crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. startup ecosystem for many decades. million dollars.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

The mode purpose for funding is (in order of frequency) Sales, Marketing, Market Expansion, Product Development, and Hiring Employees. Most programs culminate with a Pitch Day and Investor Networking Event where the companies present their newly defined and expanded growth playbook. . The average monthly operating expenses is $70,335.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 23, 2018

Big businesses, too, receive benefits; many use these events for networking, building partnerships with other firms, and providing professional development opportunities for their employees. The institute started its flagship events — two annual excursions to Powder Mountain in Eden, Utah — four years ago.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2011

Then you start to pay the employees, rent, inventory, and the phone system that keeps crashing on you. If you’ve never been much of an accountant, network engineer or HR person, you will be. Joel Nielsen is the founder of MediaShark, LLC in Salt Lake City, Utah. What’s left over is depressing. Oh wait, you ARE the staff!

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Yes it’s true that incumbents utilize regulatory frameworks to create artificial scarcity, which inflates prices, shrinks demand and hurts consumers (eg cosmetologists in Utah being forced to spend $16k and two years of school in order to braid hair ). I’ll share two examples, one from Homebrew and one from personal experience.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 10, 2019

and has been featured as one of the fastest-growing businesses in Utah as well as on the Inc. Since a key part of our business revolves around networking with and hiring independent contractors from all over the country, most of the interactions we were having with team members were already being done remotely.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 30, 2012

It isn’t that the job listing sites are bad, its just that employer and their mother uses those systems to find employees. In other words, the job board watering hole is saturated, and the select few great employees get picked up before you even get a chance to print out their resume. Tweet-an-Employee. Going To School?

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I’m actually just a Mormon dad who has five kids and lives in Salt Lake City Utah, not the Bay Area. Most people who want to build something independently make this trade-off: they give off pieces of independence to access to the capital and networks that venture capital can provide. I don’t have an M.B.A.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

Grace is from Brooklyn, New York and currently lives and works in Provo, Utah. Group meetings are possible via computer networking. The trend is away from having employers provide pension and medical benefits and more toward employees working on a contractual basis and providing for their own needs, present and future.

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