Squires Turbo Systems (STS) is banking its success on a simple theory: Trends will come and go, but the need for speed will never go out of style.
Founder Rick Squires and his team at STS own a handful of U.S. patents on an innovative method of turbo charging a vehicle. With revenues of over $2 million in 2007, STS is poised to experience hyper-growth in 2008. Squires believes he has the product and the management team to make it happen.
When Lee Boardman, president and CEO of Sandy-based Velosum, sees a police officer writing a ticket or a doctor writing a case report, he sees an opportunity. Why? Because his company created a software platform that makes paper act like a computer. The software employs a digital pen and paper, a cell phone, and an Internet portal to write parking citations (vCitePlus) and medical case report forms (vTrialsPlus) to the Web.
A Northern Utah startup called Zoobies, Inc. is making entrepreneurship look like child’s play.