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Succeeding in Your Business: Breaking up (without an agreement) is hard to do

By Cliff Ennico “I am the 80 percent owner of a limited liability company (LLC) that runs an Internet marketing and website design firm. I basically do all of the work. My 20 percent partner only functions as a part-time intern, gofer, secretary or administrative assistant. We…

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Dec 21

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It's not OR, but there's a new outdoor show coming to town

By John Rogers Entrepreneurs Sutton Bacon and Darren Bush think they have just what the outdoor industry needs — another trade show. In conjunction with Visit Salt Lake, the longtime outdoor products retailers announced last week that The Big Gear Show has scheduled its…

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Dec 14

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Panel concludes SLC could catch Silicon Slopes

Brice Wallace Utah County and the south end of Salt Lake County are getting a ton of focus for being the tech hub for Utah, but a panel last week said Salt Lake City has all the ingredients to catch up if not surpass that region. In a discussion about the state of technology in…

Layton Construction to join New York's STO Building Group

Sandy-based Layton Construction has become part of STO Building Group of New York City in what the two entities are calling a merger. According to a release from the companies, the deal “will allow both firms to leverage each other’s geographic reach to better serve clients with…

Chamber speaker: Addiction silence permeates workplace, leads to stigma

By Brice Wallace James Hadlock has zero use for zero-tolerance. A one-time entrepreneurial multimillionaire whose corporate success contrasted with his addiction to drugs, Hadlock believes that companies with zero-tolerance policies to address addiction in the workplace are…

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS 12-16-19

The following are recent financial reports as posted by selected Utah corporations: Sportsman’s Warehouse Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings Inc., based in Midvale, reported net income of $10.5 million, or 24 cents per share, for the quarter ended Nov. 2. That compares with $12.4…

10 firms win Utah Innovation Awards

Ten innovations were winners in the 17th annual Utah Innovation Awards program, presented by Stoel Rives LLP and Silicon Slopes. The program recognizes innovations and the Utah companies that created them. Award recipients are: • Clean Technology and Energy : Robust and…

PMI's Hart moves to CEO, Itaya becomes president

Lehi-based Property Management Inc. (PMI), a franchisor of property management solutions, has shuffled its top management. Co-founder Steve Hart has moved from company president to CEO and Danessa Itaya, formerly senior vice president, has been promoted to president. The…

TAB Bank acquires BAMFi’s $46M BAM Capital division

Ogden-based TAB Bank has finalized the acquisition of payment processing services company BAMFi’s BAM Capital division and its $46 million loan portfolio. This is TAB Bank’s fourth completed acquisition of a working capital loan portfolio. As part of the acquisition, TAB will…

Simplus buys U.K. firm

Salt Lake City-based Simplus, a Salesforce quote-to-cash software advisory, implementation and managed services company, has acquired Clout Partners, a Salesforce partner headquartered in London, England, with a subsidiary in Dublin, Ireland. This will be Simplus’ seventh…

Facebook's massive Eagle Mountain data center has grown even bigger

When Facebook announced in May 2018 that it was building a 970,000-square-foot, $750 million data center in Eagle Mountain, that was impressive. Last week the technology firm said that it was adding another 500,000-square-foot building to the project, pushing the cost to over $1…

Succeeding in Your Business: When SAFEs aren’t so safe, Part 2 of 2

By Cliff Ennico A simple agreement for future equity, or SAFE, is a contract between a company and an investor under which the investor puts money into the company in exchange for a promise to issue shares in the future upon the occurrence of a triggering event (usually the…

Rio Tinto bets on copper, invests $1.5 billion in Salt Lake Co. mine

By John Rogers Miners at the Kennecott Copper Mine in southwest Salt Lake County won’t need to worry about their jobs going away anytime soon. The operation’s owner, global mining giant Rio Tinto, announced last week that it will invest $1.5 billion in the mine, a move that will…

Northern Utah economic effort off to good start

By Brice Wallace A joint effort to boost economic development in Northern Utah continues to advance, apparently with early positive results. And that has happened despite having no name, logo or website. “I think we’re ahead of schedule,” Chris Roybal, executive director of the…

Federal grant will help Weber State's entrepreneurs with early-stage startups

Weber State University has gotten a federal financial boost to help early-stage entrepreneurs advance their startups. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded a $718,968 grant to WSU to help develop a new training program for the…

Podium tops list of Utah's fastest-growing companies

Podium, a Lehi-based interaction management platform for local businesses, tops the rankings of the Utah 100, a list of the fastest-growing Utah companies, compiled by MountainWest Capital Network. “We commend Podium for its tremendous growth this year and the impact it has made…

Education software company Instructure acquired by Chicago equity firm

Education technology company Instructure has been acquired by Thoma Bravo LLC, a Chicago-based private equity investment firm, in an all-cash transaction that values Salt Lake City-based Instructure at an aggregate equity value of approximately $2 billion. As part of the terms…

Co-founder Pestana named ObservePoint CEO

ObservePoint, a Provo-based developer of marketing analytics software, has announced that it has named co-founder John Pestana as the company’s new CEO. He succeeds fellow co-founder Rob Seolas in the post. Seolas will remain on ObservePoint’s board of directors. “I am grateful…

Canopy names Davis Bell to lead company

Canopy, a Lehi-based developer and marketer of practice management software for tax professionals, has named Davis Bell as its new CEO, succeeding founder Kurt Avarell, who served in the role since 2014. Bell has held leadership roles in operations, product, sales, strategy and…

National kudos show Eccles School is a great place to get your MBA

Both of the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business' MBA programs have recently received national accolades. The full-time MBA program received a No. 6 ranking for entrepreneurship by Bloomberg Businessweek in its listing of the 2019-2020 Best B-Schools. The…

Succeeding in Your Business: When SAFEs aren’t so safe, Part 1 of 2

By Cliff Ennico “I am a successful entrepreneur who has decided to make an angel investment in a small startup company. “I asked for preferred stock in the company, but the founders have offered me something called a SAFE instead. I’ve read the paperwork, and I confess I’m a bit…

Better engagement would mean better outcome for Utah farmers

By Brice Wallace “Connect” was the theme of the recent Utah Farm Bureau Federation convention, and the event’s general session featured several calls for better engagement. Leaders of the federation, the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food and the Utah Department of Natural…

Cache Valley firm automating iron mine trucks in Ukraine

Washington isn’t the only place that news about Ukraine is being made. A Utah company is deeply involved in the automation of an iron ore mine near the mining town of Horishni Plavni in central Ukraine. ASI Mining, a subsidiary of Autonomous Solutions Inc. (ASI), located in…

There might be another recession, but we're not ready

When the next recession hits, as much as half of today’s business workforce won’t be ready. That’s according to new research from Provo-based VitalSmarts, a leadership training company. VitalSmarts surveyed business leader who say nearly half of their employees don’t have the…

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