CU Denver Business School marketing class helps KOTA Longboards refine demographics, brand DENVER—CU Denver Business School students supplied “heart and soul” to a marketing project that is pushing an innovative local longboard company—named after World War I fighter pilots—to greater heights in the action-sports sector. The fast rise of KOTA Longboards LLC and its visionary founder, Mike Maloney, a former U.S.  Read more

As the national job market continues to strengthen, Business Career Connections is also expanding. In order to better serve undergraduates, graduates, and alumni, BCC added Marci Grant to the team. “I knew when I first walked in that I needed to be here. There is so much diversity and the Business School has vibrant energy in a true urban environment.  CU Denver is unique in that it is located in the thriving business center of Colorado.”  Read more

This was originally featured in Professional Independent Insurance Agents of Colorado’s January 2015 issue of Colorado Insurance News. It was Nov. 7th, 2014 at about 8:40 am and I was sitting in my car in the middle of a parking lot at the Northfield Mall at Stapleton waiting for it to be 9am. A little about me here: I have prior work experience in insurance and I am a big fan of the industry to say the least.  Read more

THROUGHOUT COUNTLESS business community conversations, you’ll hear the same call to action: “We need a big success; we need an IPO,” said Pete Khanna, CEO of TrackVia last year on a Rocky Mountain Tech Meetup panel. Often initial public offerings are interpreted as symptoms of big things brewing and validation that the rest of the world is watching. Bold, buzz-worthy IPOs secure a spotlight and generous payday for the companies as well as the communities they’re stationed in.  Read more

With an ever-growing influx of workers and its growing reputation for being a hub for tech and entrepreneurs, the Mile High City once again lands on a ranking for best places for people to find a job. Denver, along with Aurora, join several in Texas and others scattered across the country in NerdWallet’s top 20 “Best Cities for Job Seekers” report.  Read more

Metro Denver’s economy grew at the fastest pace of any major metro area in the United States between the second and third quarters, even racing ahead of regional rival Salt Lake City, according to the Mountain Monitor report from the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. Economic output in metro Denver surged 1.5 percent between the second and third quarters, nearly double the 0.8 percent increase reported nationally in the same period.  Read more

Home sales in metro Denver contributed $22 billion in economic activity, according to the Denver Metro Association of Realtors. A report issued by DMAR last week shows that $17.5 billion was spent on homes in the metro area during 2014, and another $4.4 million in secondary economic impact stemmed from home buying. Read more…  Read more