The Colorado Springs Technology Incubator and Colorado College are bringing together leading experts to discuss what it takes to secure funding for startup companies. The event, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for March 21 at Colorado College. It will cover how entrepreneurs attract investors and secure funding, the difference between [...]
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The Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance is supporting three business bills and opposing five others, according to a press release from the group. The alliance is supporting the advanced industries acceleration act, which would give grants to high-tech startups and universities promoting business. They also support appropriations for the Small Business Development Centers and an [...]
Continue reading …There are numerous circumstances in which obtaining a person’s covenant not to compete would be beneficial. However, Colorado, like many jurisdictions, renders covenants not to compete void, except in limited circumstances. Covenants not to compete are considered restraints on trade, and public policy favors granting citizens the right to seek employment and to compete without [...]
Continue reading …As our nation’s leaders in Washington, Denver and Colorado Springs deal with various versions of the fiscal challenges that grip our country as it emerges from recession, it’s important to remember what works. And in the United States, in Colorado and in Colorado Springs, public post-secondary education works. Education works to provide individual benefits I [...]
Continue reading …As you’ve likely read elsewhere in this issue, starting on the front page, the controversy surrounding Martin Drake Power Plant and Colorado Springs Utilities simply won’t go away. The challenges to Neumann Systems Group’s innovative coal-scrubbing technology — and the unlikely bedfellows created as a result — have become increasingly difficult to follow, much less [...]
Continue reading …For more than a year, local leaders have questioned Colorado Springs Utilities’ decision to install NeuStream, a locally invented, designed and produced coal scrubber that inventors say could revolutionize the clean-coal industry — and help aging power plants comply with regional and federal air-quality standards. Detractors have been both skeptical and vocal. It doesn’t work; [...]
Continue reading …The new CEO for Neumann Systems Group is calling out City Councilor Tim Leigh. Todd Tiahrt, who oversees the company founded by Dave Neumann, wants to meet in a public forum with Leigh to set the record straight. Leigh has been the most vocal opponent of NeuStream, a wet coal scrubber now being installed at [...]
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If a person has the idea, the nerve and the cash, Colorado Springs is not a bad place to start a small business. In fact, Colorado Springs earned an A+ in a recent survey of business owners who gave the city high marks for not having a lot of red tape. Experts who counsel small-business [...]
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Ray’s of Colorado Owner: Chris Sniffen Business: Handcrafted soaps and wholesale essential oils Where: Calhan Employees: One Chris Sniffen is a man in a women’s world. “I still can’t believe sometimes that I make soap for a living,” he said. The farmers markets and craft shows where he sells his products in person are populated [...]
Continue reading …Studio C3 picks up three ADDY awards Studio C3, a video production and motion design company, took home three awards at the Colorado Springs 2012/2013 ADDY Awards ceremony. The creative studio took home two awards for “Not a Number,” a television spot for Western Kansas-based Valley State Bank. The concept for the spot set out [...]
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