ColoradoBiz articles from January 2004

ColoradoBiz archives from January 2004

Same magazine, new directions.(Commentary)
January 1, 2004... "I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS ONE YET," SAID DEAN SINGLETON AS I HANDED him a December issue of ColoradoBiz, the one with the picture of the governor on the front of it. The occasion was the photo shoot for this month's cover, illustrating our...

Debunking Rundles, insurance broker is living his dream.(Readers Respond)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... I just finished reading your article "Insuring what's fair" (Jeff Rundles) in the October issue of ColoradoBiz magazine. It stirred enough emotion in me to write. I have been in the insurance industry now for six years. I started a year or...

Cuba.(On Management)
January 1, 2004... "A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY WITH FIRST WORLD PEOPLE!"--Bill Bryson, travel writer A CANARY YELLOW, 1953 PLYMOUTH! THIS WAS THE first car I ever owned! It had a lousy heater and one of those metal sun-shades like the bill of a baseball hat...

Mammoth appeal.(Attitude at Altitude)(National Lacrosse League team)
January 1, 2004... MINUTES BEFORE THE OPENING FACE-OFF AT THE COLORADO Mammoth's inaugural regular-season game last year, something unexpected happened. People showed up. A line of 1,000 walk-up ticket buyers extended beyond the statues that decorate the...

Vail Resorts shuffles management.(Attitude at Altitude)(various appointments also for Cognitive Solutions Inc., Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy Inc., WildBlue Communications Inc., EchoStar Communciations Corp., Certified Commercial Investment Member Institute, Colorado Association of Mortgage Brokers)
January 1, 2004... Vail Resorts Inc., in a shakeup of its financial management, has shifted JEFFREY W. JONES, currently senior vice president and chief financial officer of Vail Resorts Development Co., to senior vice president and chief financial officer of Vail...

Insiders' biz: an industry-by-industry log of selected developments at Colorado businesses.(Attitude at Altitude)(Polycom Inc. acquires Voyant Technologies Inc.)(Robinson Brick Co. acquires Powers Masonry Supply)(Candy Factory Inc. acquires Sweets From Heaven USA L.P.)
January 1, 2004... MANUFACTURING * Voyant Technologies Inc., Westminster, was acquired by Polycom Inc., Pleasanton, Calif., a manufacturer of voice conferencing, conference bridges, and integrated Web collaboration solutions. Polycom will acquire all of the...

Colorado's 25 most powerful people; money isn't everything, but it helps.(Cover Story)
January 1, 2004... Power is measured subjectively and individually. Office holders have power because they make decisions that affect other people's lives. Ministers hold the power of the pulpit to influence behaviors. Wealthy people wield power by simply...

2004 Colorado Business Hall of Fame.(Special Sponsorship Section)(Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce)
January 1, 2004... The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and Junior Achievement are proud to present the 15th Annual Colorado Business Hall of Fame. Committed to ensuring the vitality of tomorrow's workforce, the Hall of Fame recognizes outstanding role models for...

Tech startup of the month.(Hightech Coloradobiz)(Valen Technologies Inc.)(Company Profile)
January 1, 2004... INITIAL LIGHTBULB: About 20 years before taking higher math to the insurance industry with Valen, Dax Craig and Richard Vlasimsky met as junior high school students in Tulsa, Okla. In 1993, Craig moved to Boulder to pursue an MBA. One of his...

E-buzz: Colorado's tech employment dropped 13 percent in 2002.(Hightech Coloradobiz)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Colorado lost 27,000 high-tech jobs between 2001 and 2002, according to an annual report released by AeA, a trade group. Colorado's high-tech employment totaled 178,000 in 2002, according to the report, called Cyberstates 2003. The state's...

E-buzz: Chicago Symphony signs with Qwest.(Hightech Coloradobiz)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Qwest Communications International Inc., Denver, announced that the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has signed a multi-year agreement for Qwest Web hosting services. From its Chicago CyberCenter(sm), Qwest will help the CSO bring the...

E-buzz: Sage launches SuiteSpeed.(Hightech Coloradobiz)(Sage Hospitality Resources Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Sage Hospitality Resources of Denver has implemented SuiteNet(TM) High Speed Internet Access in all seven of its Towne-Place Suites by Marriott properties. Each TownePlace hotel uses SuiteSpeed's SuiteLink(TM) Visitor-Based Network gateway to...

E-buzz: Krone first with 10-gigabit cable.(Hightech Coloradobiz)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... KRONE has demonstrated the first augmented Category 6 cable in the world, with necessary characteristics to enable 10-gigabit Ethernet to be implemented over an unshielded twisted pair of wires to the full 100 meters required for structured...

