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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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Utah Community Credit Union Elects Members to Board of Directors

-UCCU Directors Provide Guidance and Experience in Customer Service, Technology, and Financial Security- Utah Community Credit Union (UCCU) announces the recent election of three members to the Board of Directors, based on the election that occurred May 9 to May 20, 2011, and was ratified during the Annual Meeting on May 26, 2011. The nine-person [...]

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Stoel Rives, With Snapp Conner PR, to Host Social Media in Workplace Seminar on June 24

- Stoel Rives labor and employment partner, Matt Durham and Snapp Conner PR’s managing partner, Cheryl Snapp Conner to discuss the best ways for employers to avoid the risks while learning to monitor, leverage and capitalize on employees’ social media skills- Social media is everywhere and is a part of millions of people’s personal and [...]

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LDS.biz Offering Free Online Webinar from NYT Best Selling Author Richard Eyre on Balancing Career with Family and Avoiding Entitlement

LDS.biz offers free mentoring from top professionals for people with shared values Richard Eyre, co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller “Teaching Your Children Values” will present a free online webinar entitled “How to Balance Family Life with a Successful Career – and the Problem of Entitlement,” on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 offered through [...]

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SageCreek Partners and Clients Win Multiple 2011 vSpring v100 Awards

-Partners Greg Butterfield, Mark Bonham and Jan Newman named to vSpring’s 2011 v100 List together with multiple executive leaders of SageCreek client accounts – Consulting firm SageCreek Partners today announced that three of the SageCreek partners, Greg Butterfield, Mark Bonham and Jan Newman, have been named to the vSpring v100 list leading entrepreneurial executives for [...]

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