Both Sides of the Aisle

Both Sides of the Aisle – Episode 147 (8/25/16)

This week Jim, Natalie, and Sen. Todd Weiler discuss Hillary Clinton’s new campaign office in Utah, the recent questions about possible unethical access that Clinton Foundation donors were given to Hillary’s office when she was Sec. of State, and Trump hiking the rent on the GOP when donors began footing the bill. In the second…

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The Bottom Line

The Bottom Line: Steering a Supermarket Giant – Victor Lund, former CEO of American Stores Company

The Bottom Line – (Original Air date: March 22, 2016) By the late 1980s American Stores was the largest drug-store retailer in the United States and the third-largest grocery retailer in the country. The company operated Acme Markets on the East Coast and Alpha Beta on the West Coast. Among the business leaders steering the…

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The Bottom Line: A Better Heavy Equipment Tracker – Alain Eav, RoviTracker

Startup Spotlight (August 2016) β€” RoviTracker is a rental management software to help companies that use heavy equipment rent and track their inventory. CEO and Founder Alain Eav, says he developed the program after years of dealing with some frustrations managing an equipment rental fleet. Eav shares how his former company Mobilight International in Utah…

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The Bottom Line: Tracking Your Utilities in Real-time – Sumner Douglas, Vutiliti

Startup Spotlight (August 2016) β€” Vutiliti is an application that will provide people with real-time analytics and data about their use of electricity, gas, and water. Sumner Douglas, the company’s COO, says homeowners have long wanted access to real-time utility data in order to conserve and save money. Douglas says they estimate their product could…

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The Bottom Line: Personalizing How We Teach & Learn – Jeffrey Katzman, Core Learning Exchange

Startup Spotlight (August 2016) β€” Core Learning Exchange CEO and Founder Jeffrey Katzman says current platforms used in most K-12 education are designed to support a β€œfactory-style” of education setup in the last century. Core Learning Exchange, on the other hand, aims to help educators to individualize instruction for each student. With more personalized learning…

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The Bottom Line: Learning Chinese By Pictures – Lukas Lohove, Zizzle

Startup Spotlight (August 2016) β€” Lukas Lohove has created a application called Zizzle to help Mandarin Chinese language learners more effectively learn Chinese characters by telling stories through pictures. Lohove says his app can help a variety of learners, by making the process fun and time-saving. Increasingly young and old Americans see Chinese as an…

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The Bottom Line: Helping You Journal – Nick Jones, JRNL

Startup Spotlight (August 2016) β€” JRNL is an application to help people get in the habit of journal writing and recording their own lives by using texts, emails, and social media. CEO and Founder Nick Jones says that while journal writing was once considered a private, even hidden exercise, social media has made journaling more…

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The Bottom Line: Getting Your Data Together – Mike Van Thiel, Known Factors

Startup Spotlight (August 2016) β€” Known Factors is an analytics, cloud-based program designed to help mid-tier companies to manage all of their data resources together into a single, dynamic system. CEO Mike Van Thiel says Known Factors ideally works in conjunction with other SAAS programs like DOMO, Tableau, Yellow Fin, to help companies more easily…

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The Bottom Line: Streamlining The Sales Process – Joe Lowry, Salesbridge

Startup Spotlight (August 2016) β€” Research shows that a quality personal interaction and a quick follow-up are key to closing a sale. Joe Lowry is CEO and Founder of Salesbridge, a SAS-based platform that automates scheduling, data entry, and follow up, to help salespeople better interact with customers. Lowry talks about how his platform works,…

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The Bottom Line: Learning By Gaming – Clancy Marshall, Cleverywhere

Startup Spotlight (August 2016) β€” Clancy Marshall, CEO of Cleverywhere, says declining test scores on standardized tests and general disinterest in school by American students was the impetus for launching her company. Clancy says she hired game designers from Halo and Minecraft, and partnered them with teachers and top pedagogical scientists to design effective educational…

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