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A Utah CEO’s Perspective on Business, Angel Investing, & Entrepreneurship

QualifiedAddress.com just finished recertifying the CASS products with the USPS.  This year was a major recertification because of an extensive lists of changes to the US data including adding Suite numbers and apartment numbers to CASS.

We are very pleased with how QA has performed to date as sales have grown by more than 1000% in the last two years.  Later this summer we will release MOVE update porducts and soon after PAVE certified products.

Exact Wave has been named to Utah Business’s 2008 Fast Fifty, highlighting 50 of the fastest growing companies in Utah. The Fast 50 program recognizes companies for their entrepreneurial spirit, innovative business tactics and skyrocketing revenue growth.

Exact Wave is honored to be among Utah’s leaders in the fast-paced business world. Exact Wave attributes its success to its key ingredients: Great People, Great Product, Great Company.

All of the selected companies are featured in Utah Business magazine’s September issue and were announced and honored in numerical order at an event on August 27th. in Salt Lake City, Utah.

http://www.utahbusiness.com/parser.php?nav=article&article_id=7386

By the way, We ranked #33.  Not bad.

It’s a new school year and that means a new year for the Business Plan Competition.  This year appears to bring a lot of new challenges and a lot of unknowns.  So far, I have no idea who will compete and who seem to be frontrunners leading into the competition.  Last year, we knew about Klymite and Qgia and a few other companies early in the year.  As you know, Klymite went on to  win our competition and place 2nd at Moot Corp (the world championship).  Our 2nd place team, SchoolTipLine also place 5th at Moot Corp.  Without question, last year was the most successful year for the BPC to date.

So, leading into this year, I’m not sure who the frontrunners are, but I look forward to finding out.  We have some new perks this year.  It appears our winner might have the opportunity to ring the bell at the Nasdaq, and we are working on as new partnership with a VC firm that would bring Seed funding to one of our winners each year.  Talk about excititng news.

Being the entrepreneur that I am, I have several ideas that I want to pass along to students looking to enter the competition and start a company, but do not have ideas.  Feel free to get in touch with me if you are looking for ideas or want to join a team.

I was voted to the VSpring 100 list for the third year in a row.  The v|100 was designed to help entrepreneurs and vSpring Capital locate and cultivate relationships among top CEO and CTO talent in the region. Members of the v|100 are chosen through a peer-nominated and peer-selected process.

Basically, it is a CEO popularity list in Utah.  At first I was not to keen on the idea, but I attended the luncheon and enjoyed meeting manyof the nominees.

I seem to get so tied up in my businesses that I rarely take time to socialize within the Utah tech community.  The V100 gives me that opportunity.