ColoradoBiz articles from June 2004

ColoradoBiz archives from June 2004

Little from legislature for business.(On Colorado)
June 1, 2004... TIME TO TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THE COLORADO GENERAL ASSEMBLY DID ACCOMPLISH FOR BUSINESS despite its failure to offer voters a solution to the constitutional/fiscal crisis presented by TABOR and Amendment 23. It's not much, but even a little...

Avoid the lowerarchy: every group has a hierarchy and, therefore, a lowerarchy. Even a management group.(On Management)
June 1, 2004... SO YOU FINALLY MADE IT TO "MANAGEMENT LAND." THE PROMISED LAND. Congratulations! You'll never have to worry again about your job. You're a boss! You're out of the bullpen, into an office! People will now respect you because of your...

Spurned author takes her own advice.(Attitude at Altitude)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Barbara Stoker doesn't describe self-publishing her first two books--at the same time and at a cost of $30,000--as the most adventurous risk she has ever taken. But then, when you read the books, you discover she's stood with just a...

UNC undergrads invest in the best.(Greeley's Top Investors)(University of Northern Colorado)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Colorado has a nationally recognized team of investors in Greeley, and the money men have nothing to do with George Gillett or Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, out of Dallas, the investors in Swift & Co. These investors are a dozen undergraduate...

Starz founder retiring as CEO.(Playmakers, appointments)(Starz Encore Group)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Starz Encore Group founder John J. Sie will retire as CEO of the company effective June 30, but will remain chairman. Starz president and COO MARK BAUMAN will serve as CEO until a permanent CEO is named, at which point Bauman will retire....

Publishing.(Insiders' Biz)(Hispanic Yellow Pages of America Inc., Paginas Amarillas de Colorado)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Chicago-based Hispanic Yellow Pages of America Inc. has acquired Paginas Amarillas de Colorado, Denver's Hispanic yellow-pages directory, for an undisclosed combination of cash and stock. Paginas Amarillas, one of the nation's largest Hispanic...

Real estate.(Insiders' Biz)(Corporex Capital LLC.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Comcast Corp., the nation's and Colorado's largest cable operator, has sold the 248,813-square-foot office building at 188 Inverness Drive, Englewood, that it acquired with its purchase of AT&T Broad-band in November of 2002. Corporex Capital...

Preservation.(Insiders' Biz)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Field workers on the Western Slope--some hanging from a 400-foot-high rock cliff--tested wood samples, searched for archeological evidence and investigated the architecture of what might be the nation's longest remaining hanging flume. The...

Workplace.(Insiders' Biz)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... It may not buy happiness, but money is top-of-mind for employees today, according to a recent survey developed by Office Team, a leading national staffing service. Nearly half, or 48 percent, of workers polled said what they want most at work...

Advertising.(Insiders' Biz)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Boulder soy-product maker White Wave, which includes Silk Soymilk in its product line, has said it will undertake a $22.3 million nationally televised advertising campaign for Silk that will run through September. FOR MORE INSIDERS' BIZ...

Rivals for front range growth: springs, Fort Collins cast different pro-business lures.(Front Range Rivals)(Cover Story)
June 1, 2004... A young woman in a denim skirt and short-sleeved blouse is standing on a corner on the edge of "Old Town" Fort Collins, a violin tucked beneath her chin, her bow carving out arias from the background noise of the rush-hour traffic that swirls...

Eco-devo pros mull priorities: roundtable's concerns vary by community.(Front Range Rivals)(Transcript)
June 1, 2004... COLORADOBIZ ASKED A GROUP OF PROFESSIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS from around the state to discuss issues their communities find paramount right now. The roundtable was held in mid April at the 2004 spring conference of the Economic Developer's...

Warehouse to the world: ProLogis is key stopover on journey to market.(The Public 150)
June 1, 2004... ProLogis is the world's leading owner and operator of industrial-distribution centers, but the Aurora-based REIT tends to fly under the radar of public view. In business for a little more than a decade, ProLogis provides distribution space...

Telephones online: cost-conscious callers dial up internet.
June 1, 2004... Voice-over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, has all kinds of businesses talking. On the telephone, that is. * A technology reseller tests a hosted voice-over IP solution and cuts its monthly phone bills by 30 percent. * A Colorado...

Initial lightbulb.(Tech Startup of the Month)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Data-storage gurus Kevin Magenis and Curt Bruner, formerly of Maxtor and Quantum, respectively, saw a massive market in portable data storage for inexpensive handheld consumer electronics products. Departing from the disk-drive paradigm, the...

In a nutshell.(Tech Startup of the Month)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Cornice's mission is to make memory at a price low enough to allow OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to break the $200 retail-price barrier with their finished product. Explained Holt: "If you can have the consumer-electronic product hit...

Financing.(Bank of America Venture Partners, GIC Special Investments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Cornice has been one of Colorado's standouts in landing venture capital since the days of dot-com mania. The company has secured $81 million--$30 million in August 2002 and $51 million in February 2004--from CIBC Capital Partners, Nokia Venture...

Gateway to DIA: on any given weekday, Landmark Properties President Ray Pittman can be found in his car, racing from one meeting to another and fielding calls on his cell phone. The topic, more often than not, is HighPointe at DIA, a project on 1,800 acres that will boast a conference center/resort hotel, an 18-hole golf course and 2,800 homes on the high plains leading to Denver International Airport.(Developers Converge on Pena Boulevard)(Directory)
June 1, 2004... And that's just one project. The pace and frequency of meetings and phone calls have picked up the same way for Julie Bender, president of the DIA Partnership, and for Denver City Councilman Michael Hancock. Each is intimately involved with...

Ripboard.(Small Biz)(product introduction)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... On a 1998 New Zealand vacation, Shane Bolling went riverboarding--rafting down a river head-first on a buoyant board, propelled by flippers--and was instantly hooked. "In a raft, you need a pretty good wave to get excited," he said. "With a...

Bomber gear.(Small Biz)(Kold Fusion process introduced)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Former students at Durango's Fort Lewis College, Rob Mauceli and Rick Franken launched Bomber Gear in 1995. The company makes paddling gear and accessories of all kinds, from jackets and wetsuits to mitts and bags. Its Kold Fusion process...

Cow canyon flatware.(Colorado Cool Stuff)(Magnolia Machine & Tooling with prototype flatware)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Business at Magnolia Machine & Tooling slowed with the recent recession, leaving owner Lee Teuber with some free time on his hands. Based on his wife Kathy's distaste for plastic camping flatware that melted on contact with hot coals, Teuber...

Tobz pet gear.(Colorado Cool Stuff)(Brian Tobia's Tangle Me Knot, a leash designed with the poly-dog walker)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... In 2002, walking two dogs at once was part of Brian Tobia's daily routine, so he came up with the Tangle Me Knot, a leash designed with the poly-dog walker in mind. The invention, soon became a business. Tobia then parlayed his knowledge of...

Colorado beats par.(Sports Biz)(in golf industry)
June 1, 2004... TIGER WOODS' TOURNAMENT RECORD ISN'T THE ONLY thing slipping in the land of the beckoning fairway and the menacing bunker. Across the country, millions of would-be golfers are finding other things to do than swat from the tee box and curse...

Price hikes fuel empty feeling.(Rundles Wrap-up)
June 1, 2004... FOR NEARLY ALL MY ADULT LIFE, since I was 16 years old anyway, I have been concerned about gasoline. Back in those teen years I was concerned because I had to put back the gas I used in my father's car when I was out on a Friday night; woe be...