Category Archives: FundingUniverse

Funding Universe “Complaints” ;)

So, for those of you that don’t know, FundingUniverse has over 10,000 company histories stored on our website.  Whether it’s the most well-known companies like Google, or Apple; or the completely unknowns like Archway Cookies or Renishaw. What’s interesting about these company histories … Continue reading

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Michael Gerber at Angel Investor of the Year Luncheon

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the FundingUniverse CrowdPitch event we hosted at Inc Magazine’s GROWCO conference.  Well, after the pitching event, we had the opportunity to spend some time with Michael and get to know him a little … Continue reading

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FundingUniverse IdeaPitch is Launched — Win $2k!

As of 5 pm this afternoon, you now have the chance to post your business/business idea onto IdeaPitch and win $2,000.  We just released the new FundingUniverse Facebook app that will be a idea competition that happens every 2 weeks. … Continue reading

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GROWCO, FundingUniverse CrowdPitch, and Michael Gerber

Last week, we had the chance to work closely with Inc. Magazine/Events to host a FundingUniverse CrowdPitch event at their national GROWCO Conference in Orlando.  Overall, the event was a huge success and we had a lot of fun.  Here … Continue reading

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FundingUniverse acquires TwitJump!

Well, it officially came out this morning on Techcrunch that FundingUniverse has acquired the social media analytics company TwitJump.  As part of the deal, Alex Lawrence, a local serial entrepreneur, will be joining the FundingUniverse team as a board member … Continue reading

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Now Hiring! Please Comment, Email and/or Forward…

FundingUniverse is on a tear.  I will be posting periodically with various positions we will be hiring for.  Feel free to email me – bblake AT fundinguniverse DOT COM.  We offer a really cool place to work, great benefits, a … Continue reading

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FundingUniverse expanding across the U.S.

Great things are happening on the FundingUniverse front.  It’s been a while since I’ve provided an update so I figured that I would talk about some of the exciting things that are happening lately. Great team. As I’ve mentioned in … Continue reading

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A little bit of rivalry fun at the office!

For those of you that know me well, know that I’m a die-hard BYU fan.  It would be a very rare occasion for our family to miss a BYU football game.  You should also know that the BYU/Utah rivalry is … Continue reading

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Coming to an area near you

I’m in the Portland Airport writing from my new iPhone (which I love). We are just leaving town after hosting a LivePitch event here in conjunction with PortlandTen, NedSpace, Stoel Rives, and Lunch2.0. We had around 125 people in attendance … Continue reading

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How does Social Media affect FundingUniverse?

One of the things that has been on my mind since I attended the Gnomedex 8.0 conference was how social media can positively and negatively affect the FundingUniverse brand.  Now, I realize that “social media” is a very popular buzz word … 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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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+ 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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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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