Topic: Boulder (Colorado)

Why You Should Start a Company in... Boulder

It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. In this series, we talk to leading figures in ...READ MORE›

Lessons From a Failing Smart Grid

XCel Energy's SmartGridCity project was supposed to turn Boulder, Colorado into the ultimate smart grid hub. But that's not how it's turning out.READ MORE›

Piggybacking on Other Brands

Here's a novel shot at a new restaurant concept: An eatery devoted to serving breakfast cereal. Cereality, a Boulder, Colorado, company this Wednesday opens its first full scale, sit-down restaurant, near the campus of the University ...READ MORE›

SpringLeaf Boulder: The First Net-Zero Neighborhood

Boulder, Colorado is a hub of smart grid activity. It's already set to become the country's first "Smart Grid City", relying entirely on smart meters. And now the city is set to contain the first net-zero neighborhood in the U.S., ...READ MORE›

Is That Bamboo In Your Pants?

Why, yes, and there's corn in our socks, too.READ MORE›

Attracting Smart People to Your Community Accelerates Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial communities grow up around smart people. Whenever someone in government asks me what they can do to accelerate entrepreneurship, I always tell them to put as much money and energy as they can into education. If you build a broad base of smart, inquisitive, curious people that are long term members of your community, you'll be delighted with the results.READ MORE›

Green Business: Plastic Potion No. 9

Recycling should be the easy way to get people involved in helping the environment. Too bad the businesses behind it are blowing it.READ MORE›

• The Global Electronic Waste Problem

Customers First Honorable Mention: Title Nine Sports

Title Nine Sports Boulder, Colorado Sports bras are an evil necessity for any woman who wants to move faster than a swift stroll. They're usually more expensive than they have any right to be and finding the magical fit/style ...READ MORE›

The Plastic Recycling Dilema

Recycling should be the easy way to get people involved in helping the environment. Too bad the businesses behind it are blowing it.READ MORE›

Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World's Hottest Agency to Find His Soul

Alex Bogusky, the Elvis of advertising, has left the business. Is this a New Age midlife crisis or his greatest rebranding campaign?READ MORE›

Reader Feedback: November 2009

On Capitalism "If the surge of corporate power was going to leave governments relatively impotent," Noreena Hertz argues in "Cassandra's Revenge," "then those corporations themselves needed to fill the void." Asking corporations to ...READ MORE›

• Update: D.C. Report Card

Case Studies

You asked us for real examples of how people keep the business side of Me, Inc., running smoothly. So here's some sound advice (and nitty gritty details) from other free agents.READ MORE›

Lemon Head: A Q&A With CP+B's New Director of Design Kevin Grady

While working as a creative director at Arnold Worldwide in Boston, Kevin Grady landed a choice account as the original design director on the Truth anti-smoking campaign, propelling him to fame. His "Singing Cowboy" ...READ MORE›

Serious Questions for Super Angels

In the beginning, there were angel investors. And it was good. As individual angel investors made more and more investments, they became super angels. One day a super angel woke up and thought to himself, "Gosh, I could do a lot more investments if I had a fund." And so the super angels became micro-VCs (or "institutionalized super angels").READ MORE›

Life/Work - Issue 39

"Taken together, the quadrants create a map of a complete life."READ MORE›

How I Think About Seed Investing as a VC

Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. While I agree that many VCs are crummy seed investors, I think there are some that are excellent seed ...READ MORE›

Are Wind Farms Further Dividing Socio-Economic Classes?

Fresh opposition to wind farms from the U.K.'s elite causes concern for the future of alternative energy and social disparities.READ MORE›

Babcock Ranch: The World's First Solar City?

Florida Power & Light Co. is spending $350 million to build a 75 megawatt solar photovoltaic plant--the largest photovoltaic project ever announced--to completely power the planned city of Babcock Ranch, a 17,000 acre ...READ MORE›

The Lack of Women in Tech

The meme of the lack of women in tech (or software, or entrepreneurship) appeared in several places today. I've been the chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology for a number of years and deeply involved in this issue. It's very satisfying for me to see a meme like this pick up speed.READ MORE›

Intrinsic Motivation

At a talk I gave recently to a room full of first year graduate business school students, I was asked "what motivates me." Before I answered, I felt compelled to explain what intrinsic motivation is and used the following example to ...READ MORE›

Built to Flip

A battle is under way for the new economy. Which side are you on?READ MORE›

Feedback

The Dark Side? Responding to our September article on Nokia, readers raised the question of whether the company assisted the Iranian government with spying on citizens and arresting dissidents after the recent controversial ...READ MORE›

• Update

What Paris Hilton Can Teach You About Branding

The Fast Interview: Alex Bogusky, an ad guy who definitely doesn't shy away from controversy.READ MORE›

Leap Of Faith

Meet Nau, the ultimate over-the-top, high-concept business. It makes striking, enviro-friendly clothing. It gives away 5% to charity. Can it save the world--and give us the perfect twill capri?READ MORE›

Feedback

Letters. Updates. AdviceREAD MORE›