Paul Ahlstrom’s Post

Fourteen years ago this month Jenny received the news of her multiple myeloma diagnosis. Her tireless efforts to accelerate research and a cure are inspiring. Thank you ABC News for this nice shout out. https://lnkd.in/gBVFnFdM

We are coming up on our four year anniversary since we launched TechBuzz News, highlighting Utah's vibrant startup and tech community. Thank you to TechBuzz Editor Mark Tullis, and all of the writers and interns for the amazing work over the years. Thank you to the tech team, advisors and all of the many partners. As part of our celebration we decided to give the TechBuzz website a fresh new look and feel. (would love to hear your feedback on the new look) P.S. If you haven't subscribed, smash that button :-)

The success we are experiencing in our entrepreneurial community here in Utah is impressive, but is not something we should take for granted. As a community we have worked hard over many years to build and sustain our entrepreneur ecosystem with capital, services and support. One of the questions I often wake up with is what can we do to take Utah to the next level? I believe there are many things we can and should do as a community to take Utah's tech economy to the next level— One of the fundamentals in Utah's startup success is maintaining our focused support for Utah's Founders. Each year for the past 23 years I have participated in, or supported an initiative to identify and shine the light on the top entrepreneurs in various regions around the world. Together with my various business partners we have created the V100 (Utah), E100 (Monterrey & Guadalajara Mexico) E100 Lima Peru, Arequipa Peru, WIN100 Utah and now the Founder 100 in Utah. I will admit, as an investor in the early days my participation was selfishly motivated, as I was hoping to identify and invest into the best talent. Over the years my motivation matured into just wanting to help connect the top entrepreneurs to the capital and resources they need to succeed. I have found great joy in watching Utah win together. Here is a small thing you can do to help Utah's entrepreneurs. Please take a minute to nominate a founder that you know that investors and the community needs to know and support. The theory is to get our support and energy behind the top teams that are about to break out. This first stage of voting is crowd nominated. After we collect all of the nominations, the next round of voting will be peer selected. You can nominate up to ten founders that you believe should be recognized in a list of Utah's 100 top founders. Thank you to all of Utah's venture funds, sponsors and service providers for getting behind this initiative. The extensive collaboration and support of the Utah venture community for many of Utah's founders is truly impressive. Thank Jon Bradshaw and Peter Harris, co-founders of Venture Capital Podcast, who are carrying this torch forward on this Founder 100 program and for creating this new recognition initiative for Utah’s entrepreneurs. Please go to TechBuzz news home page for the voting link. I will also put one down below. Thank you - Paul Ahlstrom

Nice article and plug by Forbes. Any entrepreneur building a startup should see this movie. I recently watched the movie Cabrini through my lens as a startup entrepreneur and was deeply moved by the seemingly insurmountable obstacles Mother Cabrini overcame. Her ingenuity and faith in conquering each obstacle resonated with me as an entrepreneur. A great movie can be viewed and understood at many levels, and looking through the lens of an entrepreneur added another level of meaning. Check out this inspiring film if you need a pick me up. :-). #startup #entrepreneur #Cabrini #motivation

Most Hollywood films fail. Typically 80% of Hollywood Theatrical releases don't make their money back in theatres. Knock on wood, so far Angel Studios has produced a near perfect string economic wins that has Hollywood buzzing. The secret sauce is validating each Angel Studios project with the target audience at multiple milestones along the way. The next Angel Studios movie about to hit theatres is Cabrini, which releases on March 8th. Cabrini has received a 95% Fresh Critics Score from Rotten Tomatoes which is a surprise because normally the audience loves our movies and the critics hate our movies. :-) I am hopeful we can turn this positive buzz into a commercial success. I almost never watch a movie twice (except for Groundhog Day, Bill Murray is a comedic genius) I have now watched the Cabrini movie 10 times and each time it generates a such positive and powerful emotion and I come away wanting to be a better person. Although the Cabrini movie is about a nun, it is really an entrepreneur's movie. There are so many entrepreneurial gut punches that hit way too close to home. Congratulations to Alejandro Monteverde, Rod Barr, Eustace Wolfington and the Angel team for brining this masterpiece to the big screen. P.S. The new Cabrini trailer is the best yet. Enjoy https://lnkd.in/gHYj-7NP

This is such a good idea! They connect the dots between all of my difficult questions for a purchase I am trying to make and which of all the products on the internet can best meet that need. This company is going to be huge!

I totally believe this. Every Utahn has a side hustle in their garage