Archive for the ‘Utah’ Category
Lunch w Seth Godin – “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”
I’ve never seen Seth Godin present in person. I’ve read a few of his books and occasionally follow his blog. Overall, I’ve been impressed with his thoughts and information.
Kelly King Anderson from StartupPrincess.com took the initiative and organized and event with Seth Godin here in SLC. She reached out to me, and needed some help with sponsors, so Doba signed on board to help the event out.
It’s at a cool new venue called The Rail Event Center.
Details: http://startupprincess.com/sethgodin/
Register: http://lunchwithsethgodin.eventbrite.com/
All the proceeds benefit the The Red Cross for Haiti Relief effort.
And I’m very much looking forward to seeing that head in person.
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2010 vSpring V|100 Nominations
Just got a notice last week that they were accepting nominations for the v100. I think it’s a great program, kudos to vSpring Capital for putting it on.
It’s a community-nominated and peer-selected organization for entrepreneurs in Utah.
I’ve been selected for the last 3 years running. Having said it’s great, it seems like when I go to the annual event or get the directory, it’s the likely suspects each year. I think that is backed up by that it’s been around for 7 years (100*7=700) however, there are only 260 members to date.
Anyway, like I said, it’s a great program and great idea.
To help it out a bit this year, I purposefully ignored my usual suspects, and nominated 15 early entrepreneurs that
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The In-N-Out Project: Think and Act Like a Kid (or life will be boring)
Tonight, I’m camping out at In-N-Out Burger in Draper, UT. They’re opening tomorrow.
It’s their second location in Utah. (or the 3rd as Orem opens tomorrow too)
I love In-N-Out. I first ate there when I married a California girl and started going to the Bay Area regularly. Since then, I’ve developed a rule while traveling: if I’m within 20 miles of an In-N-Out, I eat there.
Some might say this love (nah, I’ll admit it, call a spade a spade, it’s an obsession) is childish. I mean it’s only a hamburger joint. And some might say camping out there tonight in 20 degree temps on cement just to be front of the line tomorrow morning is a bit immature. I mean,
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Utah Student 25
If you’re a student at a college/university in Utah (currently attending or graduated in 2009), and you have a business, any business, you need to apply for the Utah Student 25.
If you know a student with this criteria, you can nominate them.
This is a great program to recognizes the top student-founded businesses in Utah.
And if you want to see some great companies profiled, make sure you register to attend the Utah Student 25 Awards Gala on November 5th.
Finally, I’d appreciate everyone helping to spread the word about this great opportunity for Utah college students.
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The Utah Inferiority Complex
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been involved in meetings, forums, discussions, and even my own internal thoughts and doubts as an entrepreneur here in Utah surrounding the questions, “Is Utah as good as Silicon Valley?” “Do we have as much talent as Silicon Valley?” “Is there as much access to capital as Silicon Valley?” If I had a dollar for every time this has come up in the last 10 yrs I’ve been an entrepreneur, I’d have my F-U money by now.
It’s gotten so tiresome. I live in Utah because I want to. Because I live in Utah, I do startups in Utah.
Fred Wilson NAILS the correct thought on it so on top of the nail he
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I’ve lived about 12,500 days. Greatest one? Today!
It’s official. This is the greatest day of my entire life. Day I got married? Not even close. (sorry Amy) Day Kaitlin or Alex were born? Nope. (sorry guys). Day I was born? Well OK, that was probably the greatest day in the history of the world. But today is just out of control cool with news that if you live along the Wasatch Front in Utah will make you literally weep with joy.
In-N-Out Burger is opening a location in Draper, 10 minutes from my house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SL Trib has the details:IN-N-OUT Burger pursuing Draper site
Amen! Amen! Amen! and again, Amen!!!
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Silicon Slopes
For those of you unfamiliar with it, Silicon Slopes is a community site for the technology companies in Utah. It’s been spearheaded by Josh James and Omniture, and recently has added a chunk of other community sponsors and supporters.
A few months back, I realized I had talked with quite a few people that had various concerns about the project, so I condensed them into 3 main areas, and then started working with the Utah Technology Council to get them relayed to Josh and Omniture. They were: 1. What was Omniture’s plans for involvement and control as the project grew, i.e. what’s good for Omniture may/may not be good for other tech companies; 2. How does Silicon Slopes avoid competing for resources with
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