ColoradoBiz articles from November 2005

ColoradoBiz archives from November 2005

Trump, Chopra signal Colorado upswing.
November 1, 2005... FIRST DONALD TRUMP, AND NOW DEEPAK CHOPRA! What? Has Colorado been discovered by the nation's East and West Coasts? Maybe for economic development purposes it has, but not, of course, for other reasons, like its natural beauty or the...

Obstacles? No kidding.(Readers respond)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2005... Jeff, that's not all. ("Career of Doom," Jeff Rundles, August) * Kids today have fewer role models. Every time you turn around, star athletes are arrested for some crime; corporate heads subpoenaed for corporate fraud; teachers caught...

Turning Japanese.(Readers respond)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2005... I couldn't help but chuckle when I saw the art chosen to accompany Jeff Rundles' "Digging a deep hole to China" in your September 2005 issue. I always thought that geishas were Japanese, but apparently you folks decided to change their country...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
November 1, 2005... * Tuff Shed and Advanced Learning Centers were inadvertently omitted from the 2005 Top 250 Private Company rankings (September). For information on those companies and revised rankings, visit www.cobizmag.com. * In a profile of...

How does Tiger do it?
November 1, 2005... WHAT CAN WE DO THAT TIGER WOODS DOES to make us better? At a cabin in the mountains, looking for something to read on a rainy day after having watched Tiger Woods win yet another big tournament on TV, I picked up an old (May 2002) copy of...

Patent history reveals hits and misses.
November 1, 2005... WHAT NAME SPRINGS TO MIND WHEN YOU SEE THE phrase "famous female inventor?" If you're having a tough time answering, you are not alone. I became interested when I ran across a very curious statistic: In 1980, only 1.7 percent of all patent...

Taste buddies: Central Platte shop spices up Denver food scene.
November 1, 2005... As you approach the Savory Spice Shop off 15th Street in the Central Platte Valley, the aroma of freshly ground ginger or some other spice of the day tells your taste buds they're in for a treat. The shop is a haven for cooks and food lovers...

Art dealer reopens in Earnest.
November 1, 2005... Earnest Bonner is back in the art business--and maybe back in the big time. Bonner is a stock broker-turned art dealer who had one of the most interesting galleries of African and African-American art ever collected in Denver, all housed...

Coloradans pony up for midwesterner's restored barns.
November 1, 2005... Nick Meagher III, whose father started Arapahoe Bank & Trust in the Denver Tech Center years ago, now runs Wild West shows, ala the fabled western showman Buffalo Bill Cody. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Meagher (pronounced "mar") also owns...

Top Company winners dare to dream, care to create Colorado's best.
November 1, 2005... Starting months ago with 82 entries in nine industry categories, judges of the 2005 ColoradoBiz Top Company competition narrowed the field to 27 finalists, who we profiled in our September issue. Now we present the nine winners of the state's...

Bubble? Q4 real-estate report: not likely in Colorado.
November 1, 2005... BETWEEN NEW YEAR'S DAY AND SEPT. 19 THIS YEAR. 38,636 PEOPLE IN COLORADO sold their homes for an average of $250,830. Among them were Amanda Jervis, who sold her Englewood house without a real estate agent to an investor for about $225,000--10...

Commercial builders weigh risk, opportunity: office and industrial slowed by vacancies, but retail chugs on.(Q4 Real-estate report)
November 1, 2005... The real-estate industry doesn't like to talk about bubbles. After all, bubbles eventually burst. Local commercial real-estate professionals may concede the possibility of a bubble in the residential market, but they view their segment of the...

Gold in them thar' mountain homes: nothing more serious than a slowdown predicted for mountain home values.
November 1, 2005... Larry and Patti Green visited Telluride for the first time more than six years ago. Just a few years after their first visit, they purchased a ski-in, ski-out lot and started making plans for a custom-built log mansion that was intended to be...

Become an undisputed leader in your industry: how to raise, invest and manage capital to finance and grow operations, profits and momentum.
November 1, 2005... One position in business comes close to nirvana: being an undisputed leader of your industry. Think about it. Undisputed leaders garner so much respect and momentum in the marketplace that they enjoy four of the most sought-after business...

Rally Software Development Corp.(Tech Startup of the Month)(Company Profile)
November 1, 2005... INITIAL lIGHTBULB After meeting as graduate students at CU-Boulder in the late 1980s, Ryan Martens and Tim Miller went their separate ways, but soon reconnected in Colorado in 1993. Miller founded Avitek, a Boulder-based software...

Bradley Petroleum's bottom line: Calkins clan clings to independence--and battles retail giants with cheap-gas model.
November 1, 2005... If you are a consumer in these days of sometimes $3-a-gallon gasoline, you've got to appreciate Bradley Petroleum's corporate strategy: to sell gas for as little as the market will bear. Each of the 45 Bradley, Bradley Sinclair and Sav-O-Mat...

At 75, Jabs no couch potato.(Small Biz)(Jake Jabs American Furniture Warehouse)
November 1, 2005... SOMEHOW IT'S FITTING: THE SAME YEAR JAKE JABS' American Furniture Warehouse celebrates 30 years in business, more restrictive bankruptcy guidelines have been signed into law. Fitting, because if there's one thing the plain-talking Jabs...

Rosa Mazone's motivational nightshirts and bibs.(motto printed )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Featured in the recent indie romantic comedy "Me and You and Everyone We Know," Rosa Mazone's nightshirt has a motivational motto printed backwards, so its wearer can read it in the mirror. It begins, "I am a Precious Wondrous Special" and has...

TellyVizion.(TellyVizion automatically copies discs )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... With hard disks getting bigger, better and cheaper, CDs and DVDs are looking more and more obsolete by the minute. Interact-TV's new TellyVizion automatically copies discs of all formats onto a hard drive and then wirelessly delivers content to...

Echobana Candles.(Echobana Candles )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Pam Cramer retired last year from a career in construction management--"25 years of missile plants, schools, condo units, you name it"--but her retirement only lasted six months before she bought Echobana Candles in March. Echobana, founded in...

Good Dog Company.(Colorado Cool Stuff)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Working in sales, Kim Oliver had entrepreneurial instincts, but it wasn't until 2003 that the stars aligned and she started The Good Dog Co. The unlikely stars in question: a hemp T-shirt from a Dave Matthews Band concert and "all the dead...

Christina A. Gold: wiring Western Union to the world.(Executive Edge)(Western Union Financial Services Inc.)
November 1, 2005... After spending 30 years convincing women to buy another lipstick, Christina A. Gold now helps people who work outside their native countries send money home to their families. According to Fortune magazine, that's a market of 175 million...

Gentlemen, stall your engines.
November 1, 2005... THE END OF PIKES PEAK INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY MARKS a rare sports-business failure in a state that's known for its embrace of everything from outdoor soccer to indoor lacrosse. But it's also a sign that Colorado motor sports fans are more...

Lead us not into temptation.
November 1, 2005... TWENTY SOMETHING YEARS AGO, WHEN I WAS A YOUNG business reporter looking for stories all over, there was some change in the bankruptcy law--I don't remember exactly what--and it caused the number of filings to skyrocket. It was big news--not...