especially those entering non-conventional job sectors, get ready to bring the passion.
The Economist: The Bitcoin phenomenon
When I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation back in 1979, my research topic was the money demand function and the effect financial innovations had as a result. I unearthed my copy this morning — all 391 pages — to remind myself…
CBCA: Workspace Award finalists
One’s physical environment — the architecture, design, space planning, décor and decorative elements of a workplace — has the potential to dramatically influence the individual team members and business itself, particularly when that space is where people spend the bulk…
Real Estate Roundup: Reclaiming Brighton Boulevard
Long eyed by Denver planners for its potential, the Brighton Boulevard corridor is attracting the attention of developers and businesses wanting to locate in what once was a tangle of rail yards and large industrial plants. Though slow to evolve, the…
Tech startup: Wimbo Music Inc.
A longtime musician, Denis Oullette would play guitar along to his favorite Eagles and Eric Clapton records, when inspiration struck. "I wanted to play with the band, not over the band," he says.
25th Anniversary Colorado Business Hall of Fame
Look through the list of names that make up the Colorado Business Hall of Fame laureates, and it’s hard to miss the big picture. No history book could better illustrate the history of the Centennial State. The stories of the 136 honored over the past 25 years give readers a glimpse of the grit, cr...
Rundles wrapup: Long hours may be hazardous to your health
Over Thanksgiving, I was talking with a young couple I know, pretty much fresh out of college and a little more than a year into the working world. The odd thing that came forth in the conversation was how much harder…
Ready Foods: A Colorado success story
In 1972, Luis Abarca had a notion that only in retrospect seems obvious: Mexican food would become mainstream in the U.S. the same way Italian food had, and restaurants were going to need help preparing it. That was the impetus for Ready Foods, a Denver-based food processor that has expanded its p...
2014 Colorado Economic Oulook
2014 will be a decent, although fairly unremarkable, year for Colorado’s economy. Inflation and interest rates will remain low, the housing market will continue to improve and jobs will be a bit easier to find. Commercial real estate faces hurdles, as do agriculture and the oil and gas industry. T...
Executive Edge: Nicole Singleton
Nicole Singleton last spring was named president and CEO of the Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce, heading up an organization that represents 300 companies and 1,000 individuals.
CEO of the Year Finalists
If you want evidence of why we included Liberty Media's Greg Maffei in our CEO of the Year finalists, all you need to do is read the transcript of the Fortune 500 company's Q3 earnings call.
The economist: What’s the most important industry in Colorado?
Half a dozen different industries claim to be the most important to the Colorado economy – manufacturing, energy, tourism, agriculture, financial services, real estate, to name a few.
