The Next Step to Expanding Access & Equity: 2022 Wells Fargo Partnership
A New Wells Fargo grant will allow Energize Colorado to better support small businesses through technical assistance mapping.
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Small Business Resiliency Index
Energize Colorado Announces New Culturally Responsive Measure for Small Business Resiliency
78% of 2020 State GDP loss attributed to the smallest businesses while larger ones thrive, K- shaped recovery shows minimal recovery for businesses making less than $500k per year
Colorado’s Women-Owned Businesses Struggle To Survive Amid Impacts From COVID-19
Less Than 1 in 2 Women-Owned Small Businesses Has Up To Three Months Of Runway To
Survive If Current Economic Conditions Persist A New Energize Colorado Survey Finds
Energize Colorado – Making Your Business COVID Compliant
Date: November 24, 2020
Energize Colorado Launches “Can Do Colorado” Campaign to Strengthen Consumer Confidence During COVID-19
Can Do Colorado is building consumer confidence by connecting Colorado’s consumers with small businesses across the state that are following safe practices and finding innovative ways to serve their customers and employees.
Gap Fund – Coming Soon
- Who’s eligible: Colorado Small Businesses – priority is given to rural, women, and BIPOC owned.
- What it is: Sole proprietors, businesses, and nonprofits with less than...
Business Insider – Notable VC Brad Feld says tech workers scattered by COVID-19 could create new startup communities that are unique to each region
- Techstars co-founder Brad Feld’s new book “The Startup Community Way,” a deep take on how to build a local tech community, comes out July 28.
- Feld told Business Insider that the tech workers abandoning traditional tech enclaves like Silicon Valley in the midst of COVID-19 have the potential to create new entrepreneurial communities in the places where they settle.
- But startups and VCs in those communities will need to avoid trying to dominate each other if they want their new tech clusters to thrive, Feld said.
- Feld said workers should focus less on moving to a place where the best opportunities seem to be, and more on making opportunities in the places where they’d like to live.
- Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.
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Renowned early-stage investor Brad Feld, the cofounder of Techstars and Foundry Group, has a lot of thoughts about a lot of things.
Gap Fund’s Board Chair Kent Thiry Talks with Colorado Public Radio About Why He’s Involved and What’s Coming
After 20 years as CEO of Denver-based DaVita Inc., Kent Thiry now heads the Energize Colorado Gap Fund, which provides loans for small businesses, using private funds and a $20 million in federal money earmarked for the program by the legislature with support from Gov. Jared Polis and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade. Here he talks about why he got involved in the program and what’s coming next. – Colorado Public Radio, Colorado Matters