If you read my blog it should come as no surprise to you that I believe the economy is going to take a hard turn south (its already there). I just got an email from Jason Calacanis at Mahalo. He indicated that he has laid off some of his staff due to the downturn. Jason [...]
Tomorrow Utah will hold its primary elections to decide who will go on to represent the 3rd district in the U.S. House of Representatives. I’m voting for Jason Chaffetz. I’m voting for him because I agree with him on most issues. He’s off on Iraq but so are almost all Republicans and there is no [...]
I’m doing a little research for a family member and part of that research involves looking into pay structures of MLM companies. I’m interested in talking to people high up the food chain at any MLM company. By that, I mean I don’t want to talk to your broke neighbor who barely covers his cell phone bill with his [...]
Last week I had a couple of guys in town from Phoenix and Denver. Both had previously lived in Utah. Both went to school here and worked in the Utah tech industry. Both left the state about six years ago for other opportunities. At the end of the day - after six important meetings - one [...]
Salt Lake-based MediaFORGE, a company I thought had passed away, launches a cool new interactive ad widget. Check it out:
Its good to see these guys are still around and kicking! Have a nice weekend!
I just got back from Governor John Huntsman’s Utah Economic Conference. It was an interesting time. I attended several sessions. The first session on successful growth strategies had some very good thoughts from Alan Hall of Grow Utah Ventures and Josh Coats of Mozy (which just sold for $80M to EMC). Alan talked about being on the [...]
I was just reading over some of the coverage on SXSW. Man that looked like a cool gig. I was scheduled to go last year and couldn’t make it for some reason. I really wish I would have gone.
Utah needs a defining tech conference. Sure we have Sundance, but that’s indie films. I’m talking about [...]
Jason Calacanis wrote a blog post that created a firestorm on the Web. On the important stuff he’s right on. Here are my thoughts:
“Buy Macintosh computers, save money on an IT department.” Come on, Jason - Macs break down too. Plus, I’m way more productive on a PC - so are most other people.
“Buy a [...]
I had a great time last night at the UEC mentor event. I was tapped to mentor the Savvy May team, which won the Westminster business plan competition last month.
It was also good to run into a couple of familiar faces. Rand Bateman was at the table next to me. His team has a cool [...]
