A month before announcing a new $80 million investment in his travel tech company, Brian Egan knew he needed help to manage this next stage of growth. At the invitation of a low-profile business organization that focuses on fast-growing companies, the cofounder of Evolve Vacation Rental shared his quandary with a group of seasoned entrepreneurs […]
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From cleaning toilets to Congress, Betsy Markey is now leading Colorado’s renewed focus on small business
After Betsy Markey moved her young family to Fort Collins in 1995, she felt stir crazy. She and her husband had relocated from Maryland, where the technology company they founded was running smoothly and pretty much independently. That life didn’t really need her anymore. So she bought a little coffee shop in Old Town Fort […]
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Investment in opportunity zones (tax incentives and all) is still scarce in Colorado
Last year, Kristin Lawrence was on the hunt for a place to give her pop-up science experiences a real home. She found it in Boulder, smack dab in the middle of what would soon be designated an Opportunity Zone. “I didn’t even know what Opportunity Zones were at the time,” said Lawrence, founder of The […]
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Here’s what Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in Aurora about startups, AI, Facebook and Tesla
Challenged acoustics inside Colorado’s newest conference center didn’t deter technology legend Steve Wozniak from passionately sharing why he distrusts artificial intelligence, ditched Facebook and wished Apple had moved a division to Colorado long ago. The Apple cofounder was in town Thursday to keynote a business event capping off another year for the city of Aurora, […]
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Much-hyped high-speed transit company Arrivo has hit the brakes in Colorado
High-speed transit company Arrivo has ended plans to turn an unused E-470 toll station in Commerce City into a test track for speeding pods to combat traffic congestion. Highway officials said Monday that the Los Angeles company pulled out of the project months ago. “What I do know is that earlier this year (in mid-June), […]
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How Techstars’ “GiveFirst” mantra became a road map for the startup community in Colorado and beyond
David Cohen gets a kick out of hearing “GiveFirst,” an oft-repeated phrase that can be traced back to Techstars, the Boulder technology accelerator he co-founded in 2006. “Someone pointed out a thread to me about Denver Startup Week, and the value of ‘GiveFirst,’ and it never mentioned us or Techstars. And I thought, ‘Awesome,’” said […]
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A DU student withdrew from school to change the charity world, quarter by quarter
Making money was never a mystery for Reyn Aubrey. The son of an entrepreneur and a freelance writer, he spent his high school years in Hawaii dabbling in several business ventures that brought in a nice income, at least for a 17-year-old, but also delivered a personal epiphany: Profit alone seemed like a boring pursuit. […]