ColoradoBiz articles from April 2004

ColoradoBiz archives from April 2004

Success profiles.(SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION)(Advertisement)
April 1, 2004... YOUNG LIFE TERRY SWENSON, VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS With a presence in all 50 states and more than 45 countries, the nonprofit organization Young Life is turning to technology to help further its mission of introducing...

Education--a business-development issue.(On Colorado)(Tom Clark made Web publisher of Metro Denver Economic Development Corp.)
April 1, 2004... LET'S HOPE LEGISLATORS GOT THE MESSAGE. Last month, the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp., the corporate recruitment arm of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, made a Web publisher of its vice president, Tom Clark. That means...

Rankled by Gallagher.(Readers Respond)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... Thanks for speaking about the Gallagher Amendment, the worst piece of constitutional meddling we have had since Prohibition (Robert Schwab's Web-exclusive column, "Killing dragons, like fixing taxes, takes courage," www.cobizmag.com). Such...

Attention Wal-Mart bashers.(Readers Respond)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... Thank you so much for saying ("The Wal-Mart of legislatures," Jeff Rundles, February) what has long needed to be said about the connection between Wal-Mart's low prices and its own hideous employer practices and its similar influence on...

Dismayed by dishonor roll.(Readers Respond)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... It's not just in Tennessee that they have done away with the honor roll (Jeff Rundles, "The dishonor roll," March). In Atlanta, they no longer do an honor roll, and they are THAT close to dispensing with grades. It makes the kids that don't get...

Define yourself: there's nothing like having a good picture of where you're going to help you get there.(On Management)(Column)
April 1, 2004... ABOUT 30 YEARS AGO I RENTED A ROOM in Palo Alto, Calif., for a couple of months from a wonderful lady named Paige. I had gone to California to pursue a new career track in my younger days, leaving behind my wife and young family for a few weeks...

Outstanding business leader: John Benson, StorageTek.(ADVERTISING PROFILE)(Storage Technology Corp.)
April 1, 2004... It can be difficult to find StorageTek's Vice President and General Manager of Automated Tape Solutions Jon Benson at his desk. For the past several years, Benson has spent most of his time visiting customers, prospective customers, and...

Cooperstown of the west: attorney's baseball collection might be unmatched.(Attitude at Altitude)
April 1, 2004... MARSHALL FOGEL INCHES HIS WAY around a large upstairs room of his Cherry Hills Village home, showing off the greatest collection of baseball treasures this side of baseball's hall of fame. The 58-year-old attorney points to the gray, wool...

Dill to head league.(Playmakers)(Colorado Credit Union League)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... The Colorado Credit Union League has named JOHN C. DILL, former state director of economic development, as president and chief executive officer of the league, which serves Colorado and Wyoming. Dill was scheduled to assume his new...

Ralph R. Peterson.(Playmakers)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... RALPH R. PETERSON, president and CEO of CH2M Hill Cos., Englewood, has been nominated as a new member of Xcel Energy's board of directors. His election is scheduled at the company's annual shareholders meeting on May 20 in Denver. ...

Frank Barnes.(Playmakers)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... FRANK BARNES, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, received the National Academy of Engineering's top educational honor, a $500,000 award recognizing innovation in engineering and technology education....

John Garrett.(Playmakers)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... JOHN GARRETT joined Boulder-based Exabyte's board of directors. Garrett is a managing director of Meritage Private Equity Funds, the company's largest stockholder. At Meritage, Garrett is responsible for the negotiation, documentation and...

Don Rogers.(Playmakers)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Directors of Pueblo Bank & Trust have named DON ROGERS, a former bank CEO in Lexington, Ky., as Pueblo's new president and CEO. Rogers has 32 years experience in bank management. Pueblo Bank & Trust is an independent, locally owned full-service...

Belmar, a 104-acre, mixed-use development that will serve as a downtown for Lakewood, a West Denver suburb, has named two winners of its first ever Belmar Awards for Achievements in Art and Design.(Playmakers)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Belmar, a 104-acre, mixed-use development that will serve as a downtown for Lakewood, a West Denver suburb, has named two winners of its first ever Belmar Awards for Achievements in Art and Design. The winner in the art competition is Bill...

