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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

New tech entrepreneurs can find it difficult to surmount the onslaught of obstacles to getting a new business off the ground. Her local Small Business Development Center (SBDC), a resources partner of the SBA, assisted them in developing marketing materials that effectively showcased the company’s unusual range of proficiencies.

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The 47th (-46) International Business Model Competition

Steve Blank

Utah may be known for many things, but who would have thought that Utah, and particularly Brigham Young University (BYU), would be participating in the transformation of entrepreneurship? I spent last weekend in Utah at BYU as a guest of Professor Nathan Furr , (a former Ph.D. Utah: Entrepreneurial Surprises.

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Startups – Beware The Changing Palo Alto Investment Model

YoungUpstarts

As an industry, VC essentially acts as a broker between investment banks, who can’t invest in risky startups due to laws on loan interest, and entrepreneurs who desperately need capital. This is boosting access and reach for entrepreneurs to the global pot of available funding. However, this investment model is starting to evolve.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. We collect more data on an individual business than, to our knowledge, any other RBI investor, through our application process, data partners, and various public sources online. Bigfoot Capital.

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Entrepreneurs gather in Eden for the first Summit Outside

The Next Web

Half the folks are headed to Utah while the other half are looking for an ice cream truck.”. Told to pack for a camping trip but not much else, 850 like-minded individuals showed up in Eden, Utah last Friday for the first Summit Outside event, hosted by the Summit Series team famous for its weekend retreats like Basecamp and Summit-at-Sea.

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Talented Women: Please Do Not Quit.

YoungUpstarts

She was married to a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur who ran a couple of major companies and had a brilliant career. However, a large percentage of women are not drawn to the dynamic of a male partner not working. Jana now has over 70 full-time employees, most of them based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. She did not work.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I had been pondering the name for a while, and didn’t want it to be my name or something specific to being located in Park City, Utah in the event I ever decided to move or expand the company. They came back with several rounds of ideas and my partner and I went back and forth on ones we liked and did not like.

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