Where did you get the business data from? And why?

When planning the directory, we did a lot of research into other online directories, and talked with countless folks from the City of Denver and State of Colorado about how we could identify and gather information for Colorado-based businesses.

And we discovered something with all that research: There IS no resource for identifying the kinds of businesses we consider local.

This reinforced why we think the directory is so important - most of us don't know which restaurants or shops are owned by our neighbors, and which are corporate chains. So we decided to use the best data we could find to seed our directory: business data from the Colorado Secreatary of State.

We've done our best to sift through the data and remove records that were obviously not local (by our definition) and terribly incomplete. But that's a huge task, and we would rather have launched with lots of info (and then improve upon it) than with very little data. So we're still working to improve our info, and you can definitely help.