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Clint Betts

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News

Let’s Look Out For Each Other: Volunteer or Donate to Utah Food Bank

The Utah Food Bank needs money and volunteers ASAP to assist those who are most in need during the Coronavirus pandemic. Follow the links in the article to donate or register to volunteer.

  • Clint Betts
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News

Update On Silicon Slopes COVID19 Conference Call With Leaders

More than 100 Silicon Slopes leaders were on a call this afternoon regarding COVID19 to ensure our community is coordinating with local and federal officials during this time.

  • Clint Betts
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News

An Update From Executive Director Clint Betts

We’ve still got a lot of work left to do, but I wanted to give you an update on our progress.

  • Clint Betts
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Features

Qualtrics Puts $8 Billion Exclamation Point On Historic Year For Silicon Slopes

In the largest transaction in Utah tech history, Provo-based Qualtrics has been acquired by SAP for $8 billion. The event caps off an historic year for Silicon Slopes.

  • Clint Betts
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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,

  • Clint Betts
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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

  • Clint Betts
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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,

  • Clint Betts
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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

  • Clint Betts
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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

  • Clint Betts
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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

  • Clint Betts
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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

  • Clint Betts
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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

  • Clint Betts
5 min read
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

  • Clint Betts
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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

  • Clint Betts
3 min read
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’

  • Clint Betts
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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

  • Clint Betts
4 min read
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

  • Clint Betts
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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

  • Clint Betts
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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

  • Clint Betts
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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

  • Clint Betts
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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

  • Clint Betts
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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

  • Clint Betts
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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

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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

  • Clint Betts
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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.

  • Clint Betts
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