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UVEF Presents: January Crunch Lunch!

Dec 22

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UVEF Presents: Crunch Lunch January!

Back by popular demand to start our new year, UVEF will host 8 Provo Tech X presenters in a Crunch Lunch event on Thursday, January 13 at Novell starting at 11:45 for lunch.

Please RSVP: We expect this event to be full.

Eight presenters spend five minutes each in a rapid-fire presentation of concentrated business advice, tips, and ideas. Eight great business topics that move so fast you won’t have time to get bored. And, we conduct a drawing between each presentation for a variety of impressive gifts!

Don’t blink, and bring a pencil. Each presenter has exactly five minutes to present using 20 slides. Slides automatically advance every 15 seconds. This exciting format assures a high concentration of business advice in a single lunchtime.

Presenters are highly informative, educational, and relevant. Presenters are not allowed to pitch themselves (until the final slide), and you’ll walk away with a brainstorm of information. You’re welcomed to stay after the event to mingle and ask questions.

Presenters Include:

Register for this event today, space is limited:

Questions? Contact Michelle Michelle@cedo.org or at 801.226.1521 ext.101
No cost for this event to current UVEF members. $25 for visitors.

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Entrepreneurship Networking Luncheon With Steve Blank

Dec 17

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UVEF is sponsoring the Entrepreneurship Networking Luncheon event featuring Steve Blank.

“Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups”

Thought leader in entrepreneurship, Steve Blank will share his current thinking about startups, how and why they’re different than large companies, and a few thoughts about entrepreneurial education.

This event will combine networking, community information, and a lecture by Steve Blank, renowned entrepreneur and game-changing educator.

More on Steve Blank
Picture Over the last 25 years, Steve has been part of, or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups. These have run the gamut from semiconductors, video games, personal computers, and supercomputers. (MIPS, Zilog, Rocket Science, SuperMac, Convergent Technologies, Ardent, ESL) Steve’s last company was E.piphany, an enterprise software company. Steve is on the board of Macrovision (NASDAQ: MVSN), as well as two private companies; CafePress.com an on-line marketplace, and IMVU a 3D IM social network. Steve also serves on the California Coastal Commission and is on the board of Audubon National & is Chairman of Aubudon California. Steve currently teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School, the joint Berkeley/Columbia MBA program, and at the Stanford University Graduate School of Engineering. Steve teaches a methodology of starting and managing marketing, sales and business development in high technology startups. (See the course text at www.cafepress.com/kandsranch) Steve Blank’s Specialties: Marketing, sales and business dev strategies for emerging startups.

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11:30am – Welcome and Networking
11:45am – Special Announcements
12:00noon – Nathan Furr
12:15pm – Keynote: Steve Blank
1:00pm – Door Prize and Networking
Monday January 24, 2011
11:30am-1:30pm
Admission include box lunch
Location: Noah’s
322 West 11000 South
South Jordan, UT 84095
Advance Sales
General Admission $15
Student Admission $7.50$20 At-The-Door
(subject to seat availability)

Register Early!

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Annual UVEF Awards Wrapup

Dec 10

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The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum (UVEF) today announced winners for its 2010 Annual UVEF Awards. The annual event recognizes Utah companies and leaders for innovation, business growth and contributions to the entrepreneurial community. Award recipients were honored today at ceremonies held at the Provo Novell Campus.

“Successful entrepreneurs seek out mentors, looking for guidance to chart the road ahead,” said UVEF chairman John Pilmer. “UVEF Award winners are worthy of emulation as each represents the best of what each aspiring new startup wants to become.”

Award recipients will be named in the following categories:

Biographies on winners may be viewed on our post: UVEF Award Recipients .

UVEF is a volunteer non-profit support group linking entrepreneurs to Money, Markets, and Mentors. Celebrating 20 years of new business success, UVEF empowers current and future business leaders to thrive in today’s competitive market. We provide real-world, practical education and valuable resources on how to access needed capital, attract new customers and tap into industry experts. For information on upcoming meetings, speakers and exclusive membership benefits visit http://uvef.net.

