Michael Eagar | Internet Entrepreneur

I was amazed at the presentation I heard of Alan Hall at UVEF. Here are some highlights:

At MarketStar, they figured out a way to get products to market
The vision of Grow Utah Ventures (GUV) is to be the most powerful private entity for economic growth in the state of Utah
GUV has a goal to [...]

Great discussions today with a Funding Panel at UVEF June 8 2006.  Panel members included Mike Hennessy of Wasatch Venture Fund, Damon Kirchmeier of UTFC, Curtis Toone of Sorenson Capital, Tim Hunt of LingoTek, and Kevin Nethercott from lignup.  Here are some take aways:

Funding Factors

A lot of it has to do with timing, just cause [...]

Good article in BusinessWeek April 3, 2006 edition on Azure Venture Capital. Although they had a slow start and were hit hard on dot com burst, and have this advice for their current and future investments before making a deal:
1. Do your own primary research (up to 1 year)
2. Focus on early-stage deals
3. Put [...]