Harnessing the Sun on the Front Range
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...
A Summer Salute to Colorado Entrepreneurs
  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...
Galvanize Your Colorado Business
Galvanize is an early stage tech and triple bottom line venture capital firm and community of which I am very excited to be involved. It is the newest venture of tech guru and serial entrepreneur Jim Deters. This Colorado small business venture capital firm and community will be driven by the following capacities: Providing the earliest level of seed financing...
Denver Means Business For Small Business
An interesting statistic on Denver small business was recently collected by G. Scott Thomas, whose “On Numbers” blog for The Business Journals always provides some interesting fodder on the business scene. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, Metro Denver is 17th among 938 U.S. cities for its number of local businesses. What is unique about this is that a higher...
Business Colorado: Activity Wrap-Up October 2011
At Hasan Legal we like to share good news about our Colorado small business community. This type of news inspires us and we hope it will do the same for you: Digital Folio, Inc., a new Colorado corporation formed in March 2011, has received $1.2 million in angel investor funding. The Denver startup has recently completed beta testing of its...
Starting Your Business Can Be Scary
I’m not here to tell you that striking out to pursue your own venture is not without risk, or that you won’t face self-doubt. In 2009 I left my comfortable corporate attorney job to start my own Denver law firm. I had a vision of using my skills in business law to not only help Colorado's small and medium sized...
Colorado Business Profile: CorePower Yoga
(This is the first of a series that will highlight the successes of individual companies. As a Denver business lawyer I strive to be a trusted advisor and partner to my clients. The Colorado companies featured here are great examples of businesses that provide exceptional service in their own right.) CorePower Yoga is a Denver business that is making a big...