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LaunchUp #5: Rock, Energy, & Fun

by Jeremy on 14. Feb, 2010 in News

LaunchUp #5 this past Wednesday was AWESOME! The energy and excitement about entrepreneurship was palpable.
We had a full house of 70 people in the room at Novell, and another 30 watching our live stream online at http://www.launchup.org/live
With our push to make sure and include women from the tech/entrepreneur community, we had 18 [...]

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Web Startup Group combines with LaunchUp for Nov

by Jeremy on 07. Nov, 2009 in News

I’m excited to let everyone know that the Web Startup Group is combining their November meeting with LaunchUp.
The Web Startup Group was founded by Matt Smith and others and is a group of web developers (programmers and designers), marketing and business-minded individuals, creative idea people, and others with technology related skills. The group meets regularly, [...]

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LaunchUp Returns from the Brink

LaunchUp Returns from the Brink

by Jeremy on 06. Oct, 2009 in News

While in the midst of planning LaunchUp #3, I had an epic close call with a boulder on Mt. Nebo, and have spent a lot of the last 4 months recovering from that accident.
I had to clear my plate pretty much of anything not critical, and thus LaunchUp (and most everything not related to family/getting [...]

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LaunchUp #2 – Finished

LaunchUp #2 – Finished

by Jeremy on 01. Jun, 2009 in News

LaunchUp #2 is wrapped up. We had a great event. Less people attending, but I think format changes helped out and we didn’t have technical glitches.
You can watch an archive of the entire event online: LaunchUp 2 or by going to http://doba.acrobat.com/p45319365/
I think this event went definitely better. Watch for continued tweaks and format changes [...]

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Why should I go to LaunchUp?

by Jeremy on 26. May, 2009 in News

“Launch-up is a grass roots service created by entrepreneurs to aid fellow entrepreneurs launch and grow successful startups. We appreciated the quality, real-time feedback and advice from both live and online audiences. We’ve benefited from increased awareness, blog posts, podcasts and several new business opportunities since our presentation. I’d highly recommend Launchup [...]

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LaunchUp #2 – Wednesday May 27th, 6:30 p.m. – @ Utah Association of Counties in Murray

LaunchUp #2 – Wednesday May 27th, 6:30 p.m. – @ Utah Association of Counties in Murray

by Jeremy on 21. May, 2009 in News

Here are all the dirty details about the second LaunchUp, our community barn raising event for entrepreneurs. Remember, we stream the event live and make it as inclusive as possible to anyone, even if you cannot attend in person. This way, during the featured company’s presentation and the moderated deep dive/community conversation, anyone, anywhere, can [...]

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LaunchUp #2 – Date Change

LaunchUp #2 – Date Change

by Jeremy on 18. Apr, 2009 in News

We’ve had to move the date for LaunchUp #2 that was announced for next week. New date is Wednesday, May 27th at 6:30 p.m.
We’ll be using the Utah Association of Counties building in Salt Lake at: 5397 S. Vine Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84017
The two companies presenting will be TodaysMama and AmberAlertGPS.
Mark your calendars, [...]

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LaunchUp #1 – In the Books

LaunchUp #1 – In the Books

by Jeremy on 27. Mar, 2009 in News

Well, LaunchUp #1 is all done. We had a great event. Around 70 people attended in person at Doba in Orem, and about another 30 participated online.
You can watch an archive of the entire event online:LaunchUp 1 or by going to http://doba.acrobat.com/p82968254/
I think for our first event, things went OK. Had some glitches (sorry Ryan [...]

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LaunchUp #1 – Wednesday March 25th, 6:00 p.m. – @ Doba in Orem

LaunchUp #1 – Wednesday March 25th, 6:00 p.m. – @ Doba in Orem

by Jeremy on 08. Mar, 2009 in News

Here are all the glorious details about the first LaunchUp, our community barn raising event for entrepreneurs. We’re going to stream the event live and make it as inclusive as possible to anyone, even if you cannot attend in person. This way, during the featured company’s presentation and the moderated deep dive/community conversation, anyone, anywhere, [...]

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Countdown Extended

Countdown Extended

by Jeremy on 11. Feb, 2009 in News

Due some unforeseen things (namely I’m spending 6 weeks in India and it just took some time to coalesce the ideas for LaunchUp), we’ve moved the first ever LaunchUp to Wednesday, March 25th.
We’re going to have a great event. We’ll have an kick-off presentation by a well known and successful entrepreneur for 10-15 minutes, [...]

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