Startup Spotlight: A few years ago Emily Taylor, a nationally recognized quilt designer, saw a need for online tools to help other quilters map their projects. Hence PatternJam.com was born. And it turns out the quilting space is much larger than non-quilters would believe. Building a quilt remains the creative outlet of choice for millions…
The Bottom Line – Clint Betts visited KCPW recently to talk about the upcoming StartFEST event set to run from August 31 – September 5th in Provo, Utah. Betts is the founder and editor-in-chief of Beehive Startups, an independent media organization covering Utah’s startup and tech scene. When Betts was first a guest on The…
The Bottom Line – Only 102 Utah high school students took Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science during the 2014/2015 school year. Cody Henrichsen taught 30 of them. The number of Utah youth studying computer science and coding is strikingly low compared to other states, even as demand for professional coders is rising. Girls are especially…
The Bottom Line –Forty years ago James Mayfield saw the challenges of extreme poverty around the globe and decided to do something. Today CHOICE Humanitarian is engaged in five countries: Kenya, Nepal, Bolivia, Guatemala and Mexico. working to end extreme poverty and “improve quality of life through a bottom-up, self-developing village-centered approach.” Although Mayfield says…
The Bottom Line – Sorenson Media began 20 years ago when it licensed technology from Utah State University. Back in 1995, America was just getting introduced to the Internet which, compared to today’s standards, was slow and limited. Sorenson embraced USU’s technology to allow us to watch streaming videos in real time (versus downloading the…
The Bottom Line – Taylor Randall became Dean of the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business in 2009. The school now has a state of the art building and are moving up in the rankings of the best business schools in the nation. The School is also eager to see the Lassonde Entrepreneur…
The Bottom Line – Mark Gorenberg is the Founder and General Partner of Zetta Ventures. Gorenberg has been successful at finding promising entrepreneurs and investing in developing trends. He and his previous firm, Hummer Winblad were early investors into some of Utah’s most exciting companies including Omniture, InsideSales.com and Domo. In addition, Gorenberg served on President…
The Bottom Line – Co-working spaces for groups of entrepreneurs and startup companies to collaborate are becoming more popular across the Wasatch Front and Park City. They provide a convenient place to work together as a team, hold important meetings and collaborate with other entrepreneurs. Dan Might is co-founder of The Holodeck in Salt Lake…
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…
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