The Bottom Line – (Re-Air date: January 9, 2018) Refugees arrive in Utah escaping political, religious or ethnic persecution. As they settle into the community, find work, and begin the process of assimilation, many refugees go on to innovate and start their own businesses. This week host Doug Wells speaks with Aden Batar, Director of…
The Bottom Line – (Re-Air date: January 2, 2018) The Ragnar is relay race born in Utah that has since become a wildly popular event among folks who love the challenge and adrenaline of long distance running. Ragnar is a 24-hour, nearly 200 mile relay race and typically run in teams of 12 people. The…
Startup Spotlight – (Re-air Date: December 26, 2017) 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.
Startup Spotlight – (Re-air Date: December 19, 2017) 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…
The Bottom Line – (Re-Air date: December 12, 2017) Julian Castelli is the CEO of Leisure Link, a national leader in the vacation rental space, one of the most challenging and fast changing industries in the country. Leisure Link’s platform helps vacation rental property managers operate more effectively. In this interview with Doug Wells, Castelli…
The Bottom Line – (Re-air date: December 5, 2017) Consumers seem to pay less and less attention to traditional marketing. Instead, people buy products that come recommended by authentic people they can trust. That’s the reason, Stockham says, so-called “influencer marketing” is now hotter than ever. Stockham is CEO of Experticity, a Salt Lake City-based…
The Bottom Line (Re-Air Date: November 28, 2017) – The dawning age of driver-less cars are much-discussed as of late. But what’s overlooked is also the rise of autonomous tractors, mining vehicles, and robots for cleaning and security. That is the industrial future that Mel Torrie, President and CEO of Autonomous Solutions Inc. (ASI), believes…
Shawn Peterson’s mobile greenhouse gets lots of attention. In 2011, after he converted the old school bus into a vehicle for urban agriculture, and he wanted to show kids how cool growing food and eating healthily could be. Green Urban Lunch Box was born, but he soon learned that funding something new and innovative can…
Covering a child’s eyes or ears during a scary or profane movie scene is something many families customarily do. So in 2012 when Neal Harmon built VidAngel – a filtering platform to let movie-watchers cut unwanted content from streaming video-on-demand services like Netflix or Hulu – he never expected such a protracted court battle with…
Filmmakers have long appreciated Utah’s majestic landscapes for imagining the “old West,” an alien planet, or a neighborhood in “anytown U.S.A.” Over the past decade Utah has ramped up its financial appeal to filmmakers through tax credits. Virginia Pearce, the Director of the Utah Film Commission, talks about the state’s behind-the-scenes efforts to make Utah…
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