How to raise money in Utah

May 17th, 2006 4:30-6:30 pm
Miller Business Innovation Center
9690 South 300 West
Sandy, Utah 84070
801-957-5201
Join the Wayne Brown Institute for its rotating series of free seminars entitled ‘How to Raise Money in Utah.’ This month’s presenters: Mark Carman of Stoel Rives, Tony Howells of Olympus Angel Investors, and Will West of Control4.
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UTC members get hook ups

Cheaper insurance. More jobs. Read on my friends.
1 - Effective immediately, Utah Technology Council member companies are eligible for discounted insurance through a UTC partnership with The Hartford Insurance. Options include group life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment and group short-term and long-term disability options at discounts of up to 8 percent.
Utah Information Technology Association [...]

Dell Schanze’s trial starts today

Former Totally Awsome Computer’s head Dell “Super Dell” Schantze is in court today on trial for pulling a gun on some Draper, Utah residents in May of last year. The alleged victims say Schantze was allegedly driving his Jaguar some 80 miles per hour through their neck of the woods, so the followed him to [...]

AOL cuts 125 Utah jobs

The dogs will be released in 10 minutes . . .
AOL is showing the door to 1,300 of it’s workers (mainly in call centers) all across the U.S.. The layoffs will affect 125 workers at the Ogden, Utah facility.
AOL says that it’s user base is is little more “savvy” than it was when the [...]

Sash Management gets bought

Sash Management, a Bluffdale-based company doing business as Gift Card Solutions, says it has been purchased by Comdata Corp. of Tennessee.
GCS provides electronic gift cards, loyalty card programs, paper certificates and other related services for a number of industries, including restaurants. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Technonerds? Not in Utah classrooms.

Apparently the kids in Utah schools don’t have the greatest nerd skills, and they don’t have the tools to exercise that poindexter power either. The state scored an F in access to technology and it scored an F in kids’ capacity to use technology even though they scored an A on how much they use [...]

v100 for 2006

Utah venture capital group vSpring announced its 2006 v|100 today.
“Each year, vSpring asks members of the Utah business community to nominate individuals with ties to the state of Utah who are most likely to lead a successful startup venture in the next five to seven years in the IT (information technology) or biotech industries in [...]

Delta Center getting a new name?

We have word from some sources that the Delta Center may be getting a new name. We’ll let you know more as we find out more. In the meantime, we have two questions.
1 - What would you name it?
2 - What do you think it will be named? Zions Bank Center? Larry Land?
This isn’t tech [...]

UTA to use “contactless” credit card pay system

Next time you head up to the Ski slopes on a UTA bus, you will be able to just “tap” your credit or debit card over some new-age device that will be able to charge you for a toll up the mountain. Essentially, you can now use credit to ride the bus.
Some company called Peppercoin [...]