Author: Bill Radford
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Colorado Springs’ top young entrepreneur goes from ‘total failure’ to ‘mad growth officer’
Alex Belding has discovered through a varied career that he’s “a sales guy.” While he thought academia or market research might be his path, “my personality continued to push me into sales,” he says. For a time, it was skis that he sold. Now it’s a new way of offering web design. Belding — who was…
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Colorado Springs-area Small Business Week Awards winners announced
A.J. Peak, the CEO of Peak Dental Services, has a new reason for a bright smile: He was named Small Business Person of the Year on Thursday. Peak was one of several business people honored at the Small Business Week Awards presented by the Better Business Bureau of Southern Colorado and the Pikes Peak Small…
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Small Business Week: Schedule and award nominees in the Colorado Springs area
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The seventh annual Small Business Week, presented by the Better Business Bureau of Southern Colorado and the Pikes Peak Small Business Development Center, started Sunday with a food truck cook-off at the Broadmoor World Arena and ends Thursday with an awards dinner at the DoubleTree…
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Colorado Springs company works to preserve legacy of military service
Every item at Heritage Arsenal — every uniform, medal, weapon — has a story to tell. They are stories of bravery. Service. Sacrifice. Hope. Courtney Linn, president of Heritage Arsenal, displays her favorite artifact in her office: an American flag made by a French teenager while under the German occupation of Normandy. “They knew the Allies were…
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Passion, purpose drive Mesa Ridge grad’s flourishing cybersecurity career | Colorado Springs young professional profile
Editor’s note: This story is part of an occasional series profiling young professionals in the Pikes Peak region. Erik Huffman has long had an interest in technology and computers — “they were always cool to me,” he says. He’s fascinated, in particular, by cybersecurity. “I love the challenge. It’s a constant puzzle. Things are changing and…
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AHOD Services fulfills Colorado Springs woman’s dream to be her own boss
The name for her business — AHOD Services — came to Monique Flemings in a dream. AHOD stands for “all hands on deck.” While that phrase has a naval origin, it’s one that Flemings used to hear when she worked in call centers. “When calls spiked, they would call it AHOD. No one gets to…
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Clock wise: Colorado Springs’ Tick Tock Shop stays busy in the digital age
With clocks relentlessly ticking and chimes melodically ringing, the Tick Tock Shop is not a quiet place. But that symphony — from desk clocks and wall clocks and cuckoo clocks and more — is lost on Jonathan Mattson, who has been around the repair and retail business since he was a kid running free in the shop his…
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Colorado Springs auto repair business strives to provide elite service
It appears that customers of Elite Auto Service truly find the service elite. The evidence is in the hundreds of thank-you cards and letters — most of them handwritten — that line the walls of the auto repair business on the east side of Colorado Springs. “It’s one of those things that just brighten your…
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Ent Center director works to raise profile of ‘very robust’ arts scene in Colorado Springs
Aisha Ahmad-Post had a clear and ambitious goal: to become the principal bassist for the New York Philharmonic. But years of practice toward that goal took a toll on her body. And when an injury forced her to abandon that dream, she set on a new career path — one that eventually would lead her from…
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Colorado Springs woman overcomes loss, injury to form 2 businesses
Stacy Gery saw the out-of-control car headed her way, but there was nothing she could do. “I thought I was going to die,” she recalls. She said a prayer but felt oddly relaxed. Then the car T-boned her vehicle and air bags deployed and her head was shaken as if a ball in a pinball…