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This week we had on Brandon Beck with Kickstart.

Kickstart is an early-stage fund based in Salt Lake City that focuses on building and partnering with the best companies in the Utah region. Since launching in 2008, this targeted approach has established the fund as one of the most successful in all of the Mountain West with their portfolio consisting of companies like Galileo, NAV, Lucid Software, and countless others.

In this talk, we cover:

• Brandon’s background and path into venture
  
• The origin story and thesis of Kickstart
  
• Investment trends that Brandon is monitoring
  
• The startup ecosystem in Utah and the Mountain West and the Utah Startup Guide that Brandon helped author

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