Belle Baby Carriers.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF

Seth Murray was working on a master's in engineering management at CU-Boulder and came up with a business plan for a baby-carrier manufacturer for a class project. "I just kept at it after the class," says Murray, a veteran of the outdoor industry. He worked with industrial designer Mark LeBeau, then his co-worker at Trango, a Louisville-based climbing-gear manufacturer.

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"Together we designed over 50 climbing products," Murray says. "We'd been in the outdoor industry and had seen so many great backpacks, so we wanted to make a cool baby carrier." The result, the Belle Baby Carrier, features both shoulder straps and a waist belt that transfers more than half of a baby's weight from the shoulders to the...