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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 well as hubs of tech innovation springing up all over the United States – locations in Utah and Colorado, for example – the world is also getting behind tech. Germán is also Founding Partner of Rokk3r Fuel, Rokk3r Labs’ first global venture capital fund.

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

With an SBA-guaranteed loan of $800,000, the company was able to relocate to Salt Lake City, Utah to be closer to the area’s world-renowned rock and ice climbing and back-country skiing at the core of Black Diamond’s business.

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Making Elections Resilient Against Pandemics

David Cohen

For these reasons, I jumped at the opportunity to partner with Voatz (disclosure: Techstars is an investor in the company) to interview leading experts across the U.S. I wanted to understand this dynamic better, and what was really behind it. about the progress with online and mobile voting.

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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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Talented Women: Please Do Not Quit.

YoungUpstarts

However, a large percentage of women are not drawn to the dynamic of a male partner not working. She partnered with Rett Clevenger who at that time was an online media manager for a large e-commerce site, to launch Steals.com in April 2008. Jana now has over 70 full-time employees, most of them based out of Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Small business and startups: 5 great self-service HR resources

crowdSPRING Blog

I am not talking about wooing potential partners at fancy lunches, or drinks with clients after work, or even the whiteboard sessions that can fill our days. The everyday grind of running a business can be tough. I am talking about the nitty-gritty reality of operating a business, paying the bills, washing the dishes, and managing employees.