ColoradoBiz articles from October 2006

ColoradoBiz archives from October 2006

ColoradoBiz speaks: ColoradoBiz speaks reflects the opinions of the Editorial Board of our magazine.
October 1, 2006... ColoradoBiz endorses Bob Beauprez for governor. Intellectually, Bob Beauprez likes to ramble, like a small boy from a farm who likes to ramble through an adjoining wood, finding what he finds and only occasionally stumbling into a hornet's...

Avoid the recession, give your workers a raise.(On Colorado)
October 1, 2006... A RECESSION IS COMING! A RECESSION IS COMING! During any business cycle, any economist in the world can declare that a new recession will be coming down his or her nation's yellow brick road sometime in the future. It's when they pick the...

Juiced! Success comes when you're excited about what you're doing.(On Management)
October 1, 2006... LINDBERGH SAID, "WHEN I WAS LEARNING TO FLY, I was juiced! I threw everything I had into learning everything I could about flying because I just loved it!" This happened to be Erik Lindbergh, grandson to Charles Lindbergh, the first pilot...

ColoradoBiz today: Biz analysis no place for politics.(Readers respond)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... "So Big Oil is price gouging..." and "It's a wonderful thing, this capitalism." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] (Analysis by Keith Dubay, CoBizMag.com, "Big Oil reports gigantic earnings, margins," July 28). If you have evidence of price...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
October 1, 2006... ProLogis moved its headquarters to Pena Boulevard this year, not a few years ago as reported in the profiles of ColoradoBiz Top Company finalists that ran in September. ProLogis has 1,100 employees worldwide (not 1,000 as reported), including...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
October 1, 2006... Greeley-based Swift & Co. experienced a 3 percent decline in revenues in its latest fiscal year, not a 3 percent gain as reported in September's annual Top 250 Private Companies ranking. SEND LETTERS AND CORRECTIONS TO: ROBERT SCHWAB,...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
October 1, 2006... UMB Bank's asset base is nearly $800 million as a result of its purchase of Mountain States Bancorporation, not $658 million as reported in September in a story titled "Banking on the future." SEND LETTERS AND CORRECTIONS TO: ROBERT...

Five reasons to co-locate with a PR firm.(Guest column)(Column)
October 1, 2006... WITH BUSINESS MOVING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT, IT'S A challenge to grab the attention of potential customers. Many companies are hiring public relations firms to help increase awareness, change public opinion and educate key audiences on what...

Schomp revs up for expansion: surging BMW sales prompt plans for bigger showroom.(Attitude at Altitude)(Lisa Schomp - Ralph Schomp Automotive)
October 1, 2006... Lisa Schomp spends most of her time in construction meetings lately. For three, going on four generations, the Schomp family has run one of Denver's oldest automotive dealerships, with three brands under one roof--BMW, MINI and Honda--located...

Fielder photos--411 of them--to decorate new RE/MAX headquarters.(Attitude at Altitude)(John Fielder - photographer)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Photographer John Fielder in August concluded his biggest corporate sale ever, "by a factor of 10," he says, selling 411 photographs to Dave and Gail Liniger for the new RE/MAX International headquarters building. The plan calls for 10 of...

Executive edge: Rob Katz: first day was Vail exec's worst day: calling employees off the mountain.(Attitude at Altitude)(Rob Katz- Vail Resorts Inc.)
October 1, 2006... Rob Katz's first day as chief executive officer of Vail Resorts Inc., was one of his worst. He had to tell 100 corporate employees the company headquarters was moving from the mountains to suburban Broomfield. He did it without hesitation,...

Save the economy: line up for a flu shot.(Attitude at Altitude)
October 1, 2006... Colorado businesses are in for a real shot in the arm this flu season, although Baby Boomers who remain "babies" about needles might even look for a flu mist to get past their fears. While large corporations have long been advocates for...

Applied Intelligence Solutions LLC tech startup of the month.(Attitude at Altitude)
October 1, 2006... INITIAL LIGHTBULB When Jeff Gilb took the reins of Boulder-based Parascript LLC, an international leader in pattern-recognition software, in 2000, he pushed to adapt the company's technology for new verticals. After a few years of internal...