Cobizmag.com instapoll.(Attitude at Altitude)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... COBIZMAG.COM INSTAPOLL 62% OF COBIZMAG.COM INSTAPOLL RESPONDENTS AGREE THAT SNOWMOBILES SHOULD BE BANNED IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. RESULTS OBTAINED FROM FEB. 8 THROUGH MARCH 15. 67% OF COBIZMAG.COM...

April: coming soon.(Attitude at Altitude)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
April 1, 2004... 1 THURSDAY, Breakfast of Champions. Air Force football coach Fisher DeBerry will be keynote speaker. 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Denver Marriott City Center, 1701 California St., Denver. Red Cross fundraiser presented by the Mile High Chapter of...

Aerospace.(Insiders' Biz)(Space Exploration)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Lockheed Martin, Littleton, has formed a new organization called Space Exploration to manage its efforts in support of NASA's space exploration initiative. Space Exploration is headquartered in Denver as part of Lock-heed's Space Systems Co.,...

Lifestyle.(Insiders' Biz; End-of-Life Choices)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Denver was recently listed on ABC-TV's daytime talk show, The View, as an up-and-coming city for African-Americans. Considered a surprise because of blacks' small percentage of the state's population, Denver's African-American community...

Medicine.(Insiders' Biz; ultraviolet germicide)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... A study at the University of Colorado at Boulder aims to significantly reduce the incidence of hospital-acquired infection by providing clear data on the effectiveness of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation. The research is led by CU-Boulder...

Technology.(Insiders' Biz)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Colorado Springs-based Agro Management Group's bio-based engine lubricant technology, used in Sterling Grade lubricant products, was selected as one of the "25 World's Best Technologies for 2004." The WBT showcase is produced by the National...

Law.(Insiders' Biz)(Cache La Poudre Feeds LLC)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... A family-owned livestock feed business from Fort Collins, Cache La Poudre Feeds LLC, has filed a multi-million dollar federal lawsuit against Land O'Lakes Inc. for marketing livestock feed under a brand name that the family business has used...

Insurance.(Insiders' Biz)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... A survey conducted by International Communications Research reveals that one in 10 U.S. households operates some type of full or part-time home-based business. However, nearly 60 percent of these businesses do not have insurance coverage.

Telecommunications.(Insiders' Biz; Broadcast Master software)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Encoda Systems Inc., a Denver-based global provider of end-to-end broadcast solutions, announced in February the creation of Broadcast Master, the first Windows PC-based broadcast management system to encompass all aspects of a television...

Technology makeover: 7 steps to optimize a small-business network.(Cover Story)
April 1, 2004... Many small businesses lack a technology strategy and simply hire service techs to fix problems as they arise. Small business owners often resent having to pay $150-plus per hour to have stuff fixed that they feel shouldn't have broken in...

Paying up for playing ball; Rockies aim for comeback on tighter budget.(Colorado Rockies Baseball Club)
April 1, 2004... His revenues are tumbling. His customer base is eroding. Some of his best employees have been snatched up by the competition. And his market value is dropping by the millions. So why is this CEO so damn happy? Because he's Charlie Monfort....

Legal entrepreneurs: outlook improves for tech lawyers.
April 1, 2004... Jeremy Makarechian, a lawyer for some of the state's most successful tech entrepreneurs, now runs his own one-man firm, E*Law, from an office in Westminster that he describes as "low overhead" and appropriate to his business plan. "Slow,...

Where's the beef? Mad cow makes case for Optibrand tracking.(Hightech Coloradobiz)
April 1, 2004... THE NEWS WAS ALARMING, AND THERE'S NO DOUBT IT helped Optibrand founders promote their livestock-tracking system. A Holstein cow in Mabton, Wash., turned up with mad-cow disease in December, pushing the issue of animal tracking to the red-alert...

