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Lean Startup All-Star Networking Lunch!
Silicon Slopes is hosting an exciting lunchtime workshop featuring Steve Blank, author of Four Steps To The Epiphany, Alex Osterwalder, author of Business Model Generation and Nathan Furr, author of Nail it And Scale It. Friday, February 3 at the Megaplex Theaters in Sandy (Jordan Commons – 9400 S. State Street, Sandy, UT). RSVP [...]
UVEF Kicking Off Year With Crowd Form And Giveaways
The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum is hosting a new type of luncheon to start off the new year. In a crowd-forum format, Lessons Learned will feature five startup entrepreneurs sharing their top three war stories on how they have overcome a particular challenge to make their business successful. This is sure to be a big [...]
UVEF Announces Annual Awards
The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum hosted the annual Awards Ceremony today. I was privileged to preside over the event and to share the podium with Keith McCord, who was the emcee and announced each award. I’d like to congratulate the following individuals and companies for their excellence: Best Kept Entrepreneurial Secret We regularly hear a [...]
Jeremy Hanks Launches DropShip.com
Doba founder Jeremy Hanks announced today a new business venture called DropShip.com, an innovative drop shipping software platform that connects suppliers and retailers in a way that makes it simple and easy to enable one–to–many connections, standardize product catalogs, update inventory feeds, and process orders. For ecommerce retailers and wholesale suppliers, drop shipping relationships can [...]
Utah Repeats This Year As Forbes Best State For Business And Careers
Time to celebrate. Again! Utah repeats this year as Forbes Best State for Business and Careers with Forbes themselves stating that “No state can match the consistent performance of Utah.” According to the article: Utah highlights include energy costs 31% below the national average and employment growth that has averaged 0.6% the past five years. [...]
Launch Leads Helps Local Businesses Thrive In Sluggish Economy
In a down economy, financial success and profitability just seem like wishful thinking. However, Launch Leads is proof that no matter the state of the economy, growth and success are possible. When many businesses were languishing in the depths of recession a couple of years ago, Brandt Page, CEO and founder of Launch Leads, rolled [...]
Eyring Research Institute Inducted into UVEF Hall of Fame
The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum (UVEF) this evening inducts the Eyring Research Institute into its UVEF Hall of Fame at the UCCU Center at Utah Valley University. Inductees represent individuals and organizations with an enduring legacy of entrepreneurial excellence. The Eyring Research Institute (ERI) was founded in 1972 by Carlyle Harmon with Dr. Ronald G. [...]
UVEF Top 25 Under 5 Award Recipients
The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum has posted the recipients of their annual Top 25 Under 5 Awards for 2011. The list is again an impressive review of Utah’s top 25 growing entrepreneurial businesses under five years old. I had the pleasure of hosting the event as the UVEF 2011 Chairman along with our keynote speaker [...]
UVU to Host Franchising Seminar for Utah Valley Businesses
Franchise Development Group, a nationwide provider of franchising services, will be the featured presenter at a free, hands-on, informational event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 to educate local business owners on the franchising process and help them discover if franchising is a viable option for their expansion plans. This information-packed, two-hour [...]
BoomStartup Selects 10 Companies for It’s 2011 Program
BoomStartup, a mentorship-driven seed accelerator for web, mobile and software start-ups, and a founding TechStars Network Member, announced it has selected 10 companies to participate in its second year three-month Summer program. The companies in the Class of 2011 are: ChampionVillage, CircleFive, Explorer.io, FaceTags, Golf Compete, Jumbas, OER Glue, PromoKube, Proz and VuTherapy. Congratulations! Each [...]
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