By Joey Ferguson LEHI — Ten companies from both BoomStartup North and South presented at the recent LaunchUP event at Thanksgiving Point last week. BoomStartup is an early-stage business accelerator that provides startups with mentoring, office space and $20,000 cash. The accelerator program is divided into two campuses. The North

By Joey Ferguson Damon Kirchmeier Joins Auxano. (PRNewsFoto/Auxano Funding)[/caption] SALT LAKE CITY —Damon Kirchmeier [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/damon-kirchmeier/0/515/586] joined Auxano Funding as managing director. Kirchmeier will work with Jensen and Davis Warnock who are also managing directors at the firm, according to a

By Joey Ferguson Steve Weisz, president and CEO of Marriott Vacations Worldwide. (photo: Marriott Vacations Worldwide)[/caption] SALT LAKE CITY — Survey company Mindshare Technologie [http://www.mshare.net/]s appointed Steve Weisz, president and chief executive of Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation, as the chairman of its board of trustees on

By Joey Ferguson SALT LAKE CITY — Investment firm Peterson Partners [http://www.petersonpartnerslp.com/]acquired Toronto-based predictive analytics firm Angoss Software [http://www.angoss.com/] for $8.4 million. Peterson Partners will purchase the all issued and outstanding shares not owned by Angoss President and CEO Martin Galligan [http://ca.

By Joey Ferguson Salt Lake City — Utahns are more connected to the Internet than any other state in the nation, according to a recent U.S. Census report [http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-569.pdf]. In the Beehive State, only 7.5 percent of individuals aged three years and

By Joey Ferguson PROVO — A couple in Provo is raising $70,000 [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bitcoinlife/life-on-bitcoin-a-documentary-film] to make a documentary while they live off bitcoins [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin] for 90 days after their honeymoon. A bitcoin is an online currency that has no affiliation

By Joey Ferguson PROVO — InsideSales.com hired former Citrix [http://www.citrix.com] global vice president Mick Hollison [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2561380&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=YHGH&locale=en_US&srchid=4da7a55c-3d2c-4c7b-a50f-3371ca3cf991-0&srchindex=1&srchtotal=1&goback=%2Efps_PBCK_

By Joey Ferguson David Blake, CEO of Degreed. (photo: degreed.com)[/caption] ALPINE — Higher education is broken. At least that’s the problem the folks at startup Degreed [http://degreed.com/about] see. They want to “jailbreak” the college degree by providing people with a way to measure education outside