Mergers & acquisitions.(Attitude at Altitude)
October 1, 2006... Offers and propositions made the biggest news in mergers and acquisitions in Colorado last month, although a steady stream of closed deals, some of them big ones, indicated the state's M&A market is still pumping out results. MacDermid...

No mere pipe dream: water visionaries in Colorado rarely stand up under scrutiny, but even some early skeptics have become believers in Aaron Million's plan for a $4 billion, 400-mile pipeline that could solve the state's water woes for 200 years.
October 1, 2006... Aaron Million vividly remembers the moment of his epiphany. He was on the first floor of the Morgan Library on the Colorado State University campus and it was a Sunday evening in the summer of 2003. Colorado that summer was still reeling...

Silicon mountain: what happened to Colorado's tech industry? Experts say future industry growth lies in small-company development.(Q4 Tech Report)
October 1, 2006... Colorado, its boosters used to claim, could be the next Silicon Valley, that Bay area bastion of high-technology companies such as Apple, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard and Intel. And when fans of that viewpoint looked across the Colorado...

Santa Fe Drive boasts country's highest concentration of galleries: new art museum wing will only add heat to already hot properties.(Who owns Colorado)
October 1, 2006... Not too long ago Santa Fe Drive was a rough neighborhood near the railroad tracks. Now it boasts the largest concentration of galleries in the United States, 40 in a few blocks, plus numerous architects' offices, photo galleries and shops, arts...

Museum's new wing just a short walk from Santa Fe.(Denver Art Museum)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Art and real estate prices are driving the economic makeover of Santa Fe Drive, but just a half mile away, those two forces come together beautifully again in the new, dramatically designed expansion of the Denver Art Museum, which opens Oct....

MicroBusiness Development: 'percolate-up' economics.(ON SMALL BIZ)(MicroBusiness Development Corp.)
October 1, 2006... WHENEVER TALK ABOUT COLORADO'S ECONOMY STARTS UP, IT'S usually not long before the scarcity of Colorado-based Fortune 500 companies comes up and along with it the argument that incentives are needed to lure these firms. Big corporations infuse...

Melanzana Mountain Gear.(Colorado Cool Stuff)(Company overview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... After graduating from CU-Boulder, Fritz Howard spent time in Crested Butte and Telluride before returning to his native East Coast for a career as a teacher. It wasn't long before the lure of the Rockies had him back in Colorado, this time in...

Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey.(Colorado Cool Stuff)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... A volunteer firefighter in Aspen, Jess Graber met George Strananhan, the owner of Denver-based Flying Dog Brewery, under unfortunate circumstances: in the afterglow of a blaze that claimed a barn on Stranahan's Pitkin County ranch. That barn...

Street Proz.(Colorado Cool Stuff)
October 1, 2006... "I coach a lot of youth sports," said Randy Toltz, founder of Game On Sports and the father of five. "The kids gave me the idea for the company, and I ran with it." The idea: a game that combines elements of the ultra-popular Japanese card game...

Walldrops.(Colorado Cool Stuff)(Walldrops LLC- Lisa Steen )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... In early 2006, veteran graphic designer Lisa Steen had a problem separating her work space from her living space, and it led to a new product. "I live in a loft in downtown Denver that's one big room," she said. "I needed some kind of...

Losing Sunday afternoon.(Sports Biz)(National Broadcasting Company Inc.'s shuffling of television programmes)
October 1, 2006... CAUTION, BRONCOS TICKET HOLDERS: YOU'LL NEED TO CLEAR ANY Sunday-evening plans you may have over the next few weeks with the suits at NBC Sports. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In case you didn't read the fine print on this year's season...

Crossed wires.(Rundles Wrap-up)(Column)
October 1, 2006... I HAVE HAD THE WONDERFUL, IF EXPENSIVE, EXPERIENCE OVER THE last year of sending three children off to college. Among the many thousands of emotions and details that have been swimming around in my mind since I lugged all that gear into...