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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

Utah has long been recognized as a great place to start a business. Utah has a growing economy and low unemployment. Utah businesses benefit from low corporate taxes, business friendly regulations and energy costs 29 percent lower than the national average. Austin in particular is a technological and cultural hub.

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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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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. Columbus Technologies and Services — To NASA and beyond.

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Can Document Management Restore Consumers’ Trust In Enterprises?

YoungUpstarts

Although most paper-based breaches and leaks occurred prior to the advent of digital technology, events like this one still occur today. It’s up to organizations to use technology that makes compliance as easy as possible. As ignoble as the answer may seem, it’s because it’s not their job—at least not yet.

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Zoom Fatigue

Feld Thoughts

There seems to be an outbreak of it in Utah, as evidenced by a Utah-based startup says it has exclusive business rights to the use of smartphones and other electronic devices for tracing people who have come into contact with a person with Covid-19 and $67 million of State of Utah contracts for technology around the Covid crisis.

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Skyrocket Productivity with Xebec

Austin Startup

Another study conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology showed that employees were able to complete tasks 2.5 To get even more specific, a Utah study found that dual monitors increased productivity by 44% when completing text tasks and by 29% when completing spreadsheet tasks. minutes faster using a multi-monitor setup?—?that

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

If the tourist tours of start-ups are any indication, the area’s nickname as the “ Hollywood of Technology ” is wholly appropriate. This, along with over 800 million dollars raised by Utah-based companies that year ranked Utah as the seventh highest in the country, an impressive achievement for a state with just three million people.