Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

L3Cs were first formed in 2008, and are currently only legal in Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming, as well as the federal jurisdictions of the Crow Indian Nation of Montana, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. B corp, or Benefit Corporation. Related Articles on Bplans: What is an L3C?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

by Luke Heinecke, founder of Linear. Luke Heinecke is the founder of Linear, a Utah-based PPC agency with an intense focus on conversion rate optimization. You might compare A/B testing to fantasy football. Players are chosen based on their strengths and this is put to the test on game day.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

About an hour’s drive from Salt Lake City, lies Utah’s Powder Mountain. After 5-years of hosting epic events for entrepreneurs including Summit Basecamp , Summit at Sea and DC10 , The Summit Series team decided it was time to grow roots, and found its home in a place called Eden, Utah.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

There are plenty of well-deserved articles by Axios and Forbes and tweets of praise for Qualtrics (must read Utah-based VC Bryce Roberts’ storm here ), which you can and should read. Last night, SAP bought the company before it could IPO. And, every year, it doesn’t materialize that way.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. million dollars.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Sr amana Mitra, founder of One Million by One Million . A few months ago, I met Jana Francis, founder and CEO of online daily deals site Steals.com. Jana now has over 70 full-time employees, most of them based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. Five years ago, a good friend of mine hanged herself. She did not work.

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Bryce Dot VC

JUNE 28, 2014

In the time that I’ve been home, I’ve had the chance to meet with a bunch of local founders of all types. Funny thing about Utah today is that it has very few of these ingredients. Yet never, in the 15 years that I’ve been participating in the Utah startup community I have never seen so much momentum.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Most small businesses and startups do not have a dedicated human resource professional to manage the endless details of benefit plans, recruiting, payroll, and records keeping so those tasks typically fall to a founder or general manager. In the meantime there are also several private exchanges that operate in much the same way.

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The Next Web

JULY 25, 2013

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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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

” chants will come from the Twitter Peanut Gallery, and many VCs do — there are outcomes like Duo in Michigan, Qualtrics in Utah, or Atlassian in Australia. “Get a plane!” For me, as a seed investor, I started to feel this struggle back in 2015.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects. Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do. For Twitter Founder, Its Hip to Be Square Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2015

At Deer Valley Ski Resort in Utah, the staff help you find the missing item and then give you a coupon for a free hot chocolate. He is the founder of UP! Help them find ways to UP service. Imagine you are going up a ski lift and accidentally drop one of your gloves or ski poles into the woods below.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

Alex, vice provost for Innovation & Economic Development at Weber State University in Utah and completing his first year of teaching entrepreneurship. Serendipity. A serendipitous answer came to us around noon. His name is Alex Lawrence.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 4, 2017

My entrepreneurial journey started with a poorly functioning phone system at a Utah County software firm. The options for upgrading were far too expensive and overly complicated, so my fellow Jive co-founders and I – being the over-confident software guys that we were – decided to just build one ourselves. Photo Credit: John Pope.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 23, 2018

Many of these events can be isolating for startup founders or leaders of growing companies; without name recognition or existing relationships, they struggle. Carter and his co-founder, Michael Lovitch, established The Baby Bathwater Institute to provide entrepreneurial support they didn’t see available elsewhere.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2011

Joel Nielsen is the founder of MediaShark, LLC in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Nielsen recently completed his Six Sigma Certification through the University of Utah and has been a guest speaker to both National and International audiences. Visualize it” when it falls apart. About the Author.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2015

by Scott Petty, co-founder of Signal Peak Ventures. He also has served on the Board of Directors of the Lassonde New Venture Development Center at the University of Utah. When you think of the next big thing in venture funding, the corner store or local mechanic isn’t what comes to mind.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Yes it’s true that incumbents utilize regulatory frameworks to create artificial scarcity, which inflates prices, shrinks demand and hurts consumers (eg cosmetologists in Utah being forced to spend $16k and two years of school in order to braid hair ).

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 30, 2014

It turns out that Jeremy Smith from Provo, Utah, not only followed these 14 steps to a "t", but really perfected them. Then, about 2 minutes into the 2:45 minute video, co-founder Sean appears and says “thanks for watching” and explains how he and his team has “poured their lives” into the project or years.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2015

The founder of SmartMouth Communications, Levine has written speeches, developed messaging strategies, and coached business executives, politicians, other professionals, and, notably, athletes. Her clients have included members of the Utah Jazz, the U.S. Ski Team, U.S. Snowboarding, the U.S.

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Bryce Dot VC

DECEMBER 12, 2012

So, I’ve decided to break one of Brad’s golden rules of startup communities and start a new series for local founders and entrepreneurs I’m calling Sessions @ The Leonardo. . Fortunately, the wonderful team at The Leonardo has volunteered their support for this little experiment and I’m grateful to them for that.

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Bryce Dot VC

JANUARY 19, 2013

But, over the holidays I was able to sit down with my friend Vinod Khosla and a small group of founders and entrepreneurs at The Leonardo in Salt Lake City. Our chat covered a wide range of topics. And the good folks at The Leonardo were kind enough to record, edit and put it online.

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Bryce Dot VC

MAY 1, 2015

If you just read the popular tech press this week you’d have been bombarded with sensational tales of flush founders in Ferraris and others bringing parody to life with extravagant networking events hosted under the lights of the major leagues. I’ve been back in Utah now almost 3 years, so maybe that’s changed.

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Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

” She has a great sense for founders and markets with a wicked sense of humor to boot. Special thanks to our friends at USTAR and Utah Capital Investment for sponsoring this Session. From the first time I met Ann it was clear why Forbes dubbed her “The Most Powerful Woman in Startups.”

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. These days revenue is the best source of capital. That’s cool.

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entrepreMusings

JULY 6, 2013

Small Businesses Rate Utah and Alabama Friendliest States, California and Illinois Among Least Friendly. I received a request to post this info back in April, but just now had the time to get it on the blog. Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities. (San San Francisco, Calif.)

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Transformify

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Our guest today is Matt Secrist, the COO and Co-Founder of BKA Content , an online content writing service. and has been featured as one of the fastest-growing businesses in Utah as well as on the Inc. BKA Content hires hundreds of remote workers from all over the U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 9, 2023

He is a professor at Columbia Business School and Founder of the Mentora Institute. He's a professor at Columbia Business School and the founder of the Mentora Institute. He has coached dozens of Fortune 100 C-suite executives and taught 10,000+ MBAs and Executives. That's dtm.world/certification. (00:55): This is John Jantsch.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. MOST READ on FOLIO: F+W Acquires Aspire Media. Merging Brands with Technology. Defining Mobile Opportunities and Strategies. Reports: Major Layoffs at Spin. FOLIO: Alerts & Newsletters. Sign up for our news alerts, special offers & feature updates: Your Email Address. New Jersey.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I’m actually just a Mormon dad who has five kids and lives in Salt Lake City Utah, not the Bay Area. I remember specifically one of the founders that we’d backed, when we kind of shook hands on our first investment said they were never going to raise anymore money and keep the team close and small. I don’t have an M.B.A.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This has been a huge difference-maker for TSheets is lunch with the founders. As a founder, an entrepreneur, or a senior leader you know that’s part of your job description. You were going to drive across Utah. Have all of that stuff pre-planned. Another one. We’re going to talk more about this in a minute.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

This in turn has fueled incubation programs like YCombinator, TechStars, 500 Startups & many more to help early-stage teams launch businesses led by most technical founders who are getting coaching from seasoned management teams. In addition it is much easier to get distribution than it was in the pre Facebook, pre iPhone world.

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