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The Bottom Line: The Eccles Family Legacy – An Interview with Spencer P. Eccles

The Bottom Line – (Air date: March 1 ~8, 2016) Few families have done more to make Utah a better place to live, work and play than the Eccles family. The Eccles’ various foundations have touched the lives of thousands of families in Utah and nationwide. As The Bottom Line show celebrates its third year on…

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The Bottom Line: Geralyn Dreyfous – Filmmaking as Cultural Entrepreneurship

The Bottom Line – Geralyn Dreyfous has had an impressive career as an award-winning Executive Producer of documentary films, including “Born into Brothels” (2004), “the Cove” (2010), and “Hell and Back Again” (2011).  She, along with co-founder Dan Cogan launched Impact Partners in 2007 which has since supported over 60 films.  With the 2016 Sundance Film…

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The Bottom Line: Ed-Tech Series: Jordan Townsend, Circll

Startup Spotlight – Continuing our series of interviews with aspiring entrepreneurs who completed Boom Startup’s 2015 Ed-Tech accelerator program, Doug spoke with Jordan Townsend, founder of Circll.  He has developed an app to help public school raise funds.

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The Bottom Line: Ed-Tech Series: Patrice Laperriere , Zamenhof

Startup Spotlight – Continuing our series of interviews with aspiring entrepreneurs who completed Boom Startup’s 2015 Ed-Tech accelerator program, Doug spoke with Patrice Laperriere, Founder of Zamenhof.  His company aims to be a better foreign language learning program.

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The Bottom Line: Ed-Tech Series: Kati Radziwon, iFlipd

Startup Spotlight – Continuing our series of interviews with a cohort of talented and aspiring entrepreneurs completed Boom Startup’s 2015 Ed-Tech accelerator program: Kati Radziwon is the CEO and founder of iFlipd, a company that aims to be the “Redbox of ebooks”.  Their service hopes to create a community where like-minded readers can “meet, mingle,…

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The Bottom Line: Ed-Tech Series: Peter Glenn, Crowd School

Startup Spotlight – Recently a cohort of talented and aspiring entrepreneurs completed Boom Startup’s 2015 Ed-Tech accelerator program.  Peter Glenn is the co-founder and CEO of Crowd School a software designed to help teachers create and share ideas and plan lessons for project-based learning.

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The Bottom Line: Ed-Tech Series: Adi Thacker, WriteWell

Startup Spotlight – Recently a cohort of talented and aspiring entrepreneurs completed Boom Startup’s 2015 Ed-Tech accelerator program.  Adi Thacker is the founder of WriteWell, an app that works to help people become better writers.

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The Bottom Line: Ed-Tech Series: Ross Jones, Emotuit

Startup Spotlight – Recently a cohort of talented and aspiring entrepreneurs completed Boom Startup’s 2015 Ed-Tech accelerator program.  Ross Jones is the CEO of Emotuit, a software that uses facial expression recognition to understand when a student is, or isn’t engaged with certain content online content.  His company hopes to provide a new form of…

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The Bottom Line: Ed-Tech Series: Maria Ortiz, 7 Generation Games

Startup Spotlight – Recently a cohort of talented and aspiring entrepreneurs completed Boom Startup’s 2015 Ed-Tech accelerator program.  Maria Ortiz is the CEO and Co-Founder of 7 Generation Games, a video game that hopes to change how math is learned by combining Native American history and adventure gaming.  

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The Bottom Line: A Safe Place to Fail – Troy D’Ambrosio, Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute

The Bottom Line – 2016 is set to be an exciting year for Utah students studying entrepreneurship.  The University of Utah’s new Lassonde Studios will open as a 20,000 square-foot center that combines living space for 400 full-time residents, multiple classrooms and innovation laboratories.  It is one of the nation’s biggest and boldest programs in…

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