Small Business Accountant – The World Has Found Out Fort Collins is a Great Place to do Business
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Fort Collins has a great dynamic of diversity within the community. And as a small business accountant, I think the world has found that out and it’s a great place to do business. It has the university, Colorado State University, and roughly 30,000 students go there. And all of the pieces that are combined with that, we have the brewery industry, which is alive and well. I think we still have the title for most beer per capita produced.
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So between Anheuser-Busch and New Belgium, several other ones that were just, we have a lot of pieces in that regard. And then the tech industry with Hewlett-Packard and related. There are a lot of businesses there and now a very big developing industry in the, I call it the alternative energy stuff. So solar wind, other things, a lot of manufacturing, and a lot of alternative energy businesses.
A lot of tech going on in design and manufacturing is usually done in surrounding communities. A lot of the design of microchips and other pieces for computers, or they have a testing lab. Colorado State is really good with helping small businesses and working in coordination with their professors, working with private industry.
A Lot Going on for Small Businesses in Fort Collins
So there’s a lot of that going on and there are testing facilities and such here too. So all of those things kind of work hand in hand, Colorado state the university, although COVID, I think has kind of hit some things, but generally speaking, their employment base stays pretty similar tech industry kind of goes up and down and people drink beer when they’re happy and drink beer when they’re sad. So that one’s good too. And so we are not really affected as much when the country goes into a slump. I’ll just say that.
So that’s a very vibrant area personally, for me, I love places and communities that have universities in them. They keep that younger vibe within the community and keep things going well and interesting and different all the time. And it’s not a university-only town. The community is about 180,000 plus 30,000 students. So it’s, it’s a, a bit of a college town in that respect.
