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Colorado Small Business Development Center: Top Notch Resource in Our Backyard

by Rehan Hasan | February 10, 2013 | Article, Business Formation, Business Formation Legal News, Featured

The Colorado SBDC, with 14 regional hubs and funding from the Small Business Administration, is focused on helping all businesses. Colorado start-ups to larger businesses can enjoy the resources supplied by the organization.  Areas of fundamental business help include: Information Counseling Technical assistance Training in business startups, operations and management They have just released their annual report, and the numbers...
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Venture Capital Victory for Three Colorado Businesses

by Rehan Hasan | | Article, Business Formation

Pangea Organics, Simple Energy Inc, and Dabble successfully competed against seven other businesses by pitching their business plans at the i4c Campaign event on July 13th in Denver. The winning companies each received $50,000 equity investment from the host venture capital company, Galvanize, who is also offering a year's worth of rent-free workspace in downtown Denver as well as general consulting and...
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Harnessing the Sun on the Front Range

by Rehan Hasan | | Article, Colorado Business

Our beaming Colorado was one of six Western states selected to be a part of a large solar project sponsored by the United States Department of the Interior. The project, coined “All of the Above,” is slated to provide power to 700 million homes over the next 10 years, and is called “the nation’s first comprehensive plan to develop solar...
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A Summer Salute to Colorado Entrepreneurs

by Rehan Hasan | | Article

  The Colorado business community and beyond has a lot to be proud of, including being a mecca for innovation and the entrepreneurs that are the engine behind the machine. · Goldman Sachs  will recognize Sue Allon, CEO of Allonhill, as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs of 2012 and will salute her innovation and leadership in the financial services...
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Exporting – Business Beyond Colorado’s Borders

by Rehan Hasan | | Article

GEORGE: Yeah, yeah. She’s seeing this guy, Art Vandelay. SUSAN: So what does he do? GEORGE: He’s an importer-exporter. SUSAN: What kind of problems are they having? GEORGE: Well, he uh, he wants to uh, quit the exporting and uh, focus just on importing. And it’s a problem, she thinks the exporting is as important as the importing. -Seinfeld, “The...
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Troll Alert: Shield Your Intellectual Property

by Rehan Hasan | | Article, Colorado Business

There is some pending legislation making the rounds in Congress right now with the catchy name of Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act, or better known as SHIELD. The goal of this legislation is to put the financial burden of lawsuits on the “patent trolls” who like to use intellectual property rights to jam the courts with frivolous...
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“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk”

by Rehan Hasan | | Article

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk" – Thomas A. Edison The Boulder County Business Report has issued some very nice statistics on inventions created at the University of Colorado, which in turn have inspired the business formation and growth of many Colorado small companies. Researchers at the University of Colorado developed over 250 inventions in...
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Top of the Rockies: Tops in Business

by Rehan Hasan | | Article, Business Formation, Colorado Business

If the fact that Colorado is a start-up and entrepreneurial hot-bed was a secret to anyone, it isn’t anymore. The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) has ranked the top 10 U.S. cities for start-ups, based on dollars invested in young tech companies in 2011. The Denver/Boulder corridor made the list, showing up at number nine. The article in USA Today, “Top...
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