aztechbeat Often in the startup world, a company will get to the point of “success” where it has a solid management team and a cash-flow positive product or service, but lacks the capital, connections or guidance to scale to its full potential. At this level, Arizona startups often face the additional challenge of trying to attract … Read more
Did you know that you could play a new golf course in Arizona every day for an entire year, and not play them all? That’s right, we have over 365 of them right here in our state. With our weather, high-end resorts, fine dining, and expansive shopping malls, Arizona has become a world renowned golf … Read more
Having a new business idea is exciting and the entrepreneur wants to dive right in to developing the concept. Instead of asking a parent, friend, or significant other for input, who might tell them what they want to hear, doing market research should be the first step. Collecting research on the industry if there is … Read more
The Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative was started in 2005 with a $5.5 million endowment with the mission of helping entrepreneurs and ultimately creating jobs in Arizona. Students who are enrolled at ASU can apply for the Edson competition in March by submitting a business plan and the finalists present their idea in front of a … Read more
On May 20th of last year, AZ Disruptors hosted a “Pitch Day” featuring 15 of the valley’s best software startups. They were all competing for a spot in the AZ Disruptors Software Incubator. It was a packed event, and the room held about 80 people ranging in vocation from investors, to VCs, to software CEOs … Read more
Currently, many people are plugged in to many devices in their everyday schedule and are surrounded with advertisements and technology. As a marketing professional, I have seen how difficult it is to stand out against the crowd and to balance the distribution of advertisements. Keeping up with Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, email campaigns, mobile apps, press … Read more
This week, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) AppFog acquired Ahwatukee-based Node.js PaaS Nodester, giving app developers even richer multi-language cloud deployment support. Node.js is a popular new asynchronous Javascript library/framework for building fast, scalable realtime web applications. According to the Nodester blog, AppFog will run and maintain the Nodester service as it is, but it will also have Node support … Read more
With several funding competitions popping up in Arizona it is difficult to differentiate one from another. The Arizona Commerce Authority and BioAccel recently announced that they are investing $500K to support the Arizona Furnace Accelerator to develop new startups companies using technology from a variety of organizations including ASU, Northern Arizona University, and Dignity Health … Read more
With the recent update by FORTUNE magazine, Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) the global technology distributors headquartered right here in Phoenix, is now No. 108 on the top 500 Largest Companies List. They have also topped the 2012 FORTUNE 500 List of Companies Headquartered in Arizona. Additionally, Avnet claimed the No. 1 spot on “FORTUNES’s Most … Read more
There’s no shortage of web/interactive design and development companies out there, so if you’re going to call yourselves “interactive superheroes,” you better be packing some comic book worthy superpowers (spoiler alert: Meltmedia most definitely is). With 12 years under its belt, Tempe-based Meltmedia is now the biggest and quite possibly the most capable interactive agency … Read more