On Wednesday, the Business, Economic Development and Labor Appropriations committee heard testimony to further expand a statewide student apprenticeship program that seeks to give high school students credit for workforce experience. House Bill 68 passed during the 2020 session, but had its funding pulled back during a special session last year. Ben Hart, Executive Director…
The Bottom Line – You may not know of FreshLime yet, but if Jay Bean’s track record is any indication, it’s about to become one of Utah’s fastest growing companies. Shortly after graduating from Weber State University Bean founded his first company, Ah-ha.com – an online marketing firm. In just four short years he grew…
This week Natalie, Jim, and Chris review highlights from last night’s 2nd Republican debate. Also Draper City’s tax giveaway to Larry H. Miller car dealerships, whether convicted San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman’s judges are being intimidated, and Rep. Mia Love wanting to avoid shutting down the government over Planned Parenthood.
The Bottom Line – A national lack of computer programmers is holding back growth and new products for many companies. To address this dearth, coding boot camps are sprouting up across the country. These schools teach non-technical people entry level programming skills necessary for landing positions at technology companies. According to a 2014 study by…
The Bottom Line – (Air Date: March 10, 2015) Each year more than 500,000 patients in the U.S. suffer from intravascular (“I.V.”) catheter-related bloodstream infections. It remains a serious problem, but one – for the most part – that can be solved. Catheter Connections focuses on the connection in the catheter that is often vulnerable…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: March 3, 2015) –Last November Utah Insurance Commissioner Todd Kiser warned Parker Conrad’s San Francisco-based company Zenefits that they would be fined and banned from operating in Utah. The problem? Zenefits offers small businesses their cloud-based software for free, hoping they’ll purchase health benefits for their employees using Zenefits. …
The Bottom Line (Air Date: Feb. 24, 2015) – Craig Earnshaw’s journey as an entrepreneur began when Jimmy Carter was President and home mortgage rates were north of 10 percent. Twenty five years after he started Lifelink in 1978, Earnshaw had built his company into one of the country’s leading software companies for insurance agents.…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: February 3, 2015) – Nathan Furr is professor of entrepreneurship at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business, and co-author of “The Innovator’s Method: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization”. His book (co-authored with Jeff Dyer), examines processes of innovation and change that are valuable tools to know for…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: January 20, 2015) – Zach Mangum’s journey from co-founding GroSocial to selling it took, amazingly, only two years. That said, his journey is not over. Zach sold his company to InfusionSoft in December of 2012 and now leads that company’s social products division. GroSocial had 30,000 users and nearly one…
(KCPW News) Salt Lake City has been playing host to the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) this week. The group’s national convention is being held at the Grand America Hotel, and it has brought many impressive luminaries, such as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro, and U.S. House Minority Leader…
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