Fastest-growing firms brick-and-mortar breed, downplay dot-com hype

Six months beyond the hype of Y2K, many area companies wear last year’s dot-com frenzy like an old hat. The boom of 1999, however, did not begin and end on the Web.

The annual Boulder County Business Report’s list of Boulder County’s fastest-growing private companies (ranked by revenue increase from 1998 to 1999) revealed that the boom far from bypassed the brick-and-mortar world.

Of the 100 companies on the list, there were more real estate, construction and design companies — a grand total of 20 — than information technology and e-business specialists, which totaled 17. To wit, Stephen Tebo, owner…