ColoradoBiz articles from October 2007

ColoradoBiz archives from October 2007

Our health-care dollars are going to waist.(COTE'S COLORADO)
October 1, 2007... Nearly 18 percent of Coloradans are obese, more than half are overweight and we're getting fatter every year. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Still, the rest of the country has one word for us: Skinny. Welcome to the land of lowered...

Do you talk too much? Most don't realize the damage they do to themselves when they do.(ON MANAGEMENT)(Column)
October 1, 2007... Harry, how much time will you need for your part of the presentation? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Harry, a department head with a small company, replied he would need 20 minutes. His fellow department heads rolled their eyes when he wasn't...

Keys to reaching the new American marketplace.(Column)
October 1, 2007... Leave your office. Walk around. Do you see the changing face of American consumers? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] America is rapidly moving from "e pluribus unum" (out of many... one) to an authentically hybrid nation. Today's marketers...

Colorado product a hit with 'The View's' Whoopi Goldberg.(StickySheets )(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Castle Rock musician and entrepreneur Wen Boley set out to solve a problem he was having with pet hair removal. Apparently Whoopi Goldberg had the same problem, and she has a national TV talk show on which to showcase Boley's solution--and his...

Executive edge: Ivette Dominguez; Daughter of Cuban immigrants breaks the mold with auto dealership.(attitude at altitude)(Ivette Dominguez )
October 1, 2007... Little did Ivette Dominguez know in 1990 that when she took her car in for service to a Southern California dealer, it would lead to a lifetime passion for cars and ownership of Alpine Buick Pontiac GMC, a $40 million dealership in Denver. ...

Composing code for growth: customer software creator Amadeus Consulting lands on Inc. 5,000.(attitude at altitude)
October 1, 2007... The president has a large corner office with a spectacular view of the Flatirons. Little else about the Boulder headquarters of Amadeus Consulting Group Inc. fits the corporate stereotype. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Behind the president's...

Trackvia Inc.(TECH STARTUP OF THE MONTH)
October 1, 2007... INITIAL LIGHT BULB: In the wake of selling his second startup, Golden-based Senware, to a Florida software and services firm, Matt McAdams was consulting from his home in the Sunshine State. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I was looking...

Premium pain: Colorado employers are taking creative steps to curb health-insurance hikes.(attitude at altitude)
October 1, 2007... Colorado employers are digging deep as they head to the health-insurance renewal table this year. Weight-loss programs and fitness competitions have entered the mix with traditional bumped-up employee premiums and co-pays, as companies seek...

Glass half-full: Castle Rock could need as much as $425 million to secure water for the next generation as South Metro booms.
October 1, 2007... The elevation of Castle Rock Towh Hall is 6,202, hardly an impressive figure in a state where the average mean elevation is 6,600. But from the office of utility director Ron Redd that elevation is crucial. Read is responsible for ensuring...

Back to the launch pad: after a few dormant years, tech entrepreneurs are returning to the game.(Q4 TECH REPORT: STARTUP FEVER RETURNS TO COLORADO)
October 1, 2007... Having launched a successful Internet startup in Silicon Valley in the 1990s, serial entrepreneur Kimbal Musk says he needed some convincing before deciding to headquarter his latest Internet venture, Me.dium, in Boulder, the town he has called...

Toppling of the pops: novices drop out as scrape-off market cools.(Market overview)
October 1, 2007... Last in, first out. LIFO is an accounting term, and it also explains the way it works in Denver's Darwinian scrape-off and pop-top markets as the action cools and the weak are pushed aside. Hard facts are hard to come by, but anecdotal...

Remote possibilities.(ON SMALL BIZ)(Spineconnect.com)(Column)
October 1, 2007... It wasn't even noon yet, the day after Labor Day, and Dr. Jim Youssef had already performed his third spinal surgery, with two to go, when I reached him by phone at Durango's Mercy Hospital. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Youssef moved...

Ka Bump boardgame.(colorado cool STUFF)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Last year, the mother-daughter team of Barbara and Cheryl DeYoung upgraded a neighbor's handmade board game called Bump and turned it into a business in the process. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On the DeYoungs' slickly crafted boards,...

Scapegoat outerwear jackets.(colorado cool STUFF)
October 1, 2007... Colorado natives and outdoor-brand gurus Jason Olden and Eric Lyon co-founded Sid Factor Seven in 2002, and have since worked on developing product for such clients as Nike, Under Armour and North Face. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This...

Distortions Unlimited mask Maker Kit.(colorado cool STUFF)(Distortions Unlimited Corp.)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... In 1978, Distortions Unlimited founder--and Halloween industry legend--Ed Edmunds sold his motorcycle to buy a drum of latex and started making masks. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nearly 30 years later, he's made everything from anima-tronic...

Helenrae carry-on bags.(colorado cool STUFF)
October 1, 2007... Consulting for the past decade--the last eight years as a staffer of database giant Oracle--Kate Coughlin has earned countless frequent-flyer miles and "spent thousands and thousands of dollars on carry-ons." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Service, buff style.(SPORTS BIZ)
October 1, 2007... At the intersection where modern-day sports meets modern-day business, the merging of the two isn't always favorable. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Those glory days of cheap hot dogs and cheap beer long ago gave way to absurdly priced...

Death pledge.(RUNDLES WRAP-UP)(analyses on mortgage loans)(Column)
October 1, 2007... As an inveterate media consumer for years, I have been exposed to a ton of advertising and advertising trends, and usually I react the way the advertisers intended. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] That is, I feel the tug of wanting an...