Utah Valley Networking

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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Salt Lake City CrowdPitch, Mar 24th

CrowdPitch, an event put on by FundingUniverse, is a 2 hour event where 5-6 companies are selected to present their ideas to an audience of their peers and a panel of experts. Starting with a free meal and introductions, presenters then have just 4 minutes to wow the audience before a brief Q&A from the [...]

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Launch Leads Gives Back By Mentoring Non-Profits

Launch Leads, a fast growing business-to-business lead generation and executive level appointment setting company, recently joined the Community Foundation of Utah, a foundation that mentors non-profit organizations through the goal of harnessing Utah’s entrepreneurial spirit in service to the common good through smart philanthropy. The Community Foundation of Utah was founded by Greg Warnock and [...]

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LaunchUp Tonight with Legal Clinic

LunchUp is tonight featuring a legal clinic put on by business and intellectual property attorneys from Bennett Tueller Johnson & Deere, Dorsey & Whitney, Bateman IP, and Kunzler, Needham, Massey, & Thorpe. The attorneys will be available from 5:30 to 6:30 to sit down around tables with entrepreneurs in a one on one setting to [...]

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Crunch Lunch Presentatons Posted By UVEF

The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum hosted one of my world famous Crunch Lunch events last week to a capacity crowd. The presentations, at five minutes each, were packed full of fast-paced business advice that every entrepreneur should know to start, maintain and grow a successful business. If you were at the event and want to [...]

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Crunch Lunch Next Week at UVEF

UVEF Presents: Crunch Lunch! September 9th, 11:45 a.m., at Novell Building A. UVEF will again host Crunch Lunch, 8 presenters spend five minutes each in a rapid-fire presentation of concentrated business advice, tips, and ideas. 8 great business topics that move so fast you won’t have time to get bored. And, we conduct a drawing [...]

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Invented In Utah $50k Challenge Deadline Looms

Do you have an invention idea? Don’t let it go to waste. There is only ONE WEEK LEFT in the Invented In Utah submission phase. For more information, please visit the Invented In Utah website. Submit it today! Participants have a chance at winning valuable prizes and opportunities including: Over $50,000 in awards and services [...]

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SEO.com Welcomes New President and CEO

My good friends at SEO.com have some exciting news this week. Here’s the official story: Dave Bascom steps down as president and CEO but continues as an owner and advisor. Nelson James takes over as president, and Mike Mann as CEO. New management has big plans to surpass the SEO firm’s past rapid growth. Dave [...]

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OrangeSoda Offers Free Social Media Workshop

There is so much going on these days in social media that a lot of local businesses are being left in the dust. OrangeSoda is here to save the day with a free workshop to help teach local entrepreneurs how to reach out to their customers over the Web and get more business. Here are the details: [...]

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WordCamp Utah 2010 on August 28th

If you are a WordPress blogger, or interested at all in starting a blog for your business; consider attending WordCamp. WordCamp Utah 2010 will be held August 28th at University of Utah, in the Skaggs Biology Building.  This is a great opportunity to spend a day with local WordPress developers, users, and fans of all [...]

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