SoftPages closes after frustrating start

FORT COLLINS – SoftPages Inc., a Fort Collins-based company marketing advertising software designed to compete with the Yellow Pages, has closed its doors and left several employees and customers feeling angry and cheated.The young company was little more than a year old when failure to find investors and glitches in the company’s CD-ROM product forced a shutdown.
SoftPages is owned by Fort Collins resident Richard Hopkins and his three sons, Adam, David and Wayne. The family team’s plan to create “21st century advertising today” included customized ads and listings for businesses, government agencies and community organizations on CD-ROM and the…