News What Pluralsight's IPO Means For Silicon Slopes Today’s successful IPO marks an important milestone for the Pluralsight team, the company’s investors, and our very own Aaron Skonnard. Like a running LeBron James one-hander to ice a ball game,
Computer Science It’s Time For Computer Science To Be Taught In Every Utah School At Silicon Slopes, we believe every child should have equal opportunities to learn and that quality education should be available to youth despite their ethnicity, gender identity, socioeconomic status, or background. “We need
Blockchain Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne Is An Innovator & Survivor Patrick Byrne is known as two things: innovator, survivor. Over the course of his life, Byrne has beaten cancer three times, hepatitis twice, and endured over 100 surgeries and medical procedures. From this,
Features Silicon Slopes Leaders Have Raised More Than $200K For Puerto Rico Relief Efforts In Less Than A… Now they need the help of the broader community to make an even greater impact on the lives of those suffering. One month ago, Hurricane Irma touched down in Puerto Rico with devastating
Features Onward, Ever Onward This letter appears in the Fall issue of Silicon Slopes Magazine. A good chunk of my 16th birthday was spent begging my parents for a $400 loan so I could buy Grandpa’s
News Announcing Silicon Slopes Tech Summit 2018 “The Tech Event Of The Year” Silicon Slopes Tech Summit 2018 is the biggest and most prominent annual tech event in the state of Utah. Bringing in over 10,000 attendees, and coinciding
News Silicon Slopes Invites All Companies to Take the ParityPledge to Improve the Representation of… Silicon Slopes invites all CEOs and their organizations to take the ParityPledge, an initiative of Parity.org designed to increase the representation of women at the highest levels of leadership in organizations across
Entrepreneurship A Life’s Work Extraordinary success is only achieved through extraordinary hard work and sacrifice, but what happens when life intervenes? This publisher’s letter appeared in the summer issue of Silicon Slopes magazine. Let’s face
Education Startup Santa 2016 Raises 79,320 Books, Totaling $396,600 Children In Utah Needed Books, Startup Santa Helped We launched Startup Santa because low-income families in Utah have only one book per 300 children; because two out of every three Utah children living
Entrepreneurship The Future Onward, Ever Onward As** you may** have heard, Silicon Slopes and Beehive Startups have come together inside a newly-formed nonprofit organization. A plethora of major announcements will come on the heels of this
Entrepreneurship The New SiliconSlopes.com & BeehiveStartups.com Don’t Call It A Comeback Today, we announced Silicon Slopes and Beehive Startups have joined forces inside a newly-formed non-profit. We’re also renewing our commitment to storytelling and community journalism. It’
Fintech Izeni CTO And Co-Founder Gabe Gunderson Leaves Company To Launch HelloEats Izeni CTO and co-founder Gabe Gunderson has left the well-known custom software development firm to found restaurant startup HelloEats. Izeni CTO and co-founder Gabe Gunderson has left the well-known custom software development firm
Features Former Reddit Executive Launches New Platform For Communities, Partners With Lena Dunham, And… There’s something really kind of magical that happens when you bring a community together and let them function in a good way. A number of former Reddit employees have come together to
Features Non-Compete Legislation Divides, But Fails To Conquer Utah’s Tech Community A bill that sounds like a bad case of hepatitis or the bird flu won’t determine our fate. Utah’s tech community finds itself in the rare position of being divided on
News Simplus Raises $4.2M in Seed Round Led By EPIC Ventures As someone who’s already built a company and had a nice exit, Ryan Westwood and the direction he takes Simplus will be something to keep an eye on. Simplus, a Utah-based SaaS
Entrepreneurship Announcing the StartSLC Pitch Competition Finalists The judges and the community have chosen the final 10 startups that will be pitching at StartSLC on Saturday night to compete for $250,000. In the past three weeks, more than 160
Entrepreneurship StartSLC — A Testament to a Startup Community on the Rise By hosting 66 different events, and drawing more than 4,000 people to downtown Salt Lake City over the course of 2.5 days, StartSLC became the largest startup and tech event to
Entrepreneurship Provo-Based Startup Outbox Systems Announces Funding Deal With Infinite Investments Funding is validation of our cloud integration vision. Outbox Systems announced a funding deal with Infinite Investments earlier this afternoon. As this was a private placement deal, the terms were undisclosed. “Funding is
News Beehive Startups Announces StartFEST — Utah’s Largest Grassroots Startup Festival We hope you’ll join us for four days of education, adventure, entertainment, collaboration, and fun. Building upon the overwhelming success of StartSLC, Beehive Startups is proud to present StartFEST. Set to take
Comics Announcing the Remaining Start Madness Semi-Finalists Today we’re announcing the Group D semi-finalists, who were part of the final group to present in the qualifying round of Start Madness. Today we’re announcing the Group D semi-finalists, who
Entrepreneurship Pattern Jam Wins TechTeamUp 2015 The grand prize went to Pattern Jam for presenting a startup the judge’s felt had a high likelihood of success and a real use for the $5K worth of development from Izeni.
Entrepreneurship Start Madness Semi-Finals Announcement Today we’re announcing the finalists from the first three groups. Start Madness, a $150K startup competition running in conjunction with StartFEST, is off to a great start (just in case I haven’
News Marketware Raises $1.4 Million From EPIC Ventures and Peak Ventures The Marketware platform provides real value in the form of higher revenue and lower costs to healthcare providers. Marketware, a Utah-based startup specializing in relationship and business intelligence solutions for healthcare providers, has
Entrepreneurship StartSLC Pitch Competition Update In the past two months, 186 startups entered the $250,000 pitch competition Beehive Startups is hosting at StartSLC. In the past two months, 186 startups entered the $250,000 pitch competition Beehive
News Zenefits Officially Responds to Utah Insurance Department The Utah Insurance Department’s ruling is unsupported by the facts and Utah law. Zenefits, the San Francisco-based online HR platform company, has officially responded to the Utah Insurance Department’s recent letter
