In 2007 VisualShare was awarded a Center or Excellence Licensee grant from the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development to focus the Company on commercialization. A specific aim of the funding was to create new jobs for Utah and thus, reinvest in Utah's economic engine. But, there are many other...
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On May 7, 2008 the Women Tech Council presented the first annual Women in Innovation Networking event with featured speaker Sharlene Wells Hawkes CMO of StoryRock.
The event was entitled "Think Big: Marketing Strategies of a Small, High-Tech Company" and was held in the Thanksgiving Point Garden Room. I believe the event registered 250+...
Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants are a great way to obtain research and development dollars for a small business. Once a small business has decided that the Federal SBIR funding mechanism is right for the organization, the small business must complete a step-by-step registration process before submitting an application. The...
On October 18 the Utah Women’s Technology Council convened to launch the first meeting and luncheon at the Miller Free Enterprise Center. The Women’s Technology Council is a forum organized to bring women in technology sectors together to network...
The Dynamics of Salesmanship
The definition of a sale is ‘the act of meeting prospective buyers and providing them with a product or service in turn of money or other required compensation’ [Wikipedia, 2007]. The sale is the practical implementation of marketing event and has a clearly defined cycle of events through salesmanship that...
Today I had the privilege to attend the Utah Technology Council (UTC) CEO P2P forum where the topic of discussion was “The Smartest Things I Ever Did”.
As a member of UTC I get notifications of events that are held to provide access to “a proven, powerful network of executives...
Recently, I have had some difficulty writing blog entries. My main concern is that the since my blog is directly linked to my company are the entries that I create and write can have a positive or negative impact on the company image? Since I have put so much energy and time into building a small business the image of the company means...
What you think you know and what you realize you don't know when you step into entrepreneurship. A transition from academia to small business and the inevitable cultural changes.
There have been several examples of individuals becoming entrepreneurs from academics to big company executives. One reads success stories (and failures)...
In January 2007 VisualShare was had the pleasure of an onsite visit from two individuals, Amanda Peterson and Deborah Pullin from the New Hampshire Network of Child Advocacy Centers (NHNCAC). Amanda and Deb are in the process of defining developing a statewide program for peer review and quality assurance in child abuse medicine with the...