ColoradoBiz articles from May 2006

ColoradoBiz archives from May 2006

Immigration concerns served up at dinner table.(On Colorado)
May 1, 2006... IMMIGRATION ISSUES MADE BIG HEADLINES ACROSS THE nation in March after hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, including more than 50,000 in Denver's Civic Center Plaza, protested harsh measures being considered by Congress, and President...

How to lead: managing people takes hard work--and a little selflessness.(On Management)
May 1, 2006... OFTEN, I GET MAIL FROM PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT it's just too hard, management. The people under their supervision are just too frustrating, and the only way to get them to work hard is to threaten them. Sort of like a slave driver. ...

Energy and the West: a need for a return to realism.(Column)
May 1, 2006... THERE IS NO SILVER BULLET FOR SOLVING OUR CURRENT ENERGY woes. As a country we have developed a belief that energy exists that doesn't look bad or smell bad or pollute and is very reliable and cheap. As Westerners, we know that's just not true....

Brit finds realtors lacking.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... As a Brit who has been in the USA for seven years, I have to say that I am not impressed here in Colorado with how the real estate business is handled ("Deja vu all over again in real estate," Jeff Rundles, April). In fact, I am so pleased to...

1950s paper boy recalls lessons.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... I enjoyed your article on paper routes. ("Paper routes no longer kids' stuff," Mike Taylor, March). From 1954-1956 I carried The Denver Post in Southwest Denver where I had 140 customers daily and 200 customers Sunday. I made a penny a paper....

Minding their Manor: Ken-Caryl residents wary of national real-estate firm's purchase.(National Home Buyers Assistance)
May 1, 2006... National Home Buyers Assistance, a fast-growing, Colorado-based home-financing franchise company, bought a Southwest metro Denver landmark, the Manor House in Ken-Caryl, for its new corporate home last month, but the company's new neighbors are...

Tech startup of the month Associated Content Inc.(Luke Beatty)
May 1, 2006... INITIAL LIGHTBULB After four years with Denver-based search-taxonomy firm Wand Inc., Luke Beatty struck out on his own and launched Associated Content in 2004. "The idea was that 'search' and people's fascination with search is fascination...

Executive edge: Teri Cavanaugh: CEO runs Western Slope's largest ad firm 'like a ball club'.(Cobb and Associates Inc.)
May 1, 2006... Teri Cavanaugh's father, Larry Cobb, died suddenly in March at age 69, leaving her to reflect on the influence he had on her life--from the day she began spinning "Disney Hour" records as a 10-year-old at the tiny Wheatland, Wyo., radio station...

ToolWatch software keeps tabs on companies' tools, equipment.(Don Kafka)
May 1, 2006... In the 1980s, Don Kafka--then owner of a Chicago-based electrical engineering contractor with 100 employees--had a problem. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "We were losing tools, just bleeding tools," he recalled. "We were buying them and...

Top 100 Women: staffing firms signal economic resurgence with 51 percent growth.
May 1, 2006... ANYONE FORAGING FOR SIGNS OF AN improved state economy might want to put down the tea leaves and pick up the Colorado Top 100 Women-Owned Company list. Eighty-two of the top 100 women-owned companies ranked by ColoradoBiz increased...

Voice for the VA: former Colorado developer Jim Nicholson now lends power to vets nationwide.
May 1, 2006... "Mr. Secretary," the congressman said, addressing former Colorado real-estate developer Jim Nicholson, who is now Secretary of Veterans Affairs. "I'm just struck by the fact that you brought us a budget that contains projected savings of about...

Word of mouth: mountain resorts count on chefs to make it.
May 1, 2006... Eric Calderon, vice president and general manager of the Little Nell Hotel in Aspen, probably knows as much, if not more, than any upscale hotel manager anywhere about the affects a "celebrity chef" can have on hotel business. As "signature"...

Capital ideas: SBA, banks angle to land small-business borrowers.(Small Business Administration)
May 1, 2006... Tim Patterson, co-owner of RIGS Fly Shop & Guide Service in Ridgeway, says his five-year old outfitting business is growing, and that means he needs more capital. He and partner Bill Sheppard are "just a couple of fishing-and-rafting guys"...

High expectations: with hype finally giving way to ground breaking, residential towers spark high demand near Downtown Denver.(Who owns Colorado?)
May 1, 2006... FIRST THERE WAS THE LOFT: The ubiquitous mid-rise commercial buildings common to the Denver area that were converted to trendy vertical residential neighborhoods. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] They were, and still are, the hot property in...

Karl runs business 'The Carolina Way'.(George Karl )
May 1, 2006... STARTING OUT YOUNG AND COCKY AS THE SECOND-YOUNGEST coach in NBA history more than two decades ago, George Karl recalls taking over the Cleveland Cavaliers at 32, intending to make his mark as "THE genius" of the coaching world. He then...

DoubleUps for Beds.(Colorado Cool Stuff)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The idea for DoubleUps for Beds was born in 1996, when Kevin Bobke's then-girlfriend "stole sheets from me every night," he said. The solution to the problem: sheet sets split down the middle and connected near the bottom by a square patch of...

Golite Xirtam jacket.(Colorado Cool Stuff)
May 1, 2006... Released last fall, the Xirtam--matrix spelled backwards--is the latest GoLite product to win accolades from the outdoor press, winning Backpacker magazine's coveted "Editor's Choice" award earlier this year. The jacket is a "hybrid shell" that...

The Ning Collection sinks and tubs.(Colorado Cool Stuff)
May 1, 2006... After owning a pair of import stores on the Front Range, Tom Bruton relocated to Bali, Indonesia, in 2004. "It hooked me, and I needed to figure out how to make a living," he said. As a result, Bruton launched the Ning Collection with partner...

Skinit consumer electronics skins.(Colorado Cool Stuff)
May 1, 2006... With the rise of cell phones and other portable gadgets, brothers Mike, Chris and Tom Stemple saw an entrepreneurial opportunity. "We had always been into the personalization of consumer electronics," said Mike, whose prior endeavor, nReach,...

Dean Bonham's balancing act.(The Bonham Group)
May 1, 2006... A FEW YEARS AGO AT THE DENVER ATHLETIC CLUB, DEAN Bonham challenged the world record for the most push-ups performed in a minute. He managed 120 before his 60 seconds were up. The secret? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "You just have to pop...

Pension planning (yawn ...) is a disaster.(Rundles Wrap-up)
May 1, 2006... A LONG TIME AGO, IN THE LATE 1950S WHEN I WAS JUST a little boy in short pants, there was a Sunday when the whole country, dressed in their finest go-to-church clothes, went to their local elementary school and everybody ate the sugar-cube...