E-buzz: Baxa releases hospital pharmacy software.(Hightech Coloradobiz)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Baxa Corp., an Englewood manufacturer of devices and systems for the handling, packaging, and administration of liquid medications, has introduced its latest software product for the hospital pharmacy--Abacus--a Windows-based program for order...

Rocky mountain rush hour: I-70 traffic spurs debate.(Interstate Highway System)
January 1, 2004... When Mayor Dennis Lunberry gazes out the window of his office in Idaho Springs' modest City Hall, it isn't western snowcaps he sees, but the flat, black four-lane interstate that divides his town in two. And Lunberry's future vision for the...

Not your father's Winter Park: armed with a mega-resort blueprint, new management aims to profit.(Intrawest Corp. )
January 1, 2004... By Presidents Weekend last winter, less than two months after Intrawest Corp. had assumed management of Winter Park Resort, the ski area's future was clear to Craig Pollit. Intrawest was clearly and urgently focused on profits. The focus...

City in progress: Lone Tree aims for urban feel on denver's outskirts.
January 1, 2004... ONE OF COLORADO'S NEWEST cities is the site of one of the state's biggest developments. Lone Tree, incorporated in 1995, is home to Coventry Development's RidgeGate project. The 3,500-acre spread straddling I-25 just south of Park Meadows Mall...

Protecting intangibles.(Small Biz)(protecting intellectual property)
January 1, 2004... AS AN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTORNEY, LESLEY CRAIG REPRESENTS, as she puts it, "things you own that don't have any substance." Over the years Craig has represented the "intangibles" of clients in fields ranging from real estate to biotech...

Protecting intangibles.(Small Biz)(intellectual property educational sessions)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... TWO EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS dealing with intellectual property issues are upcoming this month in Denver. Starting on Jan. 7 and running for 16 consecutive Wednesdays, Craig is co-teaching a course titled "Building Businesses with Intellectual...

Cool Colorado stuff.(Small Biz)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... RENEGADE RAKES: University of Colorado-Boulder student Dave Kubicka worked at a summer snowboard camp on Oregon's Mount Hood in 2001, using an unwieldy asphalt rake to shape half-pipes. After returning to Boulder, Kubicka enlisted friend Kegan...

Cool Colorado stuff.(Small Biz)(1080 Degrees Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... 1080 DEGREES OUTERWEAR: A Steamboat Springs native, Nelson Carmichael is one of Colorado's most illustrious skiers ever, taking the bronze for moguls at the 1992 Winter Olympics and nabbing numerous championships at other events. Since he...

Cool Colorado stuff.(Small Biz)(Venture Snowboards Inc.)(Company Profile)
January 1, 2004... VENTURE SNOWBOARDS: While studying the engineering of renewable energy at Colorado State University in the late 1990s, Klemens Branner started working for a snow-board company on the side. It didn't take long for him to meld the two seemingly...

Cool Colorado stuff.(Small Biz)(Psolar masks)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... PSOLAR FACEMASKS: Working at the time as a mechanical engineer--designing HVAC systems for industrial buildings--Lee Bagby came up with a new concept for winter warming in 1996. His Psolar facemasks utilize a "heat exchanger" that catches the...

Executiveeducation: in the world of higher education, Colorado colleges, universities, and specialty schools are leaders in their offerings of a wide array of innovative and contemporary curriculums.(Special Advertising Section)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
January 1, 2004... The private business community and their executives have responded to these offerings with interest and enthusiasm. Poised for growth and reception of traditional and non-traditional students, Colorado executive education is at the top of its...

Colorado Technical University.(Special Advertising Section)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
January 1, 2004... Since 1965, Colorado Technical University has been helping students reach their career goals. And as the partner of choice for the corporate world, Colorado Technical University is helping organizations including FedEx, Oracle and the U.S....

KellerGraduateSchool.(Special Advertising Section)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Keller Graduate School of Management: Practitioner-Oriented Education for Working Adults. Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University provides high-quality, practitioner-oriented graduate management degree programs with an...

UniversityofPhoenix.(Special Advertising Section)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... University of Phoenix educates working adults by developing knowledge and skills to achieve professional goals, improve the productivity of organizations, and provide leadership and service to communities. It is nationally accredited by the...

David Drucker: product of the Space Age.(Executive Edge)(@Contact Inc.)(Company Profile)
January 1, 2004... TWO EVENTS WOULD FOREVER SHAPE DAVID DRUCKER'S LIFE. The first was being drafted into the U.S. Army and serving as a law clerk in Vietnam. He became intrigued by law and would go on to become a lawyer. A second life-changing event would...

Believe it or not: the latest from D.C.(Rundles Wrap-up)(quirky research)(Column)
January 1, 2004... WASHINGTON, D.C. (JAN. 1, 2004)--Researchers here confirmed that secret studies conducted by the government over the last 20 years have proven, without a doubt, that several long-held beliefs thought to be fictitious, old wives' tales or...