Junto gives businesses a kick-start – vSpring Managing Director Greg Warnock Seeks Candidates for Entrepreneurship Program

Group provides entrepreneurs financial and moral support

Will Allred is the CEO of Firepoll, a start-up that makes online survey software. Allred is being funded by the Junto program. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune )
Will Allred has been working 80 to 120 hours a week for the past year struggling to turn an idea into a business. He’s living off his savings. And he has no job to fall back on.

"It’s a scary thing to quit a job and start a business," Allred says, describing the path of a true entrepreneur. "You have to be comfortable with uncertainty and risk. You frequently have to make major decisions based on very little information."

Allred, by the way, is loving every minute of it. "I’m exhausted – in a good way."

He’s part of the Junto Entrepreneurship Program, a fledgling project designed to sprout young entrepreneurs and reap their ideas. Being in Junto means Allred, a finance grad from Brigham Young University, is not all alone on that high wire.

Four other budding entrepreneurs are on Allred’s team. They each have a stake in his business and he will have a stake in theirs.

By Glen Warchol
The Salt Lake Tribune

Full Story: http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2735788

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vSpring Managing Director Greg Warnock Seeks Candidates for Entrepreneurship Program
Junto program provides mentoring, seed funding and ongoing direction for promising candidates

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