A few weeks ago I had to pleasure of being able to visit Simply Honey, a Colorado bee keeper in Alamosa, and given a personal tour of the honey making operation. Simply Honey’s owner and sole employee is Brent Edelen, a third generation bee keeper. He has between 500 and 600 colonies that he moves [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Simply Honey
Posted in Life, StartUp Tagged bee keeping, honey, interview, local business, road trip, weekend 5 Comments
Inside Sales Analytics, Tracking Daily Activity
As a data geek who’s recently switched careers into sales, I can’t help but think about analytics in my new role as a Lead Gen Rep. To me data is crucial in understanding what’s effective and what’s not. So, I decided to be really diligent about keeping track of everything I do on a daily [...]
Lovely Confections
A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I were in a bit of a cake emergency (a decoration disaster!) and were heroically rescued by a local bakery/cupcake shop called Lovely Confections. Porche Lovely, the owner of Lovely Confections stepped up to the challenge and was able to spontaneously re-decorate a cake from another bakery in about [...]
Denver Union Station
One of my favorite buildings in Denver is the old Union Station in Lodo. Today I found a new website by the Union Station Neighborhood Co. promoting the proposed build up all around the historic site. We are getting a new train station, more multi-use buildings, all in addition to more rail transit. Here are [...]
