The Lifehacker blog recently wrote a post concerning the stock photography website Free Range as the site provides free stock photography for commercial and noncommercial use. Free Range has in-house photographers and access to photo archives, but also accepts photo submissions. The company operates through an ad revenue generated model that is split with 80% [...]
I stumbled upon the great site of Tom’s Shoes due to a post on the Lifehacker blog. Tom’s Shoes, a company founded by Blake Mycoskie, focuses on addressing poverty and health issues by donating a pair of shoes to a child in need for each pair of shoes purchased. The concept was conceived as Blake [...]
Google amazes me by the quality products and features they continually spin out and acquire. On a regular (if not daily) basis I use the following Google products for the following reasons: Search – need I explain? Blogger – simple, which is perfect for me, a beginner blogger Reader – fantastic. I love the folder [...]
I recently read the Business 2.0 article “What’s Next: The Top 10 Products, Ideas and Trends.” I love these types of article and, sure enough, was not let down by this one. There were two ideas that really excited me. First is Powercast, a startup based in Pennsylvania and founded in 2003 that is using [...]
My friend Jon turned me onto a new little start-up called DoMyStuff.com. This site is right up my alley as I am always looking for little gigs to earn spare cash in my free time. The concept of the business is to allow everyone, not just high power executives, to reclaim valuable time by outsourcing [...]
Mozy, one of my favorite companies, just closed a multi-million dollar deal with GE!!!!! Way to go Mozy! Mozy is a Utah start-up based in American Fork and is led by Josh Coates. The company started with a focus in the consumer market, offering unlimited backup for a mere $5 per month (or 2gb for [...]
Today I was using LinkedIn and saw this icon for the first time. I consider myself a “frequent” user of LinkedIn, so clicked on it and learned it was a symbol of a premium account holder. Odd.. how had I not seen this icon before? Are people not making the jump to premium accounts or [...]
Lately I have been researching on specific company employees in order to line up some interviews for a side research project of mine. I blogged about the research resources about a month ago, but wanted to blog specifically about the company Wink. When I initially blogged I had yet to check out Wink. Since then, [...]
A great article by PCWorld was released today concerning freeware. I love these type of articles due to my interest in web businesses and due to the fact that I find these start-ups to be fascinating There are tons of stellar companies listed here, and just seeing many of them listed made me go back [...]
The NVCA released a study and press release last week that covered the topic of the economic impact of venture capital in the U.S. I was intrigued to read the report as I have seen numbers of the impact that our portfolio companies have had on the Utah environment, but had yet to look into [...]
