ColoradoBiz articles from April 2003

ColoradoBiz archives from April 2003

Not so crazy after all. (Rschwab@cobizmag.com).
April 1, 2003... SO MAYBE JOHN ASHCROFT ISN'T SO CRAZY AFTER ALL. At least not when it comes to corporate crime. A year ago I questioned the U.S. attorney general's intelligence after he questioned the loyalty of Americans who might criticize the...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... Readers respond. Greeley streets misidentified This is to bring to your attention the fact that on pages 38-39 (of the February issue, "Who Owns Colorado"), in the aerial photo of the Greeley area, the north and south street...

You can't get to the top: unless you take someone with you. (Pwiesner@cobizmag.com).
April 1, 2003... CHUCK WAS A TERRIFIC SALESMAN. FROM HIS FIRST day at being what he playfully called "a peddler," it was clear that he had a real gift for it. Everything he worked on seemed to result in a sale. Everyone -- his customers and teammates -- enjoyed...

Tickets to ride: Boulder agency books the traveling bands. (Attitude at Altitude).(Madison House Travel)
April 1, 2003... ROCK 'N' ROLLERS ARE GENERALLY KNOWN MORE FOR TRASHING HOTEL rooms than booking them. But the String Cheese Incident isn't your typical rock band. The Boulder-based jam band has its fingers in all sorts of businesses: a record label and...

Booking travel in your own back yard. (Attitude at Altitude).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... FOR MANY PEOPLE, summer means planning vacations to exotic destinations far removed from tedious weekday routines. But before you book that trip to the Alps, you may want to check out Colorado's 2003 Official State Travel Guide. Whether it's a...

Hollywood consults boulder brewers' group. (Attitude at Attitude).(Association of Brewers)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... ASSOCIATION OF BREWERS president and founder Charlie Papazian takes his beer seriously. Apparently, so does Hollywood. Producers of an upcoming Disney production "Miracles," a film about the gold medal 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team,...

Tourism all-stars. (Play Makers).(Denver and Colorado Tourism Hall of Fame inductees)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... RAY BAKER, former chair of the authorities that built Coors and Invesco fields, and co-founder of the youth-sports oriented Gold Crown Foundation, along with Bandimere Speedway owner JOHN BANDIMERE JR., and hotelier and restaurateur WILL...

Inside Colorado. (Play Makers).(John J. Hansen appointed as Colorado's Chief Technology Officer)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... GOV. BILL OWENS appointed Colorado Institute of Technology CEO JOHN J. HANSEN to be the state's Chief Technology Officer, which means Hansen will take over MARC HOLTZMAN'S position as Secretary of Technology around mid-year. Until then,...

Other awards and changes. (Playmakers).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... StorageTek's corporate vice president of global supply-chain management ROY PERRY was honored at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards in Baltimore in February.... The University of Phoenix promoted LARRY BANKS, formerly vice president/campus...

What's cookin'? (Playmakers).(chef appointments and awards)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Denver Athletic Club (DAC) has a new executive chef, GREG BARNHILL, formerly of Three Tomatoes Catering. The DAC, in operation since 1884, has 125,000 square feet devoted to athletic facilities, but another 1 50,000 square feet is reserved...

CU Boulder business school reaps donation. (Playmakers).(University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... RAYMOND and DOROTHY JOYCE donated $3 million to the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business. "The Joyce gift... allows (us to retain and hire) the best teaching and research talent in the nation," said STEVEN MANASTER,...

Urban appeal: denver's city center remains option for homebuyers.
April 1, 2003... Chris Frampton Stands in the wind on the Millennium Bridge, connecting the LoDo end 16th Street Mall to Denver's River-from park on the South Platte. Last year at this time he was in Austin, Texas, selling residential lots on a Jack Nicklaus...

Pedaling the peaks: rides abound for colorado cyclists.
April 1, 2003... No one knows Colorado biking better than Mike Miller, a bona fide bicycling guru who eats, sleeps and lives the sport. As owner of Denver's Handle Bar & Grill, Miller makes sure his menu touts food items named after bicycling people and events,...

Online ads are in the game. (High Tech Colorado Biz).(advergaming; CleverMedia and Leviathan Games Inc.)(Company Profile)
April 1, 2003... MARKETERS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO HARNESS the Internet for years with mixed results. Banner ads have had their day. Pop ups and popunders, ubiquitous now, still don't have the impact--judging by their price--that ads had when the online...

Tech startup of the month.(CeMines Inc.)(Company Profile)
April 1, 2003... CEMINES INC., EVERGREEN WWW.CEMINES.COM FOUNDED: APRIL 2000 INITIAL LIGHTBULB: Two cell-biology experts from Estonia joined forces with a pair of Colorado-based real estate developers to take a better cancer diagnostic to market. The...

Interlink touts new service center. (High Tech).(Interlink Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... INTERLINK GROUP HAS COME A long way since Mary Pat Link started the company in her Denver basement 14 years ago. The provider of technology architecture, deployment and management services now operates out of a newly built Global Service...

Spam fighter to the rescue. (EBuzz).(MX Logic)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Denver-based MX Logic has introduced a new method of blocking junk e-mail. The process utilizes six spam classification techniques to identify spam. The multiple spam filters separately assess a piece of mail and then vote on whether or not a...

