The Bard Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Denver Business School recently hosted 60 executives in a luncheon sponsored by CXO. The event—an informal luncheon that provided opportunity for networking—brought together a select group of CU Denver Business School students with high-level executives from CXO’s network of members. Members of CXO’s network are required to be senior-level executives at companies with annual revenues exceeding $5 million.  Read more

App-It Ventures, one of the two first place winners in the most recent business plan competition at the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Denver Business School, recently won another business plan competition. This time, the company beat out over 150 competitors to win the City and County of Denver’s inaugural JumpStart Biz Plan Awards competition.  Read more

Join the University of Colorado Denver Business School throughout the fall for a free speaker series hosted by the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship. The October 18, 2012 event will feature Craig W. Ross, CEO, Executive Facilitator, Coach and Author, Verus Global. Ross will help attendees learn new tools and approaches to strengthen leadership, build high-performance teams, the foundations needed to cultivate entrepreneurial thinking and actions, and the ways many leading companies are leveraging a strong culture to achieve both fulfilled employees and a sustainable performance model.  Read more

Join the University of Colorado Denver Business School and the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship on October 10, 2012  for the first event of this year’s Entrepreneurship Speaker Series . The Bard Center will be presenting speakers throughout the fall for their free speaker series. The October 10, 2012 event will feature Tom Cycyota, President and CEO of AlloSource.  Read more

A new article from CNN Money ranks Colorado as the 4^th most Entrepreneurial state in the Union, following only Arizona, Texas and California. The rankings are taken from the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, which is published by the Kauffman Foundation.  According to the Kauffman Foundation, “The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity measures the rate of business creation at the individual owner level.  Read more