Leslie Na – StartUp FoCo Podcast
Leslie Na is the founder of TruthBomb, a customer research company that focuses exclusively on small businesses and solopreneurs. Her insights into customer research and…
Seth Silvers – StartUp FoCo Podcast
Seth Silvers is an expert in business storytelling. The founder of StoryOn, Seth knows that businesses have far more stories than they think about on…
Ethan Bach – StartUp FoCo Podcast
Ethan Bach is the artist behind Alt Ethos, a design firm behind some of Fort Collins’ most iconic technology art installations. He’s passionate about teaching…
Katrina Pfannkuch – StartUp FoCo Podcast
Katrina is a creative catalyst, an empath, and a writer. She’s a creative’s creative and the founder of Creative Katrina. You can check out Katrina’s…
Raj Kumar – StartUp FoCo Podcast
Raj Kumar is a dancer, an engineer, and a technology developer for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. He’s a dance instructor for…
Jenny Morse – StartUp FoCo Podcast
Jenny Morse is an expert in business communications and the CEO of Appendance, Inc. When she’s not teaching the generations to communicate more effectively and…
Candyce Edelen – StartUp FoCo Podcast
Candyce Edelen knows her stuff when it comes to growing your business to the next level. Her company Propel Growth specializes in scaling companies beyond…
Process, Process, Process – a guest post by speaker Nick Armstrong
The number of those who consider themselves self-employed jumped 40% in the ten-year span between 2000 and 2010, and according to FreshBooks, 42 million Americans…
Chrysta Bairre – StartUp FoCo Podcast
A public speaker, a gifted career coach, and a passionate advocate for service-based entrepreneurs, Chrysta Bairre‘s efforts have created connections and opportunities that span throughout…
Marj Hahne – StartUp FoCo Podcast
Marj Hahne has a degree in engineering, an MFA, and she’s a copy-editor “by income”. But, most importantly: she’s a poet, and a bad-ass entrepreneur…
The Importance of Delegation – a guest post by speaker John Garvey
I’m not going to rip my eyeballs out until I’ve at least attempted to delegate it. A month ago, I had a “crystallization of discontent.”…
The One Skill that Can Make or Break a Company – a guest post by speaker Katie Hoffman
Many companies start with writing – jotting down ideas of a business plan on a napkin, drafting a 5 year-plan, writing down ideas for an…
The Quality of Our Leaders Affects the Quality of Our Lives – a guest post by speakers Nancy Kepner and Julianna Christie
Research shows a majority — 67% — of employees worldwide are disengaged, and a hyperfocus on growth and profits is coming at the expense of…
Changing the Face of Technology – a guest post by speaker Darlene Rouleau
Technology companies have a diversity problem. The number of women in tech has been steadily declining since the 1980s. Only recently at Colorado State University,…
Mike Baron – StartUp FoCo Podcast
Mike Baron is an Eisner award-winning author right in our own back yard. If you’re a fan of The Punisher and Star Wars, Mike is…
Nikki Lachar – StartUp FoCo Podcast
Nikki Lachar and Tina Todd, co-founders of simplyHR, are shaking up the world of sexual harassment training. Crowdfunding Define The Line, their comic book-based team…
Franklin Taggart – StartUp FoCo Podcast
Franklin Taggart is a creative coach, podcaster, advisor for the Loveland Business Development Center, and he’s one heck of a musician. He’ll be presenting 3…
The Value of Considering Culture – a guest post by speaker Todd Cornell
Having grown up in Fort Collins, I didn’t have much opportunity to interact with diverse cultures or mindsets. The city we know today is a…
Awestruck – a guest post by speaker and moderator Kit Baker
Once, on my way back to Scotland to finish my degree after spending the summer with my family in Fort Collins, I stopped at an…
Machine Learning for non-PhDs – a guest post from speaker Derek Haynes
Since I was a pasty, awkward middle schooler I’ve been writing computer code. Much of my coding time is spent fixing my own silly bugs,…