Denver Entrepreneur Skye Barker Maa Sells Neighborhood Music School

For designer, entrepreneur and mom Skye Barker Maa, when her kids are interested in something, she doesn’t just enroll them in a class or program. When her three-year-old son showed an aptitude for music and she couldn’t find a school that would take a student so young, she opened Neighborhood Music and Theater in her house. When her daughter was interested in sewing but she couldn’t find a program that worked with her daughter’s schedule, she opened Factory Fashion, a fashion design school that operates in Stanley Marketplace.

As soon as Maa gets an idea, “I’m grotesquely charging toward it in a completely bravado-stricken way,” she says. If she can’t find a business that already meets the needs of the community, she creates it. “As a classic entrepreneur, I’m like, ‘Well, we’re…