Each Year the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum (UVEF) seeks to recognize the best emerging companies established by entrepreneurs in the state of Utah. This event is the UVEF Top 25 Under 5. I will be posting the top 25 results here.
To qualify for the event you need to submit an application, you need [...]
We have confirmed a date for the Kauffman FastTrac® High Tech Venture™ Training Course. The course will begin on May 20, 2008. I am very excited for this entrepreneur training course for those starting a high tech business. Here are some details from the Orem Utah SBDC (Small Business Development Center):
This course [...]
I had an opportunity recently to learn more about the CEDO Incubator and Brad Whittaker. What a great way for the City of Orem to foster entrepreneurship. I noted several things that CEDO is doing very well at:
Innexpensive Office Space - CEDO offers office space to early stage entrepreneurs at a very low price
Mentorship Program [...]
Ever since I was young, I have been involved in activities to make money while being my own boss. I started many entrepreneur projects from selling cotton candy in front of Albertson’s food market (over $100/hr) to selling 1000s of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit Gum packs in Junior High School.
When I found out about [...]
What an exciting meeting today with Sterling Francom of Miller Business Innovation Center. Sterling has been involved in Creating an Incubator for many years now for SLCC (Salt Lake Community Center). They have a fantastic operation and a lot of success. One of the companies that graduated from the Miller incubator was Alligence, [...]
It has been my dream for a long time to start a nonprofit for Utah Young Entrepreneurs. This “school” would be a training ground for high school and college students on entrepreneurship. Each student will actually start a business during the six week program. The goal of Young Entrepreneurs is to provide [...]
BusinessWeek May 8 2006 had a great article on the May 2006 Best Undergraduate Business Schools in the U.S. At the top was Pennsylvania (Wharton), and #8 had Brigham Young (Marriott) as the 8th best business school for undergraduates. In fact recruiters put Brigham Young at #1 in the survey.
The Power of RankingI [...]
Good article in BusinessWeek on Where do Business Majors Weigh in on Honesty! The study which surveyed over 50,000 students from 69 schools showed that 26% of business students admitted to serious cheating on exams, and 54% admitted to cheating on assignments (plagiarism or poaching a friends homework). The numbers are similar accross [...]
