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LaunchUp #9: O-CODES, RawData, Pixelture

Thanksgiving Point in Lehi was the facility that hosted this evenings LaunchUp. They provide great services to the entrepreneur community in Utah. Company Pitches oCodes Dave Oldham presented his idea of how companies, more specifically those that sell through periodicals, can improve their customer experience by providing OCodes to their readers that they can text [...]

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LaunchUp #8: ooTunes, Buystream and Instructure

Miller Free Enterprise Center hosted the event and Mozy sponsored the corner dives. This was a great evening of getting together with entrepreneurs to network, learn and share ideas. Company Pitches ooTunes was the first pitch and kept the audience in good humor. Steve Woolley presented his very straight forward business of selling an iPhone [...]

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Showing Up – Agile Roots Winners

Guest post by Andrew Shafer Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen I show up to Launch Up because I really want to see people here working on amazing things. In the last 5 years, I have thought about two things more than anything else. How to make software, and how to grow [...]

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Agile Roots 2010 – Building Great Software

Guest post by Andrew Shafer Last night at LaunchUp, I failed you, so today I’m going to try to fix that. When someone doesn’t buy your product, it often doesn’t mean it is bad or even that they wouldn’t love it. Usually the problem is your pitch and the call to action. You can blame [...]

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The MountainWest Capital Network Deal Flow Conference: Fund, Finance, Buy or Sell

The MountainWest Capital Network has invited the LaunchUp.org community to attend the Deal Flow Conference, May 20th at the Grand America Hotel. You can see a flyer of the event details here. This will be a great event, especially if you’re looking to raise $ at some point in your companies life. The keynote speaker [...]

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Social Media Summit: Building Trust in a Connected World

LaunchUp is a community sponsor for this event. It’s going to be really good. Registration for the Social Media Summit: Building Trust in a Connected World. We hope you can support the Women Tech Council and come this next Tuesday. ————————————————————————————————————– Verite and SEO.com proudly host the “Social Media Summit: Building Trust in a Connected [...]

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LaunchUp #7: Fanfare, Bazari and Inzolo

SEO.com hosted this evenings event. There were a lot of people that attended and gave some great feedback. Company Pitches Fanfare was first up. Brian Henderson did a great job of getting the audience engaged. He tapped in to the energy of those who have attended live concerts. That is the group that Fanfare is [...]

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LaunchUp #6: iActionable, Kynetx and simler

This evenings event was held at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi and was catered by them as well. A big thanks goes to them for providing something different than pizza. (I like pizza too) The agenda has expanded to include more content, so I am going to “flip” the order to give the pitching companies first [...]

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LaunchUp #5: Rock, Energy, & Fun

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 and [...]

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Web Startup Group combines with LaunchUp for Nov

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 [...]

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