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Outlook up-tempo: ColoradoBiz Top Company panelists look for good year as long as high interest rates and fuel prices don't act as drag on economy.

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CLIFF BROWN AND RUSS FARMER OWN and run ADA Technologies Inc., a Littleton company with 35 employees. ADA has grown steadily at a 30 percent per-year clip since 2000--straight through the national recession of 2001 and through the Colorado recession that has lingered through 2002, 2003, 2004 and into 2005. The firm uses federal business-development grants to turn technology research into commercial products, and its growth rate is as much a testimony to its success as any other indicator could be.

Both Brown and Farmer anticipate that 2006 will be an even better year for their small business. ADA opened a Wyoming office in November, and Farmer said ADA's revenues in 2006 could grow by more than 50 percent next year.

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Over the life of the 20-year-old company, ADA has generated almost $47 million in revenues; it has been granted 17 patents for its technology; and, in September, had six to 12 more patents in development.

Brown and Farmer, winners of a ColoradoBiz Top Company award in 2005, were among almost a dozen executives of Colorado firms who participated in the magazine's annual economic-forecast roundtable, a discussion of firms' past...