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UVEF Award Recipients

Dec 10

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On Thursday, December 9, 2010, UVEF awarded the following outstanding entrepreneurs our prestigious year-end awards.

We send congratulations to all:

Most Innovative Product

This year’s Most Innovative Product is truly astounding.  It’s the ultimate in ultra-light and quite literally the most innovative sleeping pad ever made.  Designed by the best engineers in the outdoor sports industry, this company’s product is an extremely comfortable sleeping pad that uses body mapping to make it 40% lighter and 70% more compact than any other ultra-light pad in the world.  In fact, it packs down to about the size of a soda can and is the world’s lightest full length pad – weighing in at only 9.1 ounces!

—Please congratulate Klymit founder and CEO, Nate Alder for their award-winning product:  Inertia – X – Frame.

Ron King Social Entrepreneur of the Year

The 2010 winner of the Ron King Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award is Fraser Nelson, director of an organization dedicated to harnessing Utah’s entrepreneurial spirit in service to the common good through smart philanthropy.

As the state’s first truly public foundation, the assets of this organization are here to serve Utah for good and forever.  It offers a forum for Utah’s social and for-profit entrepreneurs to take calculated risks, gain new networks, and drive innovation – together.

—Please congratulate Fraser Nelson, founding Executive Director of the Community Foundation of Utah.

Greatest Contribution to Entrepreneurs

We would need much more than an hour to list all the incredible accomplishment s of this year’s next winner, which honors the Greatest Contribution to Entrepreneurs in 2010.

Here are just a few of the highlights of what this individual has done to help drive Utah’s vibrant entrepreneurial attitude this year:

  • As one of the partners in Utah Angels and early investors in Omniture, he witnessed the results of his early mentoring and investing from startup to Adobe’s acquisition of Omniture for $1.8 billion – Utah’s largest acquisition of its kind.
  • He also designs and teaches a number of practical, hands-on entrepreneurial courses for several different departments at BYU and helps run the renowned Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.
  • In additional to providing literally hundreds of hours of mentoring per year, this individual is also a board member and chairman of the Provo Business Development Corporation; he’s the co-founder of BoomStartup, a Utah mentorship-driven investment program; and he’s the founder of Utah Student 25, an Inc. 500-like program for student –founded businesses.
  • He also actively participates on the board of directors, board of managers, and/or advisory boards of numerous local startup and emerging companies.

—Please congratulate our next award winner for having the Greatest Contribution to Entrepreneurs in Utah in 2010 – our very own John Richards.

Utah Valley’s Best Kept Entrepreneurial Secret

Our next award is titled “Utah’s Best Kept Entrepreneurial Secret” and it goes to a company based in Orem, Utah that helps organizations comply with credit card data security requirements.  They provide unlimited support, unlimited re-testing and telephoned-based questionnaire help to simplify and speed up the compliance process for anyone interested.

Their mission is to simplify PCI compliance for business owners and they are doing it quite well!

—Please congratulate Brad Caldwell, founder and CEO of Security Metrics, Inc.

Utah Valley’s Entrepreneur of the Year

With so many great companies launching in Utah every year, it was hard to choose just one to be our 2010 Utah Valley Entrepreneur of the Year Award.  With that said, our winning company today is truly incredible.

The company was organized in 2004 to “teach English to the children of the world” and has pursued that vision with outstanding success at all levels.  With more than 25 years of curriculum research experience, this company created an innovative software program focused on meeting the unique needs of elementary school English learners.

Now partnering with more than 2,000 schools in 41 states, they have literally served hundreds of thousands of students in the US and abroad.  The Provo-based company has also been recognized both locally and nationally, ranking 533 on the Inc. 5000 list for 2010 and winning Utah state awards for both growth and success.

—Please join us in congratulating our 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner – Susan W. Preator, CEO of Imagine Learning, Inc.

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