In response to requests from industry, Front Range Community College will offer a Logistics Certificate at the Westminster Campus beginning with the spring semester in January 2015. Registration is underway now. To register, go to www.frontrange.edu/getstarted. Skills and training The Logistics Certificate will give students the technical skills, proficiencies, and competencies to work in transportation, […]
Fort Collins, Colo. – Clients of the Larimer Small Business Development Center (SBDC), Green Ride, are featured in the May 2012 issue of Money magazine. The article titled, “How to be a ‘Boompreneur’,” profiles several Baby Boomer-aged entrepreneurs whose recent ventures have been successful. Bob Flynn and Ray Schofield, cofounders of Green Ride, an eco-friendly […]
Fort Collins, Colo. – Clients of the Larimer Small Business Development Center (SBDC) recently took second place at the University of Northern Colorado’s Monfort Entrepreneurial Challenge. Branch Out Cider co-founders Matt Fater and Aaron Fodge were awarded $10,000, which they will put toward purchasing new equipment to grow the business. Branch Out Cider is a […]
I’ve long been taken by this observation: “The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” John W. Gardner, the founder of Common Cause, and […]
Whether you’re going to college to start your education, to make a career change, or for another reason entirely, you probably know by now that college is important. But why? Here are four major reasons to get a college education: You’ll become the person you want to be. College is a time for you to […]
We hear it all the time. Networking is crucial. It’s a tough economy – you have to sell yourself. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Ugh, right? Sounds like you better write yourself a catchy elevator pitch and sign up for some professional associations. I’m definitely not a networker in the traditional […]
