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…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: January 13, 2015) – Delivery vehicles for Winder Farms have traversed the Utah landscape since 1880. Not only was that before modern cars and trucks – it was long before electricity. Back then John Winder and his family delivered milk and butter mostly to neighbors and friends. The company stayed…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: December 30, 2014/January 6, 2015) – Bryson Garbett started his construction career in the field as a home framer when he was just 18 years old. He later founded Garbett Homes in 1988. Back then large homes on large lots were all the rage. Bryson saw a different opportunity and…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: December 9, 2014) – Clint Betts is founder and editor-in-chief of Beehive Startups, an independent media organization focused on Utah’s startup and tech ecosystem. Clint and his team are also the driving force behind an exciting new event for entrepreneurs, investors and the broader community called StartSLC. The 3-day event…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: November 25, 2014) – Any entrepreneur who is fortunate enough to have an idea grow into something worth tens of millions or even a billion dollars needs timely, accurate and actionable financial and business information to run their company. This information provides valuable feedback on what is going well, what…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: November 11, 2014) – Once the domain of relatively small mom and pop shops, the event rental business has grown up. It is now highly sophisticated and brings in over $5 billion dollars a year nationwide. One of the best-run regional players in the country is located here in Salt…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: November 4, 2014) – Twenty years ago during the dot-com boom, entrepreneurs in the Bay Area were turning away investors while companies in Utah were starving for capital. That has all changed now – thanks in large part to the efforts of Gavin Christensen, Founder and Managing Partner of Kickstart…
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