Meeting with Jason Perry (Governor’s Office of Economic Development)
Last week, I had a great meeting with Jason Perry, the Executive Director at Utah’s GOED. It was fun to be able to discuss some of the initiatives that the Governor’s office has to stimulate and foster entrepreneurship in the state of Utah. Personally, I have been completely impressed with Governor Huntsman and his desire to spur economic development in the state.
Some of the things that we talked about were:
- Centers of Excellence: encourages commercialization of the leading-edge technologies developed at Utah’s universities.
- Each of the funds that have been established to help local businesses including: Industrial Assistance Fund (Grant & loan fund), Economic Development Tax Increment Fund (EDTIF), other Rural Money projects.
- Working together to support Utah’s angel investor market: The GOED is very supportive of the current growth in Utah’s angel market. They are very familiar with our Speedpitching luncheons and are highly supportive. In the near future, we are planning to find opportunities in which we can work together so that no one is recreating the wheel.
I’ll tell you what… as entrepreneurs, we are lucky to live in the state of Utah!
My wife Shelly created that arch/cable ad. Josh Steimlie thinks that it’s an old cable. Big whup. It is. That ads about eight years old.