Oct 23, 2020 Blog

What Entrepreneurs Want Most From Their Mentors

Exactly 6 months ago today, Jantier Fennel went before RMMFI's Launch Committee as the final step before graduating from Business Launch...
Oct 16, 2020 Blog

What Entrepreneurs Can Do with $2,500

Is $2,500 really enough to launch a business? Big venture capital is often what comes to mind when people think of entrepreneurship, but...
Sep 25, 2020 Blog

Capital Meets Capacity with RMMFI’s Largest-Ever Loan

“In many situations, those folks in the community have trust issues with our systems and government. They’ve been let down a...
Aug 26, 2020 Blog - Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur Spotlight: Rochelle Johnson

OWNER OF ROCHELLE JOHNSON STUDIO Rochelle Johnson had long dreamed of supporting herself as an artist. What she didn’t know was that...
Aug 21, 2020 Blog

Untapped Potential Across Colorado

Denver and Boulder tend to get most of the attention when people talk about entrepreneurship in Colorado, but the entrepreneurial spirit is...
Aug 14, 2020 Blog

Stories from the Pivot Accelerator Program

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we introduced a new Pivot Accelerator Program as part of our Entrepreneur Responsiveness Package....
Aug 10, 2020 Blog

Celebrating 12 Years and 250 Businesses Launched

RMMFI turns 12 today! We asked Pamela Richard, owner of Miss Peabody's Southern Tea Cakes and one of our earliest graduates, to reflect on...
Aug 6, 2020 Blog - Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur Spotlight: Edgar Aguilar

OWNER OF LEGACY CONSTRUCTION CLEANING “I want to help people, and the only way I know how to help people is through...
Jul 24, 2020 Blog - Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur Spotlight: Jessi Burg

OWNER OF PEARS TO PERENNIALS Pears to Perennials owner Jessi Burg, 35, never expected to own her own business, but it’s turned out to...
Jul 17, 2020 Blog

Celebrating and Supporting the Women Entrepreneurs Driving Our Economy Forward

Looking back at the record economic growth the US was experiencing prior to COVID, one group in particular played an outsize...