ColoradoBiz articles from November 2006

ColoradoBiz archives from November 2006

No debating candidates' willingness to face off.(Bob Beauprez)(Bill Ritter)
November 1, 2006... BOB BEAUPREZ AND BILL RITTER, WHOSE RACE FOR THE OFFICE OF Colorado governor will be decided Nov. 7, will have met each other face-to-face more than 25 times on stages across Colorado to debate issues one will confront as the state's 41st...

How do you write these things? A bus ride proves anyone can write one of these columns.(Column)
November 1, 2006... "HOW DO YOU THINK UP ALL THIS STUFF TO WRITE ABOUT?" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] That was the guy's question. We were sitting on a bus full of business types on our way to a meeting. We were talking about ColoradoBiz magazine and the...

Dot-com lessons unheeded.(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Collapse of the infamous "dot-com" idealism, replacing manufacturing in the economic base, should have taught a lesson! ("Silicon Mountain: What happened to Colorado's tech industry?" October). But, it apparently has not. Invention of the...

Beauprez or Ritter?(Bob Beauprez )(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... Congratulations on your endorsement of Bob Beauprez for governor ("ColoradoBiz Speaks," October). I commend you for being the first to publicly state that Ritter's candidacy lacks substance as he favors instead to wait for others to tell him...

Southwest a boon to Denver.(Southwest Airlines Co.)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... Your article titled "Southwest Back Draft?" (September), while timely, misses the mark. Southwest's arrival has dramatically lowered prices that travelers pay into and out of DIA. Let's look at a tale of two cities: Washington D.C. and...

How to reclaim overpaid taxes.(Column)
November 1, 2006... COLORADO AND HOME-RULE CITIES EMPLOY ENERGETIC TAX AUDIT staffs to ensure that businesses pay their fair share of sales taxes. Naturally, these auditors aggressively seek to uncover underpayments. Findings in favor of the taxpayer are generally...

New ski maker meant to change industry.(Ben Anderson)(Icelantic AT Boards)(Company overview)
November 1, 2006... From his parent's Evergreen garage, Ben Anderson spent the winter of 2002/2003 working to reshape the sport of skiing. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] He tested new materials, shapes and lengths. He broke and redesigned his foundation model of...

Apoplogic LLC.(Donald Bellgrau )(Richard Duke)(M.D. Jaime Modiano)
November 1, 2006... INITIAL LIGHTBULB After licensing a drug from the University of Colorado designed to prevent transplant rejection, Novartis never brought it to market, and the intellectual property returned to CU last year. Because the drug had been shown...

Executive edge: Robert Uhler; Head of engineering giant MWH gained perspective from Vietnam.(MWH Global Inc.)(Robert Uhler)(Biography)
November 1, 2006... When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Bob Uhler's first concern was for the welfare of 40 MWH Global Inc. employees in the heart of the flooded city. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Our offices were flooded, the windows were blown out and...

Arabian Horse Association still serves 44,000 members.
November 1, 2006... When the nonprofit, Colorado-based Arabian Horse Association, an international horse registry with 44,000 members, hired a new executive vice-president last May, its members were looking for change. The change had nothing to do with why the...

Playtime Creations a playmaker for kids.(Playtime Creations Inc.)(Company overview)
November 1, 2006... It's not every day a mother can relax as her energetic toddlers flip from fried egg to fried egg, slide down a slice of bacon, or bounce from banana to banana. The play area in Cherry Creek Mall, created by Colorado-based Playtime...

What Owens wrought: after 8 years, Gov. Bill Owens leaves a 'limited' legacy.(Cover story)
November 1, 2006... Herman Malone, an African-American businessman and a Republican, was walking with a reporter from The Denver Post along the 16th Street Mall in Downtown Denver in 1999, basking in the spring sunshine and the victory of his candidate for...

Top companies tabbed: winners in nine industry categories range from nonprofit Delta Dental to high-flying shoe phenomenon Crocs Inc.(Company rankings)
November 1, 2006... It carries the tagline "Colorado's most competitive business award," and for good reason. To vie for the distinction of being a ColoradoBiz Top Company, a business must be bold enough to have its financial performance compared with competitors...

Business allies: a ranking of Colorado firms in a dozen key professional services.(Company rankings)
November 1, 2006... The ranking of professional service firms has taken various forms since ColoradoBiz initiated the feature in 2002. It began four years ago as a ranking, based on number of employees, of six traditional professional services--law, accounting,...

No turndown downtown: proposals abound for upscale hotels, mixed-use high rises.
November 1, 2006... While forecasts across much of the nation call for a big real-estate downturn, especially in residential, downtown Denver is in the early stages of a building boom--including residential--that has been unseen here for a quarter century, or...

Human capital: cash-strapped startups swap private equity for sweat equity.(FirstWheel Accelerator)(Brian Tsuchiya)(Bruce Macdonald )
November 1, 2006... brian Tsuchiya says it's easier to get people to work for free than it is to find venture capital. That's why he launched his newest company, First-Wheel Accelerator. Its business model relies on "human capitalists," or contractors, who agree...

RMT Rover.(Rocky Mountain Tracking)(Brad Borst)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Brad Borst was working as a police officer in LaSalle, Colo., when he came up with a concept for a new company while he attended a surveillance training event in Denver. "I liked the police department, but I don't like being away from my family...

Lucy Dare photo lampshades, bags, and albums.(Lucy Dare)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... After 15 years taking photos as a hobby, Lucy Dare swapped her graphic design career for a professional portrait photography studio. "I just wanted a change," she said. "It's wonderful to work with people. Graphic design is...

Breckenridge Vanilla Porter.(Breckenridge Brewery)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Rich, dark and creamy, Breckenridge Brewery's latest, Vanilla Porter, is one distinctively tasty beer. "We've been making it at our brew pub in Breckenridge for seven years," said Steve Kurowski, the brewery's marketing director. "When it was...

High Country Kombucha.(High Country Kombucha LLC)(Edward Rothbauer)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Edward Rothbauer broke his back falling from a roof in 1990, and was paralyzed. He soon discovered Kombucha tea, brewed from the Manchurian Mushroom in the Himalayas for thousands of years. "I started getting movement back in my legs," said...

Finding the fans.
November 1, 2006... I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE OF SPORTS, AND IT LOOKS PRETTY MUCH LIKE your company after a bad quarter. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Worried executives. Disturbing market-share forecasts. Competitive analyses that smell of doom. Price pressures....

Start something.
November 1, 2006... MY SISTER, A PROSECUTING ATTORNEY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, told me a story the other day that got me thinking about timing in life, and about goals. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] She has been talking for years about joining a private law firm...