Colorado: Business Plan

Colorado: Business Plan
Colorado Triangle: Colorado Springs, Boulder, Denver : The Next Silicon Valley

The heat has returned to Vegas. June temperatures will reach between 105 and 110 tomorrow and the next day. Those temperatures will rise another 10 degrees in four weeks after the Fourth of July. Visitors to Vegas have already begun to suffer from heat stroke, sun poisoning, the tourists don’t realize that sun exposure can sicken them as they enjoy their vacation. For three years, I have attempted to start a business in Denver, Colorado, but the snow doesn’t end in April. The snow falls in Denver until May. I can’t drive in the snow. I live in Las Vegas. Before that New York City, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco, California. There is no frost in California. Sure the snow falls in New York City, but the subways took me where I wanted to go to avoid the icy roads. There was no trouble with the snow. I am encouraged by reading about the tech companies in Denver. Boulder has firms working around computers. I keep up with the Colorado news surrounding Internet advertising, web services, and new software companies. For the past three years, Denver has grown with high tech investment. China has started direct flights to Denver. Chicago has also grown. With Chicago’s growth comes luxury trains that travel with Amtrak from Chicago to Denver. I have tried to drive to Denver for the past three years, but three years - That is the same age of my son. I am not young anymore. I can’t simply hop on a train and abandoned my family the way I jumped on trains to travel in the past. If the military hired me to develop a web portal in Jacksonville, Florida, I drove on the allowance they gave me. If a web radio firm asked me to Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee, I helped encode the live music feeds so that listeners could download music using Flash software. That animation technology has come a long way since February 2000. Those country music singers don’t exist anymore. The firms that recorded their music have closed down. The entire recording industry has changed with MP3 players, but I still have the excellent experience of working with the best advertisers in the industry. From Adobe Systems to Industrial Light and Magic, I have worked with the best. Few young people remember CD tutorials named eSchwab, graphic design software named PageMill, PageMaker, and the fact that Adobe only worked with Apple Computers before I released the first rebate program for Adobe Illustrator 7.0 “I Do Windows” campaign. Bill Gates rented the Vienna Opera House in Austria to introduce Windows 95. Future Popes and Cardinals from the Vatican in Rome attended. Monarchs escorted royal princesses to the opera that night to learn about a company named Microsoft. As we stood in the halls, European leaders asked, “Where is Seattle?” Many thought it was a tech park outside of Washington D.C. Not the State of Washington. I know because I was there, living a few hours away in Prague, Czech Republic. Ten years later, I was using the technology to help publishers in Greece, Turkey, Israel, and now I am married with children in Las Vegas. Nevada’s computer technology used to intrigue me. The best technological engineers moved to San Diego or Los Angeles after they started families. I lived near Sony at Poway in San Diego, but my wife didn’t enjoy the traffic. To get to Denver, I need a plan, a plan that includes my children. I can’t simply grab a suitcase before jumping on an airplane. The backpacking days are over. Now a laptop bag has to include enough to room to fit my portable printer, because I am a publisher on the go. I have tried so many times to get to Denver. I think Denver will be the next hub. As a tech investor that watches the markets with Wall Street speculators retired in Las Vegas, I will bet my future on the next Silicon Valley. The next tech capital in the United States of America will be in Colorado between Boulder and Denver where the legislators are building a high speed train between the two cities.