Colin Kelly Jr.

Point of View: Bruce Law

Sprout Marketing, founder and president

Sprout Marketing, founder and president

Bruce Law left the New York advertising world, came to Utah and helped market Novell during its heyday. He soon found he had caught the startup bug when helping launch one of Novell’s spinoffs. After leaving Novell to help grow a number of Utah companies such as NextPage and Knowlix, Law saw a great need in the state for outsourced marketing teams and founded Sprout Marketing in 2002.

Gee Whiz: Fusion-io

High speed and low costs make big businesses happy.

High speed and low costs make big businesses happy.

Founded in 2006, Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io (fusionio.com) ran under the radar until exploding onto the scene last September by unveiling its ioDrive at the DEMOfall 07 conference. DEMO has long been the launching pad for hot high-tech software, services and products such as Palm, Skype, TiVo, Leapfrog, Java and Slingbox.

The Product: ioDrive

Latin Connections Network

Spanish Waves Owner Helps Build Bridge to the Latino Consumer

Spanish Waves Owner Helps Build Bridge to the Latino Consumer

Sonia Quiroga Thomas was born in Argentina as a natural entrepreneur and the evidence came early. At age 15, she was selling Mary Kay products to pay her high school expenses. At 18, she was the owner of her own magazine. At 23, she started an Internet company.

Gee-Whiz - CarbonX

Although most of us joke about the value of a penny these days, Tyler Thatcher keeps a pocket full them.

Thatcher likes to show off his company’s CarbonX material by using a blowtorch to melt pennies on top of his hand protected only by a thin layer of the fabric.

It’s not just a cool party trick. Melting a metal coin on top of your hand without getting burned turns out to be a pretty good marketing and PR tool. Who knew?

Gee-Whiz: Every Pixel Has a Place

InteliSum Delivers a New Spin on 3-D Imaging

InteliSum Delivers a New Spin on 3-D Imaging

Iomega cofounder David Bailey has a long history of bringing new product categories to market. His latest venture, InteliSum (intelisum.com) is no different. InteliSum is currently disrupting the architectural, engineering and construction industries by providing interactive 3-D site surveys; but InteliSum’s technology may one day make it into your family vacation photos.

Going Big to Make It Small

IM Flash Technologies’ Mammoth Operation to Have Big Impact on Utah Economy While Making Tiny Memory Chips

IM Flash Technologies’ Mammoth Operation to Have Big Impact on Utah Economy While Making Tiny Memory Chips

Descending into the bowels of Utah-based IM Flash Technologies’ gigantic Lehi plant, you get the feeling you’re taking a tour of a hardened cold-war era secret underground government facility.