Jordy - Interim GM Ordinaire and Part-Time Schemer

Friday, May 25th, 2007

It’s now been over 3 weeks since I left my job at Overstock. These days I’m working in the souvenir industry as an interim general manager for my brother Jason. It’s sort of like a project manager position since my main focus is to setup systems to run the business more efficiently, but there’s a [...]

Utah Inventors’ Organizational Meeting

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

UtahInventor.org is having its organizational meeting this Saturday.  From the website, it  looks like it could be a cool group.  Here’s the meeting synopsis:
Utah Inventor of the Year for 2006, Dr. Dinesh Patel and other key leaders are scheduled to address an audience comprised of corporate and academic inventors, along with independent inventors from throughout the [...]

Yepic Beta Launch

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Congrats to local Utah entrepreneur Richard Tripp and the folks from Yepic on their new beta release as featured in Digital IQ magazine. For those of you who haven’t heard of Yepic, its an online “content marketplace that enables bloggers and other users to buy and sell premium user-generated content”. It’s a cool idea and [...]

Fight Club - October 2006

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

The entrepreneur fight club dinner in SLC was fun tonight. The conversation was markedly more tame than last time I went (no midget-warriors this time), but it was still pretty darn fun. The atmosphere was relaxed; basically everyone sits around, eats, and talks about what their working on, etc. It’s good stuff. We bounced some [...]

Great Fundraising Tips

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Devin Thorpe (aka Mid Market Maven) from the Thorpe Capital Group just finished a great series of posts called 10 Ways to Get Money To Chase You. Devin is a smart guy who gives great, succinct advice. His blog is a definite must-read for business types.