A little about me…
- CEO of Lendio
- Serial Entrepreneurs
- Passionate about small business loans, venture capital, angel investing, small business funding, social medial, internet technologies, and sports
- Husband, Father of 3
- (Oh yeah, and die hard BYU Football fan!)
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Category Archives: Entrepreneurship
Props to Paul Allen (the lesser)
It’s been fun to watch the Paul Allen story unfold. If you didn’t know, Paul is one of the co-founders of FundingUniverse and the brain child behind the original website. He is also a board member that I respect & … Continue reading
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Very Impressed with Gnomedex
Thanks to Chris & Ponzi Pirillo, Trent and I are here in Seattle attending the Gnomedex 8.0 Conference… and I have to say that I am impressed. I’ve attended a lot of conferences and this one blows most of them … Continue reading
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Great Resources on Fundraising
There are a couple of resources from Paul Graham of Y Combinator that I have come across recently that I think are very beneficial for those entrepreneurs trying to raise investment capital. Here they are in no particular order: Paul … Continue reading
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Google Launches VC Arm
According to the Wall Street Journal, it appears that Google will be launching a VC arm to their company… and why wouldn’t they?! I guess that they have about $12.7 billion dollars worth of cash reserves so they might as … Continue reading
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UVEF Top 25 under 5 Years
Trent and I had the opportunity to attend the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum Top 25 under 5 award luncheon yesterday, and we had a great time. We had found out last week that FundingUniverse would be one of the top … Continue reading
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LivePitch + Chris Pirillo = LiveStream
I’m up in Seattle today getting ready for tomorrow’s Northwest LivePitch event. Carolynn has been working her tail off up here to host the event and things are coming together quite nicely. As of earlier today, we had around 100 … Continue reading
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Props to “Hundred Dollar”
Any of you know the Hundred Dollar entrepreneur? Those of you on twitter know her as @hundreddollar, and others know her by her real name (Carolynn Duncan). No matter what you know her by, I’ll have to say that she … Continue reading
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The “new” Junto Partners Program — 2008
It was 3 years ago, almost to the day, that I heard about an entrepreneurial program called Junto Partners. I decided to throw my “hat in the ring” to be selected as 1 of 5 entrepreneurs that would receive a … Continue reading
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Come one, come all to our LivePitch Event
Over the past year, we’ve had many requests by entrepreneurs to come and attend our SpeedPitching events. While we’d love to have everyone there, part of the value for the entrepreneur/investor is to have an intimate environment where you can … Continue reading
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10 Tips for Recession-Proofing your Business
One of our advisors, Kent Thomas (CFO Solutions), put together an interesting article called “10 Tips for Recession-Proofing your Business.” Kent provides a much-needed out-sourced financial services for the small & growing business. He has been fantastic to work with … Continue reading
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10+ Things that I Should’ve Blogged About…
I’ve never been so busy at FundingUniverse. Things are going better than they have ever gone before and I’m super excited about the future. With the growth and opportunities, I’ve been over loaded with new projects and meetings which means … Continue reading
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Call for Entrepreneurs with Families
As part of the “Entrepreneurship & the Family” theme that I started a few months ago, I’d like to interview a few entrepreneurs about their experience of raising a family while being an entrepreneur. In fact, it’d be great to … Continue reading
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Check out SiliconSlopes
My brother Dave (the one that works at Omniture) let me know about the Omniture-Sponsored website www.SiliconSlopes.com. If you are an entrepreneur/business professional in Utah (or someone that spends time in Utah), I highly recommend checking out the site. Omniture … Continue reading
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TripIt — Must Have for Traveling
Thanks to Phil Windley, I found out about the very-easy-to-use web app TripIt. TripIt is a new tool that will manage your travel plans and itinerary for you (i.e. flight schedule, hotel reservations, directions from airport to hotel, weather suggestions, … Continue reading
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Rock Stars at University Venture Fund Conference
I’m here (written yesterday) at the rock-star-packed University Venture Fund conference in Salt Lake City. I didn’t even know about the conference until late last night when a fellow entrepreneur forwarded to me the conference agenda. As soon as I … Continue reading
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Recent pub for FundingUniverse
FundingUniverse has received some great publicity over the past couple of weeks. Last week, we had a fantastic article published in the Wall Street Journal about how we are able to connect entrepreneurs with investors. Now, this week, we had … Continue reading
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Blackberry + Google = Cool Apps
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been discovering a lot of the latest Google apps for my Blackberry. Over the break, my brother showed me the new Google maps, which led to the exploration and adoption of several new apps … Continue reading
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The Entrepreneur’s Story
Wow… it’s been a nice and relaxing holiday break. Plenty of family, food, and fun. While the break was relatively uneventful in the business world, I did find out that the Entrepreneur’s Story has finally been released! The story is … Continue reading
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Entrepreneurship & the Family: Health Insurance
One of the most important topics of being an entrepreneur and having a family is health insurance. Let’s just say that there are no “shortcuts” or great health insurance discounts for entrepreneurs — I remember Paul Allen writing about this … Continue reading
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Latest “Hot” Utah Deals
In keeping up with my latest tradition, I’d like to share a few companies that I have met with (through my role at FundingUniverse obviously) recently that, to me, are the latest and greatest Utah up-and-coming companies. In no particular … Continue reading
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