Listen: Save the Businesses, Save the Communities

Published on July 10, 2020

Many rural, minority, women, and veteran-owned businesses often have trouble accessing traditional funding. Throw in an economic and health crisis, and you’ve got a lot of businesses struggling to tap into the money they need to stay open. In this episode, we chat with three alternative funds – the First Southwest Community Fund, Greenline Ventures, and the Energize Colorado Gap Fund – about how they’re pumping money into rural communities.

 

 

 

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Listen: In Conversation with Brad Feld & Delaney Keating

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In this special conversation with Techstars Co-Founder Brad Feld and Startup Colorado’s Managing Director Delaney Keating, we discuss the importance of ecosystem builders (community champions) for rural startup communities. Plus, we’ll hear from the three recipients of the Anchor Point Foundation’s Startup Champion Awards.

Confessions of a First Time Hemp Grower

July 13, 2020
It’s a cold, cloudless afternoon at the Plumthicket Farm near Wiggins, Colorado. The dried stalks of last year’s hemp harvest poke through a mottled blanket of old snow; fields stretching across the flat plains. Winter’s quiet is broken by the sound of Stephen Smith setting pots of dirt outside to freeze.“It’s to reduce pathogens that might transfer to new plants,” Smith reveals.Smith is cloning a