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May 12, 2008

Women Tech Council: Women in Innovation Networking Event

Om 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.

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March 7, 2008

Small Business Innovative Research grants (SBIR): Is this funding right for your small business?

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 sequence of the steps is critical to ensuring a smooth application process.

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October 19, 2007

The Utah Women's Technology Council - Inaugural Luncheon

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 and establish new relationships with women in various professional roles.

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May 2, 2007

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 involves, to a larger extent, attributes in selling. Those attributes involve empathy, ego drive and strength.

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March 21, 2007

The UTC CEO P2P Experience

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”.

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December 15, 2006

Culture Shock: Embracing the role of the entrepreneur

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.

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October 11, 2006

The SBIR Experience: Beginning to End and Everything in Between

The process of competing for and winning a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant is an undertaking that requires a serious committment in planning and execution. The following describes the process of planning, writing, submitting and finally, obtaining an SBIR award.

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August 12, 2006

VisualShare's Public-Private Partnership Initiative for Diagnosing Child Abuse

VisualShare is the technology partner in a public-private partnership with Primary Children’s Medical Center Safe and Healthy Families Center (PCMC) the Utah State Attorney General, and Children’s Justice Centers throughout the State of Utah.

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August 7, 2006

The Company Experience

I had this idea: I wanted to start a company. The simple assumption that one needed a 'company' to sell services and later products, an entity or shell that represents the collection of individuals that provide the services...a company.

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