Startup

https://soundcloud.com/siliconslopes/0-silicon-slopes-introduction Welcome to the Silicon Slopes podcast. Each week we are going to talk with the people building Utah’s technology ecosystem — from designers to engineers to entrepreneurs and everyone else. Last year tech companies here raised about $1 billion in venture capital. Not only are

We’re more passionate about helping culture than anything. “Culture is more than foosball and ping pong tables. There’s a real way to impact culture for good in a systematic way,” says Motivosity [https://www.motivosity.com/] CEO Scott Johnson, explaining why he created the Motivosity platform. “Motivosity exists

Where else can you create benefits for partners and benefit kids? There are approximately 32,000 students learning in a HighMark [http://highmarkschooldevelopment.org/] school today. HighMark is a real estate development company that focuses on education facilities. Company CEO Glenn Hileman describes HighMark as “turnkey developers,” meaning the company

We’re a disruptive solution in a market that is big and boring and old and slow moving. Most of us find a hidden gem of a product, buy it, maybe tell a few friends about it, and enjoy having something relatively unknown to the rest of the world. Then

We determined there was a market for that liquidation service and asset end-of-life management. Take exit 275 on I-15 and drive east on Pleasant Grove Boulevard for a ways and eventually you’ll see a 52,000 square foot warehouse with a sign that reads “Tams.” At this point you’

We eliminated a lot of aspects of direct sales models that tend to be really prohibitive. “We’ve watched 53,000 women sign up to start their own business and change who they are as a person,” says Ann Dalton, CEO of Perfectly Posh [https://www.perfectlyposh.com/p/]. Dalton

We’re letting people do stuff in a more visual and graphic way. “I was the first sucker to put money into Lucid,” says Karl Sun, Lucid Software [https://www.golucid.co/] CEO. It was an investment Sun, who had spent seven years working at Google, decided to make after

We offer a good experience for sellers, customers and employees. “Where’d you get that dress,” I asked a friend. “Jane.com,” she responded. “Where’d you get that top?” I asked another friend. “Jane.com,” she, too, responded. Clearly, Jane.com [https://jane.com/], a boutique daily deal marketplace,