Well the day has finally arrived. After months of planning and copious amounts of tweeting, Silicon Slopes Tech Summit is underway. I like to think of today as entrepreneur Christmas, where everyone sits around the Salt Palace and opens presents filled with flat-brim hats and pieces of Stewart Butterfield’s

What better way to celebrate a 10 year anniversary than raise a $74M fund? Contrary to popular belief, gambling is awesome. Yeah, yeah, I know, when taken by the wrong hands it can lead to financial destitution and broken lives, blah, blah, blah. I don’t care, I want to

“For Title 1 kids and at-risk kids, this program is life-changing. These kids come from homes where most things are broken. In class, they typically learn they aren’t good at school. Then we put them in a situation that’s abstract, where they have to communicate and speak out

“Information is so readily accessible now that students need more than just practice memorizing. By providing our students with hands-on problem solving experiences in school, we are preparing them to be problem solvers in real life.” This article appears in the Fall 2017 issue of Silicon Slopes Magazine. For the

Led by River Cities Capital, participation from Camber Creek, Moderne Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Access Venture Partners, Delta Electronics Capital. Today, SLC-based TaskEasy has announced a $21.3 million Series C round led by River Cities Capital with participation from investors both new (Camber Creek and old (Moderne Ventures, Grotech Ventures,

“We want to create a product that people love and are really loyal to.”—Fourbears founder Juliette Eames How do you get children interested in family stories? This is a questions asked many times by many parents, searching for ways to educate youth on the lives of ancestors. Family heritage

Senator Hatch has removed a provision from the Senate’s tax plan that many believed would limit the ability of startups to compete. Yesterday, Cotopaxi CEO Davis Smith published a piece on Silicon Slopes outlining how disastrous a provision in the Senate’s proposed tax plan would be for startups.

Led by Kleiner Perkins, participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Maverick Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Providence Ventures, Peterson Ventures, Epic Ventures. SLC-based Collective Medical has been bootstrapped for eight years. That’s a long period of time for anything, especially when one trying to build a successful healthcare tech company. It