The Bottom Line (Air Date: October 28, 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…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: October 21, 2014) – After receiving his PhD in the 1980s and working for a large pharmaceutical company, Dinesh Patel realized he did not want to climb the corporate ladder. Instead he wanted to start his own company. His first firm, Theratech, was a huge success – going public after…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: October 14, 2014) – Jeramy Lund and Robb Kunz are both seasoned entrepreneurs and angel investors who are co-sponsoring a business incubator called The Park City Project. The project is to be run by both PandoLabs and Boomstartup. In this episode, Lund and Kunz share their thoughts and suggestions for…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: October 7, 2014) – Jeramy Lund and Robb Kunz are Active Angel investors and co-sponsors of The Park City Project, a business incubator run by both PandoLabs and Boomstartup. Business incubators have been around for decades but have had mixed results at best. But after 2005 that all changed, when…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: September 16, 2014) – Bank of American Fork began when a farmer, a doctor, a pharmacist and a local merchant got together to start a local bank over a hundred years ago. The bank is now Utah’s largest community bank, and it has weathered not only the Great Recession but…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: September 9, 2014) – Several years ago Morgan Lynch envisioned a better way for companies to market products – by engaging their products’ biggest fans and committed users. Lynch started Needle in 2010 and his customers now include well-known companies like UnderArmor, Dell, Coach and Norwegian Cruise Lines. His company…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: September 2, 2014) – In this second half of a two-part interview, Peter Metcalf describes Black Diamond’s decision to become a publicly traded company, and how the company’s commitment to environmentalism has helped it succeed. Metcalf also shares his life-altering and harrowing experience in 1980 of climbing Mt. Hunter with…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: August 26, 2014) – In this first half of a two-part interview, Peter Metcalf describes how Black Diamond spawned from the small business created by mountain climber Yvon Chouinard in the 1960s. While Chouinard went on to found the outdoor retailing company Patagonia, Chouinard Equipment filed for bankruptcy and was…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: August 12, 2014) – In this second half of a two-part interview, Paul Zane Pilzer describes what he looks for when seeking young entrepreneurs with potential, such as 29-year-old Rick Lindquist, current CEO of Zane Benefits. Pilzer talks about his motivation to become an author, writing his book God Wants…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: July 29, 2014) – (Part 2 of 2-part interview) Michael Weinholtz is the CEO of CHG Healthcare Services, the nation’s leading provider of physicians and nurses for short term staffing needs, a term the industry calls locum tenens. In 2013, CHG placed more than 10,000 medical providers across the nation…
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