Angels give ideas wings at Utah Economic Summit – Entrepreneurial expertise: Blue-collar truck gizmo beats high-tech in start-up contest

It wasn’t the glitzy setting of "American Idol" or "America’s Next Top Model," but the stakes were as high for five entrepreneurs who did their best to convince a panel of investors at the Governor’s Utah Economic Summit that their start-up firms deserved a $100,000 prize.

And in the end, Chris Culp, a self-styled handyman and inventor from Cedar City whose Dump-A-Matic system turns a pickup into a dump truck in seconds, won the financial backing of 10 angel investors Thursday.

By Paul Beebe
The Salt Lake Tribune

Full Story: http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_5501486

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Angels give ideas wings

Cedar man wins top prize from investors

By Dave Anderton
Deseret Morning News

A former tree-trimmer armed with little more than a novel idea walked away with $100,000 Thursday after selling investors on a dump truck that operates without hydraulics or electricity.

Full Story: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660205504,00.html