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Business Plans, Round Tables, Swimming and Podango…A Week in the Life of Chris Knudsen
What a great week!
I just got done reviewing the business plans my students have been working on this semester and overall I am very impressed. I have some students who could make serious runs with the plans they have written. Teaching this semester has been a challenge with work and many other commitments but all in all my class has been awesome.Â
On Tuesday I moderated a round table discussion for Grow Utah Ventures on the state of entrepreneurship in Utah. What an amazing event! I want to thank Craig Bott and Colin Kelly for asking me to participate. Look for the round table article in Grow Utah’s new publication brought to you by Lumin Publishing coming out next month.
Grow Utah is just what Utah needs. They are doing more to promote entrepreneurship in the state than anyone else and they have amazing resources. Alan Hall and the GUV team are incredible people who truly care about Utah entrepreneurs and are making real commitments to help foster entrepreneurship in the state.
Podango is rockin! There is so much interest in what we are doing that its hard to stay on top of all the requests. Our model is amazing. I just hired a new Director of Sales and I am excited to getting him rolling on Monday. If you are interested in finding out how podcasting can help you or your business please contact me.
I had breakfast with Devin Thorpe of Thorpe Capital on Wednesday. It was great to meet Devin - we talked about everything under the sun. If you need financing advice for your business I would highly recommend talking to Devin. Also, check out his blog - I read it daily (by the way, thanks for the plug, Devin!). I’m going to try to get Devin hooked up with a Podcast on Podango. His knowledge and insight is amazing!
On a personal note, I took up lap swimming this week. What a great work out. I need to get my stoke down better, which I’m working on. Does anyone know where there are good swim instruction videos on the Web? YouTube’s got nothing!
I’ve had one of those weeks where you meet great people and have great conversations. It makes life grand to be surrounded and associated with so many wonderful people. Thanks to Craig, Jeremy, Nicole, Colin, Devin, Richard, Sarah, Kelly, Judd and all the other people I met this week that made this such an amazing week.
Also, I’ve been working on a small side project with Richard Miller of the More Good Foundation. Its a unique project I hope will help promote the LDS church on the Web. Watch for an announcement on this project sometime in the next couple of weeks.
We truly have something unique in Utah that we need to celebrate. We aren’t Silicon Valley and I think that may actually be a competitive advantage. Let’s not try to be Silicon Valley, let’s show them that we have something great in Utah that they should consider: a wonderful atmosphere, a family-like environment and people who believe in something more than 80 hour work weeks. Â
By the way, no response yet from the TagJungle guys? I guess they have it figured out. I wish them the best of luck! Their service is really cool and I look forward to seeing them be successful.
Thanks for contributing to MY great week too.
Best,
Left by Kelly King Anderson on 10/27/2006Kelly
Thanks for the props, Chris. The pleasure was all mine!
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Left by Devin Thorpe on 10/28/2006I’m not sure what your swimming background is, but if you’re pretty new you should look into Total Immersion. It’s a series of books/DVDs/etc that teaches the basics. After a while you’ll graduate from it, but it’s a great way to start.
Left by Will Allred on 11/01/2006Will:
Thanks for the tip. I’ll check it out.
Left by ctknud on 11/01/2006