Tech startup of the month: Ionic Fusion Longmont www.ionicfusion.com founded: March 2001.(Hightech Coloradobiz)
April 1, 2004... INITIAL LIGHTBULB: Working on a particle-accelerator project at Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico, John Petersen devised a method to impregnate metal ions into just about any material--anything from tissue paper to stainless...

Quote of note.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... "There are existing markets for deposition. If you want to make a play for them, you usually have entrenched competitors, low margins, and a tough fight.... In those same market spaces, you can focus on next-generation or high-quality...

Boarding call: market turbulence rattles state's small airports.(Air transportation industry)
April 1, 2004... Hal Shepherd, city manager of Cortez, the small-town gateway to Colorado's Four-Corners region, no longer flies to Colorado Municipal League meetings in metro Denver. He's missed. "We miss having contact with Hal and other Southern Colorado...

Boomtown revival: waking economy stirs Castle Rock developers.(Who owns Colorado?)
April 1, 2004... WITH SIGNS POINTING TOWARD an economic revival, developers in the heart of Douglas County are poised for a return to the boom days, or something resembling them, back when bulldozers, builders and real estate agents couldn't move fast enough to...

DTC original recounts 40-year journey.(Money Matters)
April 1, 2004... JACK FLOBECK HASN'T ALWAYS TRIUMPHED, BUT HE HASN'T MISSED MUCH action in 40 years' involvement with startups ranging from software companies to real estate firms to a magazine. His advice to budding entrepreneurs: Forget focus. "I'd...

Spotless Paw.(Cool Colorado Stuff)(BrightSpot Solutions LLC)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... SPOTLESS PAW: "Necessity is the mother of invention," said Scott Salzman, owner of BrightSpot Solutions. "My own dog would want to come in the house and she'd have wet paws." After Nikki (Salzman's Doberman) dirtied innumerable towels and...

Adrenaline Shirts.(Cool Colorado Stuff)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... ADRENALINE SHIRTS: College buddies Jeremy Keyes and Matt Sonneman spun their zeal for extreme sports into a clothing business. "There's been a big demand in the extreme-sports market for T-shirts," said Keyes. After the duo started Adrenaline...

Mountain Sprouts.(Cool Colorado Stuff)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... MOUNTAIN SPROUTS: Sisters Jennifer Rieke Taylor, Julie Rieke, and Penny Rieke Arentsen "wanted to do a project together," said Rieke Taylor, so the trio pooled their funds in 2000 and bought an outerwear manufacturer. Renaming the company...

Tibetan Phone Bell.(Cool Colorado Stuff)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... TIBETAN PHONE BELL: "What natural foods is to the grocery industry, Now & Zen is to The Sharper Image," said Steve McIntosh, president of the Boulder-based consumer products company. Launched in 1996 with the release of the company's flagship...

Executive Living: elegance. Luxury. Classic style.(SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION)(Advertisement)
April 1, 2004... 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 for making a home purchase, be sure to...

Patrick J. Martin engineer puts PH.D. in storage.(Executive Edge)(StorageTek Network Systems Group)
April 1, 2004... Pat Martin speaks rapidly with more than a hint of a New York accent, pausing to explain technical computer specifics, industry trends, or a tidbit of computer law. Martin, who holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from George Washington...

NFL envy: Broncos' ownership rift a testament to soaring values.(Sports Biz)(National Football League)(Column)
April 1, 2004... THE BRONCOS COULDN'T GET PAST THE FIRST round of the playoffs, but a bitter ownership dispute has kept things lively in the off-season by providing a peek into the rarified sanctum of NFL economics. Testimony and documents offered during...

Fat chance.(Rundles Wrap-Up)
April 1, 2004... I RECENTLY HAD A BIRTHDAY AND, FOR REASONS THAT NOW HAVE BEEN OBSCURED, possibly by age, I decided to spend it at Disney World. After some pleading, my 6-year-old son talked me into taking him on the "It's a Small World After All" ride, a form...