Soy maker catches wind power. (EBuzz).(White Wave Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The leader in soy foods has taken the lead in clean energy consumption. Boulder-based White Wave the country's largest soy-foods manufacturer, has replaced the electrical power used in all of its manufacturing and operations with wind energy.

Colorado tech HIT hard. (EBuzz).(information technology suffer layoffs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... A survey of information technology organizations has found that IT workers in Colorado have suftered worse than their colleagues across the region and the country. According to the survey more than 45 percent of Colorado IT organizations...

Price it right: the art and science of pricing.
April 1, 2003... There's an old business axiom: "Any deal is a good deal at the right price." Simple enough. But arriving at the "right" price for the product offered is actually a tough proposition. The risk to the consumer is overpaying, resulting in...

Outstanding business leaders profiles. (Special Advertising Section).(Advertisement)
April 1, 2003... Ken Buchanan Coors Brewing Company Mike Adamson E-screening Services, Inc. Ken Montbatt Fortrust Bob Dutkowsky J.D. Edwards Michael Cafasso Pueblo Bank and Trust Lisa Schomp Ralph Schomp...

City limits: developers are bullish on Montrose, but few good jobs keep lid on growth. (Who Owns Colorado?).
April 1, 2003... Nestled between Grand Junction's expanding business scene and Telluride's trendy resort, is Montrose, a town growing out of its agricultural roots and looking for a niche that embraces both the busy cell-phone user and the more laid back...

CreekPath takes the reins in VC search. (Money Matters).
April 1, 2003... WHEN DENNIS GRANT SET OUT TO SECURE A SECOND ROUND of funding for Longmont-based CreekPath Systems, he was as demanding of venture capitalists as they've been known to be with startup companies. Listening to the confident Grant, it's hard...

Avsoft Systems. (Cool Colorado Stuff).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... In 1996, commercial pilot Kim Halat was studying for an annual "check-ride" for his DC-10 license. A background in engineering and applied math led the Air Force Academy grad to write a program as a study aid, and he aced the test. With minimal...

Capturewiz. (Cool Colorado Stuff).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... It took some time for PixelMetrics President Dave Eisler to settle into a career in software. Coming from a mechanical engineering career, he started dabbling with PCs in the early 1980s and sold his first creation--a video game called Monster...

Mediamapper. (Cool Colorado Stuff).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Not many software companies took root in an agricultural co-op, but Red Hen Systems did. After its agrarian beginnings, the growing Fort Collins-based provider of spatial technology" solutions officially incorporated in 1994. Red Hen's flagship...

Momsanddads. (Cool Colorado Stuff).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Launched in 1999 during the dot-com heyday, MomsandDads is a rare bird: an Internet company that garnered a second round of seed funding during the new millennium. After running financially dry in the middle of 2001, the San Diego-based startup...

Michael Potts: standing tall at intuit. (Executive Edge).
April 1, 2003... MICHAEL POTTS WON'T BE CAUGHT SITTING DOWN ON THE JOB-LITERALLY. The president of Denver based Intuit Public Sector Solutions stands at his workstation-an antique ticket counter from a train station in Missouri. I find that when I...

Manners make the sale. (Executive Suite).(business etiquette)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... HALF OF 250 marketing and advertising executives who were asked by Robert Half International to identify the worst lunch blunder one can make while trying to sell to a client cited being rude to your waiter or waitress. Arriving late and other...

Street Mall bus. (Executive Suite).(cell phone use)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Accountemps, meanwhile, found that 64 percent of 150 executives of the top 1,000 companies in the nation said it was OK to talk on a cell phone while driving, while 58 percent said it was OK on public transportation like the 16th Street Mall...

KFx Inc. (Executive Suite).(James R. Schlesinger)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... James R. Schlesinger, former U.S. secretary of both the Energy and Defense departments, has been named a director on the board of KFx Inc., a Denver energy company that sells a process for improving the quality of mined coal as well as software...

Wells Fargo Center. (Executive Suite).(Fagre & Benson relocates)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The law firm Fagre & Benson has moved its offices from Republic Plaza to the Wells Fargo Center.

Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons. (Executive Suite).(100 year anniversary)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons, the state's oldest legal partnership, celebrates its 100th year in business in 2003.

Help Desk Institute. (Executive Suite).(2002 salary survey)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Colorado Springs-based Help Desk Institute's 2002 salary survey found the largest decrease in salaries among helpdesk professionals was for senior support manager/director. The average salary for that position dropped 7 percent from 2001 to...

No wonder spam is ubiquitous. (Executive Suite).(Accountemps surveys executive e-mail use)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... No wonder spam is ubiquitous. Accountemps, in another survey of execs, found that 92 percent of 150 executive respondents said they use e-mail as a substitute for a face-to-face meeting with employees.

Above the law. (jrundles@cobizmag.com).
April 1, 2003... AFTER FOLLOWING THE MEWS IN FEBRUARY, I began thinking about fairness. And honor. First came the indictments of several former executives of Qwest for shenanigans involving inflated financial reporting. Those arrested on criminal charges,...

Executive living.(real estate)(Advertisement)
April 1, 2003... ELEGANCE. LUXURY. CLASSIC STYLE. These are elements that define Executive Living. The following special section highlights some of the finest home communities, properties, and builders in Colorado. When there are so many choices available...