During the ’80s and ’90s, Paragon’s primary focus was to grow our accounts. We controlled risk by monitoring the business cycle and the strength of individual companies and industries. Since the economic meltdown of 2008, the challenges and number of risks to investors has multiplied. Significant new risks are the result of [...]

4 local leaders talk social media, blogs, SEO and steak

The task was simple: Take our cool chair and utilize it in a cool way.
And boy did we get what we asked for. In addition to the shots you saw in our cover story, here are some outtakes that couldn’t escape our glossy pages (as much as these cool folks may have wanted them to).

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Utah Valley businesses are no strangers to
giving it their all.
Whether they do good once a year or five times a month, they do good. Period.
Meet five local companies who rise to the occasion with style.

Show us a business owner who does everything himself and we’ll show you a business owner who makes mistakes, who doesn’t have the best tax strategies and who is leaving money on the table.
Show us a business owner who knows when to bring in a trusted adviser, and we’ll show you an entrepreneur who can concentrate on what his business does best, who has time for a personal life and who has a team working beside him — and for him.
Meet eight trusted advisers who know how to show and tell smart strategies to smart entrepreneurs. Do tell.

Yo, yo, yo, Utah Valley!
It’s that time again — time to celebrate our local entrepreneurs who are the bomb diggity off the hizzie hook. (Did we say that right?)
Regardless of our wicked vernacular, these 10 crazy kids are legitimately cool — in business and in life. If there was an entrepreneur cafeteria, they would so own it.
Read on to find out who can bench press 300 pounds, who won a car on “The Price is Right,” and whose favorite movie is Justin Bieber’s “Never Say Never.” (Yes, this is the first time we’ve typed the words Justin Bieber onto BusinessQ’s glossy pages. And no, it probably won’t be the last. We’re cool like that.)

After spending most of the year in a back-and-forth uneventful trend, the world markets abruptly changed course. A severe lack of fiscal leadership from Washington coupled with a sovereign debt mess in Europe caused the global markets to sell off hard.
This recent volatility has been the most extreme we have experienced since the 2008 [...]

Investing is difficult. You need to generate returns that will allow your account to grow and stay ahead of inflation … but you don’t like it when your account goes down in value. You need good returns … but you don’t like the uncertainty.
Whether it’s a tsunami, a drilling rig disaster, a financial meltdown or [...]

It was the best of times as the BusinessQ staff put together our cover package on local working wonders. And you know why? These folks are the best of the best — true story.