November 30, 2001

Vintage Collection in Boulder sells furniture, antiques

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BOULDER — This is a pop quiz.

If you were going to open your first business and wanted to triple your earnings in a little over five years, which three of the following criteria would you consider most important: investment capital, a business degree, savvy partners, knowledge of the market, knowledge of your subject or location.

West End Gardner owner Kim Dunning would have failed that quiz when she opened a “funky little space on Pearl” in 1995; she had very little of any of the above. The only business experience she had was light bookkeeping at a garden-design business she’d…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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