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This is Chris Redgrave for Zions Bank Speaking on Business.
Dallas Robinson and Mike Buonomo (Ba-no-mo) with their new company Kisstixx will be the first to tell you they have been blessed. First, meeting one another on the campus of Utah Valley University and coming up with an interesting product that is taking off. And second, being in the same business class where they took their business model for the "perfect lip balm" and rolled it out to their class with an outstanding reception from students and the professor. It's called Kisstixx.
It all started when Co-Owner Dallas Robinson was into extreme sports and his lips would get chapped and crack. He felt every lip balm he used for relief was too waxy and tasted bad so he thought why not come up with a great product with a fun twist.
So the difference for Kisstixx is the attractive package comes with two lip balms so you can combine the flavors for a whole new experience, like one is raspberry and one is lemonade so you make raspberry lemonade or peaches and cream and they also have chocolate and strawberry.
Utah has a keen eye on emerging talent with great ideas and when you meet with the owners of Kisstixx they will be the first to tell you it's been the support they received from their mentor/professor Pete Robinson who assisted them into the student entrepreneur incubator program at UVU where you start your business in an office with mentors and no overhead. They're now with Utah Tech X which is another program designed to support entrepreneurs, so they can as investor/author Paul Ahlstrom says, "Nail it than Scale it."
The owners of Kisstixx understand this is critical for success. You can find the lip balm in Associated Food stores and coming soon to other big box retailers.
For Zions Bank, I'm Chris Redgrave, speaking on business.
KISSTIXX www.kisstixx.com
