Adam Chavez

I had the opportunity to sit down with Ryan Caldwell last week. He’s the CEO of Entice Labs, a startup based in Provo, UT that is changing the way companies recruit and attract talented people in technology. Using cutting-edge, patent-pending technology, Entice Labs allows employers to reach five times as many job candidates at [...]

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A chance for a student to work at a vc-backed startup this summer, and learn venture capital at vSpring once a week!
Update: We’re very interested in candidates with a background/passion for GTD.
Location:
Salt Lake City, Utah
Industry:
Finance/Banking - Venture Capital
Job Function:
Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, Product Management, Project Management, Supply Chain Management/Logistics
Description
Internship:
Looking for 8-12 interns to work with [...]

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GarbGameDayWear.com started out simply enough. Steven Rosenbeck, the Founder and CEO (and future winner of the BYU Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award - 2008 see photos), had just returned from a 2-year long service and teaching mission in the Phillippine islands.
He had envisioned a plan to manufacture uniforms on the islands, then sell them [...]

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Devlin Daley and Brian Whitmer seem to have hit a vein; local investors agree, and have funded Instructure.com to the tune of $50,000. This will take them through 1 year from now, and into near-complete product development and launch. The team has a meeting with several venture capital firms (vSpring among them) this week, so [...]

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AllTop.com is a new site from Guy Kawasaki, the well-liked venture capitalist and author.
Inspired by PopURLS, the site takes the RSS know-how out of the aggregation of high-quality content from the web (Translation: You don’t have to be tech-savvy because there’s no setup). Let’s say that you’re interested in startups and venture capital and you [...]

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EnticeLabs is a cool startup based right here in Provo.
Stephen Liddle is their CTO. Liddle is the iconic Silicon Valley geek (Professor Liddle, if you’re reading this, you know I mean that with respect and admiration — In my book, geeky is good) who started programming at home (in San Jose I believe) right [...]

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A small recording device records your daily conversations. Software takes the conversations, knows which words came from you, and analyzes them. It also divides them up by topic and by conversation, “The conversation that you had at 10:53 am that lasted for 15 mintues,” etc.
At the end of the day, you access and search through [...]

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So, I think that a common mistake that entrepreneurs make is they only think, “What’s in it for me? How can I make a quick buck? What will people pay me for today?” There is the rare person that asks these questions but also has the intuition to understand that you must ask these questions [...]

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The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum was excellent, as usual. Dennis Wood from vSpring spoke about the process of hiring the right people at the right times in a startup’s life. It confirmed some of the things I already knew (in a tech startup, at the beginning all you need is a couple of awesome technical [...]

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